David Lee
James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, Emeritus
Liquid and solid helium; spin polarized hydrogen gas; superconductivity; magnetic resonance; ultra-low temperature cryogenics; impurity helium solids
Research
Liquid and solid helium; spin polarized hydrogen gas; superconductivity; magnetic resonance; ultra-low temperature cryogenics; impurity helium solids
Awards and Honors
- Nobel Prize in Physics (with D.D. Osheroff and R. C. Richardson), 1996
- Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2003
- Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University, 1999
- Shared Oliver Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society, 1981
- Shared Sir Francis Simon Memorial Prize, 1976
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, 1977
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1966-67 and 1974-75
Educational Background
- James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences, Cornell University, 1999-2007
- Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1969-99
- Visiting appointments at Brookhaven National Laboratory; University of Florida; Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, Chaire Municipale
- Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1960-63. Associate Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1963-69
- Instructor, Physics, Cornell University, 1959-60
- Ph.D., Physics, Yale University, 1959
- M.S., University of Connecticut, 1955
- U.S. Army, 1952-54
- B.S., Harvard University, 1952
