1931
Dr. Lee is born in Rye, New York to Marvin and Annette Lee.
1952
Dr. Lee receives a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.
1952
Dr. Lee serves 22 months in the U.S. Army.
1955
Dr. Lee receives a Master of Science from the University of Connecticut.
1959
Dr. Lee receives a Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University and joins the faculty of Cornell University.
1960
Dr. Lee marries Dana Thorangkul.
1963
Dr. Lee is promoted to associate professor of physics at Cornell University with tenure.
1966
Dr. Lee serves as a visiting scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
1969
Dr. Lee becomes a full professor of physics at Cornell University.
1972
Dr. Lee discovers the superfluid phases of liquid helium-3 along with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff.
1976
Dr. Lee receives the Sir Francis Simon Memorial Prize from the British Institute of Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff.
1977
Dr. Lee serves as a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
1980
Dr. Lee participates in the discovery of collective sound modes in superfluid helium-3B.
1981
Dr. Lee serves as a visiting lecturer at Peking University in Beijing, China and receives the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff.
1984
Dr. Lee participates in the discovery of nuclear spin waves in nuclear spin polarized hydrogen gas.
1994
Dr. Lee is appointed chair municipal of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France.
1996
Dr. Lee receives the Nobel Prize for Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.
1998
Dr. Lee receives the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University.
1999
Dr. Lee is named James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences at Cornell University.
2009
Dr. Lee becomes a professor of physics at Texas A&M University.