Object Details
- Artist
- Francis Bello, 1918 - 27 Jan 1987
- Sitter
- Tsung-Dao Lee, 24 Nov 1926 - 4 Aug 2024
- Exhibition Label
- Born Shanghai, China
- This photograph of Tsung-Dao Lee was published alongside one of fellow physicist Chen Ning Yang in Fortune magazine in early 1957. The feature, titled “Physics: The Magnificent Riddle,” explored new research on elementary particles facilitated by accelerators, or “atom smashers.” Later that year, Lee and Yang’s contributions to this emerging field earned them the Nobel Prize.
- Although they met in China, Lee and Yang became close friends while studying under Edward Teller and Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s. After earning their doctorates, they were reunited in 1951 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, then led by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (on view nearby). There, the duo began investigations that the New York Times claimed went on to “destroy for all time what had been considered a basic law of nature.” Aged thirty-one when awarded the Nobel Prize, Lee became the second-youngest laureate.
- Nacido en Shanghái, China
- Esta fotografía de Tsung-Dao Lee se publicó junto a una de otro físico, Chen Ning Yang, en la revista Fortune en 1957. El artículo, titulado “La física: el magnífico enigma”, examinaba los nuevos estudios de las partículas elementales facilitados por los aceleradores, o “colisionadores de átomos”. Ese año, los aportes de Lee y Yang al naciente campo les ganaron el premio Nobel.
- Aunque se conocieron en China, Lee y Yang se hicieron amigos cuando estudiaban con Edward Teller y Enrico Fermi en la Universidad de Chicago a fines de la década de 1940. Ya doctorados, se rencontraron en 1951 en el Instituto de Estudios Avanzados de Princeton, Nueva Jersey, entonces dirigido por el físico J. Robert Oppenheimer (presentado cerca). Allí el dúo inició investigaciones que, según el New York Times, “destruyeron para siempre lo que se consideraba una ley básica de la naturaleza”. Con 31 años cuando recibió el Nobel, Lee se convirtió en el segundo premiado más joven.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Steve Bello
- 1956
- Object number
- NPG.98.112
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Francis Bello Estate
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.2 x 16.3 cm (9 1/2 x 6 7/16")
- Sheet: 25.3 x 20.4 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/16")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- 20th Century Americans: 1930-1960
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 321
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair
- Interior\Office
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Desk
- Home Furnishings\Telephone
- Tsung-Dao Lee: Male
- Tsung-Dao Lee: Science and Technology\Scientist\Physicist
- Tsung-Dao Lee: Nobel Prize
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.98.112
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm403158d73-6c4a-429d-b7cb-ac86669f44e3
