Stephen Lee (; born 25 October 1955) is an American chemist. He is the son of

Tsung-Dao Lee Tsung-Dao Lee (; born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton star ...

, the winner of the 1957

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. He is currently a professor at

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Education

Lee attended the

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, Switzerland and

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

, from which he graduated with a BA in 1978. He later received his PhD from the

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in 1985.

Career

In 1993, Lee received the

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for his work in the field of physics and chemistry. In addition, he has received an award from the

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for his continued research. In 1999, Lee joined

as a professor of solid state chemistry in the chemistry and chemical biology department from the

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, where he had been associate professor of chemistry since 1993 and where he had been recognized as both a MacArthur and a Sloan fellow. He was also a visiting scientist at Cornell in 1995. He currently continues his teaching career at Cornell, where he instructs students in (honors) general chemistry and introduction to chemistry courses. During the past 10 years, Lee has devoted his summer to helping incoming freshmen learn basic chemistry to prepare them for the academic year. This has been considered part of Lee's philanthropic work, as he teaches these summer courses probono. His current research involves developing stronger porous solids in which all the host porous bonds are covalent in character. Lee is also researching ways to introduce cross-linkable guests (such as di-isocyanides or disilyltriflates) which will react with nucleophilic groups, leading to a fully covalent organic porous solid. He also hopes to develop a long range order in intermetallic phases: Examine noble metal alloys where unit cell dimensions range from just a few, to almost 104 Å.

Personal life

Stephen Lee was born to 1957 Nobel Prize winner in Physics

and Hui-Chun Jeannette Chin (), who died in 1996. Lee has one brother, James Lee (; born 1952), who is the dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the

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and chair professor of the Division of Social Science at the same university.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Stephen 1956 births Living people American physical chemists American people of Chinese descent Yale College alumni Cornell University faculty MacArthur Fellows Scientists from New York City Sloan Research Fellows University of Chicago alumni University of Michigan faculty International School of Geneva alumni Solid state chemists