Believe It or Not, He’s
Eighty
13 November 2006
Dr. Tsung-Dao Lee
(left): Let's be the best
matchmakers, shall we?
Dr Lee is chatting with China’s
maestro artist Wu Guanzhong (吴冠中)
The happily
grinning man on the left in the photo has
turned 80. Can you believe that?
He’s
undoubtedly a Longevity Star (老寿星). And he’s not just any
other LS, but the world renowned
scientist. The fact that he looks so
young and so energetic may have something
to do with him being a top expert on high
energy neutrino physics – just a
guess. But what is certain is, yes, he’s
Dr. Tsung-Dao Lee (Li Zhengdao 李政道), the chief architect of
the solvable model of quantum field
theory, known as the Lee Model, and
the 1957 Nobel Price winner in physics.
Born and grew up
in Shanghai, he is, like maestro
architect I. M. Pei, a Suzhou native. So
it makes sense that at the party
organised by Tsinghua University on
Saturday celebrating his 80th birthday,
the maestro scientist talked about
symmetry violation science in the art of
the scenic windows on the buildings and
verandas of the Suzhou gardens.
The traditional
Chinese culture, as Dr. Lee has observed,
uses artistic presentation to express the
essence of science and philosophy, and
pursues a harmonious state of union
between science, arts and philosophy. It
is, he believes, also the very objective
of the modern science and arts.
To start with, as
one of today’s foremost and pioneering
scientists in the world, his knowledge of
and understanding about the ancient
Chinese culture is outstanding. So is his
artistic comprehension. In this regard,
he is in the best position to bring an
inter-disciplines dialogue between the
science and the arts, the modern and the
tradition, the Western culture and the
Eastern civilisation, and to create a
blending base for them.
(Original photo
by 王嘉宁)
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