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Yuan-Pern Lee

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Yuan-Pern Lee
李遠鵬
Born (1952-01-25) 25 January 1952 (age 72)
Hsinchu City, Taiwan
NationalityTaiwanese
Alma materNational Taiwan University (BS, MS)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
OccupationChemist
FatherLee Tze-fan
RelativesYuan-Chuan Lee (brother)
Yuan T. Lee (brother)

Yuan-Pern Lee (Chinese: 李遠鵬; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnpéng; born 25 January 1952) is a Taiwanese chemist.

Life and career

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Lee was born on 25 January 1952 in Hsinchu, Taiwan,[1] the youngest of painter Lee Tze-fan's three sons. Lee studied chemistry at National Taiwan University and pursued a doctorate in the subject from the University of California, Berkeley. He began a research career in 1979 at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration before accepting a teaching position at National Tsing Hua University in 1981.[2][1]

Lee was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999,[1][2] and subsequently considered multiple times for membership in the Academia Sinica.[3][4] Eventually, Yuan-Pern Lee was inducted into Academia Sinica in 2008,[2] and the Lees became the first family to have three members serve simultaneously as academicians of Academia Sinica.[4] Yuan-Pern Lee's induction followed that of his brothers Yuan-Chuan Lee and Yuan T. Lee.[3] Yuan-Pern Lee's association with the Academia Sinica began in 1988, when he began working as an adjunct research fellow within the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences.[5] Yuan-Pern Lee has taught at National Chiao Tung University since 2004 as chair of the Department of Applied Chemistry and director of the Institute of Molecular Science.[2][1] Lee was part of a research team at National Chiao Tung University that discovered the Criegee intermediate CH2OO particle in 2013.[6][7] Lee was a 2017 recipient of the Humboldt Research Award.[8][9] In 2019, Lee, Yuan-Tsong Chen, and Wei Fu-chan won Taiwan's Presidential Science Prize [zh].[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "YUAN-PERN LEE (李遠鵬)" (PDF). The World Academy of Sciences. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Yuan-Pern Lee". National Chiao Tung University. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Lee family awaits Academa Sinica membership vote". Taipei Times. 7 July 2004. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  4. ^ a b Shan, Shelley (6 July 2006). "Academia Sinica to elect new members today". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Dr. Yuan-Pern Lee (Chemical Dynamics and Spectroscopy)". Academia Sinica. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  6. ^ Lee, I-chia (16 April 2013). "University research team finds elusive Criegee molecule". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  7. ^ Su, Yu-Te; Huang, Yu-Hsuan; Henryk A., Witek; Lee, Yuan-Pern (12 April 2013). "Infrared Absorption Spectrum of the Simplest Criegee Intermediate CH2OO". Science. 340 (6129): 174–176. Bibcode:2013Sci...340..174S. doi:10.1126/science.1234369. PMID 23580523. S2CID 31499893.
  8. ^ Dessaul, Arne (3 April 2017). "Resolv gains reinforcement from Taiwan". Ruhr University Bochum. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  9. ^ "Prof. Dr. Yuan-Pern Lee". Humboldt Foundation. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  10. ^ Lin, Chia-nan (30 October 2019). "Three researchers win top prize". Taipei Times. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
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