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《大师者李政道》(三集合一，CCTV)
《大师.李政道》（上海交通大学制作）
【短视频】情深.李政道
张杰院士：李政道先生全方位推进中国科教发展
讲座
2001年李政道在人民大会堂的学术报告《物理的挑战》
2007年李政道复旦大学报告《纪念爱因斯坦》
2008年李政道在宁波诺丁汉大学的演讲《从伽利略到爱因斯坦》
2009年李政道上海交大演讲《以天之语 解物之道》
诺贝尔奖网站主任访谈1957年诺贝尔物理学奖得主李政道
其夫人旁边还葬着李政道的秘书，她把全部财产也都捐献给中国学生’䇹政基金’项目。
1926年11月24日
李政道出生于上海
一个基督教世家，家道殷实
受社会动荡和战争动乱等因素影响
李政道的小学、初中、高中和大学本科
都没有毕业文凭
唯一拥有的学位
就是美国芝加哥大学的博士学位
1957年，李政道和杨振宁
因弱相互作用下宇称不守恒的发现
获得诺贝尔物理学奖
一举震惊世界
两人都是持中国民国护照
妥妥的中国人身份
时年李政道31岁
史上第二年轻的诺贝尔物理学奖得主
他对中国物理前沿研究的托举
不遗余力
建议和协助建造了北京正负电子对撞机
促成中美高能物理交流
建议成立科学“少年班”
国家自然科学基金
博士后制度和博士后基金
对中国科学的发展
起到了巨大的推进作用
1979年春，李政道开展了
为期3个多月的讲学
开设“统计力学”与“场论简引和粒子物理”两门课
对我国改革开放后物理学的发展起到了非常积极的作用
培养了一大批科技人才
极大地推动了“科学之春”的到来
在中美关系非常特殊和困难的历史时期
协调中美两国高层
反复游走于中美各所大学之间
促成了中美联合招考物理研究生项目
China-U.S. Physics Examination and Application
简称CUSPEA项目
李政道对这一项目
呕心沥血，诸事躬亲
克服重重困难
在1979年-1989年项目实施的十年内
使近千名优秀中国学子
在出国无门的历史境遇下
成功奔赴北美一流大学深造
学生的全部教育和生活费用
都由美国各大学负担
在长久的隔绝中国之后
这一“破冰之举”
在新中国对外科技和人才交流史上
树立了丰碑
他改变了一代中国物理精英的命运
推开的这扇“走出去”的大门
至今影响深远
对中国改革开放事业的贡献
不可估量
1996年，夫人秦惠䇹去世
随后，李政道把二人积蓄捐出来
发起设立了
秦惠䇹与李政道中国大学生见习进修基金
简称“䇹政”基金
支持两岸六所大学的本科生
开展学术创新研究
2011年6月
李政道将其毕生积累和收藏的
各类科学文献、研究手稿、通讯信件
“艺术与科学结合”作品
他的诺贝尔奖章、证书
其它各类获奖证书
等珍贵资料
捐赠给上海交通大学
以期惠益后人
李政道还把祖上一栋别墅
捐给了上海交通大学
李政道提倡科学与艺术的
碰撞、融合与创新
2013年他创立了李政道科艺基金
举办李政道科学与艺术作品大奖赛
创办艺术与科学研究中心
大大开拓了科学工作者的思维和视野
罗列的270多张图文
多是从网上摘抄整理
有些来自上海交大李政道图书馆网站
有些来自各公众号推文或研究论文
朱光亚：李政道物理生涯五十年
李政道：我和CUSPEA
李政道：倾心尽力为祖国育人才
李政道：比获诺奖更有意义的工作
李政道，CUSPEA与一代英才的腾飞之旅（上）
李政道，CUSPEA与一代英才的腾飞之旅（下）
缅怀李政道先生：他改变了中国一代精英的命运
李政道和他的科学正道
李政道先生的诗情画意
李政道：病中大脑空白，唯有物理健在
- Nature 杂志的报道：李政道去世
- OBITUARY
Tsung-Dao Lee obituary: boundary-breaking physicist who won Nobel prize at just 30
Visionary researcher helped to overturn the idea that all particles behave in the same way as their mirror images.
By Robert P. Crease
Outside the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing stands a 5-metre-high metal sculpture. The round, swirling shape of ‘The Tao of All Matter’ invokes the yin and yang of ancient Chinese philosophy — a representation of the inseparable opposites said to form the basis of all things — as well as the ring of the modern particle accelerator a few dozen metres away. The designer was physicist Tsung-Dao (T. D.) Lee. An artistic, inventive and boundary-breaking physicist, in 1957 Lee became one of the youngest winners of a Nobel prize at 30 years old. He shared the award with his compatriot Chen Ning Yang for their work on broken symmetry in particle physics.
Chinese-born but based in the United States for most of his career, Lee, who has died aged 97, promoted engagement between US and Chinese physicists. After China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–76), it was difficult for US universities to evaluate the abilities of Chinese applicants, because they did not know the assessment criteria used in China. Lee set up the China-US Physics Examination and Application system, through which US physicists set exams for Chinese universities to administer, and then went to China to mark them. On the basis of the results, US universities awarded scholarships to nearly 1,000 Chinese students between 1979 and 1989.
Lee’s own education in Shanghai had been interrupted by the 1937 Japanese invasion of China, and by 1945 he was studying physics at the National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming, China. There, at 19 years old, he received a fellowship from the Chinese government to study in the United States, where he completed a PhD at the University of Chicago, Illinois, with the Italian American nuclear physicist and Nobel prizewinner Enrico Fermi as his adviser. He spent the rest of his career at Columbia University in New York City.
How a forgotten physicist’s discovery broke the symmetry of the Universe
Lee earned his own Nobel in one of the most remarkable episodes of twentieth-century science. Physicists were baffled by two particles, known as τ and θ, that were identical except that they decayed in different ways. Treating them as distinct particles created insoluble theoretical problems, whereas treating them as identical defied the fundamental structure of physics known as parity — the idea that objects always behave in the same way as their mirror images.
In 1956, Lee worked on the problem with Yang while the two were spending the summer at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. Colleagues remember hearing them shouting at each other in their offices in Chinese and English, and drawing equations in the sand on visits to the beach. Did physicists, the two asked, really know that parity structured the ‘weak interaction’ that governed decays of τ and θ? After wading through a 1,000-page book detailing 40 years of work on the subject, they realized that that aspect of parity had not been tested. On 22 June 1956, Lee and Yang sent an article to Physical Review with the title ‘Is parity conserved in weak interactions?’. The journal’s editor insisted that question marks in paper titles were unscientific and changed it to ‘Question of parity conservation in weak interactions’ (T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang Phys. Rev. 104, 254; 1956).
Lee and Yang struggled to interest experimenters in testing a hypothesis widely regarded as preposterous. Only Chien-Shiung Wu at Columbia agreed. She set up an experiment to detect β-decay — the emission of β-particles from nuclei — in ultracold radioactive cobalt. At the tail end of 1956, her team announced that parity was indeed violated in the weak interaction. As another Columbia colleague, Nobel-prizewinning physicist Isidor Rabi, said at a press conference: “A rather complete theoretical structure has been shattered at the base and we are not sure how the pieces will be put together.” By the end of the year, Lee and Yang had been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery. Lee and others felt that Wu deserved a share of the prize, but she never received it.
China could start building world’s biggest particle collider in 2027
Lee and Yang’s personal relationship did not survive the success of their professional one. To their colleagues’ distress and incomprehension, their clashes became so fierce that universities and laboratories took care to invite only one at a time for visits.
Lee was influential in the evolution of the Brookhaven lab when it faced an uncertain future after a huge high-energy accelerator project was cancelled in 1983. He helped the lab to transform that project into another, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), which would study the nature of nuclear matter. Lee then established and was first director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center, a pioneering collaboration between Japanese and US scientists at the RHIC.
As an assistant professor at Columbia University in the early 1950s, Lee initiated ‘Chinese lunch’, a tradition in which, at noon on Mondays, physicists would take a visiting seminar speaker to a local Chinese restaurant. Lee insisted on ordering for everyone, and the conversation was usually so lively that participants would have to race back to campus in time for the seminar to begin at 14:10. His research contributed to an astounding variety of fields, including astrophysics, hydrodynamics, particle physics, condensed-matter physics, relativistic physics and statistical mechanics.
Halfway around the world from Beijing, at the Santa Maria degli Angeli basilica in Rome, is another of Lee’s sculptures: ‘Galileo Galilei Divine Man’. In it, the revolutionary seventeenth-century astronomer, philosopher, physicist and artist holds a telescope and robes adorned with heavenly bodies. Both sculpted and sculptor were scientists whose work ventured across boundaries: between scientific fields and between the sciences and the arts.
Nature 632, 731 (2024)
doi: https:///10.1038/d41586-024-02585-1