Nobel laureate Tsung-Dao Lee's connection to Quzhou

ezhejiang.gov.cn| Updated :2024-08-06 The Changshan Temporary Middle School is where Tsung-Dao Lee attended. Chinese American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, a Nobel laureate who played a key role in advancing China's science education and high-energy physics, passed away in the United States on Aug 5 at the age of 97. After trekking hundreds of kilometers, he reached Changshan, Quzhou, in February 1942, where he enrolled in the Changshan Temporary Middle School, a refuge for displaced students, as a junior. Qiu Hexiang, an elderly resident of Changshan and a former classmate of Lee's at the temporary school, recalled in an interview that the curriculum included Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, and history.