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Yuan T. Lee

Taiwanese chemistborn 1936

Wikidata names Bruce H. Mahan as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Bruce H. Mahan

Students on Wikidata2

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Paul Weiss
born 1959
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Doo-Wan Boo
born 1962

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataBruce H. Mahan
2 steps up
stated by WikidataGeorge Kistiakowsky
3 steps up
stated by WikidataMax Bodenstein
4 steps up
stated by WikidataViktor Meyer

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 2 people: 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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National Taiwan University
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University of California, Berkeley
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National Hsinchu Senior High School
studied
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Harvard University
worked
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University of California, Berkeley
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University of Chicago
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California Institute of Technology
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At a glance

known as: chemist, university teacher, Nobel Prize winner
fields: chemistry
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976, Faraday Lectureship Prize, 1992, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986, National Medal of Science, 1986, Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1976, Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa, honorary doctor of the University of Hong Kong, honorary doctor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1987, honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo, honorary doctor of Waseda University, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, 1981, Clark Kerr Medal, 1998, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit, 2012, Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, 1986, Othmer Gold Medal, 2008, Kołos Medal, 2011, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards, 1971, honorary doctor of Louis Pasteur University, 1997
member of: National Academy of Sciences, from 1979, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, from 2007, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1975, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, from 1988, Academia Sinica, Indian National Science Academy, American Physical Society, from 1976, Committee of 100, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 2018, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, from 2007, European Academy of Sciences, from 2007
Wikipedia: in 53 languages

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Elsewhere6

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stated by WikidataWikipediaYuan T. Lee
stated by WikidataWikidataQ243190
stated by WikidataVIAF13764408
stated by WikidataGND140425160
stated by WikidataIdRef266203019
stated by WikidataISNI0000000067420537

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q243190,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Yuan T. Lee: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q243190},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Yuan T. Lee: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q243190