Lee, Yuan-Tseh
B.S. National Taiwan University
1959
M.S. National Tsinghua University
1961
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
1965

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Physical Chemistry
Born 1936.  B.S., 1959, National Taiwan Univ.; M.S., 1961, National Tsinghua Univ.; Ph.D., 1965, Univ. of California, Berkeley.  Professor, 1968-74, Univ. of Chicago; Professor, 1974-91, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Principal Investigator, 1974-94, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.  Ernest O. Lawrence Award, 1981, U.S. Dept. of Energy; Peter Debye Award, 1986, American Chemical Society; National Medal of Science, and Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986; Faraday Medal, 1992, Royal Society of Chemistry, London.  Member, 1980-; President, 1994-, Academia Sinca.  Distinguished Research Fellow, 1994-, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica.  Adjunct Professor, 1994-, National Taiwan University. 
 

Research Interests

1. Determine the structure and chemical behavior of highly reactive polyatomic radicals and unusual transient species. 
2. Provide microscopic details of mechanisms and dynamics for elementary chemical reactions and primary photodissociation processes. 
3. Probe the nature of intra- and intermolecular energy relaxation. 
4. Search for bond-selective, regio-selective or mode-selective means to modify and manipulate chemical reactivity. 
5. Develop methods for detecting and studying directly the transient intermediates that are critical in combustion and atmospheric processes. 

Selected Publications

  • Johnston, H. S.; Davis, H. F.; Lee, Y. T. ¡§NO3 Photolysis Product Channels: Quantum Yields from Observed Energy Thresholds¡¨ J. Phys. Chem. 1996, 100 (12), 4713-4723.
  • Davis, H. F.; Lee, Y. T. ¡§Photodissociation Dynamics of OCIO¡¨ J. Chem. Phys. 1996, 105 (18), 8142-8163.
  • Boo, D. W.; Liu, Z. F.; Suits, A. G.; Tse, J. S.; Lee, Y. T. ¡§Dynamics of Carbonium Ions Solvated by Molecular Hydrogen: CH5+(H2)n (n = 1, 2, 3)¡¨ Science, 1995, 269, 57-59.
  • Boo, D. W.; Lee, Y. T. ¡§Infrared Spectroscopy of the Siliconium Ion, SiH5+¡¨ J. Chem. Phys. 1995, 103 (2), 514-519.
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  • Davis, H. F.; Kim, B.; Johnston, H. S.; Lee, Y. T. ¡§The Dissociation Energy and Photochemistry of NO3¡¨ J. Phys. Chem. 1993, 97, 2172-2180.
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