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Today (January 20, 1931) is the birthday of Nobel laureate David Morris Lee for his discovery of super liquid helium at temperatures as low as 4K.

Today (January 20, 1931) is the birthday of Nobel laureate David Morris Lee for his discovery of super liquid helium at temperatures as low as 4K.

David Lee was born and raised in New York on January 20, 1931. His father, Marvin Lee, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Annette Franks, was a teacher. These are Jews who immigrated from England and Lithuania. Lee graduated from Harvard University in 1952. He then served in the United States Army for 22 months. After graduating from the Army, he received a master's degree from the University of Connecticut. While studying for his doctorate at Yale University in 1955, he studied liquid helium under Henry A. Burdenpong. After receiving his doctorate in 1959, he was hired to set up a physics lab at Cornell University.

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He met his fiance Dana at Cornell University. At the time, Dana was studying for a doctorate in another field. The couple has two children. Lee joined A&M University in Texas in November 2009 from Cornell. In 2016 his wife Dana fell ill and died. Lee, along with Robert C. Richardson and graduate student Doug Osirop, explored the 3He co at low temperatures using the Pomeranian cell. The result was the discovery of superfluid helium at temperatures as low as 4K. The trio shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for this discovery. Lee was also involved in research on low-temperature physics, liquid, solid, superfluid helium (4He, 3He) and their compounds.

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In 1976 he received the Sir Francis Simmon Memorial Prize from the British Institute of Physics. The Oliver Buckley Prize was awarded in 1981 by the American Physical Society to Lee, Doug Osirope, and Robert Richardson. Lee is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is currently teaching and researching at the University Of Texas A&M. He shared the Nobel Prize in 1996 with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osirop for their discovery of super liquid helium.

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