Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese chemist. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and American Dudley R. Herschbach, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".
Official portrait, 2016
Yuan Tseh Lee, Othmer Gold Medal recipient, 2008
Lee (upper far left) represented Taiwan at the 2004 APEC leaders' summit.
John Charles Polanyi is a German-born Canadian chemist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical kinetics.
Polanyi in 2019
John Polanyi Collegiate Institute, Toronto