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Yuan T. Lee

Yuan T. Lee

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Chemistry
Taiwan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
98
Citations
28552
World Ranking
1420
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2011 - Kołos Medal (Medal im. Włodzimierza Kołosa), University of Warsaw and Polish Chemical Society
  • 1992 - Faraday Lectureship Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1986 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 1986 - Peter Debye Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1986 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his world leadership in the development of molecular beam techniques and their application to the study of chemical dynamics. His work has had an enormous impact on many areas of physical chemistry, especially building up a quantitative bridge between the laws of mechanics and complex macroscopic phenomena.", Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on March 12, 1986.
  • 1986 - Nobel Prize for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes
  • 1979 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1976 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1975 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Yuan T. Lee is affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The research work spans multiple scientific fields with a focus on chemistry, engineering, and physics and astronomy. Their research encompasses several specialized subfields, including spectroscopy, computational mechanics, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The scientist's research topics primarily include mass spectrometry techniques and applications, ion-surface interactions and analysis, and spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies.

Yuan T. Lee has collaborated with various coauthors in their publications, including Jim Falk, Rita R. Colwell, A.S. El-Beltagy, Peter H. Gleick, and C. F. Kennel.

Publications by Yuan T. Lee have appeared in venues such as Sustainability Science.

A notable recent paper authored is:

  • Beyond 2020: converging crises demand integrated responses, 2020, Sustainability Science

Numerous awards recognize their career, including the Nobel Prize awarded in 1986 for contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes. Other distinctions include the Kołos Medal from the University of Warsaw and Polish Chemical Society (2011), the Faraday Lectureship Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (1992), and the Peter Debye Award from the American Chemical Society (1986).

They have also been honored as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1988), Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (1986), Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1979), Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1976), and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975).

The U.S. President's National Medal of Science was awarded in 1986, recognizing their development of molecular beam techniques and their application to chemical dynamics, as well as the broader impact on physical chemistry and the connection between mechanical laws and macroscopic phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges

    W. V. Reid;D. Chen;L. Goldfarb;H. Hackmann

  • Molecular Beam Reactive Scattering Apparatus with Electron Bombardment Detector

    Y. T. Lee;J. D. McDonald;P. R. LeBreton;D. R. Herschbach

  • Vibrational spectroscopy of the hydrated hydronium cluster ions H3O+·(H2O)n (n=1, 2, 3)

    L.I. Yeh;M. Okumura;J.D. Myers;J.M. Price

  • Molecular beam studies of the F+H2 reaction

    D. M. Neumark;A. M. Wodtke;G. N. Robinson;C. C. Hayden

  • Infrared spectra of the solvated hydronium ion: Vibrational predissociation spectroscopy of mass-selected H3O+.cntdot.(H2O)n.cntdot.(H2)m

    M. Okumura;L. I. Yeh;J. D. Myers;Yuan T. Lee

  • Interatomic potentials for krypton and xenon

    J. A. Barker;R. O. Watts;Jong K. Lee;T. P. Schafer

  • Local modes of benzene and benzene dimer, studied by infrared–ultraviolet double resonance in a supersonic beam

    Ralph H. Page;Y. R. Shen;Y. T. Lee

  • Intermolecular Potentials from Crossed-Beam Differential Elastic Scattering Measurements. IV. Ar+Ar

    J. M. Parson;P. E. Siska;Y. T. Lee

  • Infrared Spectra of H+(H2O)5-8 Clusters: Evidence for Symmetric Proton Hydration

    Jyh-Chiang Jiang;Yi-Sheng Wang;Hai-Chou Chang;Sheng H. Lin

  • Photofragmentation of CH3I: Vibrational distribution of the CH3 fragment

    R. K. Sparks;K. Shobatake;L. R. Carlson;Y. T. Lee

  • Infrared Vibrational Predissociation Spectroscopy of Water Clusters by the Crossed Laser-molecular Beam Technique

    Matthew F. Vernon;Douglas J. Krajnovich;Hoi Sing Kwok;James M. Lisy

  • Photodissociation of Acetylene at 193.3 nm.

    A. M. Wodtke;Y. T. Lee

  • Infrared spectra of the cluster ions H7O+3⋅H2 and H9O+4⋅H2

    M. Okumura;L. I. Yeh;J. D. Myers;Y. T. Lee

  • Infrared multiphoton dissociation of RDX in a molecular beam

    Xinsheng Zhao;Eric J. Hintsa;Yuan T. Lee

  • Molecular beam studies of the F+D2 and F+HD reactions

    D. M. Neumark;A. M. Wodtke;G. N. Robinson;C. C. Hayden

  • Molecular beam studies of elementary chemical processes.

    Yuan Tseh Lee

  • The vibrational predissociation spectroscopy of hydrogen cluster ions

    M. Okumura;L. I. Yeh;Y. T. Lee

  • The electronic state‐selective photodissociation of CH2BrI at 248, 210, and 193 nm

    L. J. Butler;E. J. Hintsa;S. F. Shane;Y. T. Lee

  • Molecular Beam Kinetics: Reactions of Deuterium Atoms with Halogen Molecules

    J. D. McDonald;P. R. LeBreton;Y. T. Lee;D. R. Herschbach

  • Evidence for stepwise dissociation dynamics in acetone at 248 and 193 nm

    Simon W. North;David A. Blank;J. Daniel Gezelter;Cheryl A. Longfellow

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim J. Lin
Jim J. Lin National Taiwan University
Xueming Yang
Xueming Yang Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Arthur G. Suits
Arthur G. Suits University of Missouri
Yuen-Ron Shen
Yuen-Ron Shen University of California, Berkeley
Huan-Cheng Chang
Huan-Cheng Chang Academia Sinica
Ralf I. Kaiser
Ralf I. Kaiser University of Hawaii at Manoa
Alexander M. Mebel
Alexander M. Mebel Florida International University
Alec M. Wodtke
Alec M. Wodtke Max Planck Society
Eric J. Hintsa
Eric J. Hintsa Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Ronald C. Cohen
Ronald C. Cohen University of California, Berkeley

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