Tsung-Dao Lee. [Photo/zjol.com.cn]

Zhejiang University hosted a symposium on its Zijingang campus on Nov 20 to mark the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics (ZIMP) and also Tsung-Dao Lee's 95th birthday.

Born in Shanghai on Nov 24, 1926, Tsung-Dao Lee is a Chinese-American Nobel Prize laureate in physics. In 1943, Lee was enrolled in the Department of Physics at Zhejiang University, where he learned under professors Shu XIngguang and Wang Ganchang. Lee is currently director of the Center for High Energy Physics at Peking University.

In 1991, the ZIMP was established under the proposal of Lee and Lu Yongxiang, then-president of Zhejiang University. Lee also became the first director of the institute. It has since become a leading research center for theoretical physics in China.

Numerous top scientists from across the country attended the event in person or through video link, sending their congratulations to ZIMP and its founder Lee.

Tsung-Dao Lee's recent handwritten congratulations to the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics (ZIMP). [Photo/zjol.com.cn]