T.D. Lee’s Doodlepad

Image courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory

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This doodle pad was used by T.D. Lee during talks with C.N. Yang, while both were visiting scientists at Brookhaven in the summer of 1956. These discussions led to questioning the conservation of parity in weak interactions and resulted in their being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957.

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