Yuan-Pern Lee
Yuan-Pern Lee is a Taiwanese chemist.
Early life and education
Lee was born on 25 January 1952 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the youngest of painter Lee Tze-fan's three sons. He graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a master's degree in chemistry. He then earned his Ph.D. in applied chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979.Career
After receiving his doctorate, Lee began a research career in 1979 at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration before accepting a teaching position at National [Tsing Hua University] in 1981.Lee was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999, and subsequently considered multiple times for membership in the Academia Sinica. Eventually, Yuan-Pern Lee was inducted into Academia Sinica in 2008, and the Lees became the first family to have three members serve simultaneously as academicians of Academia Sinica. Yuan-Pern Lee's induction followed that of his brothers Yuan-Chuan Lee and Yuan T. Lee. Yuan-Pern Lee's association with the Academia Sinica began in 1988, when he began working as an adjunct research fellow within the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences.
Yuan-Pern Lee has taught at National [Chiao Tung University] since 2004 as chair of the Department of Applied Chemistry and director of the Institute of Molecular Science. Lee was part of a research team at National Chiao Tung University that discovered the Criegee intermediate CH2OO particle in 2013. Lee was a 2017 recipient of the Humboldt Research Award. In 2019, Lee, Yuan-Tsong Chen, and Wei Fu-chan won Taiwan's.