Dr. Benjamin W. Lee was the one of the greatest physicists in last century.
He was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1935. He studied abroad from University
years. He started his study from U. of Miami. He achieved Ph.D at UPenn and
became a prpfessor at Stony Brook, SUNY and U. of Chicago.
His major was 'particle physics' , not nuclear physics. And some rumors that he joined the
atomic bomb making project is , of course, NOT true.
He obviously had objected developement of atomic bomb in Korea and Korea dictatorship at his
time.
He was a just topmost physicist in theoretical particle physics.
He passed away in a unfortunate car accident on their way to Physics Conference in Colorado
in 1977.
