Yuan-Pern Lee

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. Eventually, Yuan-Pern Lee was inducted into Academia Sinica in 2008, 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 a 2017 recipient of the Humboldt Research Award. In 2019, Lee, Yuan-Tsong Chen, and Wei Fu-chan won Taiwan's Presidential Science Prize. ==References==