This collection of papers by the renowned physicist, T.D. Lee, covers the four main areas of his work since 1985: soliton stars and black holes; discrete physics; condensed matter and many-body systems; and relativistic heavy ion collisions, particle physics and field theory. In addition, the book contains several of Professor Lee's lectures on such topics as the evolution of physics in this century and the strong link between the sciences and the arts.

In these volumes, the most significant of the collected papers of the Chinese-American theoretical physicist Tsung-Dao Lee are printed. A complete list of his published papers, in order of publication, appears in the Bibliography of T.D. Lee. The papers have been arranged into ten categories, in most cases according to the subject matter. At the beginning of each of the first eight categories of papers, there is a commentary on the content and significance of all of the papers in the category. The two short final categories do not have any commentaries. The editor would like to thank Dr. Richard Friedberg for his assistance in the early stages of the editorial work on this project, as well as for writing commentaries on the papers of Categories III and IV. I would also like to thank Dr. Norman Christ for writing the commentary on the papers of Category VII. The assistance of Irene Tramm was in valuable in many aspects of preparing this collection, including locating copies of Lee's papers. GERALD FEINBERG List of Categories of T.D. Lee's Papers Volume 1 I. Weak Interactions II. Early Papers on Astrophysics and Hydrodynamics III. Statistical Mechanics IV. Polarons and Solitons Volume 2 V. Quantum Field Theory VI. Symmetry Principles Volume 3 VII. Discrete Physics VIII. Strong Interaction Models IX. Historical Papers X. Gravity (Continuum Theory) Contents (Volume 1)* Introduction (by G. Feinberg) ............................................................ xi Bibliography of T.D. Lee ................................................................. xv I. Weak Interactions Commentary ................................................................... .

Contents: Papers presented at a symposium to celebrate the 60th birthday of Tsung D. Lee and to commemorate the 30th anniversary of parity nonconservation, held at Columbia University, November 22, 1986.

Consists of 73 articles and added items exclusively for this edition.

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