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Patrick A. Lee

Prof Kerson Huang was a well respected theoretical physicist, who was also well versed in English and Chinese literature. He was born in Nanning, China, on 15 March 1928, and he was a fellow at the IAS, Princeton, from 19551957 before joining the faculty of MIT. He remained there until he retired from teaching in 1999. His research in theoretical physics included works on BoseEinstein condensation and quantum field theory. In his long and illustrious career, Prof Huang has worked with many prominent physicists. In 1957, he published a theory on nuclear physics known as the Hard-Sphere Bose Gas with Nobel Laureates Prof Chen-Ning Yang and Prof Tsung-Dao Lee. While he was at Princeton, he also worked with atomic bomb developer J Robert Oppenheimer.

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