Question

    Who, among the following, was the second youngest

    scientist to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957 and passed away in August 2024?
    A Avi Wigderson Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Peter Higgs Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Alice Laidlaw Munro Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Tsung-Dao Lee Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Chien-Shiung Wu Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist, passed away in August 2024. He was notably the second youngest laureate to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957, at the age of 31, for his groundbreaking work on parity laws, which profoundly impacted the understanding of elementary particles.

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