Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all… — David Lee Copy Share Image
Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century. — David Lee Copy Share Image
There are ups and downs to the season and how you handle those things emotionally is huge. — David Lee Copy Share Image
There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments. — David Lee Copy Share Image
It's something that as you go on in your career you make little changes and little adjustments and that's part of the fun of… — David Lee Copy Share Image
I have kind of loose ankles a little bit, and sometimes that's not always good. — David Lee Copy Share Image
Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids. — David Lee Copy Share Image
I have always been lucky enough to have Thanksgiving dinner with my family. — David Lee Copy Share Image
I don't care about numbers. I can get 30 points pretty much anytime I want. I get satisfaction from winning. — David Lee Copy Share Image
I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been… — David Lee Copy Share Image
It is tough to go out as a rookie and play every game perfect. It is tough to be consistent. — David Lee Copy Share Image
My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the… — David Lee Copy Share Image
![“I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the…” quote by David Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b0/david-lee-3951_anxious_i-was-23-and-i-was-in-l-a-while-on-hiatu_236585.jpg)
