Choochon Lee, South Korean Professor of Physics, Researcher, and Academic Administrator. Achievements include discovery of negative staerble-wronski experiment; first to confirm mechanism of Controversial State third annealing in gold, to explain persistent photoconductivity in a-Si:H and a-Si:H/a-SiN multilayers; 1st observation of persistent photo conductivity in porous silicon.
Background
Ethnicity:
First son for ~35 generations of the Gyeonggido Gwangjoo Lee lineage, dating back to A.D. 935.
Lee, Choochon was born June 8, 1930 in Seoul, Korea. Son of Yoon Young Lee and Soon Ye Lee.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Seoul National University, 1953; Master of Science in Physics, Seoul National University, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, University Illinois, 1968.
Career
Instructor to Assistant Professor Seoul National University, 1957-1962; Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, 1963-1968; Research Associate at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1968-1975; Associate Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIS), Seoul, 1975-1979; Korea Telecommunications Foundation professor physics, since 1992, First President of the newly formed Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST, merging of KAIS and KIST), Seoul, 1981-1982; Professor of KAIST, Daejeon, 1982-1995; Visiting scholar Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982-1983, 87-88. Author: Physics of Semiconductor Materials and Applications, 1986; contributor to over 200 articles to professional journals and international conference proceedings.
Achievements
Membership
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
American Physical Society
Korean Physical Society (President, 1991-1993, Sung Bong Prize)
1991 - 1993
Society for Information Display (SID), Board of Directors
Interests
played the violin, piano to a lesser extent
Sport & Clubs
American Football, Basketball
Music & Bands
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart
Connections
Daughter Carol Eunmi Lee (이은미), Professor at University of Wisconsin;
Brother Tschu Ho Lee (이주호), founder of the Chicago School of Violin Making;
Related to Chongwoo Lee (이종우, father's uncle), artist and former Professor at Hongik University;
Uncle Ui-Young Kim (김의영), regional governor of Hwanghaedo province, before the Korean War (황해도 김천 신천 군수)
Spouse Chung Sun Yun (윤정선), married April 9, 1960;