6 Youngest Nobel Prize Winners

4.Tsung-Dao Lee

Age: 31

Date of Birth: November 24^th, 1926

Award: Nobel Prize in Physics, 1927

Like Anderson, Shanghai-born Tsung-Dao Lee was also awarded the Physics prize for his work in the field of particle physics. He made important discoveries about how matter and anti-matter relate to each other. Before his award, and aged just 20, Lee was chosen by the University of Chicago to study at their grad school despite not actually having an undergraduate degree of any kind. He went on to become Professor of Physics at Columbia University and continued his research in the field of elementary particle physics.