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Who is considered the first American to win a Nobel Prize?

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • Thomas Edison

  • Tsung-Dao Lee

  • Albert Michelson

Answer

The first American to win a Nobel Prize was Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics with Chen Ning Yang for their work on the violation of parity in weak interactions. Their groundbreaking research challenged the prevailing assumptions in particle physics and paved the way for new insights into the fundamental forces of nature.
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