M. Howard Lee (21 May 1937 â 18 November 2016) was a Korean-born American physicist who was Regents' Professor at University of Georgia.
Born in Busan, South Korea he gained a BS in chemistry in 1959 and a Ph.D. in physics and astronomy in 1967 from the University of Pennsylvania. He was then a postdoc at the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton from 1967 to 1969, after which he was a member of the Center for Materials Science at MIT from 1969 to 1973. He was appointed assistant professor at the University of Georgia in 1973, becoming a full professor in 1985 and a Regents Professor in 1999.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001, and his citation read <blockquote>Developed the method of recurrence relations to study dynamic behavior in many particle systems. Established an equivalence between Fermi and Bose gases in two dimensions.</blockquote>