tried to help South Korea's dictatorship develop nuclear weapons, and implied that the U.S.' Central Intelligence Agency had some connection to his death. In actuality, he vigorously opposed the autocratic system of South Korea at that time and he canceled every program he designed for South Korean graduate education about particle physics in opposition to that government. According to a Fermilab memoriam, Lee died in a car accident on Illinois highway I-80 in 1977, at age 42. A semi-trailer crossed the highway divide and collided with his car. Bibliography Book Selected papers References External links 1935 births 1977 deaths American people of Korean descent 20th-century American physicists Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences South Korean physicists Kyunggi High School alumni Miami University alumni Particle physicists Road incident deaths in Illinois University of Pittsburgh alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Chicago faculty Theoretical physicists Recipients of the Order of Civil Merit (Korea) People from Seoul People associated with Fermilab People from Glen Ellyn, Illinois Fellows of the American Physical Society Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars University of Pennsylvania faculty Stony Brook University faculty