Zhou got support from so-called overseas Chinese scientists , who had begun to visit their homeland in droves , like Chen-Ning Yang , then of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton , N.Y. , and Tsung-Dao Lee , of Columbia University , who were Nobelists and heroes in China , and who talked up the importance of basic research to Mao and others .
Tsung-Dao Lee
China
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Tsung-Dao Lee
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Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Upton
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Tsung-Dao Lee
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Columbia University
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China
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Mao