Jung Kong Lee

Jung Kong Lee (; December 1923 – 31 January 1990) was a Hong Kong-born American-educated chemist and politician. He was member of the Hysan Lee family and a chemist at the University of Kansas. He was also a member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee.

Biography Lee was born in 1923 into the prominent Lee family. His father, Hysan Lee, was a multi-millionaire who was nicknamed the "King of Opium". He served in the National Revolutionary Army during the Second World War, in which he was an interpreter for General Joe Stillwell's army in the China Burma India Theater. He attended Lingnan College before he moved to the United States, where he attended Princeton University, majoring in chemistry and attaining membership in Sigma Xi. He was also a member of the Campus Club. In 1955, he received a doctoral degree in chemistry and took up a post-doctoral study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before he joined the chemistry department at the University of Kansas.