A“five in one” service model including a library, an archive, a biographical museum, a science museum, and an art gallery
“Art becomes more scientific while science becomes more artistic. Science and art part at the foot of a mountain, and converge at the peak.”
When science and art meet, they attract each other and sparks fly.
As the physics giant who pioneered the history of Chinese scientists with Nobel Prize, Tsung-Dao Lee endeavored to promote the development of China's science and education. He was fully devoted to the undertaking of basic scientific research and talent cultivation. He also advocated the integration of science and art, showing people a brave new way of appreciating the beauties of the world.
Since 2014 to 2024, Tsung Dao (T.D) Lee Library has successfully held eleven Science and Art Lecture Fund series activities with the themes of “Synchrotron Radiation”, “Gravity and General Relativity”, “Parity Nonconservation and Neutrino Physics”, “Quantum and Topology”, “Time Reversal”, “Particles of Light”, “Spin”, “Liquid Crystal”, “Metamaterial”, “Complexity and Simplicity”, and “Instantaneous and Everlasting”, showcasing the creative and innovative interpretation of science and art themes from unique perspectives, reflections on theories and exploration of artistic creation, with work brought forth by the collision and sublimation of rationality and sensibility.