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{{Short description|Taiwanese chemist and Nobel Laureate}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Yuan Tseh Lee
| native_name         = {{nobold|李遠哲}}
| image               = File: Yuan T. Lee official portrait.jpg
| image_size          = 
| caption             = Official portrait, 2016
| office              = [[:zh:總統府國家氣候變遷對策委員會|Advisor of the National Climate Change Committee]]
| term_start          = 7 July 2024
| term_end            = 
| alongside           = [[Eugene Chien]]
| president           = [[Lai Ching-te]]
| office1             = [[Senior Advisor|Senior Advisor to the President]]
| term_start1         = 9 November 2016
| term_end1           = 19 May 2020
| president1          = [[Tsai Ing-wen]]
| term_start2         = 20 May 2000
| term_end2           = 20 May 2001
| president2          = [[Chen Shui-bian]]
| office3             = 7th [[Academia Sinica|President of the Academia Sinica]]
| term_start3         = 18 January 1994
| term_end3           = 18 October 2006
| 1blankname3         = President
| 1namedata3          = [[Lee Teng-hui]]<br>[[Chen Shui-bian]]
| predecessor3        = [[Wu Ta-You]]
| successor3          = [[Chi-Huey Wong]]
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1936|11|19}}
| birth_place         = [[Hsinchu|Shinchiku City]], [[Shinchiku Prefecture]], [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese Taiwan]]
| citizenship         = [[Japanese nationality law|Empire of Japan]] {{small|(1936–1945)}}<br />[[Taiwanese nationality law|Republic of China]] {{small|(1945–present)}}<br>[[United States nationality law|United States]] {{small|(1974–1994)}}
| party               = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| education           = [[National Taiwan University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br />[[National Tsing Hua University]] ([[Master of Science|MS]])<br />[[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[PhD]])
| module              = {{Infobox scientist
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|field             = [[Physical chemistry]]
|work_institutions = [[University of California, Berkeley]]<br />[[University of Chicago]]<br />[[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]]<br />[[Academia Sinica]] (Taiwan)
|thesis_title      = Photoionization of alkali-metal vapors
|thesis_year       = 1965
|thesis_url = https://escholarship.org/content/qt38w073rt/qt38w073rt.pdf?t=lnpy1t
|doctoral_advisor  = [[Bruce H. Mahan]]
|doctoral_students = [[Laurie Butler]]
|prizes            = [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (1986)<br />[[National Medal of Science]] (1986)<br />[[Peter Debye Award]] (1986) <br />[[Faraday Lectureship Prize]] (1992)<br />[[Othmer Gold Medal]] (2008)
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'''Yuan Tseh Lee''' ({{lang-zh|t=李遠哲|p=Lǐ Yuǎnzhé|w=Li³ Yüan³-che²|poj=Lí Oán-tiat}}; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese [[chemist]] who was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 1986 for his contributions to the development of [[reaction dynamics]].

Lee is a professor emeritus at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and honorary director of the [[Nagoya University]] Institute for Advanced Study along with [[Ryoji Noyori]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/chem/emeriti/lee|title=Yuan T. Lee {{!}} College of Chemistry|website=chemistry.berkeley.edu|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/nobel-laureate-yuan-t-lee-speaks-at-symposium-exploring-nobel-caliber-research|title=Nobel Laureate Yuan T. Lee to speak on campus at international symposium exploring Nobel-caliber research {{!}} College of Chemistry|website=chemistry.berkeley.edu|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1986/lee/biographical/|title=Yuan T. Lee Biographical (The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986)|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11805002.html|title=Lee, Yuan Tseh, 1936–|website=history.aip.org|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref> He was awarded the Nobel with [[John C. Polanyi]] and [[Dudley R. Herschbach]] for "contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1986/summary/ |access-date=2019-03-10 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}</ref> He was the first Taiwanese person be awarded the Nobel Prize. His research in [[physical chemistry]] concerned the use of advanced [[chemical kinetics]] techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions using [[crossed molecular beam]]s.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /> From 1994 to 2006, Lee served as the President of the [[Academia Sinica]].<ref name=":2" /> In 2011, he was elected head of the [[International Council for Science]].<ref name=":2" />

== Early life and education ==
[[File:Yuan Tseh Lee HD2008 Othmer Gold Medal portrait.JPG|thumb|Yuan Tseh Lee, Othmer Gold Medal recipient, 2008]]

Lee was born in northern Taiwan in [[Shinchiku Prefecture|Shinchiku]] (now [[Hsinchu]]) on November 19, 1936. His father, [[Lee Tze-fan]] (李澤藩), was an artist, and his mother, Ts'ai P'ei ({{lang-zh|c=蔡配|p=Cài Péi|labels=no}}), was an elementary school teacher from {{nihongo|Goseikō Town|梧棲港街}} in [[Taichū Prefecture]] (now [[Wuqi District|Wuqi]], [[Taichung]]).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> Their [[Ancestral home (Chinese)|ancestral home]] is in [[Nan'an, Fujian]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=李远哲 |url=https://www.tongxianghuicn.com/character/490867.jhtml?libId=266 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124022325/https://www.tongxianghuicn.com/character/490867.jhtml?libId=266 |archive-date=24 November 2022 |access-date=25 November 2018}}</ref>

Lee played on the [[baseball]] and [[ping-pong]] teams of Hsinchu Elementary School, and later studied at the [[Hsinchu Senior High School]], where he played [[tennis]], [[trombone]], and the [[flute]]. He was exempted from the [[entrance examination]] and directly admitted to [[National Taiwan University]]. He earned a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] in 1959.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He earned his [[Master of Science|M.S.]] from [[National Tsing Hua University]] in 1961 and his [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of California, Berkeley]], in 1965 under the supervision of [[Bruce H. Mahan]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He was a member of the Chemistry International Board from 1977 to 1984.<ref name=":2" />

== Scientific career ==
=== Chemistry ===
In February 1967, he started working with [[Dudley Herschbach]] at [[Harvard University]] on reactions between [[hydrogen]] atoms and diatomic [[alkali]] molecules and the construction of a universal crossed molecular beams apparatus.  After the postdoctoral year with Herschbach he joined the [[University of Chicago]] faculty in 1968. In 1974, he returned to Berkeley as professor of chemistry and principal investigator at the [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]], becoming a U.S. citizen the same year. Lee is a University Professor Emeritus of the [[University of California]] system.<ref name="Berkeley">{{cite web|title=Yuan T. Lee Professor Emeritus|url=http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/chem/emeriti/lee|website=Berkeley College of Chemistry|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref>

=== Nobel prize ===
One of the major goals of [[chemistry]] is the study of material transformations where [[chemical kinetics]] plays an important role. Scientists during the 19th century stated macroscopic chemical processes consist of many elementary chemical reactions that are themselves simply a series of encounters between [[atom]]ic or [[molecule|molecular species]]. In order to understand the time dependence of [[chemical reaction]]s, [[physical chemistry|chemical kineticists]] have traditionally focused on sorting out all of the elementary chemical reactions involved in a macroscopic chemical process and determining their respective rates.

[[Swedish people|Swedish]] chemist [[Svante Arrhenius]] studied this phenomenon during the late 1880s, and stated the relations between reactive molecular encounters and [[rate of reaction|rates of reactions]] (formulated in terms of [[activation energy|activation energies]]).

Other scientists at the time also stated a chemical reaction is fundamentally a [[mechanical event]], involving the rearrangement of atoms and molecules
during a [[collision]]. Although these initial theoretical studies were only qualitative, they heralded a new era in the field of chemical kinetics; allowing the prediction of the dynamical course of a chemical reaction.

In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, with the development of many sophisticated experimental techniques, it became possible to study the dynamics of elementary chemical reactions in the laboratory. Such as the analysis of the threshold operating conditions of a chemical [[laser]] or the [[spectrum|spectra]] obtained using various linear or non-linear laser spectroscopic techniques.

Professor Lee's research focused on the possibility to control the energies of the reagents, and to understand the dependence of chemical reactivity on molecular orientation, among other studies related to the nature of reaction intermediates, [[nuclear decay|decay]] dynamics, and identifying complex [[reaction mechanism]]s. To do so, Professor Lee used a breakthrough [[laboratory technique]] at the time, called the ''"crossed molecular beams technique"'', where the information derived from the measurements of angular and velocity distributions allowed him and his team to understand the dynamics of elementary chemical reactions.<ref name="NobelPrize">{{cite web|title=Yuan T. Lee – Biographical|url=http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1986/lee-bio.html|website=Nobel Prize.org|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref>

In 2021, Lee donated his Nobel Prize medal to the [[National Museum of Taiwan History]] for exhibition.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dare to be Different: The Humanism of a Taiwanese Scientist |url=https://www.nmth.gov.tw/en/News_Content_Due.aspx?n=4315&s=139941 |work=National Museum of Taiwan History |date=14 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

==Later career==
During his tenure, Lee has worked to create new research institutes, advance scientific research within Taiwan, and to recruit and cultivate top scholars for the [[Academia Sinica]].

In 2010, Lee said that global warming would be much more serious than scientists previously thought, and that Taiwanese people needed to cut their per-capita carbon emissions from the current 12 tons per year to just three. This would take more than a few slogans, turning off the lights for one hour, or cutting meat consumption, noting: "We will have to learn to live the simple lives of our ancestors." Without such efforts, he said, "Taiwanese will be unable to survive long into the future".<ref name="Global Ideas">{{cite web|title=Yuan Lee, Taiwan|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3C3l79nd0|website=Global Ideas|date=7 September 2010}}</ref>

Lee was appointed the president of [[Academia Sinica]] in 1994 and [[Renunciation of United States citizenship|renounced his U.S. citizenship]] to take the post.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/tai_gang_ao/2006-10/24/content_5243247.htm|title=诺贝尔奖得主卸任 "李远哲时代" 黯然落幕|work=News.cn|date=24 October 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323073450/http://news.xinhuanet.com/tai_gang_ao/2006-10/24/content_5243247.htm|archive-date=23 March 2013}}</ref> As president of Academia Sinica he presided over the creation of the Taiwanese history textbook ''[[Knowing Taiwan]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Corcuff |first1=Stephane |title=Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan |date=28 February 2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0765607911 |page=86 |edition=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vFy3J2PyEAoC&pg=PA91 |access-date=5 March 2021}}</ref>

At the request of president [[Chen Shui-bian]], Lee was Taiwan's [[List of Chinese Taipei representatives to APEC|representative]] in the 2002 [[APEC]] leaders' summit in [[Mexico]]. ([[President of the Republic of China|Presidents of the Republic of China]] have been barred from joining the APEC summits because of objections from the People's Republic of China.) Lee represented Chen again in the 2003 and 2004 APEC summits in [[Thailand]] and [[Chile]], respectively.<ref name="Ko">{{cite news|last1=Ko|first1=Shu-ling|title=The struggle for an international voice|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/print/2004/11/14/2003210987|access-date=1 December 2016|work=[[Taipei Times]]|date=14 November 2004}}</ref>

In July 2024, Lee accepted president [[Lai Ching-te]]'s invitation to serve as a consultant on the newly formed National Climate Change Strategy Committee.<ref>{{cite news|last=Shan|first=Shelley|title=Lee Yuan-tseh joins Lai's climate change committee|url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2024/07/10/2003820587|work=Taipei Times|date=10 July 2024|access-date=10 July 2024}}</ref>

Lee was then elected President of the [[International Council for Science]] in 2008 and started his term in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.icsu.org/3_mediacentre/RELEASES/ICSU_29GA_Pres_Elect_%26_EB_Press_Release.pdf |title=Nobel Prize winning scientist elected as future President of the International Council for Science |access-date=14 September 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325222812/http://www.icsu.org/3_mediacentre/RELEASES/ICSU_29GA_Pres_Elect_%26_EB_Press_Release.pdf |archive-date=25 March 2009 }}. [[International Council for Science]]. 7 November 2008</ref> He has been involved with the Malta Conferences, an initiative designed to bring together Middle Eastern scientists. As part of the initiative, he offered six fellowships to work on the synchrotron in Taiwan.<ref>{{cite journal |last = Lerman |first = Zafra |title = From Fighting for Human Rights to Building a Bridge to Peace |journal = Science & Diplomacy |date = 10 February 2015 |volume = 4 |issue = 1 |url = http://www.sciencediplomacy.org/letter-field/2015/fighting-for-human-rights-building-bridge-peace |access-date = 10 February 2015 |archive-date = 24 November 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221124022326/https://www.sciencediplomacy.org/letter-field/2015/fighting-for-human-rights-building-bridge-peace |url-status = dead }}</ref> He is also a member of International Advisory Council in [[Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman]].<ref name="UTARInternationalAdvisoryCouncil">{{cite web|title=UTAR International Advisory Council|url=https://utar.edu.my/International-Advisory-Council.php|website=Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahamn (UTAR)|date=20 December 2020}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
[[File:APEC2004 Chamanto.jpg|thumbnail|300px|Lee (upper far left) represented Taiwan at the 2004 [[APEC]] leaders' summit.]]
Lee's father was a painter in Taiwan, and his mother was an elementary school teacher. His elder brother [[Yuan-Chuan Lee]] has been a professor at [[Johns Hopkins University]] for 40 years and was awarded the honor Special Chair Lectureship in Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His younger brother [[Yuan-Pern Lee]] was also awarded this honor. Lee's sister Chi-Mei Lee has served as a professor at [[National Chung Hsing University]].<ref name="NobelBio">{{cite web|title=Yuan T. Lee – Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1986/lee-bio.html|website=Nobel Prize.org|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref>

In 2003, he was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the [[Humanism and Its Aspirations|Humanist Manifesto]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |title = Notable Signers |work = Humanism and Its Aspirations |publisher = [[American Humanist Association]] |access-date = 2 October 2012 |archive-date = 5 October 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121005105825/http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |url-status = dead }}</ref>

===Politics===
During the [[2000 Taiwanese presidential election]], Lee supported the [[pan-green coalition]] which advocates [[Taiwan independence]]. In the last week of the election he announced his support for the candidacy of [[Chen Shui-bian]] who subsequently defeated [[James Soong]] in the election. Chen intended to nominate Lee to become [[Premier of the Republic of China|premier]].

In January 2004, he and industrial tycoon [[Wang Yung-ching]] and theatre director [[Lin Hwai-min]] issued a joint statement to both Chen Shui-bian and [[Lien Chan]]. He backed Chen again in the [[2004 Taiwanese presidential election|2004 elections]], issuing a statement of support for the DPP on 17 March, three days before polls opened.

During the [[2012 Taiwanese presidential election|2012 presidential election]], Lee expressed his support for DPP candidate [[Tsai Ing-wen]]. In early 2016, he appeared and addressed a rally by [[New Power Party]], a party formed by student activists involved in the [[Sunflower Movement]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Abraham|first1=Gerber|title=NPP focuses on family in night rally|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/01/10/2003636843|access-date=9 January 2016|work=Taipei Times}}</ref>

===Climate change===
Yuan Lee has signed the 2015 [[Mainau Declaration]] expressing concern about [[global warming|anthropogenic climate change]].

===Wu Chien-Shiung Foundation===
Lee was one of the four Nobelists who established the [[Wu Chien-Shiung]] Foundation.

== Recognition ==
In addition to the Nobel Prize, his awards and distinctions include [[Sloan Fellow]] (1969); Fellow of [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1975); Fellow Am. Phys. Soc. (1976); [[Guggenheim Fellow]] (1977); Member [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] (1979); Member International Academy of Science, Munich, Member [[Academia Sinica]] (1980); E.O. Lawrence Award (1981); Miller Professor, Berkeley (1981); Fairchild Distinguished Scholar (1983); Harrison Howe Award (1983); Peter Debye Award (1986); [[National Medal of Science]] (1986); Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] (1987) and [[Faraday Lectureship Prize]] (1992).<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref> Yuan Tseh Lee was awarded the [[Othmer Gold Medal]] in 2008 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to progress in chemistry and science.<ref name="2008UCB">{{cite news |title=Chemical Heritage Foundation to Present 2008 Othmer Gold Medal to Yuan Tseh Lee |url=http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2008/2008_othmer_gold_medal.php |access-date=12 June 2014 |publisher=College of Chemistry |date=26 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430011032/http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2008/2008_othmer_gold_medal.php |archive-date=30 April 2013 }}</ref><ref name=2008ASE>{{cite news |title=Academician Yuan Tseh Lee Awarded 2008 Othmer Gold Medal by Chemical Heritage Foundation |url=http://newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en/news/read_news.php?nid=580 |access-date=12 June 2014 |work=Academica Sinica E-News |publisher=Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China |year=2008 |archive-date=2 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302075910/http://newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en/news/read_news.php?nid=580 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="OthmerMedal">{{cite web|title=Othmer Gold Medal|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/othmer-gold-medal|access-date=22 March 2018|publisher=Science History Institute|date=31 May 2016}}</ref> His post-doctoral supervisor and fellow Nobel Laureate [[Dudley Herschbach]] congratulated Lee.<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news|title='MAGNIFICENT TRIO' WHO SHED NEW LIGHT ON CHEMICAL REACTIONS|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/16/us/magnificent-trio-who-shed-new-light-on-chemical-reactions.html|access-date=1 December 2016|work=The New York Times|date=16 October 1986}}</ref> In 2019 Yuan T. Lee was also awarded the Fray International Sustainability Award by FLOGEN Star Outreach at SIPS 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flogen.org/?p=38&bio=Lee|title = Yuan T. Lee winner of the Fray Award}}</ref>

== References ==
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== Publications ==
* Lee, Y. T. "Crossed Molecular Beam Studies and Dynamics of Decomposition of Chemically Activated Radicals", [[University of Chicago]], [[United States Department of Energy]] (through predecessor agency the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]]), (September 1973).
* Lee, Y. T. & S. J. Sibener. "Internal Energy Dependence of Molecular Condensation Coefficients Determined from Molecular Beam Surface Scattering Experiments", [[Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory]], [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[United States Department of Energy]], (May 1978).
* Lee, Y. T., Sibener, S. J. & R. J. Buss. "Development of a Supersonic Atomic Oxygen Nozzle Beam Source for Crossed Beam Scattering Experiments", [[Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory]], [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[United States Department of Energy]], (May 1978).
* Lee, Y. T., Baseman, R. J., Guozhong, H. & R. J. Buss. "Reaction Mechanism of Oxygen Atoms with Unsaturated Hydrocarbons by the Crossed-Molecular-Beams Method", [[Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory]], [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[United States Department of Energy]]-Office of Basic Energy Science, (April 1982).
* Lee, Y. T. "Molecular-beam Studies of Primary Photochemical Processes", [[Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory]], [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[United States Department of Energy]], (December 1982).
* Lee, Y. T., Continetti, R. E. & B. A. Balko. "Molecular Beam Studies of Hot Atom Chemical Reactions: Reactive Scattering of Energetic Deuterium Atoms", [[Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory]], [[United States Department of Energy]], (February 1989).
* Lee, Y.T., "Energy, Environment, and the Responsibility of Scientists", (2007).

== External links ==
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* [http://vega.org.uk/video/programme/284 “Yuan T Lee – Science Video Interview”], Vega Science Trust (Archive) 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3C3l79nd0 “Yuan Lee, Taiwan”], Global Ideas
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsceao848RQ  “Sustainability of the human society (part1)“], Akademi Sains Malaysia ASM
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNsLw_3L7oc  “Sustainability of the human society (part2)“], ASM 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEQjKsbFTgg  “Sustainability of the human society (part3)“], ASM 
* [http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/videos/31309/dynamics-of-chemical-reactions-and-photochemical-processes-lecture-discussion-2010/laureate-lee-2 “Dynamics of Chemical Reactions and Photochemical Processes (Lecture + Discussion)”], Yuan T. Lee (2010), [[Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings]]

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