astronomy

Ho Wang Lee

Ho Wang Lee is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ho Wang Lee rather than just read about it. In short: Ho Wang Lee (Korean: 이호왕; 26 October 1928 – 5 July 2022) was a South Korean physician, epidemiologist, and virologist. He was the first person in the history of medicine to be the one chiefly responsible for all three of the following steps: discovery of a virus causing a human disease, development of a method of diagnosis for the disease, and development of a vaccine against the disease.

Key takeaways

Ho Wang Lee belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
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Reproduce the core statement of Ho Wang Lee from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Ho Wang Lee (Korean: 이호왕; 26 October 1928 – 5 July 2022) was a South Korean physician, epidemiologist, and virologist. He was the first person in the history of medicine to be the one chiefly responsible for all three of the following steps: discovery of a virus causing a human disease, development of a method of diagnosis for the disease, and development of a vaccine against the disease.

Biography Lee was born in Sinhung, Kankyōnan Province (South Hamgyong Province), Korea, Empire of Japan on 26 October 1928. He studied medicine at Seoul National University with an M.D. degree in 1954 and was awarded a doctorate at the University of Minnesota in 1959. From 1954 to 1972 he was a professor of microbiology at the Medical College of Seoul National University, as well as dean of the Medical College. From 1972 to 1994 he was the director of the Department of Virology of Korea University. From 1994 to his death he was the director of the ASAN Institute for Life Sciences in South Korea.

In 1976 Lee and his collaborators succeeded in isolating the virus causing Korean hemorrhagic fever; they gave it the name Hantaan virus. The discovery caused a sensation in the international community of medical researchers, because the quest for isolating the virus had been the subject of intense effort since the early 1950s. The research involved in isolating the virus was dangerous, and several of Lee's collaborators became ill due to aerosols produced by chronically infected rodents. In 1989 Lee and collaborators developed a formalin-inactivated suckling mouse Hantaan virus vaccine, which under the name Hantavax™ has been approved for commercial use in South Korea since 1990. In 1990, Lee and Tetsuo Tomiyama, a professor of clinical pathology at Tokyo University Hospital, published their findings for their method of rapid serodiagnosis of hantavirus infections. Ho Wang Lee became one of the first South Korean scientists to gain international fame while continuing to do research primarily in South Korea.

Awards and honors 1981 — Member of the Korean National Academy of Sciences 1981 — Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Virus Reference and Research 1987 — President of the International Conference on Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome 1987 — Inchon Award 1989 — Korea Science Award 1992 — Ho-Am Prize 1994 — Prince Mahidol Award 1998 — International member of the American Philosophical Society 2002 — Foreign member of the United States National Academy of Sciences 2004 — Foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2021 — Clarivate Citation Laureates in Physiology or Medicine

References

External links Lee Ho-wang's biography on the National Archives of Korea Web site (Korean)

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Ho Wang Lee

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Ho Wang Lee claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Ho Wang Lee before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ho Wang Lee ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ho Wang Lee

In research: Ho Wang Lee appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ho Wang Lee in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ho Wang Lee is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1928 births, 2022 deaths, 20th-century South Korean medical doctors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Ho Wang Lee outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Ho Wang Lee in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Ho Wang Lee matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Ho Wang Lee?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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