Arts and Music

• Ma Yuan (died 1225)

  Chinese landscape painter.

  • Known for paintings in which the area of main interest is in a corner, rather than the center (see list of Medieval Artists)

Science and Philosophy

• Yuan Tseh Lee (born 1936)

  Taiwanese-American chemist known for his use of molecular beams in the study of chemical reactions.

  • 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, with Dudley Herschbach and John Polanyi (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)