Kyu T. Lee ’59

Kyu T. Lee ’59, of Wilmington, Del.; Feb. 10, from a stroke. He was director of biomedicine at DuPont de Nemours, Inc. for more than three decades. He was recruited by DuPont prior to receiving a full scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he would receive his doctorate in chemical engineering in 1963. Due to his inventions in medicinal compounds, he has nine U.S. patents assigned to DuPont de Nemours and Bristol Myers Squibb. He retired in 1995. In 2015, on his 80th birthday, his contributions to Wilmington were honored by then Vice President Joe Biden. In retirement he enjoyed traveling to Europe and Southeast Asia, dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants, skiing, golfing, ballroom dancing with his late partner Yum Kim, and spending time between the East and West coasts with his children and grandchildren. He had a lifelong passion for classical music and found comfort in gardening and reading. He is survived by three children and six grandchildren.