Recognition
Lee is an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy (1998) and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001), as well as an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Oriel College, Oxford. Lee is a Member of the Guild of Cambridge Benefactors.
Lee graduated from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1950. Lee has also received honorary degrees from the Asian Institute of Technology (1998) in Thailand, Victoria University (2006) and Washington University in St. Louis (2008).
In October 2009, he was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the Singapore President and NUS Chancellor S. R. Nathan.
Lee has a variety of bamboo, the Drepanostachyum falcatum var. sengteeanum, named after him.
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