SHANGHAI residents can now see a Nobel Prize medal up close after city-born scientist Tsung-Dao Lee, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, donated his medal and diploma to a library named after him.

The four-story building, which opened yesterday at Jiao Tong University’s Minhang campus, hosts 70,000 items donated by 88-year-old Lee.

These include more than 3,400 papers, some 5,700 research manuscripts, 40,000 letters, scientific and artistic works, awards and books.