Peter Lee Jung-sum

Peter Lee Jung-sum (23 October 1939 – 3 September 2008), was a former assistant director of Hong Kong Observatory. He was the elder brother of Bruce Lee. Background Born in Hong Kong on 23 October 1939, Lee was the eldest son of Lee Hoi-chuen and Grace Ho. He attended the La Salle College where he excelled in his studies and sports. He started fencing and influenced his brother Bruce to take up fencing lessons with him when Bruce was around 11 to 14. Lee was a world-class fencer and in March 1958 won the championship in the first Inter-School Fencing Competition. In July 1958 he joined Jose Marçal, Pedro Marçal, Reuben Lynn, and Hung Hak-yau on the Hong Kong fencing team for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He won in round 1 but did not reach the quarter-finals, while Hung became a finalist in the individual foil event. In May 1959, Lee joined Bruce in Seattle for a short stay and proceeded to Minnesota to further his studies. He later graduated from the University of Minnesota and returned to Hong Kong. In 1983, Lee completed his PhD at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. The title of his doctoral thesis was "A ground clutter processor for the Royal Observatory's 10-cm meteorological radar".