Milton L. Lee is the H. Tracy Hall Professor of Chemistry at Brigham Young University (BYU).
degree in chemistry from the University of Utah in 1971 and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Indiana University Bloomington in 1975, after which he spent one year (1975–76) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral research associate.
He is also an entrepreneur and has been involved in transferring technology from his university research laboratory to the private sector.
In 1984, he co-founded Lee Scientific to develop and market supercritical fluid chromatographic instrumentation and, in 1991, he co-founded Sensar Corporation to develop and market unique time-of-flight mass spectrometry instrumentation.
He is a co-founder of Torion Technologies, which markets a hand-portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry system.