By Tsai-Chien Chiang,Tang-Fong Wong
Narrating the well-lived lifetime of the “Chinese Madame Curie” — a recipient of the 1st Wolf Prize in Physics (1978), the 1st lady to obtain an honorary doctorate from Princeton college, in addition to the 1st lady president of the yankee actual Society — this e-book offers a complete and sincere account of the lifetime of Dr Wu Chien-Shiung, an excellent and top experimental physicist of the 20 th century.
Contents:
- Childhood in Liuhe
- A younger Wu Chien-Shiung grew to become the favourite scholar of Hu Shih
- Choice of Future
- A emerging famous person in Berkeley
- Youth and Love
- Going East
- From Nuclear Fission to the ny Project
- A international Authority in Beta Decay
- Revolution in Parity Conservation
- Experiment at 2,000 ft Underground
- The First lady President of the yank actual Society
- Love of China
- The First woman of Physics Research
- Wu Chien-Shiung the Scientist
Readership: scholars and laymen.
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