Madame Wu Chien-Shiung [electronic resource] : the first lady of physics research / Chiang Tsai-Chien ; translated by Wong Tang-Fong.
Tsai-Chien, Chiang.; Wong, Tang-Fong Frank, 1944-
2014
QC16.W79 C4813 2014eb
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Title
Madame Wu Chien-Shiung [electronic resource] : the first lady of physics research / Chiang Tsai-Chien ; translated by Wong Tang-Fong.
Author
Tsai-Chien, Chiang.
ISBN
9789814374842 hardcover
9814374849 hardcover
9789814368926 paperback
981436892X paperback
9789814368933 electronic book
Published
[Hackensack] New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations
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QC16.W79 C4813 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
530.092
Summary
Narrating the well-lived life of the "Chinese Madame Curie" - a recipient of the first Wolf Prize in Physics (1978), the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton University, as well as the first female president of the American Physics Society - this book provides a comprehensive and honest account of the life of Dr Wu Chien-Shiung, an outstanding and leading experimental physicist of the 20th century -- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Wong, Tang-Fong Frank, 1944-
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Ch. 1. Childhood in Liuhe
ch. 2. A young Wu Chien-Shiung became the favorite student of Hu Shih
ch. 3. Choice of future
ch. 4. A rising star in Berkeley
ch. 5. Youth and love
ch. 6. Going East
ch. 7. From nuclear fission to the Manhattan Project
ch. 8. A world authority in beta decay
ch. 9. Revolution in parity conservation
ch. 10. Experiment at 2,000 feet underground
ch. 11. The first female president of the American Physical Society
ch. 12. Love of China
ch. 13. The first lady of physics research
ch. 14. Wu Chien-Shiung the scientist.

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