Madame Wu Chien-Shiung : the first lady of physics research [E-Book] / Chiang Tsai-Chien ; translated by Wong Tang-Fong.
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 comp...
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Personal Name(s): | Tsai-Chien, Chiang. |
Wong, Tang-Fong Frank | |
Imprint: |
[Hackensack] New Jersey :
World Scientific,
[2014]
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9789814368933 (e-book) |
Subject (LOC): |
- 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.