The Two Lives of Cheng Maolan [E-Book] : From the "French Silk Road to Astronomy" to the Meanders of Mao's China / by Thierry Montmerle, Yi Zhou, Yves Gomas.
This book presents the exceptional biography of the 20th century Chinese astronomer Cheng Maolan, who came to France in 1926 on a China-France cooperation program to do his PhD with the idea of returning to China after a few years. Instead, he lived two lives. He first stayed in France and studied a...
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Personal Name(s): | Montmerle, Thierry, author |
Gomas, Yves, author / Zhou, Yi, author | |
Edition: |
1st edition 2022. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2022
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Physical Description: |
X, 116 pages 59 illustrations, 29 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9783030999308 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-99930-8 |
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SpringerBriefs in Astronomy
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- The French "Silk Road" towards Astronomy (1926-1957)
- Return to the motherland (1957-1978)
- Appendix: Chinese students in astronomy at the Institut Franco-Chinois de Lyon (1921-1947) and their careers
- Name Index.