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Madame Wu Chienshiung The First Lady Of Physics Research

By Tsai-Chien Chiang

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Publish Date

2012

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Company,World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Language

eng

Pages

264

Description:

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.