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    MADAME CHIEN-SHIUNG WU
    The First Lady of Physics Research

    by Tsai-Chien Chiang & translated by Tang-Fong Wong

    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 Chien-Shiung Wu, an outstanding and leading experimental physicist of the 20th century.

     
    Contents:
    • Childhood in Liuhe
    • A Young Wu Chien-Shiung Became the Favorite Student of Hu Shih
    • Choice of Future
    • A Rising Star in Berkeley
    • Youth and Love
    • Going East
    • From Nuclear Fission to The Manhattan Project
    • A World Authority in Beta Decay
    • Revolution in Parity Conservation
    • Experiment at 2000 Feet Below Ground
    • First Female President of the American Physical Society
    • Love of China
    • The First Lady of Physics Research
    • Wu Chien-Shiung: The Scientist
     
    Readership: Students and laymen.
     
     
    300pp (approx.)    Pub. date: Jul 2012  
    ISBN:   978-981-4374-84-2
    981-4374-84-9
       US$98 / £65

     


    300pp (approx.)    Pub. date: Jul 2012  
    ISBN:   978-981-4368-92-6(pbk)
    981-4368-92-X(pbk)
       US$48 / £32

     


     

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