edited by Jong-Ping Hsu (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) & Leonardo Hsu (Carnegie Mellon University)

Prof T-Y Wu is not only an eminent physicist with an encyclopedic knowledge, but also a motivational teacher and an influential policy maker in science and technology. The young Wu was inspired by Prof Y-T Yao, whose course on modern physics sparked an interest that burned during a long and productive career. Among Wu's achievements are 14 books and more than 120 papers covering subjects from atomic and molecular physics to plasmas and gases to atmospheric physics to relativity theory. Even at the age of 90 he remains active, publishing papers and lecturing on physics.

Prof Wu feels grateful that he had the opportunity to educate a group of extremely talented students and, in particular, to discover T D Lee's remarkable talent. Although creative talent is no doubt a product of nature, it must also be nurtured. Prof Wu has played a crucial role for an entire generation of physicists in China and has won great respect from former students such as C N Yang, T D Lee, K Huang, and countless others. Prof Wu's love of physics and his dedication in teaching and research will always be remembered.

• The Scientific Research and Teaching of Ta-You Wu (J P Hsu)
• Scientific Publications of Ta-You Wu (Selected)
• Reminiscences of My Ann Arbor Days (Ta-You Wu)
• Comments After Professor Wu's Talk (C N Yang)
• Einstein's Impact on Theoretical Physics (C N Yang)
• Vibration of the Carbon-60 Molecule (T-T Chou & C N Yang)
• Effects of Heavy and Light Hole Mixing in Quantum Well Physics (K Huang)
• Knot Theory and Statistical Mechanics (F-Y Wu)
• Leptonic Photon and Light Element Abundances (L B Okun)
• Covariant Model of Relativistic Extended Particles Based on the Oscillator Representation of the Poincaré Group (Y S Kim)
• Limiting Symmetry Principle, Universal Constants and Generalized Lorentz Transformations for Non-inertial Frames (J P Hsu & L Hsu)