Madame Wu Chien-Shiung : The First Lady Of Physics Research
by Tang-Fong Wong /
2013 / English / PDF
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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. Readership: Students and laymen.
