Madame Wu Chienshiung The First Lady Of Physics Research
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789814374842
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.