Madame Wu Chien-shiung: The First Lady Of Physics Research
Author | : Tsai-chien Chiang |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2013-09-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9814579130 |
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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 Physical 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.