Madame Wu Chien-Shiung : the first lady of physics research / Chiang Tsai-Chien ; translated by Wong Tang-Fong.
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 comp...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from Proquest Ebook Central Academic Complete |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Published: | [Hackensack] New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014] 2014 |
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| Summary: | 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 -- Source other than Library of Congress. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789814368933 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |