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Madame Wu Chien-Shiung : the first lady of physics research /

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 compr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jiang, Caijian
Autor Corporativo: World Scientific (Firm)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., Ã2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Childhood in Liuhe
  • ch. 2. A young Wu Chien-Shiung became the favorite student of Hu Shih
  • ch. 3. Choice of future
  • ch. 4. A rising star in Berkeley
  • ch. 5. Youth and love
  • ch. 6. Going East
  • ch. 7. From nuclear fission to the Manhattan Project
  • ch. 8. A world authority in beta decay
  • ch. 9. Revolution in parity conservation
  • ch. 10. Experiment at 2,000 feet underground
  • ch. 11. The first female president of the American Physical Society
  • ch. 12. Love of China
  • ch. 13. The first lady of physics research
  • ch. 14. Wu Chien-Shiung the scientist.