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Download or read book Madame Wu Chien-Shiung written by Caijian Jiang and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.