Queen of Physics

Queen of Physics
Author: Teresa Robeson
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1454941596

Meet Wu Chien Shiung, famous physicist who overcame prejudice to prove that she could be anything she wanted. “Wu Chien Shiung's story is remarkable—and so is the way this book does it justice.” —Booklist (Starred review) When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, most girls did not attend school; no one considered them as smart as boys. But her parents felt differently. Giving her a name meaning “Courageous Hero,” they encouraged her love of learning and science. This engaging biography follows Wu Chien Shiung as she battles sexism and racism to become what Newsweek magazine called the “Queen of Physics” for her work on beta decay. Along the way, she earned the admiration of famous scientists like Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer and became the first woman hired as an instructor by Princeton University, the first woman elected President of the American Physical Society, the first scientist to have an asteroid named after her when she was still alive, and many other honors.

Queen of Physics

Queen of Physics
Author: Teresa Robeson
Publisher: People Who Shaped Our World
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781454932208

When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, most girls did not attend school. But her parents gave her a name meaning "Courageous Hero" and encouraged her love of science. This engaging biography follows Wu as she battles sexism and racism to become what Newsweek magazine called the "Queen of Physics" for her work on beta decay.

Queen of Physics

Queen of Physics
Author: Teresa Robeson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: Chinese Americans
ISBN: 9781713700852

When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China in the early 1900s, girls typically did not attend school. They weren't considered as smart as boys. But her parents thought differently, so they gave her a name meaning "courageous hero" and encouraged her love of learning and science. Chien Shiung found her passion in physics, which took her from her small hometown of Liuhe to the National Central University in Nanjing and then all the way to the United States. She became such an exceptional physicist that other scientists asked her for help running experiments! Even then, she didn't always get the jobs she wanted or the credit she deserved - because she was Asian. But she pushed back against the prejudice with dignity and poise, and focused on excelling at what she loved. It's no wonder Newsweek declared her the "Queen of Physics." An NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Book! --

Carbon Queen

Carbon Queen
Author: Maia Weinstock
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0262046431

The life of trailblazing physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, who expanded our understanding of the physical world. As a girl in New York City in the 1940s, Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus was taught that there were only three career options open to women: secretary, nurse, or teacher. But sneaking into museums, purchasing three-cent copies of National Geographic, and devouring books on the history of science ignited in Dresselhaus (1930–2017) a passion for inquiry. In Carbon Queen, science writer Maia Weinstock describes how, with curiosity and drive, Dresselhaus defied expectations and forged a career as a pioneering scientist and engineer. Dresselhaus made highly influential discoveries about the properties of carbon and other materials and helped reshape our world in countless ways—from electronics to aviation to medicine to energy. She was also a trailblazer for women in STEM and a beloved educator, mentor, and colleague. Her path wasn’t easy. Dresselhaus’s Bronx childhood was impoverished. Her graduate adviser felt educating women was a waste of time. But Dresselhaus persisted, finding mentors in Nobel Prize–winning physicists Rosalyn Yalow and Enrico Fermi. Eventually, Dresselhaus became one of the first female professors at MIT, where she would spend nearly six decades. Weinstock explores the basics of Dresselhaus’s work in carbon nanoscience accessibly and engagingly, describing how she identified key properties of carbon forms, including graphite, buckyballs, nanotubes, and graphene, leading to applications that range from lighter, stronger aircraft to more energy-efficient and flexible electronics.

The Physics Queen

The Physics Queen
Author: Omoviekovwa A. Nakireru Ph.D.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2010-04-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1450080960

Book Summary Dr Elvira Williams, a graduate of Howard University, Washington, DC, started her academic career at North Carolina Central University. In 1977, she received a doctorate degree in Physics from Howard University. She became the first woman of African descent in the State of North Carolina to earn a doctorate degree in Physics. Secondly, she became the fourth African American woman in the United States to receive the award. Her academic journey started from the country side city of Pollocksville, to the heights of academics as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Madame Wu Chien-Shiung

Madame Wu Chien-Shiung
Author: Caijian Jiang
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789814374842

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.

God and the New Physics

God and the New Physics
Author: P. C. W. Davies
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1984-10-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0671528068

Argues that the discoveries of twentieth-century physics--relativity and the quantum theory--demand a radical reformulation of the fundamentals of reality and a way of thinking, that is closer to mysticism than materialism.

The Wonders of Physics

The Wonders of Physics
Author: Lev Grigor?evich Aslamazov
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789812560568

The book in your hands develops the best traditions of the Russian scientific popular literature. Written in a clear and captivating manner by working theoretical physicists, who are, at the same time, dedicated popularizers of scientific knowledge, it brings to the reader the latest achievements in quantum solid-state physics, but along the way it also shows how the laws of physics reveal themselves even in seemingly trivial episodes concerning the natural phenomena around us. And most importantly, it shows that we live in the world, where scientists are capable of ?proving harmony with algebra?. ? A A Abrikosov, 2003 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics

Gravity and Strings

Gravity and Strings
Author: Tomás Ortín
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1043
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0521768136

Self-contained and comprehensive, this definitive new edition provides a complete overview of the intersection of gravity, supergravity, and superstrings.

First You Build a Cloud

First You Build a Cloud
Author: K. C. Cole
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1999
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780156006460

Demystifying physics in a fascinating read, "First You Build a Cloud" does for physics what the bestselling "The Universe and the Teacup" did for math.