Maw-Kuen Wu
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| Maw-Kuen Wu | |
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| Born | December 6, 1949 Yuli Township, Hualien County, Republic of China |
| Nationality | Republic of China |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Houston University of Alabama in Huntsville Columbia University National Tsing Hua University National Science Council Academia Sinica National Dong Hwa University |
| Alma mater | Tamkang University University of Houston |
| Notable awards | Comstock Prize in Physics (1988) |
Maw-Kuen Wu (吳茂昆; pinyin: Wú Màokūn, born December 6, 1949) is a Chinese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, low-temperature physics, and high-pressure physics. He was a professor of physics at Columbia University. He is the Director of the Institute of Physics at the Academia Sinica, and the President of the National Dong Hwa University.
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Biography [edit]
Born in Yuli Township, Hualien County, Wu spent his childhood in Taiwan. He completed his Ph.D. degree at the University of Houston in 1981.
Wu worked as a research scientist at his alma mattar for 2 years, before being taken on as an assistant professor of physics at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, and then subsequently promoted to professor in 1987. Along with Chu Ching-wu, Wu made the historic discovery of superconductivity above 77 K in YBCO in 1987, for which he was subsequently nominated for the Nobel Prize.[1] Wu was then invited to teach at the National Tsing Hua University, and conduct further research in high-temperature superconductivity.
Maw-Kuen Wu served as Chairman of the R.O.C. National Science Council from 2004 to 2006. He currently serves as both the Director of the Institute of Physics at the Academia Sinica and the President of the National Dong Hwa University.
Personal life [edit]
Maw-Kuen Wu and his wife have two children.
Academic Honors [edit]
- 1988 USA Chinese Association of Engineering Annual Award
- 1988 State of Alabama Resolution
- 1988 University of Alabama Research Award
- 1988 U.S.A. National Academy of Science Comstock Prize
- 1989 Tamkang Golden Eagle Award
- 1994 Fellow, Chinese Physical Society
- 1994 Bernd T. Matthias Prize
- 1995 Y. T. Lee Outstanding Scientist Award
- 1998 NASA Special Awards
- 2007 Ettore Majorana-Erice-Science for Peace Prize
- 2009 Taiwanese-American Foundation (TAF) Award
- 2010-03 Germany Humboldt Research Award
Notes [edit]
- ^ M. K. Wu, J. R. Ashburn, C. J. Torng, P. H. Hor, R. L. Meng, L. Gao, Z. J. Huang, Y. Q. Wang, and C. W. Chu (1987). "SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AT 93-K IN A NEW MIXED-PHASE Y-BA-CU-O COMPOUND SYSTEM AT AMBIENT PRESSURE". Phys. Rev. Lett. 58 (9): 908–910. Bibcode:1987PhRvL..58..908W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.908. PMID 10035069.
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| Academic offices | ||
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| Preceded by Yong-De Yao |
Director of the Academia Sinica Institute of Physics 2002– |
Succeeded by Incubent |
- 1949 births
- Living people
- People from Hualien County
- Tamkang University alumni
- University of Houston alumni
- American scientists
- Taiwanese physicists
- Chinese physicists
- National Cheng Kung University alumni
- University of Houston faculty
- University of Alabama in Huntsville faculty
- Columbia University faculty
- National Tsing Hua University faculty
- National Dong Hwa University faculty
- Members of Academia Sinica
- Winners of the Comstock Prize in Physics
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
