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He entered [[Nanjing Higher Normal School]] (later renamed [[National Southeastern University]], [[National Central University]] and [[Nanjing University]]), in 1920 and earned a [[B.S.]] in [[physics]] in 1925. Then he earned a [[Ph.D.]] degree in physics under supervision of [[Nobel Prize laureate]] [[Robert Andrews Millikan]] at [[California Institute of Technology]] in 1930. Later he went back to China and joined the physics faculty of [[Tsinghua University]] in [[Beijing]]. |
He entered [[Nanjing Higher Normal School]] (later renamed [[National Southeastern University]], [[National Central University]] and [[Nanjing University]]), in 1920 and earned a [[B.S.]] in [[physics]] in 1925. Then he earned a [[Ph.D.]] degree in physics under supervision of [[Nobel Prize laureate]] [[Robert Andrews Millikan]] at [[California Institute of Technology]] in 1930. Later he went back to China and joined the physics faculty of [[Tsinghua University]] in [[Beijing]]. |
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a rice merchant in Shaoxing and his mother Gu Jinniang, |
a rice merchant in Shaoxing and his mother Gu Jinniang, |
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Chung-Yao Chao (simplified Chinese: 赵忠尧; traditional Chinese: 趙忠堯; pinyin: Zhào Zhōngyáo; Wade–Giles: Chao Chung-yao; 27 June 1902 – 28 May 1998) was a Chinese physicist. Chung-Yao Chao studied the scattering of gamma rays in lead by pair production in 1930, without knowing that positrons were involved in the anomalously high scattering cross-section. When the positron was discovered by Carl David Anderson in 1932, confirming the existence of Paul Dirac's "antimatter", it became clear that positrons could explain Chung-Yao Chao's earlier experiments, with the gamma rays being emitted from electron-positron annihilation.
He entered Nanjing Higher Normal School (later renamed National Southeastern University, National Central University and Nanjing University), in 1920 and earned a B.S. in physics in 1925. Then he earned a Ph.D. degree in physics under supervision of Nobel Prize laureate Robert Andrews Millikan at California Institute of Technology in 1930. Later he went back to China and joined the physics faculty of Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Early life
Zhu’s father, Zhu Jiaxian, was a rice merchant in Shaoxing and his mother Gu Jinniang, a devout Buddhist,
See also
Further reading
- Wang, Zuoyue (1970–1980). "Zhao Zhongyao". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 25. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 397–402. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.
External links
- CHINESE SCIENCE AND THE ‘NOBEL PRIZE COMPLEX’ page 154.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Scientific_Biography
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- 1998 deaths
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- Educators from Shaoxing
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