Memorial Built for Chinese-American Atomic PhysicistA memorial building for Chien- Shiung Wu, a late well-known Chinese-American atomic physicist, is being built in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.The memorial is one of a series of major programs planned in celebration of the 99th anniversary of the founding of Southeast China University, the alma mater of C.S. Wu. The new memorial is situated to the south of the auditorium on the campus of Southeast China University. The memorial, with a total investment of 15 million yuan (about 1.81 million U.S. dollars), will be a four-story building with a floor space of 2, 129 square meters. The second and third floor will be used to display legacies of Wu, who was heralded as one of the world's greatest experimental physicists. It is scheduled to be finished and put into service on the 100th anniversary of the founding of Southeast China University, which falls on May 31 next year. C.S. Wu, born on May 29, 1912 in Liuhe Town, Taicang County of east China's Jiangsu Province, graduated from the Chinese university 1934 and went to study in the United States. She was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1973, and president of the American Physical Society in 1975, and also honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Wu was given a range of awards in the States, including an outstanding achievement award and national science medal. Wu was invited to be one of the first group of foreign academicians by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994. She died of an apoplectic stroke in New York on February 16, 1997 at the age of 84. |
| People's Daily Online --- http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/ |