Wu Maw-Kuen

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Wu Maw-Kuen, 2018

Wu Maw-Kuen ( Chinese  吳茂昆 , Pinyin Wú Màokūn ; born December 6, 1949 in Yuli , Hualien County , Republic of China (Taiwan) ) is a physicist from Taiwan.

Wu spent his childhood in Taiwan . He received his PhD in physics from the University of Houston in 1981 and was an assistant professor at the University of Alabama (1987-88). Wu was later professor of physics at Columbia University (1988-94). During this time he held various positions at NTHU in Taiwan, where he has been a regular faculty member since 1994. From 2004 to 2006, Wu was chairman of the Taiwanese National Science Council, which awards research grants, director of the Institute of Physics at Academia Sinica (2002–2004, 2006–2012) and president of National Dong Hwa University .

In April 2018 he was appointed Minister of Education.

His research areas are superconductors and cryogenics . Together with Chu Ching-wu , he discovered superconductivity in yttrium-barium-copper oxide over 77 Kelvin in 1987 . In the 2000s, important contributions to a new class of low-temperature superconductors with extremely high transition temperatures based on FeAs were made under his leadership. For these contributions he was awarded the Nikkei Asia Prize 2011.

Awards

  • 1988 USA Chinese Association of Engineering Annual Award
  • 1988 State of Alabama Resolution
  • 1988 University of Alabama Research Award
  • 1988 Comstock Prize for Physics with Chu Ching-wu
  • 1989 Tamkang Golden Eagle Award
  • 1994 Fellow, Chinese Physical Society
  • 1994 Bernd T. Matthias Prize
  • 1995 YT Lee Outstanding Scientist Award
  • 1998 NASA Special Awards
  • 2004 member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 Ettore Majorana-Erice-Science for Peace Prize
  • 2009 Taiwanese-American Foundation (TAF) Award
  • 2010-03 Germany Humboldt Research Award
  • 2011 Nikkei Asia Prize 2011
  • 2011 Science Award of the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage at the university. sinica.edu.tw, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ Physicist named new education minister. August 17, 2018, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ MK Wu, JR Ashburn, CJ Torng, PH Hor, RL Meng, L. Gao, ZJ Huang, YQ Wang, and CW Chu: Superconductivity at 93 K in a new mixed-phase Y-Ba-Cu-O compound system at ambient pressure . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. . 58, No. 9, 1987, pp. 908-910. doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.58.908 . PMID 10035069 .
  4. ↑ FC Hsu, JY Luo, KW Yeh, TK Chen, TW Huang, PM Wu, YC Lee, YL Huang, YY Chu, DC Yan, MK Wu: Superconductivity in the PbO-type structure alpha-FeSe . In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA . 105, No. 38, 2008, pp. 14262-14264. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0807325105 .
  5. ^ Nikkei Asia Prize: Past Winners. Nikkei Inc., accessed April 15, 2019 .
  6. ^ A biochemist and a physicist win the 2011 Presidential Science Prize. In: Taiwan News. December 2, 2011, accessed April 15, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wu, Maw-Kuen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 吳茂昆 (Chinese); Wú Màokūn (pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Yuli (Hualien)