Nationality Taiwan | Name Maw-Kuen Wu | |
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Institutions University of HoustonUniversity of Alabama in HuntsvilleColumbia UniversityNational Tsing Hua UniversityNational Science CouncilAcademia SinicaNational Dong Hwa University Institution | ||
Notable awards Comstock Prize in Physics | ||
maw kuen wu at tedxtaipei 2014
Maw-Kuen Wu (吳茂昆; pinyin: Wú Màokūn, born December 6, 1949) is a Taiwanese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, low-temperature physics, and high-pressure physics. He was a professor of physics at University of Alabama (Huntsville), Columbia University, and National Tsing Hua University, the Director of the Institute of Physics at the Academia Sinica, and is currently the President of the National Dong Hwa University.
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- maw kuen wu at tedxtaipei 2014
- 20170531 Fred Memorial workshop 2
- Biography
- Personal life
- Academic Honors
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20170531 Fred Memorial workshop 2
Biography
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 mater for 2 years, before being taken on as an assistant professor of physics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and then subsequently promoted to professor in 1987. Along with his graduate student, Jim Ashburn, Wu made the historic discovery of superconductivity above 77 K in YBCO in 1987. Their work was subsequently stolen by Wu's former mentor Chu Ching-wu. 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.
Personal life
Maw-Kuen Wu and his wife have two children.