Hu Ning
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Hu Ning (simplified Chinese:
Biography
[edit]Hu was born in Suqian, Jiangsu, China on 11 February 1916. From 1928 to 1934, Hu studied at the Zhenjiang High School (镇江
After his graduation from Tsinghua, Hu became the teaching assistant for his professor Zhou Peiyuan in the department of physics.
In 1940, Hu examed and won the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program. In 1941, Hu went to study in the United States. Hu studied fluid mechanics at the California Institute of Technology. His doctoral advisor was Theodore von Kármán. Hu also studied quantum mechanics under Paul Sophus Epstein during this period. Hu obtained his PhD in 1943 from Caltech.
From 1944 to 1945, Hu stayed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and studied quantum field theory and basic particles theories under Wolfgang Pauli. From 1946 to 1949, Hu visited Europe. He worked at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin, Ireland between 1946 and 1948. During this time he also visited the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Hu went back to the United States, and from 1949 to 1950, Hu did research at the nuclear physics department of the Cornell University, New York.
In 1950, invited by the physicist Ta-You Wu (at that time, Wu headed the Theoretical Physics Division of the Canadian National Research Council), Hu went to Canada, and did research and lectured there.
In 1951, Hu accepted the invitation from Peking University in Beijing, and went back to China. Hu was a long-time professor in the department of physics at Peking University. Since 1953, Hu was a researcher at the Institute of Modern Physics (
Hu was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955. Hu was appointed the first director-general of Peking University Research Institute of Theoretical Physics (
Hu died in Beijing on 16 December 1997.
Publications
[edit]Hu wrote or edited some earliest textbooks of relativity and quantum physics in China, which are still in use:
- 《
電動 力學 》 (Electrodynamics); 1963 - 《场的
量子 理 论》 (Quantum Field Theory); 1964 - 《
廣義 相對 論 和 引力 場 理論 》 (General Relativity and Gravitation); ISBN 7-03-007835-7; republished in 2000
References
[edit]- ^ Sullivan, Lawrence R.; Liu-Sullivan, Nancy Y. (19 March 2015). Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-8108-7855-6.
External links
[edit]- ScienceNet.com News:
著名 理 论物理学 家 胡 宁先生 铜像在 北大 落成 (The bronze statue of Prof. Hu Ning is completed in Peking University campus) - The biography of Hu Ning from Hudong.com
- The biography of Hu Ning, by Guan Hong; ISBN 9787301135396/7301135394
- 1916 births
- 1997 deaths
- Boxer Indemnity Scholarship recipients
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- Chinese nuclear physicists
- Educators from Suqian
- Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Academic staff of Peking University
- 20th-century Chinese science writers
- Physicists from Jiangsu
- Scientists from Suqian
- Theoretical physicists
- Tsinghua University alumni
- Academic staff of Tsinghua University
- Writers from Suqian
- Zhejiang University alumni
- Chinese expatriates in the United States
- Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies