Hu Ning

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Hu.
A bronze statue of Hu Ning at Peking University

Hu Ning (simplified Chinese: 胡宁; traditional Chinese: 胡寧; 1916–1997) was a Chinese physicist and writer.[1]

Biography

Hu was born in

Suzhou High School in Suzhou. In 1935, Hu studied at the physical department of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. From 1935 to 1937, Hu studied in the department of physics at Tsinghua University
in Beijing, where he graduated in 1938.

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

Canadian National Research Council
), Hu went to Canada, and did research and lectured there.

In 1951, Hu accepted the invitation from

USSR
. Since 1980, Hu was a researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (理論物理研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

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 (北京大學理論物理研究所).

Hu died in Beijing on 16 December 1997.

Publications

Hu wrote or edited some earliest textbooks of

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

  1. ISBN 978-0-8108-7855-6
    .

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