Wang Ming-chen

Wang Ming-chen and her cousin He Zehui were sometimes separately credited as "The Chinese Madame Curie".

Biography Wang was born into a large prominent family in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province on November 18, 1906 (or the 3rd day of the 10th month of year Bingwu / the 32nd year of Guangxu in the Qing dynasty of the Chinese Lunar Calendar) Her siblings include several renowned Chinese scientists, physicians, and engineers, who pursued western education in the early 1900s. and Yenching University, Beijing (third and last year). She applied once again to University of Michigan under a Barbour scholarship, as well as applying to study in England under the Sino-British Boxer Indemnity Scholarship. Despite testing as the top applicant to the latter, she was passed up due to being a woman. From 1943 to 1945 she worked on noise research at the MIT Radiation Laboratory for the US Military in World War II. It was then she published the paper "On the Theory of the Brownian Motion II" with Uhlenbeck.

After the war, she returned to China in 1946 until the Korean War broke out. She resigned from Notre Dame and eventually returned to China in 1955. and taught statistical physics and thermodynamics until the Cultural Revolution started in 1966. In 1966, Wang was suddenly arrested and imprisoned until 1973. was one of the earliest papers by a Chinese scientist to appear in a foreign journal.