About Wang Pu
Lived 1902 – 1969 (aged 66). Wang Pu was a Chinese physicist.
Statue of Wang Pu on the Central Campus of Shandong University.
Wang Pu (, English/German name Paul Wang, September 9, 1902 – January 15, 1969) was a Chinese nuclear physicist. He was one of two Chinese PhD students working with Lise Meitner at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. He founded the School of Physics at Shandong University.
Wang Pu was born in Yishui County to the west of Qingdao then a part of the German Kiautschou Bay concession. He was the son of a Chinese highschool teacher. He studied first in Beijing and worked from September 1935 to July 1938 in Lise Meitner's group at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry.
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Who was Wang Pu?
physicist (1902-1969)
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Wang Pu was born on 9 September 1902.
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Wang Pu died on 15 January 1969.
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Wang Pu was a physicist.
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