Awards & Winners

Maw-Kuen Wu

Date of Birth 06-December-1949
Place of Birth Yuli, Hualien
(Taiwan, Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China)
Nationality Taiwan
Maw-Kuen Wu is a Chinese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, low-temperature physics, and high-pressure physics. He was a professor of physics at Columbia University. He is the Director of the Institute of Physics at the Academia Sinica, and the President of the National Dong Hwa University.

Awards by Maw-Kuen Wu

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1988


Comstock Prize in Physics
(For discovery of superconductivity in yttrium barium copper oxide and similar compounds above the boiling point of nitrogen -- a major scientific and technological breakthrough.)