南方科技大学知识苑(SUSTech KC): “A Cradle of Chinese Physics Researchers: The Master of Science Program in the Physics Department of Yenching University, 1927-1941”

题名	“A Cradle of Chinese Physics Researchers: The Master of Science Program in the Physics Department of Yenching University, 1927-1941”
作者	DANIAN HU
发表日期	2021-07-22
ISBN	9780192844774
来源专著	History of Universities: Volume XXXIV/1: A Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950
源著作者	Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang (ed.), Alan Rocke (ed.)
出版地	Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom
出版者	Oxford University Press
页码	282–303
摘要	Abstract This chapter explores the development of the department of physics at Yenching University, an American-funded missionary institution in Beijing, China during the Republican period. It shows how the department evolved from a primitive premedical teaching program to a major center of physics education and research. It also reveals the significant role of the Rockefeller Foundation in this development, partly as the sponsor of the Premedical School of Peking Union Medical College. Founded in 1917, the Premedical School shared with Yenching’s science departments its advanced facilities and in 1926 became part of the university. In 1927, the department created a Master of Science program in physics, the first of its kind in China, promoting original research among its faculty and students. Before the Japanese army shut down the university in December 1941, more than ninety Chinese young men and women had completed their study in this department with a research thesis. A considerable number of Yenching graduates went on to earn their doctorates in America or Europe and subsequently returned home, becoming leading physicists in China in the twentieth century. Among them, Kun Huang (黃昆, Class 1941) and Chia-Lin Hsieh (謝家麟, Class 1943) even won the State Preeminent Science and Technology Awards, the highest scientific honor in China, in 2001 and 2011 respectively.
其他摘要	Abstract This book’s chapters contain a mix of analysis and discussion looking in depth at the history of higher education. This text presents a global history of research education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapters cover topics such as how disciplines are formed and research training, the rise of academic laboratory science, research mathematicians circa 1900 and research training in the humanities in British universities from 1870 to 1939. Other subjects include training language scholars between 1920 and 1940, training researchers in Ibero-Amerca, inventing laboratory science in Meiji Japan, and Chinese physics researchers in the period 1927-1941. The book includes an introduction and conclusion by Kevin Chang and Alan Rocke.
关键词	Higher Education, Research Training, Academic Laboratory Science, Language Scholars, Meiji Japan, Physics Researchers
学科门类	理学::科学技术史（分学科，可授理学、工学、农学、医学学位）
DOI	10.1093/oso/9780192844774.001.0001
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全文链接	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844774.003.0014
语种	英语
来源库	人工提交
出版状态	正式出版
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成果类型	著作章节
版本	First
条目标识符	http://sustech.caswiz.com/handle/2SGJ60CL/724166
专题	南方科技大学人文社会科学学院_社会科学中心暨社会科学高等研究院
作者单位	The City College of The City University of New York
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	DANIAN HU. “A Cradle of Chinese Physics Researchers: The Master of Science Program in the Physics Department of Yenching University, 1927-1941”[M]. First. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom:Oxford University Press,2021:282–303.

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