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My Life Experiences and Academic Career: An Interview with Professor Joseph Cheng-Yih Chen (2015)

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Joseph Cheng-Yih Chen is a Chinese American physicist and historian of science and technology with an international reputation. In this interview,he recollects his early life experiences in war-torn China during the Japanese invasion,and recalls his academic career in the United States and Europe as he evolved from a chemist to a physicist and finally to an historian of science and technology. The interview contains precious insights into understanding why a physicist was compelled to study and share with the world,the history of science in Chinese civilization.

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Authors & Contributors
Oppenheimer, Frank
Sastre Juan, Jaume
Kim, Hye-Suk
Kim, Sungeun
Cho, Youngju
Rook, Tom
Journals
Physics in Perspective
History of Psychology
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Neusis: The Greek Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Publishers
University of California, San Diego
World Scientific
Princeton University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Interviews
Biographies
Historiography
History of science, as a discipline
Historians of science, modern
Historical method
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Lack, David Lambert
Edgerton, David
Rook, Tom
Lloyd, Geoffrey Ernest Richard
MacArthur, Robert Helmer
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Medieval
Places
United States
Berkeley (California, U.S.)
Lisbon (Portugal)
England
East Asia
Italy
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
University of California, Berkeley
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Stanford University
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