A Chronological Biography: Remembering My Father Wei Hsioh-Ren (1899–1987): Scientist, Educator, and Diplomat

A recounting of the life and work of Wei Hsioh-Ren (1899–1987), nuclear physicist (PhD 1928, University of Chicago); educator (Founding Dean of the College of Science, University of Nanking 1930–1945 and Distinguished Professor of Physics and Public Affairs 1962–1972); and Diplomat (Advisor, Chinese Permanent Delegation to the United Nations 1946–1962, assignments included Chief Chinese Representative to the first international meeting of peaceful uses of atomic energy 1955 and signing the UN General Assembly statute creating the International Atomic Energy Agency 1956). Using the style of traditional Chinese chronological biography (年譜), the author records major events of her father’s life in the context of what was taking place in China and the world. The text is supplemented with photographs from family collections.

Betty Peh-T’i Wei, AB (Bryn Mawr), MA (NYU), PhD (HKU), is Honorary Institute Fellow at Hong Kong Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences in The University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Qing History in the People’s University in Beijing. Her full-length biographical publications include Liu Chi-wen 1890–1957: Biography of a Revolutionary Leader (2005) and Ruan Yuan, 1764–1849: The Life and Work of a Major Scholar-Official in Nineteenth-Century China before the Opium War (2006).

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