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Chung L. Tang
Chung Liang Tang (; 14 May 1934 – 31 May 2022) was a Chinese-born American applied physicist. Tang was born in China, and moved to avoid hostilities in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Communist Revolution, making his way to San Francisco via Taiwan in 1950. He completed a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington (1955), a master's of science degree from Caltech (1956), and a doctorate at Harvard University (1960), then pursued postdoctoral research at RWTH Aachen University. Tang worked for Raytheon from 1960 to 1964, then joined the Cornell University faculty as an associate professor. He was promoted to a full professorship in 1968, and subsequently appointed the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering in 1985. Tang retired from Cornell in 2008. Tang was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1975, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1977, the Optical Society of America in 1986, and a member of the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War. The beginning of the war is conventionally dated to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on 7 July 1937, when a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops in Peking escalated into a full-scale invasion. Some Chinese historians believe that the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 18 September 1931 marks the start of the war. This full-scale war between the Chinese and the Empire of Japan is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. China fought Japan with aid from Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, United Kingdom and the United States. After the Japanese attacks on Malaya and Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war merged with other conflicts which are generally categorized under those conflicts of World War II a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
