Li Minhua | |||||||||
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| 李敏华 | |||||||||
 Li Minhua, c. 1943 | |||||||||
| Born | 2 November 1917 | ||||||||
| Died | 19 January 2013 (aged 95) Beijing, China | ||||||||
| Other names | Minghua Lee Wu | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Tsinghua University, National Southwestern Associated University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||||
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| Scientific career | |||||||||
| Fields | Solid mechanics | ||||||||
| Institutions | Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||||||||
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| Doctoral advisor | J.P. Den Hartog | ||||||||
| Other academic advisors | W.M. Murray | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 李敏華 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 李敏华 | ||||||||
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Li Minhua (Chinese: 李敏华; 2 November 1917 – 19 January 2013), also known as Minghua Lee Wu,[1][2] was a Chinese aerospace engineer and physicist who was an expert in solid mechanics.[3] The first woman to earn a PhD in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was one of the founding scientists at the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and was elected as an academician in 1980. Her husband Wu Zhonghua was also an accomplished physicist and CAS academician.
- ^ "Li Minhua". Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
- ^ Wu, Minghua Lee (1945-12-12). "Three-Dimensional Photoelasticity Problems" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
- ^ "China Vitae : Biography of Li Minhua". China Vitae. Retrieved 2018-10-23.