Spotlight on Nanjing
“If I had a second life, I would still come back to China. And of all the cities in China, I would still choose Nanjing,” says Wu Xuefeng, an astrophysicist at the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO), in China’s Jiangsu Province.
Wu was born in Jiangsu, and started his research career at the PMO in 2005 after graduating from Nanjing University. He left for further study in the US at the California Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before returning to the observatory in 2011.
One of his reasons for returning to Nanjing, the provincial capital of Jiangsu, is the make-up of the city...
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Spotlight On Nanjing, China. Nature (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj0494
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