# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wu-maw-kuen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:39:58.058Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wu-maw-kuen"
name: "Wu Maw-kuen"
slug: "wu-maw-kuen"
description: "Maw-Kuen Wu is a Taiwanese physicist specializing in superconductivity, low-temperature physics, and high-pressure physics. He was a professor of physics at University of Alabama in Huntsville, Columbia University, and National Tsing Hua University, the Director of the Institute of Physics at Academia Sinica, the President of National Dong Hwa University, and is currently a distinguished research fellow of the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, and international member of National Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "Taiwanese physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wu_Mao-kun_20180419_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-12-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.590634690242133
  historical:           7.427936000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "و ماو كوين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Maw-Kuen"
    title: "Wu Maw-Kuen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maw-Kuen_Wu"
    title: "Maw-Kuen Wu"
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    title: "ماو کوین وو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maw-Kuen_Wu"
    title: "Maw-Kuen Wu"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "У Маокунь"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump