Kwan Hsu Papers 1923-1995

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Kwan Hsu Papers 1923-1995

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Kwan Hsu arrived in the United States in 1947 as the first Chinese woman to receive an American Association of University Women fellowship for advanced study abroad. Stranded here by the Maoist Revolution in 1949, Hsu eventually obtained both a Ph.D. in Physics and U.S. citizenship and was hired in 1964 to set up Portland State's first biophysics program. The Kwan Hsu papers contain correspondence (both personal and professional), research, writings, diaries, immigration papers, curricula vitae, photos, and various publications that Kwan collected.

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