A Very Brief History of Malaysian Physics

By Clarissa Lee, William Tham

April 2021 FEATURE

A Very Brief History of Malaysian Physics1About the 14th of February [1929] two expeditions are proceeding to Malaya to observe the eclipse… the plans of the two parties have been worked out in close collaboration and many details have been discussed and arranged with foreign astronomers…2Prince Phillip at UM Physics Department (1965).ON MAY 9 the HMS Iroquois stopped between Langkawi and the port of Penang, where Lieutenant Foulerton recorded that the “[l]ight and shadows [were] very queer and unreal”.3 Meanwhile,...

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Clarissa Lee

Clarissa Ai Ling Lee is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Creative Arts in Universiti Malaya. She is presently writing a book that considers the intersection of artscience and the history of the physical sciences in Malaysia and is the author of Artscience: A Curious Education.

William Tham

His novel, The Last Days, is set in 1981 and covers the continuing legacy of the Malayan Emergency. He is currently an editor-at-large with Wasifiri and also an MA candidate at Universiti Malaya.

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