Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist (1912-1997; death at 85 years) · United States · Scientists · Died at 84
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Wu studied at Mingde Middle School. The backmost building is named for her.
Chien-Shiung Wu Memorial Museum, Southeast University.
Wu (right) in an outing with Margaret Lewis in Berkeley, California
Chien-Shiung Wu and Luke Yuan (left) at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Millikan (right) on their wedding day
Chien-Shiung Wu's experimental results were a huge influence to other physicists and were duplicated by many scientists
Chien-Shiung Wu in 1963 at Columbia University
Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek would fight for the fate of the country immediately after the united Chinese forces won the Second World War.Awards
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Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the process for separating uranium into uranium-235 and uranium-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion. She is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved. This discovery resulted in her colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang winning the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics, while Wu herself was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978. Her expertise in experimental physics evoked comparisons to Marie Curie. Her nicknames include the "First Lady of Physics", the "Chinese Marie Curie" and the "Queen of Nuclear Research".
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John ClarkeBoth received Comstock Prize in Physics
Robert J. Van de GraaffBoth received Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Yakir AharonovBoth received Wolf Prize in Physics
John Robert SchriefferBoth received Comstock Prize in Physics
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.Both received Wolf Prize in Physics
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