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Chien-Shiung Wu (Chinese: 吳健雄; May 31, 1912 – February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the field of nuclear physics.
Chien-Shiung Wu: Disproved a 30-year Old Law of Nature, But Received No Credit
Born in Liu Ho, China in 1912, Chien-Shiung Wu was recruited to Columbia University as part of the Manhattan Project. Working as senior scientist on the atom bomb in 1943, she conducted research on radiation detection and uranium enrichment.
In the mid-1950s, Wu was approached by two theoretical physicists, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang. They wanted help disproving the law of conservation of parity (which states that two physical systems, such as atoms, are mirror images that behave in identical ways). Using the chemical isotope cobalt-60, Wu showed that the laws of nature were not always symmetrical, disproving the law that had been accepted for more than 30 years. In another of in a series of examples of the contributions of female scientists being overlooked, she received no credit for her contribution—only Yang and Lee received the Nobel Prize in 1957.
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