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Chien-Shiung Wu

nuclear physicist

Chien-Shiung Wu

Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)

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About Chien-Shiung Wu

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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Occupation: nuclear physicist, university teacher, physicist, scientist
Citizenship: Republic of China, United States, Taiwan
Born: May 31, 1912
Died: February 16, 1997, 1997

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Experimental Test of Parity Conservation in Beta Decay Some Fission Products of Uranium The Angular Correlation of Scattered Annihilation Radiation Further Experiments on β Decay of Polarized Nuclei Beta asymmetries in the decay of polarized 56Co The Continuous X-Rays Excited by the Beta-Particles of P 32 15 Radioactive Xenons Applications of probability theory to nuclear particle detection Non-Conservation of Parity Princeton University

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