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Ashley Angelucci. Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu earned many nicknames throughout her trailblazing years as a physicist, including “the First Lady of Physics,” the “Chinese Marie Curie,” and “Madame Wu.”. Most known for her work on the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II and her Cobalt-60 experiment that contested the law of ...
Apr 1, 2023 · In 1949 physicist Chien-Shiung Wu devised an experiment that documented evidence of entanglement. Her findings have been hidden in plain sight for more than 70 years. By Michelle Frank....
Feb 16, 1997 · Chien-Shiung Wu is a pioneer and pivotal figure in the history of physics. An immigrant to the United States from China, she did important work for the Manhattan Project and in experimental physics. Her crucial contribution to particle physics was, however, ignored by the Nobel Prize committee when it awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics.
May 4, 2023 · By Erin Blakemore. May 04, 2023. • 10 min read. In 1957 a group of the titans of physics gathered in a lecture hall at Princeton University to be addressed by a diminutive Chinese American...
Mar 19, 2023 · Over the course of her trailblazing career, Chien-Shiung Wu was known by a number of monikers, the First Lady of Physics, the queen of nuclear research, the Chinese Marie Curie. She was one...
In the early 1940s, Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) became the first woman hired as a faculty member by Princeton’s physics department. Only a few years later in 1944, she left Princeton to work on the Manhattan Project at Columbia University.
KEY TAKEAWAYS. Chien-Shiung Wu was a trailblazing female physicist born in China in 1912, who advanced our understanding of the universe and paved the way for future generations of women in science.
