Aug 27, 2018 · Wu's was one of the most famous of these, and maybe the first, and one of the most elegant experiments, but you also have other contenders, like Garwin, Lederman, and Weinrich's experiment showing the same thing (in partial collaboration with Wu as well, as their initial paper acknowledges) at nearly the same time.

Nov 17, 2020 · Chien-Shiung Wu. 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. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the process for separating uranium into uranium-235 and uranium-238 isotopes by ...

May 16, 2021 · Another lady of science: Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) “Chinese Madame Curie,” the “Queen of Nuclear Research” and the “First Lady of Physics". Sometimes great people get many great nicknames and she was definitely an inspirational person, that deserves them all.

Jul 31, 2023 · Fun facts, Madame Wu married into the (in)famous Yuan family. Her husband (also a physicist) was the grandson of Yuan Shikai, second president of the Republic of China and would-be Hongxian Emperor of the Empire of China. …

Jun 3, 2020 · taken from wiki since this original link provides almost no information: The Wu experiment was a nuclear physics experiment conducted in 1956 by the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu in collaboration with the Low Temperature Group of the US National Bureau of Standards.

Feb 12, 2021 · In any case, theorists and experimentalists alike speak about Wu with considerable reverence for the extraordinarily difficult experiment that she performed quite well that really showed that what was becoming the Standard Model of particle physics was going to have a few non-trivial features.

Jul 31, 2023 · I hate that this whole Oppenheimer story is so morally ambiguous that it's hard to TRUELY empathize with these characters without the heavy feeling of bitterness. I wonder how Chien-Shuing Wu would've been portrayed in this movie, and how SHE would feel after the bombing even though she was not credited like Oppenheimer. I need a spinoff!

Dec 15, 2021 · Discovering Dr. Wu: The world reveres 吳健雄 Chien-Shiung Wu as a groundbreaking nuclear physicist who made a startling find 65 years ago. But to me, she was Grandma — and I long to know more about her private universe.

Jan 3, 2022 · Chien-Shiung Wu’s work was lauded over the coming decades: an honorary doctorate of science from Princeton (where the university president called her “the world’s foremost female physicist”); tenure at Columbia; the National Medal of Science; the presidency of the American Physical Society; and Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize.

Apr 25, 2015 · In a word, Wu found experimental evidence of "parity violation" by observing cobalt-60 decay. The (very simplified) idea is something like this: Cobalt-60 decays and emits some particles, which we can measure. If "parity is not violated", then the "mirror-image" of this decay should look and work exactly the same as the one we see.