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    Chien-Shiung Wu (Chinese: 吳健雄; pinyin: Jiànxióng; Wade–Giles: Wu2 Chien4-shiung2; May 31, 1912 – February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American particle...
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  • Chien-Shiung Wu College (Chinese: 吴健雄学院) is a college named after Chien-Shiung Wu, an alumna of previous National Central University. The college is a...
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  • 2752 Wu Chien-Shiung, provisional designation 1965 SP, is an Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 16 kilometers (10...
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    The Wu experiment was a particle and nuclear physics experiment conducted in 1956 by the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu in collaboration with...
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    Chinese-American physicist. He was the husband of the famous physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who disproved the conservation of parity. Born in Anyang, Henan, Yuan...
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    parity law in weak interactions, which Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally proved from 1956 to 1957, with her well known Wu experiment. Lee remains the youngest...
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  • As established by the Wu experiment conducted at the US National Bureau of Standards by Chinese-American scientist Chien-Shiung Wu, the weak interaction...
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    2005. Ronald K. Smeltzer. "Chien-Shiung Wu." Atomic Heritage Foundation, https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/chien-shiung-wu Archived 15 September 2019...
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    something else failed. When parity was broken in weak interactions by Chien-Shiung Wu in her experiment, a series of discoveries were created thereafter...
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  • The 1978 Wolf Prize in Physics inaugural recipient and physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, nicknamed the "First Lady of Physics" contributed to the development...
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  • Lee, one of the first two Chinese Nobel prize laureates in Physics. Chien-Shiung Wu, the first recipient of the Wolf Prize in Physics. Tu Youyou, the first...
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    Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, George B. Pegram, Walter Zinn, Chien-Shiung Wu, Francis G. Slack, Harold Urey, Herbert L. Anderson, and Isidor Isaac...
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    for the treatment of gout. 1950: Chinese-American particle physicist Chien-Shiung Wu proved the validity of Quantum entanglement which counters Albert Einstein's...
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    but did not receive it, include: Lise Meitner, nominated 19 times; Chien-Shiung Wu, nominated 5 times; Marietta Blau, nominated 3 times; and Hertha Wambacher...
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    fission process. Fermi was recommended by colleague Emilio Segrè to ask Chien-Shiung Wu, as she prepared a printed draft on this topic to be published by the...
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    Archived from the original on August 6, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2010. Wu, Nicholas; Hayes, Christal (October 26, 2020). "Amy Coney Barrett confirmed...
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    McCormick Rozanne L. Ridgway Edith Nourse Rogers Felice Schwartz Eunice Kennedy Shriver Beverly Sills Florence Wald Angelina Grimké Weld Chien-Shiung Wu...
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    to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Chien-Shiung Wu was known to many scientists as the "First Lady of Physics" and played...
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    interaction might violate the conservation law or symmetry. In 1957, Chien Shiung Wu and collaborators confirmed the symmetry violation. In the 1960s, Sheldon...
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    McCormick Rozanne L. Ridgway Edith Nourse Rogers Felice Schwartz Eunice Kennedy Shriver Beverly Sills Florence Wald Angelina Grimké Weld Chien-Shiung Wu...
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    Foundation. Similar arrangements were made to retain his doctoral students Chien-Shiung Wu (a Chinese national) and Kenneth Ross MacKenzie (a Canadian national)...
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    McCormick Rozanne L. Ridgway Edith Nourse Rogers Felice Schwartz Eunice Kennedy Shriver Beverly Sills Florence Wald Angelina Grimké Weld Chien-Shiung Wu...
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    Philip M. Morse (1972) Joseph Edward Mayer (1973) Pief Panofsky (1974) Chien-Shiung Wu (1975) 1976–2000 William A. Fowler (1976) George Pake (1977) Norman...
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    McCormick Rozanne L. Ridgway Edith Nourse Rogers Felice Schwartz Eunice Kennedy Shriver Beverly Sills Florence Wald Angelina Grimké Weld Chien-Shiung Wu...
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    still missing. In 1957, Chien-Shiung Wu et al. discovered that β-decay violated parity, implying nature has a handedness. In the Wu experiment, researchers...
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  • E. Washkewicz Ruth Westheimer Elie Wiesel Andy Williams Aldona Wos Chien-Shiung Wu Malala Yousafzai Tim Zagat Louis Zamperini Philip Zepter Souhel Najjar...
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    McCormick Rozanne L. Ridgway Edith Nourse Rogers Felice Schwartz Eunice Kennedy Shriver Beverly Sills Florence Wald Angelina Grimké Weld Chien-Shiung Wu...
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    McCormick Rozanne L. Ridgway Edith Nourse Rogers Felice Schwartz Eunice Kennedy Shriver Beverly Sills Florence Wald Angelina Grimké Weld Chien-Shiung Wu...
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    McCormick Rozanne L. Ridgway Edith Nourse Rogers Felice Schwartz Eunice Kennedy Shriver Beverly Sills Florence Wald Angelina Grimké Weld Chien-Shiung Wu...
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    McCormick Rozanne L. Ridgway Edith Nourse Rogers Felice Schwartz Eunice Kennedy Shriver Beverly Sills Florence Wald Angelina Grimké Weld Chien-Shiung Wu...
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