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Chien-Shiung WuLoading...
" Chinese Madame Curie "Loading...
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In 1944, Chien-Shiung Wu went to Columbia University at request of Enrico Fermi (An Italian Physicist and recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics) to find a way to separate uranium metal into U-235 and U-238.
And she succeeded.
This dude is Enrico Fermi
Chien-Shiung Wu was born on May 31, 1912 in Liuhe, China. She was the middle child and was the only girl. During her early life she attended a girls-only school opened by her father.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu graduated in 1934 at the top of her class from the National Central University in Nanjing.
National Central University
In 1956 theoretical physicists Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang asked Chien-Shiung Wu to set up an experiment to prove if their theory was right.
Wu experiment
The Wu experiment proved that identical nuclear particles don't always act alike...
And it was exactly what all of them wanted to hear.
And it was exactly what all of them wanted to hear.
Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang
Because Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang's theory was proved right, the two of them both got the Nobel Prize.
Even though Chien-Shiung Wu did a part, she was awarded nothing.
Even though Chien-Shiung Wu did a part, she was awarded nothing.
In 1963, Chien-Shiung Wu was the first woman ever to receive the Comstock Prize in Physics.
FIRST Woman Ever!
Chien-Shiung Wu also got the National Medal of Science in 1975 "for her ingenious experiments that led to new and surprising understanding of the decay of the radioactive nucleus."
National Medal of Science
