Chien-shiung wu wikipedia
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Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist (–)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Wu.
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| Born | ()May 31, Liuhe, Taicang, Jiangsu, China |
| Died | February 16, () (aged&#;84) New York City, United States |
| Nationality | Chinese American |
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| Children | Vincent Yuan (袁緯承) |
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| Fields | Physics |
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| Thesis | I. The Continuous X-Rays Excited by the Beta-Particles of 32 P. II. Radioactive Xenons&#;() |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernest Lawrence |
Chien-Shiung Wu (Chinese: 吳健雄; pinyin: Wú Jiànxióng; Wade–Giles: Wu2 Chien4-Shiung2; May 31, – February 16, ) 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 and
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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 experiment that contested the law of conservation of parity (which holds that the spegel images of two physical interactions are the same), Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu’s pioneering work is regarded as a standard among physicists today.
Born on May 31, in Liuhe, China, a small town near Shanghai, Chien-Shiung Wu was a middle child with two brothers. She was born the same year as the founding of the Republic of China. Her mother, Funhua Fan, was a teacher and her father, Zhong-Yi Wu, was an intellectual and engineer. Wu and her father were very close and he was the one who encouraged her to pursue her education as far as she could, even though women were not often encouraged to pursue higher education in China at the time.
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Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu (Chinese: 吳健雄; May 31, &#;– February 16, ) was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist.
Early life
[change | change source]Wu was born in May in Liuhe, a small town near Shanghai. Wu Zhongyi, her father, participated in the revolution against the Chinese Manchu dynasty. He was the founder of an all girls’ school in China. Educating girls wasn’t seen as important at that time. Wu went to that school until she was nine. After that, she went to the Soochow Girls’ School. She graduated in She was the best student in her class.
Studies
[change | change source]Wu went to college at Nanjing University. She studied physics there. She graduated in She spent one year teaching in a university. A year later, she went to study X-ray crystallography, which is the study of crystals. She did so at the National Academy of Sciences in Shanghai. A woman scientist who she worked with told her to go to study in the United States. She sa