Wu chien shiung biography of abraham

(1912-1997)

Quick Facts:

FULL NAME: Chien-Shiung Wu
BORN: May 31, 1912
DIED: February 16, 1997
BIRTHPLACE: Liuhe, Taicang in Jiangsu province, China

Who Was Chien-Shiung Wu?

Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American nuclear physicist who has been dubbed "the First Lady of Physics," "Queen of Nuclear Research" and "the Chinese Madame Curie." Her research contributions include work on the Manhattan Project and the Wu experiment, "which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity." During her career, she earned many accolades including the Comstock Prize in Physics (1964), the Bonner Prize (1975), the National Medal of Science (1975), and the Wolf Prize in Physics (inaugural award, 1978).

Her book Beta Decay (1965) is still a standard reference for nuclear physicists. Wu died in 1997 at the age of 84.