CHIEN SHIUNG WU
May 31, 1912 -February 16, 1997, New York City
Nuclear physicist with the expertise in the techniques of experimental physics and radioactivity. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project (she helped to develop the process for separating uranium metal into the U-235 and U-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion).
She later performed experiments that contradicted the “Law of Conservation of Parity” and which confirmed the theories of colleagues. Her honorary nicknames are “THE FIRST LADY OF PHYSICS”, “THE CHINESE MADAME CURIE”, AND THE “QUEEN OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH”.
EDUCATION:
Southeast University , National Central University, Zhejiang University, University of California, Berkeley, Nanjing University