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« Presentation: Chien-Shiung Wu was born in China on May thirteen , one thousand nine hundred twelve in Shanghai, to a family of a teacher and engineer, she is the daughter of Wu Zhongyi, a gender advocate who founded the Mingde Women's Professional College.

In one thousand nine hundred thirty She enrolled in Nanjing University in mathematics and physics, because of her admiration for Marie Curie.

She graduated with top marks.

In one thousand nine hundred thirty-six Wu moved from China to California in order to go to Berkeley University and study for a doctorate in Applied Physics (uranium fission).

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In one thousand nine hundred forty-two She married a fellow student, Luke Chia Yuan, whom she had met when she arrived in California. In One thousand nine hundred and forty-four She joined the Manhattan Project at Columbia University and helped answer a problem that other physicists like Enrico Fermi couldn't solve. In one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven Yang and Lee two male physicists got the Nobel prize for proving wrong a physics law known as "Parity law", thanks to Wu's work. She was not honored although her contribution was essential. In one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four She earned the Comstock prize in Physics.

Chien-Shiung wrote Beta Decay, a book that is still a reference today for nuclear physicists. In one thousand nine hundred seventy-four She was named Scientist of the Year by Industrial Research Magazine.

She won the Bonner prize and the National Medal of Science. She became the first woman president of the National Society of Physics. After being promoted to Associate (one thousand nine hundred fifty-two) and then to Full Professor (one thousand nine hundred fifty-eight) and becoming the first woman to hold a tenured faculty position in the physics department at Columbia, she was appointed the first Michael I. Pupin Professor of Physics in one thousand nine hundred and seventy-three. She was the first recipient of the Wolf Prize in Physics in One thousand nine hundred seventy-eight, which some consider the equivalent of the Nobel Prize . Her later research focused on the causes of sickle-cell anemia.

Wu retired from Columbia in one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one and devoted her time to educational programs in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and the United States. She.... »

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