It seems that Chien-Shiung Wu was pivotal in discovering the
2018年8月27日 · Wu's was one of the most famous of these, and maybe the first, and one of the most elegant experiments, but you also have other contenders, like Garwin, Lederman, and Weinrich's experiment showing the same thing (in partial collaboration with Wu as well, as their initial paper acknowledges) at nearly the same time.
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2021年5月16日 · Another lady of science: Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) “Chinese Madame Curie,” the “Queen of Nuclear Research” and the “First Lady of Physics". Sometimes great people get many great nicknames and she was definitely an inspirational person, that deserves them all. More info in comments.
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu is going to be on a US stamp next year
2020年11月17日 · Chien-Shiung Wu. Chien-Shiung Wu (Chinese: 吳健雄; May 31, 1912 – February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the field of nuclear physics. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the process for separating uranium into uranium-235 and uranium-238 …
US postage stamp will honor Chien-Shiung Wu. Her experiment in …
2021年2月12日 · In any case, theorists and experimentalists alike speak about Wu with considerable reverence for the extraordinarily difficult experiment that she performed quite well that really showed that what was becoming the Standard Model of particle physics was going to have a few non-trivial features.
Chien-Shiung Wu's “Wu experiment” won Nobel prize, but it
2020年6月3日 · taken from wiki since this original link provides almost no information: The Wu experiment was a nuclear physics experiment conducted in 1956 by the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu in collaboration with the Low Temperature Group of the US National Bureau of Standards.
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2023年7月31日 · Fun facts, Madame Wu married into the (in)famous Yuan family. Her husband (also a physicist) was the grandson of Yuan Shikai, second president of the Republic of China and would-be Hongxian Emperor of the Empire of China. …
Discovering Dr. Wu: A Groundbreaking Nuclear Physicist
2022年1月3日 · Chien-Shiung Wu’s work was lauded over the coming decades: an honorary doctorate of science from Princeton (where the university president called her “the world’s foremost female physicist”); tenure at Columbia; the National Medal of Science; the presidency of the American Physical Society; and Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize.
ELI5: The "Wu Experiment" and Parity : r/explainlikeimfive - Reddit
2015年4月25日 · Best. quarked • 8 yr. ago. In a word, Wu found experimental evidence of "parity violation" by observing cobalt-60 decay. The (very simplified) idea is something like this: Cobalt-60 decays and emits some particles, which we can measure. If "parity is not violated", then the "mirror-image" of this decay should look and work exactly the same as ...
Chien-Shuing Wu forgotten? : r/OppenheimerMovie - Reddit
2023年7月31日 · Chien-Shuing Wu forgotten? Movie Discussion. (i'm not usually on reddit so sorry if I don't really understand Reddit terms). I watched Oppenheimer and only after the fact knew that Chien-Shuing Wu was a part of the Manhattan project. People even call her "the mother of the Atomic Bomb." I don't think diversity is "necessary" in movies ...
Why were there no Asian actors? : r/OppenheimerMovie - Reddit
2023年7月27日 · There were several Asians and Asian-Americans working with Oppenheimer, many of whom played a pivotal role in the theory of nuclear physics that led to the bomb, i.e. Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, the Queen / First Lady of Nuclear Physics.