Chien-Shiung Wu

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Chinese-American scientist experimental physicist nuclear physicist physicist woman scientist

Chien-Shiung Wu was a pioneering Chinese-American experimental physicist whose groundbreaking work on beta decay and the violation of parity conservation made her one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century.

Aliases (3)

Chien-Shiung ×1
Wu Chien-shiung ×1
吳健雄 ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Chinese-American scientist → experimental physicist → nuclear physicist → physicist → woman scientist →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
awardReceived	Comstock Prize in Physics → John Price Wetherill Medal → National Medal of Science → Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics → Wolf Prize in Physics →
birthDate	1912-05-31 →
birthPlace	Liuhe, Taicang, Jiangsu, China →
burialPlace	Ming De School campus, Liuhe, Taicang, Jiangsu, China →
child	Vincent Yuan →
collaboratedWith	Chen-Ning Yang → Tsung-Dao Lee →
countryOfCitizenship	China → United States of America →
deathDate	1997-02-16 →
deathPlace	New York City, New York, United States →
educatedAt	National Central University → University of California, Berkeley →
employer	Columbia University → Manhattan Project → Princeton University → Smith College →
ethnicGroup	Han Chinese →
familyName	Wu →
fieldOfWork	experimental physics → nuclear physics → particle physics →
fullName	Chien-Shiung Wu →
gender	female →
givenName	Chien-Shiung →
knownFor	Wu experiment → beta decay experiments → demonstration of parity violation in weak interactions → work on the Manhattan Project →
languageSpoken	English → Mandarin Chinese →
memberOf	Academia Sinica → American Physical Society → National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America →
nativeName	吳健雄 →
nickname	First Lady of Physics →
notableAchievement	first to experimentally confirm parity violation in weak nuclear interactions →
notableWork	Experimental test of parity conservation in beta decay →
positionHeld	professor of physics at Columbia University →
spouse	Luke Chia-Liu Yuan →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Chien-Shiung Wu →	fullName
Chien-Shiung Wu ("Chien-Shiung") →	givenName
Wu ("Wu Chien-shiung") →	hasNotableBearer
Chien-Shiung Wu ("吳健雄") →	nativeName
Enrico Fermi →	notableStudent