In 1957 a group of the titans of physics gathered in a lecture hall at Princeton University to be addressed by a diminutive Chinese American woman. As she told the crowd about her recent experiment ...
Wu was awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize for Physics after being denied a Nobel Prize that her male colleagues received. Wu also advocated for gender equality, refusing to adopt her husband's last ...
Chien-Shiung Wu's trailblazing but largely forgotten achievement features in a recent profile of the influential physicist Pioneering female Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who worked with ...