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 ...

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 ...

This Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting stories of women whose contributions have often been overlooked. Tonight, we look at the career of Chien-Shiung Wu, a 20th-century physicist who made ...

In November 1949 Chien-Shiung Wu and her graduate student, Irving Shaknov, descended to a laboratory below Columbia University’s Pupin Hall. They needed antimatter for a new experiment, so they made ...