Chien-Shiung Wu is perhaps the most respected female physicist in America. She was instrumental in the research that earned two of her colleagues, Dr. Tsung Dao Lee and Dr. Ning Yang, the Nobel Prize for Physics. Wu was born in Shanghai in 1915 and was...

Chien-Shiung Wu is perhaps the most respected female physicist in America. She was instrumental in the research that earned two of her colleagues, Dr. Tsung Dao Lee and Dr. Ning Yang, the Nobel Prize in Physics. Wu was born in Shanghai in 1915 and was...

Among the team of experimental physicists who developed the first atomic bomb for the U.S. government during World War II, Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) spent 37 years as a leading researcher at Columbia University. She was noted for her meticulous...

1912-1997 Chinese-American Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu verified a theory for which her colleagues received a Nobel Prize in physics. An experimental physicist, Wu proved that the physical law of conservation of parity was invalid. Physicists had accepted...

Chien-Shiung Wu (traditional Chinese: 吳健雄; pinyin: Wú Jiànxíong; May 13, 1912–February 16, 1997) was a Chinese born American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. She worked on the Manhattan Project (to enrich the uranium fuel)...

APEL, Melanie Ann. Virginia Apgar: Innovative Female Physician and Inventor of the Apgar Score. ISBN 0-8239-3880-8. LC 2002009415. COOPERMAN, Stephanie H. Chien-Shiung Wu: Pioneering Physicist and Atomic Researcher. ISBN 0-8239-3875-1. LC 2002009628. MACBAIN, Jennifer. Gertrude Elion: Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology...

The Wu-Tang Clan: Where Are They Now? RZA: He recently gathered the Wu-Tang brethren for an 11-date club tour reunion to celebrate fallen comrade Ol' Dirty Bastard's life. He recently appeared on the cover of Scratch magazine to talk about his current gig:...