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 ...

This is what the New York Post wrote about Chien-Shiung Wu: “This small, modest woman was powerful enough to do what armies can never accomplish: she helped destroy a law of nature. And laws of nature ...

It is the afternoon of May 31, 2012, and the skies above Liuhe in the Chinese province of Jiangsu are overcast but resplendent in silver and grey. A late-spring chill fills the air as a crowd of ...

Chien-Shiung Wu grew up in Liuhe in the Jiangsu province of China. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in 1934 from the National Central University in Nanking, Wu came to the United States to pursue ...

Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day by exploring Chien-Shiung Wu's vital role in the parity violation discovery and its impact on physics. Following Professor Lee's visit, I began to think things through. This ...

Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the greatest experimental physicists in history, is honored on February 11, 2021 with the debut of a new forever stamp that bears her likeness. Wu experimentally discovered ...

In the 1950's, a particle physicist made a landmark discovery that changed what we thought we knew about how our universe operates. And Chien-Shiung Wu did it while raising a family and an ocean away ...

Chien-Shiung Wu isn’t a household name, but the pioneering physicist’s portrait could be coming soon to a mailbox near you. Her face is the latest image on a US Postal Service stamp issued on Thursday ...