Chien-Shiung Wu Age, Birthday, Zodiac Sign and Birth Chart

Chien-Shiung Wu (May 31, 1912 - February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American experimental physicist renowned for her significant contributions to the study of radioactive decay. She was involved in the Manhattan Project and aided in the gas diffusion process for separating uranium isotopes, specifically Uranium-235 and Uranium-238. Wu is best known for the Wu experiment, which produced results that contradicted the conservation of parity theory. Although she did not win the Nobel Prize for this work, it was awarded to her colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang in 1957. She received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978.

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Chien-Shiung Wu belongs to the GI Generation group.

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Place of Birth: Taicang

Place of Death: New York City

Cause of Death: stroke

Educated At: National Central University (Nanjing) | Nanjing University | Zhejiang University | University of California, Berkeley | Smith College

Occupation: nuclear physicist | university teacher | physicist | scientist

Spouses: Luke Chia-Liu Yuan

Children: Jada Yuan | Vincent Yuan

Employers: Zhejiang University | Smith College | Princeton University | Columbia University

Awards Received: honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong | Women in Technology Hall of Fame | honorary doctorate from Princeton University | Honorary doctor at the Nanjing University | Fellow of the American Physical Society | John Price Wetherill Medal | Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics | National Women's Hall of Fame | Comstock Prize in Physics | Wolf Prize in Physics | National Medal of Science

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