Chien-Shiung Wu - Influential Scientist
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Chien-Shiung Wu

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update Last updated: Feb 23, 2026

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Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American physicist renowned for her work in nuclear physics and experimental techniques. She is best known for the Wu experiment, which disproved the law of conservation of parity in weak interactions. This discovery earned her colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang the Nobel Prize in Physics, while she received the National Medal of Science posthumously. Her contributions to science have had a lasting impact on our understanding of fundamental symmetries in nature.

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