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PHYSICIST

Chien-Shiung Wu

1912 - 1997

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Chien-Shiung Wu (Chinese: 吳健雄; pinyin: Wú Jiànxióng; Wade–Giles: Wu2 Chien4-hsiung2; May 31, 1912 – February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the process for separating uranium into uranium-235 and uranium-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion. She is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chien-Shiung Wu has received more than 985,071 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Chien-Shiung Wu is the 226th most popular physicist (down from 216th in 2019), the 247th most popular biography from China (down from 239th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Chinese Physicist.

Chien-shiung Wu is most famous for her work in the field of particle physics. She was the first woman to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Chien-Shiung Wu ranks 226 out of 717Before her are Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Mihajlo Pupin, Charles Wheatstone, Andrew Huxley, Clifford Shull, and John Kendrew. After her are Alexander Prokhorov, John Vincent Atanasoff, Carl von Linde, Nevill Francis Mott, Melvin Schwartz, and Allan MacLeod Cormack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Chien-Shiung Wu ranks 45Before her are Karl Malden, Glenn T. Seaborg, Lawrence Durrell, Sonja Henie, Otto Kretschmer, and Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland. After her are Georg Solti, Princess Deokhye, Don Siegel, Elsa Morante, Taiichi Ohno, and Tibor Sekelj. Among people deceased in 1997, Chien-Shiung Wu ranks 45Before her are John Eccles, Alfred Hershey, Nikolai Tikhonov, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, John Kendrew, and John Denver. After her are Charles Brenton Huggins, Georg Solti, Louis, Prince Napoléon, Cornelius Castoriadis, Bulat Okudzhava, and Gerda Christian.

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In China

Among people born in China, Chien-Shiung Wu ranks 247 out of 1,392Before her are Emperor Cheng of Han (-51), Zhang Jue (200), Emperor Hui of Jin (259), Emperor Taizu of Jin (1068), Liu Biao (142), and Xiao He (-257). After her are Liu Bian (176), Zaifeng, Prince Chun (1883), Emperor Ai of Tang (892), Xiahou Yuan (200), Zhang Gaoli (1946), and Tao Yuanming (365).

Among PHYSICISTS In China

Among physicists born in China, Chien-Shiung Wu ranks 4Before her are Walter Houser Brattain (1902), Yang Chen-Ning (1922), and Tsung-Dao Lee (1926). After her are Daniel C. Tsui (1939), Qian Xuesen (1911), and He Jiankui (1984).