ANGLAIS: Chien-Shiung
Publié le 02/01/2023
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Chien-Shiung Wu was born in China on May thirteen , one
thousand nine hundred twelve in Shanghai, to a family of a teacher
and engineer, she is the daughter of Wu Zhongyi, a gender
advocate who founded the Mingde Women's Professional
College.
In one thousand nine hundred thirty She enrolled in
Nanjing University in mathematics and physics, because of her
admiration for Marie Curie.
She graduated with top marks.
In
one thousand nine hundred thirty-six Wu moved from China to
California in order to go to Berkeley University and study for a
doctorate in Applied Physics (uranium fission).
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In one
thousand nine hundred forty-two She married a fellow student,
Luke Chia Yuan, whom she had met when she arrived in
California.
In One
thousand nine hundred and forty-four She joined the
Manhattan Project at Columbia University and helped answer a
problem that other physicists like Enrico Fermi couldn't solve.
In one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven Yang and Lee
two male physicists got the Nobel prize for proving wrong a
physics law known as "Parity law", thanks to Wu's work.
She was not honored although her contribution was essential.
In one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four She earned the
Comstock prize in Physics.
Chien-Shiung wrote Beta Decay, a
book that is still a reference today for nuclear physicists.
In one thousand nine hundred seventy-four She was named
Scientist of the Year by Industrial Research Magazine.
She won
the Bonner prize and the National Medal of Science.
She became the first woman president of the National Society
of Physics.
After being promoted to
Associate (one thousand nine hundred fifty-two) and then to Full
Professor (one thousand nine hundred fifty-eight) and becoming the
first woman to hold a tenured faculty position in the physics
department at Columbia, she was appointed the first Michael I.
Pupin Professor of Physics in one thousand nine hundred and seventy-three.
She was the first recipient of the Wolf Prize in Physics in One
thousand nine hundred seventy-eight, which some consider the
equivalent of the Nobel Prize .
Her later research
focused on the causes of sickle-cell anemia.
Wu retired from
Columbia in one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one and devoted her
time to educational programs in the People’s Republic of China,
Taiwan, and the United States.
She....
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