Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu exhibit opens at NCKU
Tainan, Taiwan, 23 October 2012
A collection of posters are now on display at the library of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Academician Chien-Shiung Wu, a world renowned Chinese-American physicist with expertise in the techniques of experimental physics and radioactivity.
The exhibit continues through November 11 providing the visitors a good opportunity to familiarize the significance contribution of Dr. Wu to the world.
As one of the most celebrated scientists in the world, “Chinese Marie Curie”, Wu was the only Chinese person to be recruited to work on the Manhattan Project in which she helped to develop the process for separating uranium metal into the U-235 and U-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion.
Dr. Wu was the first Chinese-American to be elected into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the first female instructor in the Physics Department of Princeton University.
One of her most significant scientific findings is that she confirmed experimentally in 1963 the theory of conservation of vector current in beta decay proposed by Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann in 1958.
Dr. Wu received the Research Corporation Award in 1958 and was elected Member of National Academy of Sciences that same year.
In 1964 she received the Cyrus B. Comstock Award at the 101 annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.
She was elected as the first female president of the American Physical Society in 1975 and later selected to receive the Wolf Prize in Physics in its inaugural year of 1978.
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu has been recognized as the “First Lady of Physics” and has received many honors, awards, and honorary degrees for her accomplishments.
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A collection of posters are now on display at the library of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Academician Chien-Shiung Wu, a world renowned Chinese-American physicist with expertise in the techniques of experimental physics and radioactivity.
The exhibit continues through November 11 providing the visitors a good opportunity to familiarize the significance contribution of Dr. Wu to the world.
As one of the most celebrated scientists in the world, “Chinese Marie Curie”, Wu was the only Chinese person to be recruited to work on the Manhattan Project in which she helped to develop the process for separating uranium metal into the U-235 and U-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion.
Dr. Wu was the first Chinese-American to be elected into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the first female instructor in the Physics Department of Princeton University.
One of her most significant scientific findings is that she confirmed experimentally in 1963 the theory of conservation of vector current in beta decay proposed by Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann in 1958.
Dr. Wu received the Research Corporation Award in 1958 and was elected Member of National Academy of Sciences that same year.
In 1964 she received the Cyrus B. Comstock Award at the 101 annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.
She was elected as the first female president of the American Physical Society in 1975 and later selected to receive the Wolf Prize in Physics in its inaugural year of 1978.
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu has been recognized as the “First Lady of Physics” and has received many honors, awards, and honorary degrees for her accomplishments.
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