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PRESENTED BY Judy Hartegan Brad Thomas Doris Jackson

PRESENTED BY Judy Hartegan Brad Thomas Doris Jackson. Chien-Shiung Wu Early Years. 1929 Taught at Public School of China 1930-1934 Nanjing Central University 1934-1936 Research with Jing Weigin at Nanjing 1936 San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley 1940 Ph.D in Physics

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PRESENTED BY Judy Hartegan Brad Thomas Doris Jackson

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  1. PRESENTED BYJudy HarteganBrad ThomasDoris Jackson

  2. Chien-Shiung WuEarly Years • 1929 Taught at Public School of China • 1930-1934 Nanjing Central University • 1934-1936 Research with Jing Weigin at Nanjing • 1936 San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley • 1940 Ph.D in Physics • 1942 Married Luke Chia-Liu Yuan • 1947 Son, Vincent was born • 1912 Born in Shanghai, China • Early years spent in Liuhe, Jiangsu Province • Elementary education was at the Mingde Women’s Vocational Continuing School. • 1922 Boarding school at Suzhou

  3. EMPLOYMENT • 1944-46 Scientific Staff, Division of War Research (“Manhattan Project”), Colombia University • 1946-52 Research Associate, Columbia University • 1952-57 Associate Professor, Columbia University • 1958-72 Professor of Physics, Columbia University • 1972-81 Michael Pupin Professor of Physics, Columbia University • 1975-82 Member, Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health • 1940-42 Resident Fellow and Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley • 1942-43 Assistant Professor, Smith College • 1943-44 Instructor, Princeton University

  4. Member National Academy of Sciences (elected 1958) Achievement Award, American Association of University Women 1960 Comstock Award, National Academy of Sciences 1964 Scientist of the Year Award, Industrial Research Magazine 1974 National Medal of Sciences (U.S.) 1975 Wolf Prize in Physics, Israel 1978 Honorary Fellow Royal Society of Edinburg FIRSTS Female instructor in the physics dept. of Princeton University Woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton University Woman to be elected President of the American Physical Society (1975) HONORS

  5. Chien-Shiung assisted Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang personally in their parity laws development by providing them with a test method for beta decay in 1956 that worked successfully. Some consider this very instrumental in the creation of the laws, but she was not nominated for the Nobel Prize. Her book Beta Decay (1965) is still a standard reference for nuclear physicists. She later conducted research in molecular changes in the formation of hemoglobin that cause sickle-cell anemia. ACHIEVEMENTS

  6. MEMORIES • Asteroid 2752 named after her (1990) • Chien-Shiung Wu Laboratory, Nanjing (1992) • Wu Chien-Shiung Education Foundation founded in Taiwan-provides scholarships to young aspiring scientists (1995) • Chien-Shiung Wu dies at age 84 (1997) She was buried in Mingde Senior High School • Bronze statue of Wu was erected in the courtyard of Mingde High (2002)

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