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Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu 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…
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science · Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) · nuclear physicist · university teacher · physicist · scientist · also Chien-Shiung Wu, Chieng-Shiung Wu, Wu Chien Shiung, Wu Jianxiong, Wu
Born 31 May 1912 · Died 16 February 1997 · Q450317
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2024· 1 entry
Published “Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3” in Nature — cited 15,579 times.
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2023· 1 entry
Yahoo: Chien-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, spent her career fighting for gender equality in science
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2022· 2 entries
NPR: A Physics Legend Part Two: Chien-Shiung Wu's Granddaughter Reflects
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NPR: A Physics Legend Part One: How Chien-Shiung Wu Changed Physics Forever
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2020· 6 entries
Published “A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 22,158 times.
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Published “Characteristics of and Important Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in China” in JAMA — cited 14,002 times.
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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Published “SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor” in Cell — cited 17,445 times.
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Published “Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study” in The Lancet — cited 21,454 times.
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Published “Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China” in The Lancet — cited 36,648 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Published “limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 37,193 times.
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Futurism: Chien-Shiung Wu: The First Lady of Physics
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2013· 2 entries
Yahoo: Channeling Ada Lovelace: Chien-Shiung Wu, Courageous Hero of Physics
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Published “Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems” in Science — cited 14,184 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Discover Magazine: Ada Lovelace Day: Chien-Shiung Wu
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2007· 1 entry
Published “Synthesis of graphene-based nanosheets via chemical reduction of exfoliated graphite oxide” in Carbon — cited 13,146 times.
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1998).
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Published “The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis” in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences — cited 19,853 times.
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1997· 2 entries
Died 1997-02-16.
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“… it is shameful that there are so few women in science... In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.”
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Women in Technology Hall of Fame (1996).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor at the Nanjing University (1986).
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1978).
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Was awarded the first Wolf Prize in Physics
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1975· 4 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1975).
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Awarded Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics (1975).
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As the first female president of the American Physical Society, Wu met with President Gerald Ford to formally request him to create an advisory scientific body for the president, which President Ford granted and signed i
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Physics department chairman Serber discovered that Wu had a much lower pay than her male colleagues but that she had never reported on it, so he adjusted her pay to make it equal to that of her male counterparts even if
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1973· 1 entry
“the first lady of physics research”
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1969· 1 entry
“The charming lady who is being honoured on this occasion is reputed as the world's foremost female experimental physicist ... Dr. Wu has made one of the greatest contributions to the knowledge of the universe.”
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1964· 1 entry
Spoke out against gender discrimination at a symposium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1963· 2 entries
Awarded Comstock Prize in Physics (1963).
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Is known worldwide for its scholarly meetings and graduate institutes with a membership of more than 56,000 scientists from over 100 nations
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1962· 1 entry
Won John Price Wetherill Medal (1962).
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1958· 2 entries
Her father the next year, and her mother in 1962
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And later on was named the first Michael I
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1957· 1 entry
For their theoretical work, despite a "firm tradition" of the vast majority of the previous and following prizes being awarded to experimentalists, not theorists
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1956· 1 entry
But decided to stay in the US to finish her famous experiment while her husband visited China
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1952· 1 entry
Which made her the first woman to become a tenured physics professor in university history
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1949· 1 entry
Yuan joined the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the family bought another home on Long Island
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1945· 1 entry
For her crucial role in the Manhattan Project
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1940· 2 entries
It had two separate parts presented in very neat fashion
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Studied at University of California, Berkeley, doctorate (1940).
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1939· 1 entry
For his invention of the cyclotron particle accelerator
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1934· 1 entry
But an experiment by Luis Walter Alvarez had produced results at variance with the theory
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1929· 1 entry
Wu graduated at the top of her class and was admitted to National Central University in Nanjing
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1923· 1 entry
At the age of 11 to go to the Suzhou Women's Normal School No
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-05-31.
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