PRESENTED BY Judy Hartegan Brad Thomas Doris Jackson

Chien-Shiung Wu Early Years 1929 Taught at Public School of China Nanjing Central University 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 Boarding school at Suzhou

EMPLOYMENT Scientific Staff, Division of War Research (“Manhattan Project”), Colombia University Research Associate, Columbia University Associate Professor, Columbia University Professor of Physics, Columbia University Michael Pupin Professor of Physics, Columbia University Member, Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health Resident Fellow and Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor, Smith College Instructor, Princeton University

HONORS 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)

ACHIEVEMENTS 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.

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)