Women's History Month Featured Leader: Chien-Shiung Wu

In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:

Chien-Shiung Wu

Physicist (1912 – 1997)
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• Conducted research that overturned parity conservation, a basic law of physics
• Her research won a Nobel Prize in physics for her two male colleagues, but not for Wu herself
• Born in China and studied at the University of California, Berkeley
• Worked on the Manhattan Project at Columbia University, studying uranium enrichment and researching neutrons
• Became a professor at Columbia and developed an apparatus to study symmetry in nuclear structure