CHEIN-SHIUNG-WU

He was born on May 31, 1912, and died on February 16,

1997. was a Chinese-born American physicist expert in
radioactivity. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where
he helped develop the process for separating uranium metal
into uranium-235 and uranium-238 isotopes by gaseous
diffusion. She is known for carrying out Wu's Experiment,
which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of
parity. For this discovery, her colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee
and Chen Ning Yang won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics,
and Wu was awarded the first Wolf Prize in Physics in
1978. Her contributions to experimental physics were so
important that she was compared to chemist and physicist
Marie Curie, and was dubbed "the First Lady of Physics",
"the Chinese Marie Curie" or "the queen of nuclear