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An overseen physicist: Chien-Shiung Wu

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Chien-Shiung Wu has been called “The first lady of physics”, “The Chinese Marie Curie” and “The queen of nuclear physics”, but incredibly enough, she is to most rather unknown. She has contributed with crucial discoveries in nuclear- and quantum physics and also contributed to the Manhattan-project. But she is, like the physician Lise Meitner, written […]