Chien-Shiung Wu
Physicist whose careful experiments changed our view of nature.
Their Story
Chien-Shiung Wu was a physicist who immigrated to the United States from China and became a leading experimentalist. Her famous experiment showed that a rule scientists thought was always true, called the conservation of parity, could be broken. Her precise work helped confirm important ideas in physics.
Era
1900s
Field
Physics
Chien-Shiung Wu
Physicist whose careful experiments changed our view of nature.
Science · Physics · 1900s · Women in STEM, Asian American Heritage
Their Story
Chien-Shiung Wu was a physicist who immigrated to the United States from China and became a leading experimentalist. Her famous experiment showed that a rule scientists thought was always true, called the conservation of parity, could be broken. Her precise work helped confirm important ideas in physics.
Key Innovation
Performed the Wu experiment, proving that parity is not conserved in certain nuclear reactions.
Why It Matters Today
Her work shows that careful experiments can overturn even widely accepted scientific 'rules.'
Learn More
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu
Wilkinson STEM Education Foundation · 251 American Innovators · wilkinsonstemfoundation.org
