Wu Jianxiong

Chien-Shiung Wu (English: Chien-Shiung Wu; May 31, 1912 - February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American physicist who made outstanding contributions in the field of nuclear physics. Her achievements in experimental physics often make her comparable to Marie Curie. Wu Jianxiong is the first female president of the American Physical Society. She is often called "China's Marie Curie", "the first lady of physics research", "the queen of nuclear research" and "one of the most outstanding female experimental physicists in the world". Wu Jianxiong graduated from the National Central University of the Republic of China and the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence. During the Manhattan Project, she participated in research on how to use gas diffusion to separate two isotopes of uranium (uranium-235 and uranium-238). Wu Jianxiong has been teaching at Columbia University for a long time. One of her most famous scientific research achievements is the use of experimental methods to verify parity non-conservation. This work won her colleagues Tsung-Dao Li and Chen Ning Yang the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957. For this work, she was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics, first awarded in 1978.