Forgotten women in science: Chien-Shiung Wu
In the second of a three-part series, Zing Tsjeng looks at the neglected contributions of female scientists through history.
Chien Shiung Wu.
MarÃa Hergueta
When Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997) was a student at the prestigious Suzhou Girls’ High School in the Chinese city of Suzhou, she encountered a biography of Marie Curie, the great chemist and physicist who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win it twice.
Curie’s achievements ignited a lifelong passion in a teenager who was already so devoted to science that she spent her free time teaching herself physics from textbooks borrowed from friends. But Wu probably never imagined that she would grow up to be a scientific pioneer just like her hero, or that her contributions would earn her the nickname “the Chinese Madame Curieâ€.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/forgotten-women-in-science-chien-shiung-wu
