Chien-Shiung Wu
吴健雄
The First Lady of Physics
“There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes. And that is not going to the lab at all!”
“唯一比从实验室回家面对一水池脏碗碟更糟的事，就是根本没去实验室！”
— Widely attributed, from interviews
Biography
Chien-Shiung Wu conducted the famous Wu experiment in 1957, which proved that parity is not conserved in weak nuclear interactions — overturning a fundamental assumption of physics. While her male colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang received the Nobel Prize for the theoretical prediction, Wu's experimental proof was excluded from the award. Known as the 'First Lady of Physics' and the 'Chinese Marie Curie,' she received the inaugural Wolf Prize in Physics and was honored with a U.S. postage stamp.
吴健雄在1957年进行了著名的吴氏实验，证明了在弱核相互作用中宇称不守恒——推翻了物理学的一个基本假设。虽然她的男性同事李政道和杨振宁因理论预测获得了诺贝尔奖，但吴健雄的实验证明却被排除在奖项之外。她被称为'物理学第一夫人'和'中国的居里夫人'，获得了首届沃尔夫物理学奖，并被印在美国邮票上。
Key Achievements
Proved parity non-conservation (Wu experiment)
证明宇称不守恒（吴氏实验）
Received inaugural Wolf Prize in Physics
获得首届沃尔夫物理学奖
Honored with U.S. postage stamp (2021)
被印在美国邮票上（2021年）
References & Citations
- Wikipedia: Chien-Shiung Wu — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu
- Chiang, Tsai-Chien. Madame Wu Chien-Shiung: The First Lady of Physics Research. World Scientific, 2014.
