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Chien-Shiung Wu — A Heroic Experimental Physicist

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This biography is part of our “Picture a Scientist” initiative. To learn more about the amazing men and women who paved the way for modern scientific discovery, check out our homepage.


Illustration of Chein-Shiung Wu by Xiaomeng Han

Photograph of Chien-Shiung Wu courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution from United States via Wikimedia Commons

Cover image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

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