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Chien-Shiung Wu
(29 May 1912 - 16 Feb 1997)
Chinese-American physicist who provided the first experimental proof (1956) that parity is not conserved in weak subatomic interactions of nuclear beta decay.
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Science Quotes by Chien-Shiung Wu (3)
... it is shameful that there are so few women in science... In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.
— Chien-Shiung Wu
Quoted in 'Queen of Physics', Newsweek (20 May 1963) no. 61, 20.
See also: | Women Scientists (8)
Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.
— Chien-Shiung Wu
See also: | Radioactivity (12)
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!
— Chien-Shiung Wu
Quoted in Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio and Jamal Eddine Derkaoui, Cosmic Radiations: From Astronomy to Particle Physics (2001), 344.
by - Science - 2001
See also: | Laboratory (37)
