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The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways

The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways

Update: 2022-12-01
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We’re hard at work producing the next season of Lost Women of Science, but we wanted to bring you this special guest episode from Portraits, a podcast from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu was a towering figure in science whose parity experiment shattered our understanding of the physical world. She enjoyed rockstar status in China, met the pope, inspired an opera and even became a “Jeopardy!” question. But to Jada Yuan, she was grandma.



See the portraits discussed in the episode:



Dr. Wu in the lab



Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Laureate



Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel Laureate



Dr. Wu on the forever stamp



Also, check out Jada Yuan’s article about her grandmother here!

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The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways

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