Who is Dr Chen?
Dr. Chen obtained a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Rutgers University and completed post-doctoral studies at the Scripps Research Institute. In 1994 she joined City of Hope as a faculty and was promoted to full Professor in 2005.
Who was Dr Chien-Shiung Wu’s academic advisor?
Her academic advisor was Ernest Lawrence. In 1939, while Chien-Shiung was still his student, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the cyclotron particle accelerator. In 1940, Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu graduated with her PhD in physics. In 1942, she married Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, who she had met during her studies at Berkeley.
What did Chien-Shiung do After college?
After graduation, she worked in a physics lab in China. Her mentor, Dr. Jing-Wei Gu, another woman working in the field of physics, encouraged Chien-Shiung to continue her education in the United States. With financial support from her uncle, Chien-Shiung took a ship to San Francisco.
What did Tsung Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang Do?
In 1956, Wu was approached by colleagues and theoretical physicists, Tsung Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, seeking her expertise in beta decay. They asked Wu to conduct a difficult experiment to prove their theory that there was no evidence of the law of conservation of parity during beta decay.
