Chien-Shiung Wu was born in Liu-ho, China, on May 29,1912. Her father, Wu Zong-yee, believed that woman had as much of a right to a good education as men did, and encouraged his daughter to plan for college and a professional career. As a young woman in high school, she enjoyed all of her science courses, but when she became acquainted with physics she knew definitely that she wanted to become a physicist. She continued her math and physics studies at the National Central University in Nanking, from which she got her bachelor's degree in 1936. At that time there was war going on in China. Wu wanted the best education possible, so she decided to do her graduate work in the United States.

She was thinking on going to the University of Michigan because it contained many Chinese students, but, however, she decided against Michigan for that very reason. Chien-Shiung Wu chose the University of California at Berkeley to continue he

In March 1944 she went to Columbia University in New York and joined the Division of War research. In doing so, Wu was able to perform many accomplishments, including the achievement of improving Geiger counters, which detect radiation. Columbia University was so impressed by her work that they let Wu become a Research Associate. In 1952, she became an associate professor at Columbia directly from Research Associate, which is a big step. Not many years later she participated in one of the most challenging events in nuclear physics. To understand what she did it is necessary for you to understand in some way the "law of conservation and parity."

She carried on several experiments afterward. In 1963, for example, she tested a theory about beta-decay that had been proposed in 1958 by two nuclear physicists. Another experiment Wu carried out was underground in a salt mine near Cleveland, Ohio. The experiment studied beta decay of very long-lived calcium nuclei. The project could not be conducted on the earth's surface, so she worked in a small house built underground, where she was surrounded by deadly fumes. Through her work, Wu was able to show that even the most sophisticated and basic

The law of conservation and parity stated that nature makes no distinction between left and right, that nature is symmetrical, this is what scientists thought in 1956. Meanwhile, two scientists, Tsung Dao Lee and Chen Ning Ying, were beginning to question what had been thought as a basic law of physics. Together they looked for experimental physicists to work on their ideas, and one name that came first to their minds was Chien-Shiung Wu. Wu excepted the test, unable to re

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