Chien-Shiung Wu standing behind the beam line of her apparatus. She is wearing a white lab coat and smiling at the camera.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 00:32:10 UTC Robert McNees

   A team led by physicist Chien-Shiung Wu obtained the first experimental confirmation of parity violation in the decay of Cobalt-60, #OTD in 1956.

   Her theory colleagues received a Nobel for predicting this phenomenon, but she was left off the prize.

   Image: Smithsonian Institution Archives