Chien-Shiung Wu standing alongside the beam line of her experimental apparatus with two collaborators. They are all wearing lab coats. She is looking directly at the camera while appearing to make an adjustment to the apparatus with her right hand.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 00:36:46 UTC Robert McNees

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   Chien-Shiung Wu’s colleagues Chen Ning Yang and Tsung Dao Lee, the theorists who proposed the effect, were rightly awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957. She was left off the prize, of course. Another disappointing exclusion by the Nobel Committee.

   At a 1964 MIT symposium, Chien-Shiung Wu commented: “I wonder whether the tiny atoms and nuclei, or the mathematical symbols, or the DNA molecules have any preference for either masculine or feminine treatment.”

   Image: @Smithsonian Institution