Talk:Chien-Shiung Wu

Gas plural needs uniform spelling
The plural of 'gas' can be either 'gases' or 'gasses'; the article uses both.

I'm not a contributor to this article, but someone who is should pick one and make the changes uniformly throughout the article. 209.99.207.55 (talk) 00:09, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Didn't realize I was logged out when I posted the above. Bill Jefferys (talk) 00:14, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Resolved: "gases". → (talk·contribs) 11:14, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

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Beta decay, the book
I noted that this article does not have a proper listing for the "Beta Decay" book. I'm not sure where to put it - a new section entitled "Book"? The book is: C. S. Wu and S. A. Moszkowski, Beta Decay, Interscience Publishers (a division of John Wiley &amp; Sons, New York, London, Sydney, 1966, 394 pp.  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 65-21452.  No ISBN number in the book that I can find.  Likely one could list the publisher as just John Wiley, New York; the book has the JW logo.  Note the spelling of Moszkowski, which is presently incorrect in the article.  (Historical note:  I bought this book at a Woolco Department store bargain book bin for 99 cents in Louisiana quite some time ago. How the mighty have fallen? Moszkowski autographed the book for me sometime later...next to the 99c Woolco sticker.) Bdushaw (talk) 20:52, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Curiously: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Moszkowski but no English article. Bdushaw (talk) 20:57, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Added to the bibliography, and linked Moszkowski. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:48, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Travel abroad
Just to try to clarify how I am reading the phrase: At that time the United States government had severe restrictions on its citizens' ability to travel abroad...  It reads to me like something like what the Soviets or East Germans were doing - preventing its citizens from going abroad. I believe what is meant here is that there were U.S. restrictions on traveling to some countries - Cuba, North Korea, China, North Vietnam, etc. My revision was to try to be specific about that, while avoiding the misperception that the US generally prevented its citizens from traveling abroad. Perhaps something like ...restrictions on its citizens' ability to travel to communist countries...? Bdushaw (talk) 23:37, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

(I, an American, traveled abroad quite extensively in this time period, without any restrictions...) Bdushaw (talk) 23:43, 26 April 2015 (UTC)


 * How about At that time the United States government had McCarthy-era restrictions on international travel... ? Bdushaw (talk) 00:08, 28 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I just noticed this sentence also. Does anyone have access to the source, "Madame Chien-Shiung Wu: The First Lady of Physics Research?" I'd like to know the details. Note that the dates in question were in the middle of the Great Leap Forward, so I would have suspected that China had restrictions on US citizens entering the country, but more details from the source would resolve this. Natsirtguy (talk) 05:58, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

and I too travelred abroad, ref source give no data on this!75.163.147.50 (talk) 00:05, 17 February 2016 (UTC) how about this http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1950_us_china.htm

1957: U.S. Students Visited PRC

In August, a group of 41 U.S. students who had been participating in the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students decided to journey to the People’s Republic of China. Most of the group stayed into October, touring Beijing and other cities in the country. This trip was made against the express wishes of the U.S. Government, which seized their passports upon their return to the United States. 75.163.147.50 (talk) 00:05, 17 February 2016 (UTC)


 * US restrictions on overseas travel were not limited to Communist countries. As of January 2016, there are still restrictions on travelling to certain countries. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:32, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

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Birth Country Link
User:Hawkeye7: Hello, I noticed you reverted my edit in which I linked Wu's birthplace, the former Republic of China. I'm afraid I don't grasp your objection to the action in question, and would appreciate it if you could elaborate on how my edit was possibly inconsistent with Wikipedia policy, as you hinted at in your edit summary. Thank you! BUjjsp (talk) 06:00, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * It is merely inconsistent with our style guide, which says that we don't link modern-day countries, like China and the United States.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  12:20, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The former Republic of China (1912-1949) is an entirely different entity than the modern-day People's Republic of China. BUjjsp (talk) 00:49, 28 June 2018 (UTC)


 * It was just a change of government, like from the Obama administration to the Trump administration. The population did not become stateless.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  01:26, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Zhou Enlai common name
If anyone can help, I'd like clarification on a certain (minor) point in this article. I edited the name of Chou En-Lai to Zhou Enlai, as it is the more common version of his name. Indeed, Zhou Enlai's wikipedia page uses the Hanyu pinyin version, as per WP:ZHNAME. Similarly, Mao Zedong is no longer known by the Wade-Giles romanisation of his name (Mao Tse-Tung), so it seemed a reasonable change. So I'm puzzled why my edit was reverted by User:Hawkeye7. Thanks. Retinalsummer (talk) 23:37, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

NBS headquarters were in DC
The parity experiment was conducted at the National Bureau of Standards facility in Washington DC (Connecticut Ave and Van Ness Street). The bureau moved its headquarters to Gaithersburg, Maryland later, in the 1960s. 73.132.236.131 (talk) 17:06, 9 March 2024 (UTC)