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Chien-Shiung Wu was an Chinese-American physicist most famously known for her contribution to the Manhattan Project.

Early Life Chien Shiung Wu was born in 1912 in Eastern China.

Education and Early Career in Physics She came to the United States in 1936 as a PhD candidate at the University of California. She received her PhD in 1940. From 1942 to 1944, Wu taught at Smith College, UC Berkeley, and Princeton University. She was the first woman hired as faculty in the Physics Department at Princeton.

Physics Career and Manhattan Project In 1944, Dr. Wu joined Columbia University and was notable for her contribution to the Manhattan Project. She worked on the project from 1944-1945 and confirmed experimentally Physicists Tsung-Dao Lee and Yang Chen-Ning's work on the beta decay theory and the law of conservation of parity. Lee and Chen-Ning won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics while Wu was ignored by the Nobel Prize committee.

Later Years Dr. Wu became a full professor at Columbia in 1958 and the Michael I. Pupin Professor of Physics in 1973. She died of a stroke at home in New York in 1997 and was buried in her homeland of China.