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Chien Shuing Wu

 

            
             Chein- Shiung wu was born on May 29, 1912 in China. Chein- Shuing Wu died when she was 84 on Feb 16 1997 in Manhattan. Chein Shuing Wu was a Neurologist.
             20 points Education .
             Chein- Shiung wu's went to her father's school. Her father opened the area's first girls school and Chien-Shuiung Wu went there until she was nine then she left for a boarding school. It was there she found that she liked studying physics the best. She graduated from high school there in 1930 with the highest grades in her class. During the summer, she received a letter saying that she had been selected to attend National Central University a first class school in Nanjing China. At the end of the summer, she enrolled as a mathematics student there. She soon switched to physics. She got her bachelor's degree in 1936. China did not have graduate instructions in physics so she decided to go to the United States for further schooling. She went to the University of California in Berkley and did her graduate research on beta decay, form of radioactive energy. She got her Ph. D. in 1940. .
             10 points work experience .
             Chein-Shuing Wu was asked to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project in which the atomic bomb was formed. She helped increase the amount of energy that they could get from the atoms and helped improve the Geiger counter, a device which measures radioactivity. She continued working with beta decay after World War II and in 1957 was asked to do an experiment to prove a hypothesis made by two Chinese-American men. Tsung Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang were questioning a basic law of nature. She also did some research and she invented a method of separating two types of electrons emitted from the nuclei radioactive atoms.
             20 points awards and achievements .
             Some of Chein Shuing Wu's awards and achievements are that she won the Research Corporation Award in 1958. Also in 1958 Chein-Shiung Wu was the first women to be granted the honorary doctorate from Princeton University.


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