1912
May 31 born in China
The First Lady of Physics
Dr.Chien-Shiung Wu
Timeline
1936
She completed her Ph.D in University of California, Berkeley
1944
She joined the Manhattan Project (Substitute Alloy Materials (SAM) Lab)
1957
She overthrow law of conservation of parity
Early Life
When she was in China, she attended the all-girls school that established by her father. Later, she has been accepted by National Central University as the top student of her class. After she graduated, her supervisor Gu Jing-Wei, encourage her to get a Ph.D. as she did. 1936 She completed her Ph.D. in University of California, Berkeley.
Manhattan Project
She worked Manhattan Project at Columbia University. She created a process to separate uranium metal into U-235 and U-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion, which required replicated at a grand scale at the K-25 Plant in Oak Ridge. She also improves the Geiger counters that used for measuring nuclear radiation levels.