Posts tagged: Famous Women

Physics Professor Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu in a laboratory at Columbia University. Dr. Wu became the first woman to win the Research Corporation Award after providing the first experimental proof, along with scientists from the National Bureau of Standards, that the principle of parity conservation does not hold in weak subatomic interactions.

Chien-Shiung Wu, Trailblazing Nuclear Physicist, Honored with a Stamp

March 4, 2021 | By The Conversation

A groundbreaking Chinese-American woman physicist, ignored for the Nobel Prize, gets a US postage stamp.

Mrs. Robert Falcon Scott’s Awesome Story

March 11, 2013 | By Paul Hehn

The wife of South Pole explorer was a famous sculptor whose story is as fascinating as her more famous husband’s.