CHIEN-SHIUNG WU

Shangai, 1912 – New York, 1997

Chinese physicist, she carried out his research activity mainly in the United States. She participated in the Manhattan project and was among the first women to occupy a prominent place in the panorama of world physics in the twentieth century. She was the first winner of the Wolf Prize for Physics in 1978, for conducting the experiment that bears her name.

Chien-Shiung Wu was presented by the students Rossella Mereu and Lucrezia Pinna from the Motzo Classical, Linguistics and Human Sciences High School, Quartu S.Elena