Chien-Shiung Wu
Angélique Sanchez
- Timeline
- 1912-1997
- Field
- Particule and experimental physics
- Institution
- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- University of California, Berkeley, United-States
- Smith College, United-States
- Princeton University, United-States
- Columbia University, United-States
- Zhejiang University, China
- Known for
- The Manhattan Project
- Contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics
- Chien-Shiung Wu participated in developing the process for separating uranium into uranium-235 and uranium-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion
- Distinctions
- Nominations for the Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry
- Comstock Prize in Physics, 1963
- Bonner Prize, 1975
- National Medal of Science, 1975
- Wolf Prize in Physics, 1978
