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Chien-Shiung Wu

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q15821575&amp;oldid=2550157103" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">John Price Wetherill Medal · dated 1962
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q58943567&amp;oldid=2214128017" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Non-Conservation of Parity
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q21578&amp;oldid=2557645599" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Princeton University
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q10926964&amp;oldid=2515964213" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Central University (Nanjing)
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q845333&amp;oldid=2554545498" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wolf Prize in Physics · dated 1978
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q49088&amp;oldid=2564982848" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Columbia University

Wikidata describes Chien-Shiung Wu as Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years).

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