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Chien-Shiung Wu Quotes

It is shameful that there are so few women in science. [...] In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men.

It is shameful that there are so few women in science. [...] In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.

Chien-Shiung Wu
Men, America, Chinese
"Queen of Physics". "Newsweek" no. 61, 20, May 20, 1963.

There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

Chien-Shiung Wu
Powerful, Dirty, Home

Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

Chien-Shiung Wu
Heart, Old Friends, Special
"History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics". Book edited by H. B. Newman and T. Ypsilantis,

I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely accepted “laws” of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act alike.

Chien-Shiung Wu
Senior, Views, Law

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