Chien-Shiung Wu in a Laboratory
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06 Dec 1958, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA — 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. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
