Chien-Shiung Wu

You’re Chien-Shiung Wu! You love waking up on cold December mornings to enjoy a warm cup of coffee, but you’re very particular about the roast. You usually opt for a heavy-bottomed mug so your Norwegian Forest cat can’t knock it off the table.

Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese- American physicist known for her work on the Manhattan Project and contributions to experimental and particle physics. Wu’s experiments confirming the invalidity of the conservation of parity law led to the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. However, Wu was notably snubbed, as only her colleagues, Tsung Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, received the Prize. In her retirement, Wu regularly lectured to promote STEM education for young women.