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DIED. CHIEN SHIUNG WU, 84, Columbia University professor emeritus and one of the world's foremost physicists; in New York City. A native of Shanghai, Wu came to the U.S. in 1936 and earned a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1956 she conducted an experiment that disproved the theory that movement in nature is always symmetrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

Another honoree who overcame racial prejudices was Dr. Chine-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist from Columbia University who came to the United States from China in 1936 Wu said. "A scientist's life is really wonderful...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Schlesinger Library Presents Nine Awards For Achievement | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

Also cited by the University were the Most Rev. Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil; Chien-Shiung Wu, an experimental nuclear physicist; and Clifford Geertz, a social anthorpologist...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Wiesner, Ellison, Sills Win Honoraries | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

...Chien-Shiung Wu, the second of this year's female honorary degree recipients, received a Doctor of Science degree. The Michael Pupit. Professor of Physics at Columbia University, Wu has done intensive study in the fields of nuclear forces and structure...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Wiesner, Ellison, Sills Win Honoraries | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

...Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental nuclear physicist, a Doctor of Science...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Wiesner, Ellison, Sills Win Honoraries | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

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