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