Tag: Women in STEM
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Women of Quantum: Chien-Schiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu, a pioneering Chinese-American physicist, made significant advancements in nuclear physics, particularly beta decay and parity violation. Her groundbreaking experiments contradicted long-held beliefs about symmetry in nature, reshaping physics. Despite her crucial contributions, she was overlooked by the Nobel Prize Committee, though her legacy inspires future scientists and challenges gender barriers.
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Women of Quantum: Grete Hermann
Grete Hermann was a pioneer thinker. She had the philosophical mind to ask the right questions and the mathematical mind to answer them. Her insight could have shaped the history of quantum mechanics if it had not been hidden away for so long.
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