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A Physics Legend Part One: How Chien-Shiung Wu Changed Physics Forever
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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Mar 10, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
In the 1950's, a particle physicist made a landmark discovery that changed what we thought we knew about how our universe operates. And Chien-Shiung Wu did it while raising a family and an ocean away from her relatives in China. Short Wave's Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber joins host Emily Kwong to talk about that landmark discovery--what it meant for the physics world, and what it means to Regina personally as a woman and a Chinese and Mexican American in physics.
Released:
Mar 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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