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Chien-Shiung Wu Proves Parity Violation
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Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu announced experimental proof that nature violates 'conservation of parity,' overturning a basic assumption of physics; her Columbia colleagues Lee and Yang won the Nobel, but Wu-later the first woman to lead the American Physical Society-did not. (Shares Jan 15 with Gary Locke's governorship.)
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- physics.aps.org physics.aps.org/story/v22/st19
- jcom.sissa.it jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_1603_2017_A10