We didn’t want to let Women’s History Month pass without a tip of the hat to one of the towering figures we’ve featured here on PORTRAITS.

Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu was a rockstar experimental physicist who worked with Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project. She also met the pope, and inspired a Chinese opera. But here in the United States, she didn’t always get the recognition she deserved. At least not until her granddaughter, Jada Yuan, took up her story. This episode originally aired in 2022.

See the portraits we discuss:

<a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2015.12?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Dchien-shiung" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Wu in the lab</a>

<a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.98.112?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3DTsung%252BDao-Lee" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tsung-Dao Lee, </a>Nobel Laureate

<a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.98.113?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Dchen%252Bning%252Byang" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chen-Ning Yang</a>, Nobel Laureate

<a href="https://about.usps.com/newsroom/local-releases/ma/2021/0201ma-nuclear-physicist-chien-shiung-wu-to-be-honored-on-forever-stamp.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Wu on the forever stamp</a>

Also, check out Jada Yuan’s article about her grandmother <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/12/13/chien-shiung-wu-biography-physics-grandmother/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>!

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