chien+shiung+wu

[[image:grimeslanguagearts/50702540.jpg width="150" height="208"]] Chien Shiung Wu
Was a famous scientist from China. She is a perservering person because when she was a kid in China they only had schools for boys not girls. So her dad made a school only for girls and the classes they had went up for girls of 9 years old.

Some of her friends did'nt go on to high school but Chien wanted a full education so her parents enrolled her to a boarding school. At the boarding school you could take teacher traning or academic studies but she went to teacher traning cause it was free and graduates were assured jobs. She then realized that most of her friends that went to acdemic studies studied more of science and math everything she wanted to learn.

So she begged to see their text books and she taught her self physics,chemistry,mathematics etc. She got into college in Nanjing. Later on in her life she came to the United States and became a famous physicist and Became an expert on fission (which is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into two parts.) She aslo taught in college in United States.She taught for princeton and columbia university then moved on to bigger things.The first atomic bomb had'nt been built yet and she was'nt asked to join the team of scientist that were makeing the bomb because at that time pyshics were thought to be a job for men not women.

In 1944 she was asked to join the team building the bomb.In 1956 Dr.tsung-dao lee and Dr.Chen Ning Yang asked her to help them discover why the tiny particles inside an atom might not always act according to the laws of nature. 6 months later she found the answer but they did not give her credit but then later in 1981 she did'nt care if she got credit for that cause by 1981 she was named one of the worlds leading physicist.

She won many awards being a physicist in United States. She ritred in 1981 and by that time she was named one of the worlds leading physicist. Thats how she was a perservering person she never got and education like other kids but then at the end she became one of worlds best physicist.

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