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Chien Shiung-Wu is known as one of the first and best women physicts in the world. She overcame many difficulties and in spite of hardships she managed to beacome a great woman.Chien Shiung-Wu exemplified perserverance by overcoming her tough childhood, losing her family during her search for a career,and not accepting the award she worked so hard for but recieving many others.

During Chien Shiung-Wu's childhood she was not able to enter a school because people believed that women should not be as well educated as men. However she and her parents believed that women should be educated and not just men. Her home was filled with newspapers, magazines, and books.Her mother started encouraging people to start sending thier daughters to school and her father started a girls only school so that Chien Shiung could go to school. Even though her father started a school, his school only went up to age 9. Chien Shiung-Wu wanted a full education so her parents sent her to a boarding school. While at boarding school Chien Shiung-Wu had a choice of either taking the teacher training course or the academic studies course. She ended up taking the teacher training course because it was free and the graduates were certain to get jobs. However she found out that the people taking the academic course were studying more harder subjects than she was. She then begged her roommates to let her borrow thier books so that she could study them. She studied late into the night, but slowly became the school's top student. She graduated at the top of her class.

During her academic career she managed to get a job at Smith College and Princeton University. In order to do so she had to leave her home in China and sail to the U.S. During her time there Japan invaded China and her parents told her to stay in America so that she would stay safe. When she went back to China for a visit, her parents and all of her brothers were dead. She over came the ordeal and moved on with her life. During that time physics were still thought of as a man's subject, but there was a short number of physicts so women started to get hired and Chien Shiung-Wu managed to get a research job at the National Academy of Sciences.

While she was there she met Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, in 1956, who wanted to find out about beta decay. The team found an answer and were awarded the Nobel Prize. Chien Shiung-Wu was not nominated because of sexuality. However she recieved many other awards and honors. She became a Pupin Professer of Physics in 1973. She also recieved the Medal of Science which was the nations highest scientific award. Chien was recognized as the "First Lady of Physics" and recieved the Research Cooperation award. She recieved the Comstock award from the National Academy of Sciences and she was also the first woman to do so.

Chien Shiung-Wu became one of the best women and physicts because she overcame many challenges such as her tough childhood, losing her family, and not being able to accept the award she worked for but being able to earn many others.

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