Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American experimental physicist (1912–1997) best known for the 1956 Wu experiment, which demonstrated parity violation in weak nuclear interactions — a discovery for which Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang, but not Wu herself, received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. In the vault she is credited, with Irving Shaknov, for the 1950 photon-polarization-correlation experiment that David Bohm and Yakir Aharonov repurposed in 1957 as an early test of quantum correlations exceeding the natural classical explanation.
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2026-10-24: AIP's 2026 institutional history reports that Wu's own group, with Leonard Kasday and John Ullman, replicated the Wu-Shaknov experiment in 1970 specifically "with Bell's theorem in mind," though Clauser and others regarded the result as inconclusive for ruling out hidden variables due to apparatus limitations. Noted here as a lead from the capture behind claim-bohm-aharonov-1957-narrower-than-bell-wu-shaknov-angle-limit (source: aip.org/history/entanglement-experiment-2) — not yet promoted to its own claim-note; a natural next capture.
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