Madame Chien-Shiung Wu 吴健雄 

Chien-Shiung Wu (Chinese: 吳健雄; pinyin: Wú Jiànxióng; Wade–Giles: Wu2 Chien4-hsiung2; May 31, 1912 – February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made deep contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics. Madame Wu studied physics and graduated from National Central University (NCU) in 1934. After 1949, the name NCU was morphed into Nanjing University.

During WWII, Wu as a physicist at Columbia University participated in the Manhattan Project, where she according to various sources played an important role. (www.atomicheritage.org and www.washingtonpost.com). She became a household name in the global scientific communities for her experimental verification the theoretical proposal by Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang that parity is not conserved. This discovery of Wu resulted in Lee and Yang winning the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Wu was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978. She also became the president of the American Physical Society, a society with nearly 50,000 members from all corners of the world. Her distinction in experimental physics which allows the scientific world to turn a page on the understanding of our physical universe, and evoked comparisons to Marie Curie. To this end, her nicknames include the "First Lady of Physics", the "Chinese Madame Curie" and the "Queen of Nuclear Research"