The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Chien-Shiung Wu
Title:
Michael I. Pupin Professor of Physics
Affiliation:
Columbia University
New York,New York USA
Gender:
Female
Year Deceased:
1997
Award Discipline:
Physical Sciences
Award Year:
1975
Citation:
"For her ingenious experiments that led to new and surprising understanding of the decay of the radioactive nucleus."
Presented by President Ford at a White House Ceremony on October 18, 1976.