![]() ![]() “Chien-Shiung Wu was one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century,” said William Gicker Jr., director of stamp services at USPS. Postal Service with a commemorative postage stamp. Wu, who died in 1997 at 84, is the first Chinese American physicist, and third female physicist-the others are Maria Goeppert Mayer and Sally Ride-to be honored by the U.S. ![]() Now there is one more distinction to add to her legacy. Chien-Shiung Wu led a life of many firsts: the first female president of the American Physical Society, the first woman hired by Columbia Physics Department as a tenured faculty member, and the first living scientist to have an asteroid named in her honor. ![]()
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