This month Chien-Shiung Wu died of a stroke in New York City. Wu has done much for the scientific community, including working on the Manhattan project, her famous Wu experiment and battling gender bias. Let’s take a moment to reflect on the life of Chien-Shiung Wu.
Wu was born on May 31, 1912 in Liu Ho, China. Her father was an engineer turned teacher and an advocate for education. Wu first attended her fathers school than attended a teacher training program. While there she taught herself physics, chemistry and mathematics due to the lack of science courses. She graduated as valedictorian.
Afterwards Wu attended the National Central University in Nanjing where she started as a math major. She soon realized that physics were her passion and switched majors.
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Her original plan was to quickly acquire her doctorate from the University of Michigan and return to China, but that didn’t happen. Wu instead attended the University of California at Berkeley and received her doctorate in physics in 1940. She was immediately established as an expert in nuclear fission due to her work and studies.
Although she was clearly well achieved at Berkeley, because of the gender bias she was not offered a position. In 1942 Wu moved to the east coast with her husband Luke Yuan, where she worked as a teacher at Smith College in Massachusetts. Wu wanted to continue her research and due to World War II was able to. Since there was a shortage of Physicists because of the war the gender bias lessened and Wu received offers from many colleges. She accepted a position at Princeton and became the school’s first female instructor.
Soon after Wu started at Princeton she was recruited by the Columbia University’s Division of War Research to work on the Manhattan project. While there she solved a problem that stumped the scientist Enrico Fermi and developed a process to produce large quantities of uranium fuel from uranium
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... an excellent teacher who inspired all of her students, even if they were undergraduates, with her huge love for mathematics. Aware of the difficulties of women being mathematicians, seven women under her direction received doctorates at Bryn Mawr. Anna took her students to mathematical meetings oftenly. She also urged the women to participate on an equal professional level with men. She had great enthusiasm to teach all she knew about mathematics. She loved learning all she could about mathematics. Anna was a big contributor to mathematics. Anna was gifted in this department. She spent most of her life trying to achieve her accomplishments. She truly is a hero to women. She achieved all of these accomplishments when women mathematicians were very uncommon. She deserved all the awards and achievements she won. Judy Green and Jeanne Laduke, science historians, stated,
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There may been times when people have been treated unfairly, just because of their appearance or their social life.
The same year Barbara graduated from Radcliffe she had the opportunity to travel with her grandfather to the World Economic Conference in London in 1933, soon after she started working as a research assistant at the Institute of Pacific Relations in New York and Tokyo.
Ai Weiwei was born during the Cultural Revolution in China of 1950s, he inherited a lot of his political knowledge from his father who was a poet called Ai Quig. Ai Quig was then later exiled with his family to re-education camps on the out reaches of a desert in 1958 for questioning government authority. After the Cultural Revolution, Chinese citizens were allowed to travel outside their borders again in 1970s. As a young man, the place that Ai Weiwei dreamed about going to was New York. He went to New York and was exposed to its western influences, its liberty and freedom of expression (Springford, 2011).Using photography Weiwei recorded and documented everything that inspired him. Weiwei visited galleries and art museums that exposed him to the world of conceptual art, becoming influenced by Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. Ai Weiwei admired the ways of artists who could simply proclaim what was art and what wasn’t art, how Duchamp questioned art and when something gets to be art (Springford, 2011).Ai Weiwei came back to China in 1993 to take care of his sick father, and found himself drawn to his responsibility as an artist, to take the task of re-awakening his country through his art and to expose his thoughts on the corrupt and controlling nature of China’s government (Philipson,2012). Ai Weiwei has always been an outspoken artist. In the course of his art making, Weiwei has used a form of activism in his art, with political ideologies that exist because of the Chinese government. He also uses a sense of memory and the countrys past and history. Most of his art involves the public and their outlook of the government. Weiwei requests engagement from the public as a show of protest in his artworks (Harris & Zucker, 2009). When...
Since girls were not permitted to attend any college preparatory schools, she decided to go to a general finishing school. There she studied and became certified to teach English and French. Soon after she altered her mind and decided that she wanted to pursue an education in mathematics. In 1904 Erlangen University accepted Emmy as one of the first female college students. In 1907 she received a Ph.D. in mathematics from this University. From 1908 to 1915 she worked at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen without getting compensated or titled. The only reason she was permitted to work there was because she was helping her dad out by lecturing for his class when he was out sick. During these years she worked with Algebraist Ernst Otto Fisher and also started to work on theoretical algebra, which would make her a known mathematician in the future. She started working at the mathematical Institute in Göttingen and started to assist with Einstein’s general relativity theory. In 1918 she ended up proving two theorems which were a fundamental need f...
After being taken by the Germans convinced others that they still had the lead in developing a fission weapon. It all started with the “Hungarian conspiracy” that had everyone convinced that the creation of a nuclear bomb was possible, but that the German government was already doing research in this field of study on such a weapon. To the rest of the world, the thought of Adolf Hitler might be the first to gain control of a weapon this destructive would be terrifying to the United States. Right, then they decided that the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt must be warned about the dangers and that the United States must begin its research department. As the planned gave way, Einstein was to write a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt about the possibilities and dangers of the atomic weapons, and later was taken to the president.
1. According to an article titled, “The South and Black and White, by the website www.quizlet.com/the-south-and-black-and-white In 1949, she graduated from Spelman College with a Master’s degree. A year later, she got her first job as a schoolteacher.
She had many struggles trying to receive higher education because of the restrictions women had when it came to furthering ones education. But after many attempts, she was able to study with the great German mathematician Karl Weierstrass. She worked with him for the next four years and then in 1874, received her doctorate. By this time, she had published numerous original papers in the field of higher mathematical analysis and applications to astronomy and physics. But despite all her attempts, and brilliance, she was still a woman in her time period, and therefore unable to find a job in academia. Weierstrass had tried helping her find a job because he was astonished with her abilities and intellectual capacity, but had no luck because after all, she was still a woman.
... got an honorary doctorate degree that made her the second woman of the African American descent to receive such an award. Along with these accomplishments, she was a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics as well as the American Association of University Women.(physics)
In 1939 rumor came to the U.S. that Germans had split the atom. The threat of the Nazis developing a nuclear weapon prompted President Roosevelt to establish The Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer set up a research lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico and brought the best minds in physics to work on the problem of creating a nuclear weapon. Although most the research and development was done in Los Alamos, there were over 30 other research locations throughout the project. After watching the first nuclear bomb test Oppenheimer was quoted as saying simply “It works.”.
Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 in Brooklyn; in 1942 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton. Already displaying his brilliance, Feynman played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb through his work in the Manhattan Project. In 1945 he became a physics teacher at Cornell University, and in 1950 he became a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He, along with Sin-Itero and Julian Schwinger, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in the field of quantum electrodynamics.
Her father was a distinguished math professor at the universities of Heidelberg and Erlangen, and her brother Fritz won some renown as an applied mathematician.” (agnesscott.edu) Emmy, as she was known throughout her life, started out studying English, French and piano — subjects more socially acceptable for a girl — but her interests soon turned to math. The University of Erlangen, where her brother studied, wouldn’t accept girls to take any classes. She simply audited all the courses, and ended up doing so well on her final exams that she was granted the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree. “In 1915 Einstein published his general theory of relativity.”
In 1949, China finally accomplished peace after struggling decades in chaos as a newly formed united nation. Fortunately, Zhongqiu was able to receive education again. However, due to constantly moving from one place to another during war time, he did not have a chance to continue his study in primary school. So when he re-entered primary