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Tu Youyou shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. Claudio Bresciani/AFP via Getty Images

March 4, 2022

Women’s History Month: 5 groundbreaking researchers who mapped the ocean floor, tested atomic theories, vanquished malaria and more

Discover the stories of five trailblazing women – Tharp, Nice, Tu, Noether and Wu – who worked in STEM during the 20th century.

Fire a set of high-power lasers at a tiny speck of hydrogen isotopes and you can initiate nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun. National Ignition Facility

May 17, 2021

How much energy can people create at one time without losing control?

Xuejian Wu, Rutgers University - Newark

Scientists are working on ways to make lots of energy by converting matter into energy. The trick is keeping the process under control. One possibility is nuclear fusion – the Sun’s power source.

Les expériences de Chien-Shiung Wu ont permis de vérifier certaines des avancées théoriques majeures de la physique du XXe siècle, de la radioactivité à la physique quantique. Bettmann via Getty Images

March 2, 2021

Femmes pionnières : Chien‑Shiung Wu, des expériences pour tester la physique nucléaire

Xuejian Wu, Rutgers University - Newark

La physicienne sino-américaine a travaillé sur le Projet Manhattan et mené des expériences novatrices durant sa longue carrière.

Chien-Shiung Wu’s experiments were instrumental in supporting some of the biggest 20th-century theories in physics. Bettmann via Getty Images

March 1, 2021

New postage stamp honors Chien‑Shiung Wu, trailblazing nuclear physicist

Xuejian Wu, Rutgers University - Newark

Chinese American physicist Wu worked on the Manhattan Project and performed groundbreaking experiments throughout her long career.

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