The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways
Lost Women of Science
The Manhattan Project
Dr. Wu's grandmother worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. She got a job teaching naval students at Princeton because all of the male scientists had been recruited into the war effort. Even though China was also fighting for Japanese, Dr. Wu found herself caught up in a racist backlash.
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