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The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways

Lost Women of Science

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The Occidental Woman in the Bay Area

Ms Wu, or more appropriately Dr Wu, looks as though she might be an actress or an artist or a daughter of wealth in search of occidental culture. She could be quiet and shy in front of the strangers, but very confident and alert in front of physicists and graduate students. This idea of her always being described as beautiful too, this sort of exotic Asian woman. And maybe that was the first thing they saw and then they learned how sort of fierce she was.

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