The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways
Lost Women of Science
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The Manhattan Project - A Woman's Journey
Dr Chen Chang Wu was a nuclear physicist who knocked the scientific world sideways with her parody experiment. Jada Yuan wanted to reconcile this towering figure with the petite grey-haired woman she actually remembered. To Jada, Dr Wu was not so much a world-renowned scientist as the woman who welcomed her into her upper west side apartment in New York and wouldn't stop feeding her. It's where my grandmother taught me how to use chopsticks.
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