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The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways

Lost Women of Science

CHAPTER

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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