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The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways

Lost Women of Science

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Losing Women of Science

A year after Chen Chang Wu left for the United States, the Japanese army laid siege to Nanjing and massacred tens of thousands of Chinese civilians. Then came the Second World War, which hampered her ability to communicate with her family. Her plans to study at the University of Michigan went out the window. When we come back, how Dr Wu made her big bang on the other side of the Pacific?

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