On the same day, Columbia University held an unprecedented press conference for this new discovery. The next day, The New York Times reported Wu Jianxiong's experimental results on the front page. After the news came out, scientists from all over the world flocked to the laboratory in Wu Jianxiong.
Wu Jianxiong was also invited by many universities and experimental institutions to talk about her experimental results. However, due to various reasons, Wu Jianxiong failed to win the Nobel Prize of 1957 with Dell. Many people think it is unfair to her, but she never responds.
I just wrote in my congratulatory letter to Steinberg, the Nobel Prize winner of 1988: "Although I have never done research work to win the prize, it still hurts me deeply when my work is neglected for some reason.
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Wu Jianxiong has made outstanding contributions to the development of modern physics in the world. When she was a doctor, she participated in the "Manhattan Project" to make atomic bombs, which solved the major problem that the chain reaction could not continue, and was called "the mother of atomic bombs".
She also verified the famous "parity non-conservation under weak interaction" and "conservation law of β decay vector flow", won honors, degrees and awards from governments and world-famous universities, and became a veritable "queen of world physics".
Wu Jianxiong's series of experiments on β change, especially the conservation law of nuclear β decay vector flow proved by 1963, proved for the first time in the history of physics that electromagnetic interaction is closely related to weak interaction, which played an important role in the formation of weak unified theory of electricity.
During the 65,438+00 years from the mid-1960s, Wu Jianxiong concentrated on the experimental work in the field of middle and high energy physics. He has published a large number of papers, many of which are creative and of high academic value.
The work in muon physics includes: determination of muon X-ray isotope shifts of Sn, Nd, W and other elements; Study on the hyperfine interaction between 209μ-atom X-ray magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moment: determination of nuclear gamma rays in nearly 10 μ-atom, etc.
The work of meson and antiproton physics mainly uses the powerful K-, σ-and particle streams generated by the alternating gradient synchrotron in Brookhaven National Laboratory, and uses the high-resolution Ge(Li) detector as a tool to accurately measure the mass and magnetic moment of these particles by the strange atom method.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wu Jianxiong (Chinese American female physicist)