We’re hard at work producing the next season of Lost Women of Science, but we wanted to bring you this special guest episode from Portraits, a podcast from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu was a towering figure in science whose parity experiment shattered our understanding of the physical world. She enjoyed rockstar status in China, met the pope, inspired an opera and even became a “Jeopardy!” question. But to Jada Yuan, she was grandma.
See the portraits discussed in the episode:
Dr. Wu in the lab)
Tsung-Dao Lee), Nobel Laureate
Chen-Ning Yang), Nobel Laureate
Dr. Wu on the forever stamp)
Also, check out Jada Yuan’s article about her grandmother here)!
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