The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways
We\u2019re 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\u2019s 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 \u201cJeopardy!\u201d question. But to Jada Yuan, she was grandma.
\n\nSee the portraits discussed in the episode:
\n\n\n\nTsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Laureate
\n\nChen-Ning Yang, Nobel Laureate
\n\n\n\nAlso, check out Jada Yuan\u2019s article about her grandmother here!