On November 11, 2021, 67 will issue a commemorative stamp in honor of the famous Chinese physicist Wu Jianxiong. This is a rare honor. Famous scientists such as Albert Einstein, Fermi, and Feynman all received the same treatment. In the unveiled stamp design, Wu Jianxiong, dressed in traditional Hanfu, is radiant and amiable, and his deep and wise eyes seem to be still exploring the infinite mysteries of the world of nuclear physics.
Critics have called Wu "one of the most influential nuclear physicists of the 20th century" and he has also been called "Marie Curie of the East."
When it comes to Gusu women, most people think of the gentleness and thickness of Jiangnan. Dressed in classical cheongsam and holding ancient books, they strolled through the gardens and bluestone roads, chanting softly and gentlely.
Wu Jianxiong, a legendary female scientist known as the "Lady Curie of the East", was born here.
She has many titles, and has been known as the "mother of the atomic bomb", "queen of nuclear physics", "first lady of physics" and so on. She is very famous all over the world, and even to some extent, she has promoted world history.
In China, her name appears far less frequently than lin, Zhang Ailing and others, and many Chinese have a deep misunderstanding of her. Why?
Among these scientists, Wu Jianxiong, it is a delicate flower. People are not only beautiful but also very strong. But because of her nationality, she has been controversial all her life. Although she is not very famous in China, she has won all the awards abroad except for the Nobel Prize.
In the scientific community, the world of matter that can be observed with the naked eye and microscopy is called the "macroscopic world", and vice versa, it is called the "microscopic world". The law of conservation of cosmology means that many particles in the microscopic world operate according to certain rules. But two young physicists doubted the correctness of the theory. Yes, it was Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao.
To prove this conjecture, you have to experiment. It is easier to see flowers than to embroider. Wuhan did not dare to try for a few days and nights. So Yang and Li went to the already famous help with a clear purpose, asking her to design an experiment to prove this conjecture.
At this time, Wu Jianxiong was planning to go to Geneva with her husband for a meeting, and then return to his hometown after many years of absence at 20 yuan. Thinking about it, Wu Jianxiong still felt that this experiment was particularly challenging and must seize the opportunity. In the end, she decided to stay.
For the real danger, Wu Jianxiong only slept three or four hours a day. Because Columbia's instruments were not advanced enough, she had to go to the laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., to do experiments. Running back and forth every day, Wu Jianxiong's spirit has always been in a state of high tension.
But even the smallest stone can cause ripples, and Wu Jianxiong is this ripple.
When Wu jianxiong was preparing to go to Geneva for an international conference on high-energy physics, Lee Zhengdao found her.
Lee Wentong-do sought out Wu Jianxiong because he thought Wu Jianxiong was very spiritual in his experiments.
He and Yang Zhenning are using experiments to prove that the obstacle of "cosmic non-conservation" has encountered a bottleneck, hoping to get the support and help of Wu Jianxiong.
Wu Jianxiong was very interested in this hypothesis and did not hesitate to decide to stay and organize the personnel to conduct experiments.
If this hypothesis holds, we must find a way to prove it.
Before Yang and Li proposed this hypothesis, a lot of experiments had been done on β decay.
She decided to try β decay experiment to argue for day and night in The Idea of Non-Conservation in Wuhan.
She is recognized by the world's scientific community as one of the world's most outstanding experimental physicists. She has received many awards of worldwide impact, such as the National Medal of Science in 1975; 1986 Alice Island Honor Award; 1991 Puping Commemorative Medal; 1978 Wolf Prize (Physics).
The first of these awards is the highest science award in the United States, also known as the President's Medal of Science, which is equivalent to China's highest national science and technology award; The second is that the United States is the highest award for immigrant contributions. The United States is a nation of immigrants, and it is a great honor to receive this honor. The third is the award representing the highest honor of science and technology; The fourth is the Nobel Prize, which is dedicated to those who reach the level of the Nobel Prize but fail. The prize money exceeded the Nobel Prize, and Wu Jianxiong was the first winner after the establishment of the award.
She held important positions in many top scientific institutions throughout her life, including: Professor at Columbia University, the first Chinese-American member of the American Academy of Sciences, the first female president of the American Physical Society, and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. For her outstanding contributions in many fields, she has been known as the "Queen of Nuclear Physics", "The First Lady of Physics", and "Marie Curie of the East". The Purple Mountain Observatory in China named an asteroid with the international number 2752 "Wu Jianxiong Star".
Interestingly, the physicist, known for verifying that cosmology is not conserved, has finally broken the inequality of gender and race in front of the world. The world may not be conserved, but man and man must be equal.