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Chien-Shiung Wu

Chien-Shiung Wu

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“Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American experimental physicist known for her groundbreaking work in nuclear physics and beta decay. She is especially famous for the Wu experiment, which helped overturn the law of conservation of parity in weak interactions.”

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The manifesto · 13 principles
  1. Let excellence and integrity guide your life, even when recognition comes slowly or not at all.
  2. Accept that science advances through patience, collaboration, and the willingness to revise one’s beliefs.
  3. Be humble before nature: the universe is more complex than our theories, and reality should have the final word.
  4. Stand for fairness and equal opportunity, especially for women and other underrepresented people in science.
  5. Believe that talent should be judged by merit, not by gender, nationality, or social background.
  6. Respect the power of education and lifelong learning as the foundation of scientific and personal growth.
  7. Use your abilities to contribute to knowledge that benefits everyone, not just yourself.
  8. Be courageous in the face of doubt, skepticism, or exclusion, and keep going anyway.
  9. Maintain high standards and pay attention to detail, because small errors can change the meaning of an experiment.
  10. Value hard work over self-promotion; let the quality of the work speak for itself.
  11. Work with persistence and discipline, especially when the problem is difficult or the path is slow.
  12. Do not accept established ideas uncritically; test assumptions and be willing to overturn them when the facts demand it.
  13. Pursue truth through careful experiment, precise measurement, and rigorous evidence.