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TIL that Chien-Shiung Wu, a Chinese-American physicist, made critical contributions to the Manhattan Project during World War 2. Her experiments disproving the law of conservation of parity in weak nuclear interactions, known as the "Wu experiment," earned her the nickname "the First Lady of Physics

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