Monday, June 25, 2012

Episode 14: Dame Physicists (ish)

Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu and The Harvard Computers




Special thanks to Bil Sanford for putting science into English for us.
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Further Reading:

Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu:
Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions by T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang; The Physical Review (October 1, 1956) 
Reversal of the Parity Conservation Law in Nuclear Physics prepared by Ralph P. Hudson.
Famed Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu Dies at 84 by Bob Nelson; The Columbia University Record. (1997)
Beta Decay and Quark-Antiquark Non-Parity in Collision-Induced Gravity by Gary C. Vezzoli; Progress in Physics. (April 2009)

The Harvard Computers
Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson (2005)

Music: Doris Day: Tic,Tic,Tic
Hum: Stars