A landmark discovery by a particle physicist in the 1950’s changed everything we knew about the universe. Chien-Shiung Wu made it all while raising her family and living across the ocean from her Chinese relatives. Short Wave’s Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber joins host Emily Kwong to talk about that landmark discoveryaEUR”what it meant for the physics world, and what it means to Regina personally as a woman and a Chinese and Mexican American in physics. Send an email to shortwave@npr.org
