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Yi-Feng Wu

Yi-Feng Wu was the father of the school founder Zhong-Yi WuZhong-Yi WuZhong-Yi Wu (1888–1959) was a Chinese school founder who studied at the Nanyang Public School in Shanghai, took part in the political activities around the 1911 revolution and in 1913 founded and headed the Ming De School for girls in Liuhe, Taicang, Jiangsu. He was the father of the physicist Chien-Shiung Wu.Open the full entry and the grandfather of the physicist Chien-Shiung WuChien-Shiung WuChien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997) was a Chinese-born American experimental physicist who spent most of her career at Columbia University and worked on the Manhattan Project. Her cobalt-60 beta-decay experiment of 1956–1957, carried out with collaborators, provided the first experimental proof that parity is not conserved in weak interactions.Open the full entry.

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Examination Degree

The National Academy of Sciences memoir states that he had been a junior scholar in China’s civil service examination system. Grace Yen Shen’s article in the Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology states that Zhong-Yi Wu was the son of a xiucai, a holder of the junior degree.⁠[1][2]

Attitude Toward His Granddaughter

The National Academy of Sciences memoir states that he was at first more interested in his male heirs but soon recognized his granddaughter Chien-Shiung Wu’s vivid imagination and great intelligence and stimulated and supported her curiosity.⁠[1]

Name

The National Academy of Sciences memoir gives his name as Yi-Feng Wu, and the American Institute of Physics’ record on Chien-Shiung Wu lists him as her grandfather under the form Wu, Yi-Feng.⁠[1][3]

Sources

  1. Chien-Shiung Wu, 1912–1997: A Biographical Memoir (opens in a new window)
  2. Women and the Transnational Dynamics of Science Education in Early Twentieth Century China: A Quiet Revolution (opens in a new window)
  3. Wu, C. S. (Chien-shiung), 1912-1997 (opens in a new window)