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Overlooked for the Nobel: Chien-Shiung Wu

02 Oct 2020 Hamish Johnston

The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced on Tuesday 6 October. In the run-up to the announcement, Physics World editors have picked some of the people who they think have been overlooked for a prize in the past

Chien-Shiung Wu
Overlooked: Chien-Shiung Wu in 1963 at Columbia University. (Courtesy: Smithsonian Institution)
The 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee “for their pen

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