'Your real successes are what you do yourself, not based on someone else,” he said. Otherwise, he has rarely mentioned his connection to colleagues, not wanting to ride on his mother's fame. A number of years ago, he gave a talk about his mother at a LANL Atomic Women meeting. Yuan currently works in the Applied and Fundamental Physics group. She applied that to her work and to her students.”

It was the embodiment of all the qualities she believed in: hard work and not sweeping problems under the rug and seeing the bigger picture of things. “Like anybody, you’re proud of your mother. ‘We’re very honored,” said Yuan, also a physicist. Wu's family is delighted to see her smiling face on a postage stamp. A recent article in Science Magazine, “Postage stamp to honor female physicist who many say should have won the Nobel Prize,” offers a fascinating backstory on that. Her demonstration of a fundamental law of physics - the effect called parity violation - was her most notable work, but did not get her the Nobel Prize. She received the National Medal of Science in 1975 and many other awards during her career.

Wu, who died in 1997 at age 84, is remembered for her pioneering contributions to the field of nuclear physics, beginning with the Manhattan Project, and the influential positions she held as a woman in science. As well, she donned a host of celebrity nicknames such as 'First Lady of Physics' and 'Madame Wu' in a hat tip to Madame Marie Curie. ( WATCH the commemoration video Yuan appears at 6:35 minutes.)Ĭhien-Shiung Wu was married to physicist Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, but she always went by “Professor Wu” at Columbia University instead of using her husband's surname. In the video, Yuan recalls how dismayed his mother was that opportunities for women in science were so limited, preventing them from having the same ambitions and hopes as men. It’s also the stunning portrait of his mother, a Chinese-born American physicist. Postal Service video that unveils the stunning portrait on the stamp. Vincent “Vinny” Yuan, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist, appears in a U.S. 11, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The Chien-Shiung Wu Commemorative Forever Stamp was issued on Feb. It makes no sense to me what their objective is here and they won't take the time to explain it to me either.Nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu won many awards, including the National Medal of Science in 1975, but missed out on a Nobel Prize My shop does over $100K in sales yearly, but I no longer feel comfortable with being able to serve my customers from a dependable retail outlet with my Etsy shop anymore when they start deactivating listings of stamps I sold just the previous day. What they are accomplishing is frustrating legitimate, long time dealers such as myself who have been on Etsy for 15 years to leave and sell their inventory elsewhere. The first 10 pages of the search show hundreds of listings for Forever stamps in lots of 100 selling for less than half the face value at the post office so if this is an attempt by Etsy to stem the issue with the counterfeit/fakes it isn't working. Why the selective enforcement?Īlso noticed that there is no slowdown in the amount of listings for counterfeit Forever stamps when you do a search for Forever stamps. Bush Forever Stamp Now available for preorder, the George H.W.

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