Chien-Shiung Wu was a groundbreaking Chinese American physicist who made several remarkable contributions to the study of physics during the span of her career and was the only woman in a top scientific role within the top-secret Manhattan Project. She did work integral to a study that later won the Nobel Prize - though she, in typical misogynistic fashion, was not honored alongside her male partners. Still, she continued to make huge strides for physics and women in STEM until her death, and is still celebrated as one of the great minds of physics.

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