Chinese American physicist Wu worked on the Manhattan Project and performed groundbreaking experiments throughout her long career.
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Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the discoverer of nuclear fission.
Alongside their famous dangers, radioactive materials have many beneficial uses. With as many more predicted as have already been discovered, nuclear physicists are searching for more isotopes.
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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