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New postage stamp honors Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing nuclear physicist

By Xuejian Wu, Assistant Professor of Physics, Rutgers University - Newark

On Feb. 11, 2021, the sixth International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service will issue a new Forever stamp to honor Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the most influential nuclear physicists of the 20th century.

A Chinese American woman, Wu performed experiments that tested the fundamental laws of physics. In a male-dominated field, she won many honors and awards, including the

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