| 词条 | Sau Lan Wu |
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Early yearsWu was born in Hong Kong and went to Vassar College in 1960 with a full scholarship for her undergraduate degree. Initially she dreamed of becoming a painter, but was inspired by Marie Curie to devote her life to physics. During her years in Vassar, she spent a summer at Brookhaven National Laboratory where the science of particle physics captivated her.[3] Reminiscence of her years in Vassar, Wu relished the experience and recollected her adjustment to the American society and culture as a difficult but positive one. During her freshman year she and other Vassar students were invited to the White House for an Easter function and met Jacqueline Kennedy, a Vassar alumna (class of 51). She first experienced racial discrimination when visiting the Supreme Court and was confronted with the choice of ‘black’ or ‘white’ on the door to the restroom. Academic backgroundWu graduated from Vassar College (1963) with a B.A. in Physics. After earning an M.A. (1964) and a Ph.D. (1970) in Physics from Harvard University, she conducted research at MIT, DESY and the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics. Since 1986, Wu has been the Visiting Scientist at CERN conducting research with the LHC as part of the ATLAS team.[4] AchievementsJ/psiWu was part of the team led by Samuel C.C. Ting at MIT who discovered the J/psi particle in 1974,[4] for which Ting was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Burton Richter.[5] GluonWu was a key contributor to the discovery of gluon.[6] For her effort, Wu and her collaborators were awarded the 1995 European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize.[7] Higgs bosonWu is a team member working on the ATLAS particle detector, one of the two main detectors at CERN (the other one is CMS). Her team specializes in studying simulations of particle collisions that mimic the data that will be produced by the LHC based on current theories.[8] On 4 July 2012, CERN announced the discovery of a boson consistent with the predicted characters of Higgs boson.[2]{{dead link|date=August 2017}} More analysis is still required to definitively ascertain whether this Higgs-like boson is indeed the Higgs particle. As of 6 March 2013, the data analyzed points to the direction of positive identification. If confirmed, the discovery will complete the Standard Model of particle physics which explains the visible Universe.[9] Honors
Personal lifeWu lives in Geneva and conducts research in CERN. She is married to Tai Tsun Wu of Harvard University.[4] References1. ^{{cite book |author1=S. Braibant |author2=G. Giacomelli |author3=M. Spurio |year=2009 |title=Particles and Fundamental Interactions: An Introduction to Particle Physics |url=https://books.google.com/?id=0Pp-f0G9_9sC&pg=PA314 |pages=313–314 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-94-007-2463-1}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.atlas.ch/news/2012/atlas-and-the-higgs.html|title=ATLAS and the Higgs|publisher=CERN|date=October 2012|accessdate=6 March 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215192435/http://www.atlas.ch/news/2012/atlas-and-the-higgs.html|archivedate=15 February 2013|df=}} 3. ^{{cite web|url= http://vq.vassar.edu/issues/2003/03/beyond-vassar/charmed-life.html|title=A Charmed Life|author=Dawson, Lindsay|publisher=Vassar Alumnae Quarterly|date=Summer 2003|accessdate=16 January 2013}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url= http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Wu,_Sau_Lan@892345678.html|title=Sau Lan Wu|author=Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics at UCLA|date=16 March 2001|accessdate=16 January 2013}} 5. ^{{cite web|url= https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1976/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976|publisher=Nobel Prize|accessdate=6 March 2013}} 6. ^{{cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=John|title=Those were the days: discovering the gluon|journal=CERN Courier|date=July 2009|volume=49|issue=6|pages=15–17|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1734399}} 7. ^{{cite web|url= http://eps-hepp.web.cern.ch/eps-hepp/hepp-prize-awards.php|title=The High Energy and Particle Physics Prizes|publisher=European Physical Society|accessdate=6 March 2013}} 8. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.news.wisc.edu/on-wisconsin/heart-of-the-matter/|title=Heart of the Matter|author=Sakai, Jill|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison|accessdate=6 March 2013}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://public.web.cern.ch/public/|title=A question of spin for the new boson|publisher=CERN|date=6 March 2013|accessdate=6 March 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206235458/http://public.web.cern.ch/public/|archivedate=6 December 2012|df=}} External links
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