一九五七年一月九日。
在美國國家標準局的低溫實驗室裡。
一位來自中國江南小鎮的女科學家。
看著她的實驗數據。
她知道。
物理學將永遠改變。
吳健雄。
被稱為東方居里夫人。
是二十世紀最重要的實驗物理學家之一。
她的父親在那個年代告訴她。
女孩也可以學習科學。
這句話讓她走上了一條改變科學史的道路。
一九五六年。
兩位年輕的物理學家楊振寧和李政道。
提出了一個震驚物理學界的假說。
弱相互作用中宇稱可能不守恆。
他們找到了吳健雄。
請她用實驗來驗證這個假說。
吳健雄設計了一個在接近絕對零度下進行的精密實驗。
結果震驚了全世界。
宇稱果然不守恆。
自然界不是對稱的。
楊振寧和李政道獲得了諾貝爾物理學獎。
而做出決定性實驗的吳健雄沒有獲獎。
這成為科學史上最著名的爭議之一。
今天的沉思者J。
要帶你走進吳健雄的世界。
一個關於勇氣、堅持和對真理純粹熱愛的故事。
On January 9th, 1957, in a cryogenic laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards in the United States, a female scientist from a small town in southern China looked at her experimental data and knew that physics would never be the same again.
Wu Chien-Shiung, known as the Chinese Madame Curie, was one of the most important experimental physicists of the twentieth century. Her father told her at a time when such ideas were radical that girls could study science too. Those words set her on a path that would change the history of science.
In 1956, two young physicists, Chen-Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, proposed a hypothesis that shook the physics world: parity might not be conserved in weak interactions. They turned to Wu Chien-Shiung to design the experiment that would test this idea.
Wu Chien-Shiung created an extraordinarily precise experiment conducted at temperatures near absolute zero. The results stunned the entire scientific world. Parity was indeed not conserved. Nature is not symmetric.
Yang and Lee went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Wu Chien-Shiung, who performed the definitive experiment, did not. This became one of the most famous controversies in the history of science.
Today on Thinker J, we take you into the world of Wu Chien-Shiung. A story of courage, perseverance, and a pure love of truth.
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