Chien-Shiung Wu was born on May 31, 1912, to Fanhua Fan and Zhong-Yi Wu. Born in a small village near Shanghai, there were not many resources for female education. Zhong-Yi was an engineer who believed in gender-equality and created his own school to teach Chien-Shiung. Chien-Shiung graduated top of her class in 1929 and attended National Central University to earn her undergraduate degree in physics in 1934. Later she attended the University of California at Berkley to get her Ph. D. in 1940. Chien-Shiung was the first female to be hired as a faculty member by Princeton’s physics department, where she worked to improve Geiger counters and develop methods of large-quantity uranium enrichment. The Conservation of Parity law that Chien-Shiung Wu developed states that all objects and their mirror images behave the same way, but with the left hand and right hand reversed. She worked for gender equality and spoke out against governments for “repressing the voices of the people.” Her awards include Scientist of the Year, the National Academy of Sciences Cyrus B. Comstock Award in 1964, the Bonner Prize, and many more. She is known as the First Lady of Physics and the Queen of Nuclear Research. Though her team in the Manhattan project received a Nobel Prize she never received credit for the work that she did.