Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997)Best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved. This discovery resulted in her colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang winning the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics, while Wu herself was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978.https://feeds.sherborne.org/images/physics/physicists/today/../img/Chien-Shiung%20Wu.jpg943