Sau Lan Wu
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Sau Lan Wu (Chinese: 吳秀蘭; born Hong Kong in the early 1940s) is a Chinese American particle physicist and the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She made important contributions towards the discovery of the J/psi particle, which provided experimental evidence for the existence of the charm quark, and the gluon, the vector boson of the strong force in the Standard Model of physics.[1] Recently, her team located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), using data collected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), was part of the international effort in the discovery of a boson consistent with the Higgs boson.[2]
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吳秀蘭 | |
Born | Early 1940s |
Other names | 吴秀兰 |
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Alma mater | Vassar College |
Scientific career | |
Fields | particle physics |
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Thesis | Proton Compton scattering at high energies near the forward direction (1970) |