Sau Lan Wu
Sau Lan Wu | |
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吳秀蘭 | |
Sau Lan Wu, October 2012 | |
| Born | May 11, 1940 |
| Other names | 吴秀兰 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle physics |
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| Thesis | Proton Compton scattering at high energies near the forward direction (1970) |
Sau Lan Wu (Chinese: 吳秀蘭; born May 11, 1940) 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. 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.