Sau Lan Wu
early 1940s - Present
Personal Information
Born: early 1940s
Country of Birth: Hong Kong
Professional Life
Chinese/american particle physicist; 1974 she & her team discovered the "charm quark" which helped lead to the development of the Standard Model of particle physics; was part of the international effort in the discovery of a boson consistent with the Higgs boson; key contributions to the discovery of the gluon, a particle that binds or "glues" quarks together to form protons & neutrons