Sau Lan Wu

Sau Lan Yu Wu (* 1940 in Hong Kong ) is an American particle physicist . She is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

Life

Wu received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1963 . In 1964 she received her master’s degree from Harvard University , from which she received her doctorate in 1970. From 1970 to 1972 she was at DESY , from 1972 to 1975 at Brookhaven National Laboratory , from 1975 to 1977 at CERN and from 1977 to 1985 again at DESY. From 1972 to 1977 she was also at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1977 she became an assistant professor and later professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been doing research at CERN since 1986, where she is part of the Atlas collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider and was involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson .

She was part of Samuel CC Ting's team who discovered the J / Psi particle in 1974 . In 1995 she received the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the EPS with Paul Söding , Bjørn Wiik and Günter Wolf for the discovery of 3- jet events at DESY, indications of the gluon . In 1980 she received an Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the DOE (Department of Energy).

Sau Lan Wu is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1992) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996). She is married to Harvard physics professor Tai Tsun Wu .

↑ Place of birth and career dates according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004