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Chien-Shiung Wu in 1958. Asian Americans have made many notable contributions to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.. Chien-Shiung Wu was known to many scientists as the "First Lady of Physics" and played a pivotal role in experimentally demonstrating the violation of the law of conservation of parity in the field of particle physics.
Ahead of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, we're celebrating Asian Americans whose contributions to groundbreaking medical and technological advancements ...
From Dreams To Reality: A Tribute to Minority Inventors is a 1986 documentary featuring African-American actor, writer and director Ossie Davis. [1] It features several notable African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos who have made significant contributions to science, technology, and medicine. [2]
Michio Kaku (Japanese: カク ミチオ, 加來 道雄, / ˈ m iː tʃ i oʊ ˈ k ɑː k uː /; born January 24, 1947) is an American physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular-science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebrates the contributions and cultures of Asian Americans throughout the U.S. For activists, it's also a time to combat stereotypes and racism ...
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792). From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents [ 7 ] relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below.
Shien Biau Woo became the first Asian American statewide officer in the Northeast, when he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in 1984. Leana Wen, prominent Asian American and public health leader, currently Commissioner of Health in Baltimore. David Wu, first Taiwanese American U.S. Representative (D-OR) Lily Wu, mayor of Wichita, Kansas