Sau lan wu biography sampler
Sau Lan Wu is a Chinese American particle physicist..
A biography of Professor Sau Lan Wu was included as the cover story in a recent issue of the AIP History Newsletter (see pages ).
Meet Sau Lan Wu, the physicist who helped discover three fundamental particles
Sau Lan Wu lives in Geneva and works at CERN, where she uses the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, to search for the smallest building blocks of the universe.
Her work at CERN contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of 17 fundamental particles.
Fundamental particles (also called elementary particles) are indivisible and have no internal structure. They make up the matter and elements – the "stuff" – of the universe, from the socks on your feet to the boiling hot alloys in the center of the earth to the stars and planets of distant galaxies.
You're probably familiar with the atom, which was long thought to be indivisible.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, scientists discovered the electron and proton, the atom's constituent parts. Starting in the 1960s, scientists began to believe that protons could be broken down even further
