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57, while at Columbia University, she disproved the law of conservation of parity which had been one of the basic assumptions in physics. She devised the experiment which confirmed a theory proposed by Drs. T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang. Lee and Yang received the Nobel Prize for their work but not Chien Shiung Wu. She was, however, given many other honors, including the Comstock Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 1964. She was the