A most heartwarming tale, if you have time to read it. A few excerpts: "The Manhattan Project Physicist Who Fought for Equal Rights for Women" From an early age, nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu had to travel in order to learn: first 50 miles, then 150—and eventually, to the other side of the world. She was born in 1912 in a small town in Jiangsu province, in eastern China, to parents who, unusually for the time, believed in educating girls. Even more unusually, they set up a school to do so. By the time she was 11, their daughter had outgrown what they could teach, and so they sent her out on her first journey: to a girls’ boarding school in Suzhou, 50 miles away. When it became clear that Wu was an exceptional student, she kept going further in order to learn: first to National Central University in Nanjing, and then on to the prestigious Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, where she began postgraduate work in physics. In 1936, when she was 24, Wu sailed from China to America to continue her studies. "The following summer, years of Japanese intrusion into China erupted into war, a conflict that would soon bleed into World War II. Wu was cut off from news of her family. The reports that arrived from her home province were horrific, but there was nothing for Wu to do but work and wait. In the end, although her family would survive the war, the arrival of Communist rule in 1949 made it impossible for Wu to travel home, and she never saw her parents alive again." "But the world she graduated into, on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attacks, was rife with sexism and anti-Asian racism, and Wu found it hard to find a good academic position." https://www.yahoo.com/news/manhattan-project-physicist-fought-equal-140028780.html