Talk:Chien-Shiung Wu/GA1

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Reviewer: Ostrichyearning (talk · contribs) 22:07, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can review this article. Ostrichyearning (talk) 22:07, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mostly seems quite readable and coherent, but here a few comments.

"... who made significant contributions in the research of radioactivity." - would nuclear physics better describe what she did?
Done Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Ying-Shiung-Hao-Jie (heroes and outstanding figures)." - it's not entirely clear what this means.
Y Re-phrased. See if it makes more sense now. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"nominally enforced" - was she allowed to not take this year?
My source says "not quite enforced". It seems that they found some way around the regulations. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think the Chinese name of the Public School of China is necessary - it won't mean anything for the vast majority of readers.
Y Switched to an inter-language link. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Wu was elected as one ... were met by Chiang Kai-shek." - this bit is a little unclear in places.
Y Trimmed this to make it clearer. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Segrè then remembered the work..." - where has Segrè come from here?
Y Three paragraphs up: Although Lawrence was officially her supervisor, she also worked closely with Emilio Segrè Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
My thought was that Segrè last appeared four years ago, at Berkeley, and there is no mention of the fact that he is now working at the SAM Laboratories.

Is there any indication as to why she was called the Dragon Lady?
As the Dragon Lady article points out, it is almost inevitable sobriquet for a strong-willed Asian woman. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:32, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"In her research, Wu continued to investigate beta decay." - it's not immediately clear that this is after the war.
Y Added "post-war" to clarify this. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:32, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This article seems to use "Law of Conservation of Parity" (upper case), except in the introduction. Reading around, it seems to be that "law of conservation of energy" and "law of conservation of momentum" don't seem to be capitalised - any thoughts on this?
Y Decapitalised it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:32, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
A brief explanation of conservation of parity within the article would be nice (perhaps just why it was believed to exist?)
Y Added. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:32, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"If parity is not conserved in weak force interaction, what about charge conjugation?" - this rhetorical question doesn't seem to follow from previously. The rest of this paragraph is also a bit unclear - the "universal form of Fermi's beta decay model" isn't explained.
Y added some explanation. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:32, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Did she receive the offer for Berkeley before deciding to not study at Michigan? The chronology of the first 2 paragraphs of Berkeley could do with some clarification with regard to the times at which things happen.
Done Re-worked the two paragraphs to make this clear. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:54, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Other than this, looks good on reading again. Ostrichyearning (talk) 13:30, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Seems all fine, good to pass. Ostrichyearning (talk) 21:43, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]