他老爹的两次英明决定：一是当年让她一个女孩上学，二是让她别回去，要不然就很可能像家里其它人一样，在政治运动中死于非命。
美国政府机构网站：https://www.nps.gov/people/dr-chien-shiung-wu-the-first-lady-of-physics.htm
Once communications with China were restored after World War II, Wu received a letter from her family. She was making plans to visit them when the Chinese Civil War started, and her travel was put on hold. Later, her father told her not to return to Communist China. She was not able to return to China until 1973. By then, her parents had died and their tombs destroyed. Both her uncle and brother were also gone, killed in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
She was not able to return to China until 1973. By then, her parents had died and their tombs destroyed. Both her uncle and brother were also gone, killed in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Dr. Wu received many honors during her career. These include being only the seventh woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1958); the Comstock Prize in Physics given by the National Academy of Sciences; the first woman to be president of the American Physical Society (1975); the first person to receive the Wolf Prize in Physics (1978); and the first honorary doctorate awarded by Princeton University to a woman.
著名已故华裔核物理学家吴健雄的头像将被印在明年美国邮政最新发行的邮票上。
“真正令人兴奋的消息：我的祖母，吴健雄博士，将会出现在美国邮政的永久邮票上。”吴健雄的孙女Jada Yuan日前兴奋地表示，“她是一名核物理学家，帮助推翻了一项基本的自然法则，并改变了一个由男性主导的领域。我们很感激这个荣誉。”
吴健雄生于江苏省苏州太仓浏河镇，曾参与曼克顿原子弹计画，其间她参与如何利用气体扩散法分离铀的两种同位素（铀-235与铀-238）的研究。她最著名的一项科研成果是以实验验证了宇称不守恒，这项工作令李政道和杨振宁获得一九五七年的诺贝尔物理学奖。
吴健雄一九九七年二月十六日因中风去世，享年八十四岁。