Stanley L. Ruby
His graduate research at Brookhaven Labs first looked to confirm one model for the mechanism of beta decay. Five years later, those results came into conflict with an emerging unified theory of the weak nuclear force. How and why did the experiment go wrong, and what was the role of physicist Chien-Shiung Wu in the chronology of events? Ruby went on to a successful career in the field of Mössbauer spectroscopy, while Wu polished her reputation as the world's greatest experimental physicist.
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