On this day, 28 years ago, on February 16, 1997 (January 10, 1997 in the lunar calendar), the famous experimental physicist Ms. Wu Jianxian passed away. On February 16, 1997, Wu Jianxiong, a famous experimental physicist, foreign academician of China Academy of Sciences, and Chinese-American professor at the University of Colombia, died unfortunately on February 16, 1997 due to another stroke. She was 85 years old. Wu Jianxiong was born in Liuhe Town, Taicang County, Jiangsu Province, China on May 31, 1912. He went to the United States to study in 1936. He received a doctorate from the University of California in 1940, and later received a doctorate in science from famous universities such as Princeton, Yale and Harvard in the United States. She has long been engaged in scientific experiments and studied atomic physics, and has achieved outstanding achievements. She once participated in the Manhattan Project and worked with Okheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb." In 1956, she took the lead in confirming the theoretical hypothesis put forward by Zhenning Yang and Zhengdao Lee in a rather precise and difficult experiment, making Yang and Li the first two people to win the Nobel Prize. People from China, she broke the century-old tradition of Princeton University and became the first female president in the history of the American Physical Society. She has won almost all awards except the Nobel Prize and is a legendary figure admired by many Nobel Prize winners. She has won 16 honorary doctorates. Wu Jianxiong was concerned about the development of China's scientific and technological undertakings during his lifetime. Since 1973, she has visited relatives and given lectures in China many times. In 1982, she was recruited as an honorary professor at Peking University and Nanjing University. In 1992, she established Wu Jianxian Laboratory at Southeast University. In 1994, he was elected as one of the first foreign academicians of China Academy of Sciences. In accordance with her own wishes during her lifetime, Professor Wu's ashes will be placed in her hometown of Liuhe Town, Taicang, Jiangsu, China. Deng Xiaoping received Wu Jianxiong and his wife