"Beta decay was…like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it."
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Chien-Shiung Wu, In H. B. Newman and T. Ypsilantis (eds.) History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics (1996)
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