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The Discovery of the Parity Violation in Weak Interactions and Its Recent Developments

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This address was presented by Chien-ShiungWu as the Nishina Memorial Lecture at the University of Tokyo, March 31, 1983

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Wu, CS. (2008). The Discovery of the Parity Violation in Weak Interactions and Its Recent Developments. In: Nishina Memorial Lectures. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 746. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-77056-5_4

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