Hi, I am Ms. Yuan. Welcome to my site!
I am a first-gen immigrant from mainland China. I grew up in Nanjing, a modern town 300km from Shanghai (about a one-hour trip by Gaotie[the bullet trains]). Check out my family immigration map (in Mandarin). I am a Physics teacher based in the greater Los Angeles area. I am happy to share my thoughts and experiences as a science educator.
I was a software engineering working at Rakuten, Japan. I changed the course three years ago, but I still love coding and spending time writing tools to make my life easier.
My favorite physicist is Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, who designed the experiment and discovered the violation of parity conservation in beta decay. Unfortunately, her contributions were not recognized by the Nobel Prize committee, although the two male scientists who proposed the theory were awarded in 1957. Indeed, theoretical physicists won better reputations in the mid of 1950s, we still could not deny that being a female physicist was a factor why her efforts were ignored.
On Oct. 7, 2020, the Nobel in chemistry was awarded to two women (Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Dr. Jennifer A Doudna) in honor of their contributions to developing the CRISPR tool. I have been thinking of Dr. Wu when the news came out and feeling complicated. However, at the same time, I feel strong responsibility as a science educator to empower younger generations and enlighten the pathway to becoming future scientists.
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