Which experiment confirmed Lee's work on parity violation?
Gold foil experiment
Double-slit experiment
Wu experiment
Millikan oil drop experiment
Answer
The Wu experiment, conducted by Chien-Shiung Wu in 1957, provided crucial confirmation of Theory of parity violation proposed by Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang. The experiment involved the beta decay of Cobalt-60 nuclei and demonstrated that the electrons emitted in the process exhibited a non-uniform distribution with respect to the nuclear spin, thus contradicting the prevailing assumption of parity conservation.
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