Talk:Wu-Yang monopole

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[edit] Wu who?

This article said just "Wu and Yang"; no other names for them. So I look around the internet and found this reference to a book by Tai Tsun Wu and Chen Ning Yang. It's about monopoles, and it's the right era, so I went with it. Chen Ning Yang is a good link and looks like the right sort of person and the right timeline. Tai Tsun Wu is a red link. I see that Chen Ning Yang collaborated with Chien-Shiung Wu. Are these two Wus the same person? I am going with it, but leaving this note about my sloppy research. — Randall Bart 05:54, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I am quite convinced now that Tai Tsun Wu is a Harvard professor and author of many physics books, and not the same person as Chien-Shiung Wu. Still to be resolved, which Wu is the Wu-Yang monopole named for. — Randall Bart 19:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I am a physics grad student and I am very sure that Wu refers to Tai Tsun Wu, who is different from Chien-Shiung Wu (who did the experiment that demonstrated non-conservation of parity in weak interactions proposed by Lee and Yang). Heywoodt 21:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, that's the one. I added the reference to where they first published it. David 10:36, 28 February 2008 (UTC)