A University of California at Berkeley trained physicist nicknamed the Queen of Nuclear Research is being honored with a U.S. Postal Service stamp, university officials recently announced.

Chien-Shiung Wu earned a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in physics in 1940 and went on to teach at Columbia and Princeton universities before her death in 1997.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.