Chien-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, spent her career fighting for gender equality in science

• Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese physicist who was instrumental to the Manhattan Project.
• Wu was awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize for Physics after being denied a Nobel Prize that her male colleagues received.
• Wu also advocated for gender equality, refusing to adopt her husband's last name and demanding equal pay.

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film "Oppenheimer" largely omits the women and the people of color who worked on the real-life Manhattan Project, instead zeroing in on the white men involved in the US government's atomic bomb initiative.