conservation of parity

noun

1. the principle that the parity of the total wave function describing a system of elementary particles is conserved. In fact it is not conserved in weak interactions

Example Sentences

To supplement her course work, Yalow suggested that Dresselhaus attend colloquia hosted by the Columbia University Department of Physics, home to individuals like Willis Lamb and Polykarp Kusch, who would go on to share a Nobel Prize for work on electrons and hydrogen, and to Chien-Shiung Wu, an expert in radioactive decay whose monumental experiment on the conservation of parity would lead to a Nobel for two of her male colleagues.

From Salon

Her most significant contribution to modern physics was a series of experiments she devised to test the law known as “conservation of parity,” which held that there was a fundamental symmetry in the behavior of everything in nature, including atomic particles.

From Time

Smith College Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist, co-disprover of the famed law of the conservation of parity Sc.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

Drs. Chen Ning Yang and Tsung Dao Lee, split the Nobel physics prize for destroying the principle of "Conservation of Parity," on which a good deal of modern physics had been based.

From Time Magazine Archive