Nobel Prize winner L.W. Alvarez once complimented Wu by describing her as "one of the most talented and beautiful experimental physicists I have ever known."
諾貝爾獎得主艾瓦瑞博士（L.W.Alvarez）曾誇讚吳健雄是：「我所知道最有才能和最漂亮的實驗物理學家之一。」