Wu Youxun

Wu Youxun

Wu Youxun or Y. H. Woo (zh-tsp|t=吳有訓|s=吴有训|p=Wú Yǒuxùn; 26 February 1897–30 November 1977) was a physical scientist from Gao'an, Jiangxi, China. He had the courtesy name of Zhèngzhī (正之).

Wu graduated from the Department of Physics of Nanjing University, and was later associated with the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University. He was once the president of National Central University in Nanjing and Jiaotong University in Shanghai. When he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago he studied x-ray and electron scattering, and verified the Compton effect which gave Arthur Compton the Nobel Prize in Physics.


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