Wu Youxun

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wu

Wu Youxun (吴有训) or Y. H. Woo (1897-1977) was a physical scientist from Gao'an, Jiangxi, China.

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 graduated 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.

He had the courtesy name of Zhengzhi. See also Wu (surname).

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