Lin Hsiang-ju ( zh, c=林相如, w=Lin Hsiang-ju; Born 1930 ) is a Chinese American biochemist and Author. The youngest daughter of

Lin Yutang Lin Yutang (10 October 1895 – 26 March 1976) was a Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator. One scholar commented that Lin's "particular blend of sophistication and casualness found a wide audience, and he became a ma ...

, Lin Hsiang-ju was born in

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

and moved to the United States at the age of six with her family. Along with her sisters,

Adet Lin Adet Lin (; May 6, 1923 – 1971) was a China, Chinese-American novelist and translator. She also published under the name Tan Yun. She was also known as Lin Rusi. Biography The oldest daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Xiamen, Amoy and ...

and

Lin Tai-yi Lin Tai-yi (; April 1, 1926 – July 2003) was a China, Chinese-American writer, editor and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang. The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing and came to the United States with ...

, they published autobiographical work “Our Family” in 1939. Lin received a degree in chemistry from Barnard College, Columbia University then graduated with a Master of Science and Doctor of Science in biochemistry from Harvard University. After graduation, she was a researcher at Columbia University working for Professor

Erwin Chargaff Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. A Bucovinian Jew who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi ...

, who was noted for his groundbreaking work on DNA. For 25 years Dr. Lin was with the University of Hong Kong Department of Pathology, where she headed the Clinical Biochemistry Unit. In 1990, she moved to Texas to work at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where she worked with Dr. F. Blaine Hollinger in the Dept. of Molecular Virology. Her research there ranged from cancer to AIDS and resulted in publications in several prominent Medical Journals including The Lancet and the American Journal of Epidemiology. She retired in 2000. Lin was a superb cook and in 1960 she and her mother, Tsuifeng Lin, published a cookbook, "Secrets of Chinese Cooking" and in 1969, the book “Chinese Gastronomy” for which her father wrote the foreword. Subsequently, she published a book on the culinary history of China in 2015 entitled “Slippery Noodles."

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