Hsioh-Ren Wei or Wei Xueren (; 1899–1987) was born in

Nanjing Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yang ...

, Jiangsu. He entered the private

University of Nanking The University of Nanking (金陵大學) was a private university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, from 1888 to 1952. It was sponsored by American churches. Founded in 1888, the university effectively become defunct in 1952, following the 1952 reorg ...

in 1918 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1922. In 1925, he received a scholarship to pursue graduate studies in physics at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

. In 1928, upon obtaining a doctoral degree in Physics from the University of Chicago, he returned to China and became a physics professor at the Private University of Nanking as China's first nuclear-physicist. In 1929, he became the founding dean of science at University of Nanking. Later in his career, he served for several years as the representative of the

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on the

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. He is the father of Betty Peh-t'i Wei.

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