In 1932, he began his postgraduate studies at Tsinghua under the supervision of the prominent physicist Chung-Yao Chao (Zhao Zhongyao), and his research on secondary gamma radiation was published in Nature.
After earning his engineer's license in 1936, he continued to pursue Ph.D. studies at TH Berlin, and completed his dissertation in 1937.
[3] Gong made three attempts to produce optical glass during the Sino-Japanese War, but failed in the difficult wartime conditions.
After the successful trial production, he established an R&D base in Changchun, marking the beginning of China's optical glass industry.
[3] In 1962, he established the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and served as its director.