He Zehui

She attended 振華女中, a predecessor of Suzhou No.10 Middle School where she was interested in a variety of subjects and was on the volleyball team.

[2] She earned a Ph.D in Engineering in 1940 with her thesis that dealt with a new way of measuring the speed of high velocity bullets.

[6] Friedrich Paschen who had been her landlord in Germany, and later an adoptive parent, introduced her to Walther Bothe, who had just built the first German cyclotron.

With Bothe's assistance she studied radioactive particles and cosmic rays, and she worked on Heinz Maier-Leibnitz's cloud chamber technology.

156 p 543) after she presented a paper in Bristol on her work with Maier-Leibnitz and Bothe which included the very first picture of a positron–electron scatter.

[7] After World War II she and her husband, Qian Sanqiang, went to work in Paris at the Marie Curie Institute in 1946.

After this, He Zehui led the Neutron Physics Research Office, a Chinese parallel to the Atomic Energy Institute.

The 1936 graduation class of the physics department at Tsinghua University. He Zehui is at the front, second from right; her future husband Qian Sanqiang is at the back, far left.
Qian Sanqiang , their daughter, and He Zehui on their return to China in 1948 [ 1 ]