He criticized his father's seizure of power from Sun Zhongshan in a poem, “Pity that there are frequent storms up there; It is not wise to climb all the way to the top floor of a mansion.”[2] Yuan Kewen was under house arrest after the years he spent away from Beijing in Tianjin and Shanghai.

Luke studied in Anyang then at age 13, he went to Nankai High School in Tianjin for a month, but then transferred to The Academy of Modern Learning, run by a London-based missionary.

The President of Yenching University and later US Ambassador to China, Leighton Stuart, was also a radio communications hobbyist, and befriended Luke.

[4]: 259  They were married at the home of Yuan's advisor Robert A. Millikan and his wife, with a Caltech instructor and priest officiating the wedding.

[7] She took part in the Manhattan Project and found a solution on Xenon-135 that allowed the B reactor to operate in order to build the atomic bomb.

[9] He helped found the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center of Taiwan[10] and Wu-Yuan Natural Science Foundation.

Yuan would often travel to and from Brookhaven in Long Island, and on weekends return to the family's Manhattan home near Columbia University where Wu worked as its first female physics professor.

Yuan learned to become adept at making Lion's head, chicken, sautéed vegetables, wonton, and many other dishes that the family cherished.