His father was a graduate of Liangjiang Higher Normal School in Nanjing and later served as a civil servant at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forest of the Republic of China.

by his professor, university president Zhang Yihui who then by the end of 1931, introduced Wang to the prominent French physicist Paul Langevin during his visit to China.

[15][16] In 1939, shortly after France and U.K. declared war against Nazi Germany, while all the Langevin laboratories at ESPCI was converted to the Research Group IV of the National Defense Ministry, Wang worked on multiplying the emission power of the ultrasonics submarine detector - known as Sonar today - that Langevin invented by the end of World War I using piezoelectric quartz crystals transducer.

[17][18] Wang succeeded to increase its power per unit area by applying sintering process, which improved greatly the efficiency and the reliability of the active sonar system.

Wang entered the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he was elected as academician in 1957, served as associate director of Institute of Electronics in charge of the underwater acoustics research.

[39] Wang wrote textbooks, trained the young team personally and set the stage for their research career, while leading the experiments on and under the South China Sea.

Wang survived the Culture Revolution (1966-1976) during which the IOA was dismantled, while himself was deprived of all positions and subjected to humiliations, confiscation of property, tortures, custody.

[40] Through his retirement in 1984, Wang supported his students to succeed in various basic research subjects, among others: In addition, a series of advanced defense and civil sonar products were also developed.