Wu Youxun (simplified Chinese: 吴有训; traditional Chinese: 吳有訓; pinyin: Wú Yǒuxùn; Wade–Giles: Wu Yu-hsun; 26 April 1897[2] – 30 November 1977[3]), also known as Y. H. Woo,[4] was a Chinese physicist.

Wu graduated from the Department of Physics of Nanjing Higher Normal School (later renamed National Central University and Nanjing University), and was later associated with the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University.

When he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago he studied x-ray and electron scattering, and verified the Compton effect which gave Arthur Compton the Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Wu Youxun Prize is awarded to physicists in nuclear physics.

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