Chi Che Wang
Chi Che Wang (; October 3, 1894 – October 10, 1979), also known as Wang Chi-Lian, was a Chinese biochemist and college professor. Wang was one of the first Chinese women to make a career in American higher education and scientific research. Early life and education Wang was born in Suzhou, one of the five daughters of a government official father, Wong Songwie, and a social reformer mother, (王謝長達). She was a member of "the first batch of women students the Chinese government has ever sent abroad". She attended the Laura Haygood School in Suzhou, spent two years at a girls' school in Japan, prepared for college at the Walnut Hill School in Massachusetts, and graduated from Wellesley College in 1914, one of the school's earliest Asian alumnae. She earned a master's degree (1916) and a Ph.D. (1918) in chemistry and nutrition, from the University of Chicago, with a dissertation titled "Chemistry of Chinese Preserved Eggs and Chinese Edible Birds' Nests". She had a postdoctoral appointment at Johns Hopkins University. Her sister Chi Nyok Wang attended Mount Holyoke College and returned to China, where she was principal of a girls' school in Suzhou. Career Wang taught at the University of