Early Years
Wang Ganchang was born in Changshu City, Jiangsu Province (江苏省常熟县支塘镇枫塘湾), on May 28, 1907. In 1924, he graduated from the Shanghai Pudong High School (上海浦东中学). He then studied English for six months and car driving and repair for six months. He passed the entrance examinations for Qinghua University in August 1928.
He graduated from the Physics Department of Qinghua University in June 1929. He then became assistant professor of Qinghua University from 1929 to 1930. In his thesis "On the daily change of radon gas" (《清华园周围氡气的强度及每天的变化》), he was the first in China to published on atmospheric research and radioactive experiments.
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