After graduating from the Department of Geology at National Taiwan University in 1963, he gained his PhD from the University of Rochester (USA) in 1968. From there he entered the Carnegie Institution to do research in high-pressure physics.
1963 年他從台大地質系畢業、1968 年取得美國羅徹斯特大學博士學位，隨即進入卡內基研究院從事高壓物理研究。