In 1989, when Cyril Chiang had just received his doctorate in solid-state chemistry from Northwestern University in the USA, he was offered a job at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratories near Chicago, participating in a research program on neutron diffraction.
一九八九年，剛拿到美國西北大學固態化學博士的蔣重光，獲得一個工作機會，到芝加哥近郊美國能源部阿崗國家實驗室參與中子繞射技術研究。