After the war, with well-known achievements in physics, Wu Chien-hsiung continued researching peaceful applications for atomic power at Columbia, while Yuan Chia-liu began researching energetic particles at the Brookhaven National Laboratory two hours away.
戰後，他倆在物理的成績甚受重視，吳健雄繼續研究原子能的和平用途；袁家騮則在距哥大車程二小時的布魯克海文原子能研究所，進行星體運行及「高能質點」的研究。