Also known as "the father of Taiwanese science," Wu was born in Guangzhou in September 1907, and graduated from the physics department at Tianjin's Nankai University in 1929. In 1931, he continued his studies abroad at the University of Michigan, earning a doctorate in 1933.
同時享有「台灣科學之父」之名的吳大猷，民國前四年九月生於廣州，民國十八年自天津南開大學物理系畢業，民國二十年負笈美國密西根大學，兩年後獲得博士學位。