Among physicists, Wu Ta-you was known as a mentor of Nobel laureates and a scholar of great moral character. In government and academia, he occasionally stood out as a standard-bearer for social concern.
吳大猷享譽物理界，作育數位諾貝爾獎得主，同時一身文人風骨，對於政界及學界的直言，更是社會上的偶聞醒鐘。