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{{Short description|Chinese physicist}}
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|name              = Wu Youxun
|image             = 吳有訓院士.jpg
|caption           = Wu in 1921
|birth_date        = 26 April 1897
|birth_place       = [[Gao'an]], [[Jiangxi]], [[Qing dynasty]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Tsinghua University and Modern Chinese Science and Technology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yFdFIV4bQ5AC&pg=PA43|year=2006|publisher=Tsinghua University Press| isbn=978-7-302-12014-8|pages=43–}}</ref>
|death_date        = {{death date and age|1977|11|30|1897|4|26|df=y}}
|death_place       = [[Beijing]], China
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|workplaces        = [[Tsinghua University]]<br/>[[National Central University]]
|alma_mater        = [[University of Chicago]]
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|academic_advisors = [[Arthur Compton]]
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|known_for         = Physics
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{{family name hatnote|[[Wu (surname)|Wu]]|lang=Chinese}}

'''Wu Youxun''' ({{zh|t=吳有訓|s=吴有训|p=Wú Yǒuxùn|w='''Wu Yu-hsun'''}}; 26 April 1897<ref name="Nie Leng 1998">{{cite book|author=Nie Leng|title=The Biography of Wu Youxun|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ra-FAAAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=China Youth Publishing House|isbn=978-7-5006-3014-2|pages=543–}}</ref> – 30 November 1977<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographies of Modern Chinese Scientists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J30bAAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=[[Science Press]]|pages=108–| isbn=978-7-03-002261-5 }}</ref>), also known as '''Y. H. Woo''',<ref name="SullivanLiu-Sullivan2015">{{cite book|author1=Lawrence R. Sullivan|author2=Nancy Y. Liu-Sullivan|title=Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGCGBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA453|date=19 March 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-0-8108-7855-6|pages=453–}}</ref> was a Chinese physicist.  His [[courtesy name]] was Zhèngzhī ({{lang|zh|正之}}).

== Biography ==
Wu graduated from the Department of Physics of [[Nanjing Higher Normal School]] (later renamed [[National Central University]] and [[Nanjing University]]), and was later associated with the Department of Physics at [[Tsinghua University]]. He served as president of [[National Central University]] and [[Shanghai Jiao Tong University|Jiaotong University]] in [[Shanghai]]. When he was a graduate student at the [[University of Chicago]] he studied [[x-ray]] and electron [[scattering]], and verified the [[Compton effect]] which gave [[Arthur Compton]] the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].

== Awards ==
In 2000, the Chinese Physical Society established five prizes, in recognition of five pioneers of modern physics in China. The Wu Youxun Prize is awarded to physicists in nuclear physics.
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