Shou-Chin Wang: The Sole Chinese Participant in the Quantum Jubilee in the Late 1920s

This report will explore the early scientific career of Shou-Chin Wang (1905-1984). It will focus on his graduate study at American universities (Cornell, Harvard, and Columbia), his association with the so-called "Rabi's Group" that comprised a group of young graduate students, postdocs, and instructors, who met regularly in Manhattan to teach themselves the brand-new quantum mechanics during the 1920s. Moreover, it will also discuss Wang's extraordinary National Research Fellowship in 1928 and evaluate his first two published papers that applied the new quantum mechanics to the study of molecules, in addition to a brief summary of his contributions to the development of modern physics in China.