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- Daisy Yen Wu (Chinese: 吴严彩韵, 12 June 1902 – 27 May 1993) was the first Chinese woman engaged as an academic researcher in biochemistry and nutrition. Born into a wealthy industrial family in Shanghai, from a young age she was tutored in English and encouraged to study. She graduated from Nanjing Jinling Women's University in 1921 and then studied in the United States, graduating with a master's degree in biochemistry from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1923. Returning to China, she became an assistant professor at Peking Union Medical College between 1923 and her marriage at the end of 1924 to Hsien Wu. Collaborating with him, she conducted research on proteins and studied nutrition. After their marriage she continued to assist in the research conducted by Wu as an unpaid staff member until 1928. She and her husband collaborated in writing the first Chinese textbook on nutrition, which remained in print through the 1990s. While raising their children, Yen Wu recognized that educational opportunities were limited and founded the Mingming School (Chinese: 明明学校) in 1934 to provide a modern comprehensive education for Chinese children. She also raised funds in 1936 to build a school hospital for their alma mater, the Jinling Women's College, and earned a degree in French. In 1949, as her husband was in the United States and unable to return because of the Chinese Communist Revolution, she took the children abroad. Hired as a researcher for the Medical College of Alabama, she resumed collaboration with her husband, until his death in 1959. Moving to New York City in 1960, she conducted research for the United Nations Children's Fund to develop nutritional standards from 1960 to 1964. From 1964 to 1971 she worked as a lecturer and created a reference library for the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and from 1971 to 1987 she worked at St. Luke's Hospital Center, creating a library for the New York Obesity Research Center. Throughout her life, Yen Wu created numerous scholarships in China, Taiwan, and the United States which bear the name of family members and allow students to further their education. She died in 1993 in Ithaca, New York. (en)
- Daisy Yen Wu (Hanzi: 吴严彩韵, 12 Juni 1902 – 27 Mei 1993) adalah wanita Tiongkok pertama yang menjadi peneliti akademik dalam biokimia dan nutrisi. Lahir dari keluarga industrial kaya di Shanghai, ia diajar dalam bahasa Inggris sejak muda (in)
- 严彩韵（1902年6月12日－1993年5月27日），婚后又名吴严彩韵（Daisy Yen Wu），女，浙江省慈谿縣人，生物化学家，是中国最早从事生物化学研究的女学者。 (zh)
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- Daisy Yen Wu (Hanzi: 吴严彩韵, 12 Juni 1902 – 27 Mei 1993) adalah wanita Tiongkok pertama yang menjadi peneliti akademik dalam biokimia dan nutrisi. Lahir dari keluarga industrial kaya di Shanghai, ia diajar dalam bahasa Inggris sejak muda (in)
- 严彩韵（1902年6月12日－1993年5月27日），婚后又名吴严彩韵（Daisy Yen Wu），女，浙江省慈谿縣人，生物化学家，是中国最早从事生物化学研究的女学者。 (zh)
- Daisy Yen Wu (Chinese: 吴严彩韵, 12 June 1902 – 27 May 1993) was the first Chinese woman engaged as an academic researcher in biochemistry and nutrition. Born into a wealthy industrial family in Shanghai, from a young age she was tutored in English and encouraged to study. She graduated from Nanjing Jinling Women's University in 1921 and then studied in the United States, graduating with a master's degree in biochemistry from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1923. Returning to China, she became an assistant professor at Peking Union Medical College between 1923 and her marriage at the end of 1924 to Hsien Wu. Collaborating with him, she conducted research on proteins and studied nutrition. After their marriage she continued to assist in the research conducted by Wu as an unpaid staff m (en)
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