From Physics
Breakthroughs to Immigrant Support
Chen Siblings Change Their Own Corners of the World
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elena Chen Law ’59 and Herbert Hwa-sen Chen ’60 share the familiar, yet remarkable story of so many immigrants to the United States. They arrived fleeing a difficult situation in their homeland and thrived in this country thanks to hard work, intellectual gifts, the kindness of strangers — and, in their cases, a Cushing education. Both siblings went on to have their own kind of impact in the world. Law has served immigrant communities in her adopted hometown of St. Louis, welcoming newcomers and offering them support as they get on their feet. Chen made ground-breaking contributions to physics that might have earned him a Nobel Prize if he had not passed away at the age of 45 of leukemia.
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