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Tung-Yen Lin
Chinese-American structural engineer
This article is about the Chinese American structural engineer. For the infrastructure firm he founded, see T. Y. Lin International.
Tung-Yen Lin (Chinese: 林同棪; pinyin: Lín Tóngyán; November 14, 1912 – November 15, 2003) was a Chinese-American structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete.[1]
Biography
Born in Fuzhou, China, as the fourth of eleven children, he was raised in Beijing where his father was a justice of the ROC's Supreme Court.
He did not begin formal schooling until age 11, and only so because his parents forged his birth year to be 1911 so that he would qualify. At only 14, entered Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College (now Southwest Jiaotong University), having earned the top score in math and the second best score overall in the college entrance exams for his entering class.
He graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineerin