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IRENE YEN-PING, MY WIFE

It was on the campus of Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York that I met Irene for the first time. I was in the last year of my PhD program in the Electrical Engineering School, and she was beginning her master’s degree program in the Biochemistry department. 

Soon after the start of the semester, we started dating, and I found this smart, feisty, always upbeat, and enthusiastic person, rather irresistible. We …

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Born

December 10th, 1935
Born in the premiere Beijing hospital where her uncle was the top surgeon
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Growing up in Beijing

1937
China
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With Older Brother Franklin

1937
Beijing, China
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