Claim: Huang Wanli, who went to the United States in 1934, became a professor at Cornell University and trained engineers in China's Ministry of Water Resources in 1945.
Evidence: He received a master's degree from Cornell University in hydrology in 1935 and a doctor of engineering degree from University of Illinois in 1937. He taught at Tangshan Jiaotong University in June 1950, and he was transferred to Tsinghua University in 1953. Huang was a professor at Tsinghua University from 1953 till 2001.