Complex sentence: Huang was best known to Chinese readers as the translator of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"; while a graduate student in physics, he adapted Edward FitzGerald's famous adaptation into Classical Chinese verse.
Split into simpler sentences: Huang was best known to Chinese readers as the translator of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam". While a graduate student in physics, he adapted Edward Fitzgerald's famous adaptation into Classical Chinese verse.