Yang Chen
A number of prominent Chinese and Chinese Americans were beneficiaries of the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program, including MIT's first Chinese architect Kwan Sung-sing, philosopher Hu Shih, Nobel Physics prize winner Yang Chen-Ning, electrical engineer Lee Yuk-Wing, mathematician Chung Kai-lai, linguist Chao Yuen Ren, educator Kuo Ping-Wen, rocket scientist Tsien Hsue-shen, meteorologist and scholar Chu Coching and architectural engineer Edward Y. Ying, who was influential in the planning of modern Shanghai. The scholarships served as a model for the Fulbright Program's grants for international educational exchange.