Editing An Wang (section)

== Early life and career ==
A native of [[Kunshan]] County in [[Suzhou, Jiangsu|Suzhou]] (Soochow) Prefecture, he was born in [[Shanghai]], [[China]].<ref name=immrev/> His father taught English at an elementary school outside Shanghai, while his mother Zen Wan (Chien) Wang was a homemaker. An Wang graduated from [[Shanghai Jiao Tong University]] with a degree in [[electrical engineering]] in 1940. He immigrated to the [[United States]] in June 1945 to attend [[Harvard University]] for graduate school, earning a PhD in applied physics in 1948.<ref name=immrev/> After graduation, he worked at Harvard with [[Howard Aiken]] on the design of the [[Harvard Mark IV|Mark IV]], Aiken's first fully electronic computer. Wang coinvented the pulse transfer controlling device with Way-Dong Woo, a schoolmate from China who fell ill before their patent was issued. The new device implemented ''write-after-read'' which made magnetic core memory possible. Harvard reduced its commitment to computer research in 1951, prompting Wang to start his own engineering business.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tech.sina.com.cn/other/2004-03-17/1124334876.shtml |title=王安（An Wang）：王安公司创始人 |accessdate=2009-08-03 |archive-date=2008-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125092853/http://tech.sina.com.cn/other/2004-03-17/1124334876.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://people.ccidnet.com/art/2947/20050829/320975_6.html |title=巨商王安：上海交大高材生 在哈佛大学深造（6） |accessdate=2013-12-30 |archive-date=2013-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230232628/http://people.ccidnet.com/art/2947/20050829/320975_6.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>