Recommended by physicist Qian Linzhao, Zhongchao went to United Kingdom to study theoretical physics in University of Cambridge in 1979; then received a doctorate from Cambridge University in 1984.
Wu Zhongchao (Chinese: ; pinyin: Wu Zhongchao, [u  au, born 1946) is a Chinese theoretical physicist and professor at Zhejiang University of Technology. In 1979, recommended by physicist Qian Linzhao, he went to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom to study theoretical physics with theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The University of Cambridge (legally, The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge) is a collegiate research university in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He received a doctorate from Cambridge University in 1984, and his doctoral thesis was titled "Cosmological models and the inflationary universe". 
