Louise Zung-nyi Loh

Loh taught mathematics and physics from 1925 to 1948, at Ginling College, Central University, and Hunan University.^[7] She was acting dean of Ginling College in 1946 and 1947. She was a founding member of the Chinese Mathematical Society,^[4] and a member of the Mathematical Association of America^[9] the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Physical Society.^[10]

During the Nanjing Massacre in 1927, Loh warned foreign faculty at Ginling College of the approaching danger: "It was she who went to every laboratory and class room and ordered foreign teachers to the faculty house at once," recalled a fellow Wellesley alumna. She also retrieved the contents of the college safe, and organized emergency clothing for the evacuees.^[11] She was mentioned in missionary Minnie Vautrin's diary, conferring with Vautrin and Wu Yi-fang about the school's future.^[12]

Loh returned to the United States in 1948, and taught mathematics and physics^[13] at Wellesley College,^[14][15] Smith College, Wilson College,^[16] Western College for Women.^[17][18] From 1956 to 1964, she worked as a physicist at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.^[4]

Loh died in 1981, aged 81 years, in Ohio.^[19] She left money to establish the Louise Zung-nyi Loh Scholarship Fund at Ohio State University, to support students interested in East Asian studies.^[4][20]