As a child, Xiaowei Zhuang was encouraged to question the physical relationships between objects she saw in the world around her. Xiaowei and her brother were prompted with quizzes from their father—a physics professor—to consider what forces were present in a glass of water on their kitchen table. Her father’s questions—and his subsequent enthusiasm for Xiaowei’s answers—inspired Xiaowei’s lifelong curiosity to understand relationships between objects in the natural world and how we see them.
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