At Berkley there she met proffeser lawrence, who was responsible for the first cyclotron and who later won a nobel prize and other chineese physics students luke chia yuan who both encouraged her to stay at berkley. Then she was involved in the work of uranium then after she graduated and got her Ph.d. she married former graduate luke chia liu yuan. And they moved to the east coast. Where they got settled and where chien won many awards.but sadly died in the year of 1997 febuary 16