As a child growing up in New Haven, CT and Palo Alto, CA, Chi-Bin Chien was so academically gifted that he skipped straight from the third to the eighth grade and, at the unbelievable age of 12, entered Johns Hopkins University as a Physics major. He was accepted to do graduate work in Physics at Caltech at the age of 15 but was considered too young to enter the program, so he took a fellowship at Cambridge University for a year. At 16, he began his PhD studies with the experimental physicist Jerry Pine, who had recently turned his attention to neurobiology and had pioneered the development of multielectrode arrays for studies of neuronal networks in vitro. Chi-Bin's gift was not just his scintillating brilliance, because underneath he was a truly motivated scientist who was prepared to take practical and laborious steps to reach a distant goal. In the Pine laboratory, he designed an elegant apparatus that was sensitive enough to measure single action and synaptic potentials in cultured neurons using voltage-sensitive dyes (Chien and Pine, 1991).
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机译：小时候在美国康涅狄格州纽黑文市和加利福尼亚州帕洛阿尔托市长大的孩子，Chi-Bin Chien在学术上非常有天赋，以至于他从三年级直接跳到了八年级，在令人难以置信的12岁那年进入约翰·霍普金斯大学学习物理专业。他15岁时就被接受在加州理工学院从事物理学的研究生工作，但由于年龄太小而无法进入该计划，因此他在剑桥大学获得了为期一年的奖学金。 16岁时，他开始与实验物理学家杰里·派恩（Jerry Pine）进行博士研究，他最近将注意力转向神经生物学，并率先开发了用于体外神经元网络研究的多电极阵列。 Chi-Bin的礼物不仅是他灿烂的光彩，还因为他是一位真正有进取心的科学家，他准备采取实际而费力的步骤来实现遥远的目标。在派恩实验室，他设计了一种优雅的仪器，其灵敏度足以使用电压敏感染料测量培养的神经元中的单个动作和突触电位（Chien and Pine，1991）。
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