魏荣爵1916年生于湖南邵阳,1937年毕业于金陵大学物理系。1938～1941年在重庆南开中学任教,1942年起在重庆金陵大学理学院任讲师。1945年留美,在芝加哥大学和伊里诺大学研究生院主攻原子核物理、获硕士学位,并深受费米等物理学家的学术影响。考虑到当时国内不可能发展高能物理实验,于1947年转入加州大学随声学 Wei Rongjue Born in Shaoyang, Hunan in 1916, 1937 graduated from the Department of Physics, Jinling University. 1938 ~ 1941 in Chongqing Nankai Middle School to teach, from 1942 in Chongqing Jinling University School of science lecturer. The United States in 1945, at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Graduate School of nuclear physics, master’s degree, and by Fei Mi and other academic scholarship. Taking into account was impossible to develop high-energy physics experiments at home, in 1947 transferred to the University of California Acoustics