When I started writing About Wu, my hands trembled slightly. It is estimated that it is the same as Wu Jianxiong when he first met Hu Shi.
By the way, who is Wu Jianxiong?
If you look at three sentences, you may be surprised.
She is the granddaughter-in-law of Yuan Shikai, the queen of the nuclear bomb, and the United States calls her worth 100 divisions.
If you still don't understand, she is one of the world's most outstanding experimental physicists, known as "Marie Curie of the East", "Queen of Nuclear Physics", "First Lady of Physics".
Well, let's look at this title, her research direction is this: "a worldwide contribution in the field of β decay research."
Don't ask me, I can't explain it.
Which country is Wu Jianxiong from?
Oh, and I haven't introduced it yet. She is a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and her nationality is the United States. But he was born in China. Born on May 31, 1912 in Liuhe Town, Taicang, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.
This article tells one thing, her and Hu Shi's teacher-student friendship. As for her husband being Yuan Kewen's son, yuan Kewen being Yuan Shikai's son, I will not elaborate on it, and I will not repeat it when I have time.
The relationship between Wu Jianxiong and Hu Shi, I am talking about fate, not fate, is in 1923, when Wu Jianxiong was 11 years old, studying at the Second Women's Normal School in Suzhou, the principal of the school invited Hu Shi to give a speech at the school. Because Wu Jianxiong had read Hu Shi's articles in magazines such as "New Youth" earlier and admired him very much, he was excited when he saw Dr. Hu.
It is said that Hu Shi has 36 doctorates, so everyone habitually calls him Dr. Hu.
At that time, Hu Shi did not know Wu Jianxiong. They really knew each other for 7 years, that is, when Wu Jianxiong was 18 years old, she was admitted to national central university, and Hu Shi was the president.
Wu Jianxiong surprised Hu Shi for the first time, not her beauty, but the examination paper. In one exam, Wu Jianxiong sat in the front row, and it took only two hours to complete the three-hour capacity test paper, and the first one was handed in. Hu Shi, the invigilator, took a look at her paper and was very surprised that a little girl had analyzed the three-hundred-year ideological history of the Qing Dynasty so thoroughly.
Don't be mistaken, it is the "three-hundred-year ideological history of the Qing Dynasty." In fact, students who really study well are never partial to subjects. This does not conflict with her later career in physics.
Wu Jianxiong once said that in her life, the biggest influence on her, besides her father, was Hu Shi.
Wu Jianxiong's father, Wu Zhongyi, was a teacher who founded the Mingde Girls' Vocational School in his hometown. I think the main reason why Wu Jianxiong is grateful to her father is that his father advocated equality between men and women, so that she could read and write like her brothers from an early age.
Hu Shi is twenty-one years older than Wu Jianxiong, who was born in 1912 and Hu Shi in 1891. It should be said that Wu admired and respected Hu, and Hu admired and loved Wu. Because Wu is so good, he is a good student who often hangs on his lips.
The two had frequent interactions in the United States. In 1936, Wu Jianxiong entered the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied physics under physics giants such as Ernest Lawrence, Segerry, oppenheimer and other physics giants. In 1942, he married Dr. Yuan Jiaxiao in the United States and has remained in the United States ever since. From September 1937 to September 1942, Hu Shi served as ambassador to the United States and engaged in diplomatic work by virtue of his international prestige.
According to some information, Hu Shi did two things for Wu Jianxiong, one was that during the trip, he found a set of works by the British physicist Rutherford in the bookstore and sent it to Wu Jianxiong, and the other was that Hu Shi had written a long letter to her, the content of the long letter was not found, and a short letter was found, from the end of the letter, the time was October 30, 1936, at this time Hu Shi had not yet gone to the United States.
The letter reads as follows:
Ms. Kenxiong:
I was very happy to see each other at the Horse House last night, which was quite unexpected.
This afternoon the ship did not open, and in the evening, the news came that the strike might be extended and expanded. Accompanying passengers rushed to Vancouver to take the Canalian steamboat back to China. After ninety-two days of hard work, I was quite tired, and some of my luggage had already boarded the Hoover ship, so I decided to stay here for two or three days.
I am very happy to see you overseas this time and know that I have a great determination to study. Last night we talked about it, and there was really experience in it, and it was worth noting. In addition to learning, in addition to skill, genius is also needed. The metaphor of the tortoise and the rabbit is a word of encouragement to the middle and below, and it is also a word of vigilance against genius. With the genius of the rabbit and the kung fu of the turtle, it will be invincible to the first life. There is no great deal with skill, and there may not be great success.
You are a very intelligent person, cherish self-love, and your future achievements are unlimited. That's not what I'm going to say to you. What I want to say to you is that I hope that you can use your overseas residence to pay more attention to the cultural relics of this state, read more books on literature and history, and read more about other sciences, so that your mind will be expanded and your insights will be wise. I'm not trying to tempt you to "change your career" and return to the path of literature and history; I want you to be a learned person. I saw Dr the other day in Pasadena. Robert A(formerly M) Milhkan, who took me on a tour of various laboratories, instructed me in the Geretics laboratory to instruct the various jobs in the room, and also "counted the family treasures", which made me admire. All the first-class scientists are extremely knowledgeable people, who take the essence and use the hong, and from the knowledge to the anti-covenant, so they can have great success.
Several old leaders in the domestic scientific community, such as Ding Zaijun and Weng Yongni, are all expo-makers, so their leadership status is not limited to geology. Scientists who rise up late often cannot have such profound knowledge, and I am afraid that they can only abide by the rules, and cannot start a business to expand the land.
With this expectation, don't you laugh at my nosy business? Hurry to wish you
peaceful.
Hu Shi 1936, 10, 30
Judging from the content of the letter, there is nothing, it is what the teacher has to say to the student.
But what shows the intimacy between the two lies in some of the interactions that follow. It was before Wu Jianxiong got married, when Hu Shi went to visit Wu Jianxiong at the Shanghai Branch of the Academia Sinica, he used to accompany his director and chat with Wu Jianxiong alone for a long time, and then he went to Berkeley in the United States to see Wu Jianxiong, and Wu also took a car to New York for five days and four nights to visit Hu Shi.
Moreover, Wu Jianxiong also wrote to Hu Shi: "I just said goodbye to you on the phone and came back, thinking that you will have to go to the 'dawn' tomorrow, if I can drive alone to the airport in the morning light and light to send you off, but I know that I can't do that, I can only wish you a safe journey here." ”
Mr. Jiang Caijian, the author of "The Biography of Wu Jianxiong", believes that "Wu Jianxiong has a love for the teacher who is suitable for the teacher beyond the teacher and the student..."
In the face of the short and long flight, Wu Jianxiong also said something like this: "But on the other hand, I am afraid that you will think that I have misunderstood your meaning and make you feel uneasy, in fact, with the depth of my respect and love for you, there is no possibility of misunderstanding you, please be absolutely at ease." "Thinking of the great responsibility you are now shouldering, I dare not even think of admiration, I hope you can forgive me, as long as you know that I truly admire you, I will be happy enough." 」
There are some shallow traces, but they are also "emotional and end in courtesy". Very nice and beautiful. There is no evidence that the two fell into a substantial love affair like Hu Shi and Cao Chengying, which seems fortunate to us. After Cao Chengying and Hu Shi were separated, they never married, and after their deaths, they were buried on the necessary road to the Hu Shi family in their hometown. However, in 1997, Wu Jianxiong died of illness in New York, and was buried in Taicang Liuhe, Suzhou according to his will, across the sea from Hu Shizhi's tomb. I don't know if it was a coincidence or if there was some kind of agreement.
On May 30, 1942, Wu Jianxiong and Yuan Jiaqiu entered the marriage hall. Yuan Jialuo is also a famous physicist and the grandson of Yuan Shikai.
On February 24, 1962, there was a cocktail party after the meeting of academicians of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, and Wu Jianxiong and her husband Yuan Jialuo were invited to attend. After Hu Shi finished speaking, he asked Wu Jianxiong to speak, and Wu Jianxiong said that he had publicly pushed Wu Dayu to speak on behalf of the representative. So Hu Shi asked the academicians to use snacks, and suddenly had a heart attack, his face was pale, he fell on his back, and fell to the ground.
Wu Jianxiong personally witnessed the teacher fall to the ground, trembling and grief-stricken.