Everyone should have heard of China's promise to the outside world, "Guarantee not to use nuclear weapons first," and you can also hear the strong self-confidence implied in the words. However, today's China can say this sentence domineeringly, thanks to the two-bomb founding fathers of our country in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. And today we want to introduce one of the founders, the famous nuclear physicist Deng Jiaxian, who finally died of illness due to nuclear radiation.
Deng Jiaxian was the leader and main force in The cause of nuclear weapons in New China; when our country was in a period of serious difficulties, he led a group of patriotic scholars and technicians, plus a group of college students who had just graduated, to overcome all difficulties and bring China's atomic weapons on the smooth road of rapid development. From zero to existence, from existence to advanced, New China has gained a firm foothold in the international community by virtue of this achievement.
Deng Jiaxian dedicated the best years to the cause of national defense, and in contrast to this, he also let his wife wait bitterly for 28 years, and when the two met again, he was already lying on the hospital bed. In the past 30 years, Deng Jiaxian has certainly made contributions in obscurity, and his wife behind him, Professor Xu Luxi, has not been unswerving in making sacrifices.
Professor Xu Luxi was admitted to Beijing Medical College at the age of 18, which is now the Faculty of Medicine of Peking University. It was at this school that she met Deng Jiaxian, who gave her physics class. In this way, two excellent young people are attracted to each other and burst out of love in academic exchanges. Therefore, after Deng Jiaxian returned from studying abroad, the two married and gave birth to a pair of children. But the two didn't last long, and in the fall of 1958, the 34-year-old Deng Jiaxian accepted a task that excited him —designing an atomic bomb. For reasons of confidentiality, he did not explain too much to his wife, only one sentence: job transfer, difficulty in communication.
Although Xu Luxi did not know the specific work of her husband, she expressed her absolute support to Deng Jiaxian. Since then, there has been no trace of Deng Jiaxian in her and her family's life, but occasionally, her superiors will arrange for someone to take her all the way blindfolded to a place to meet with Deng Jiaxian, so that she knows that her husband and the father of her children are still alive, and they will be reunited one day. It was with this expectation that she waited for 28 years.
This kind of waiting is an ordeal for anyone, not to mention that Xu Luxi himself is very good. She was born into an educational family, and her father, Xu Deheng, is the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a famous educator in China. After graduation, she stayed on to teach, not only rated as a professor, but also served as a doctoral supervisor. It can be said that she does not need to live this kind of widowhood at all, but she is willing.
Xu Luxi raised her children into talents alone, and in order for her husband's work not to be affected, she never mentioned Deng Jiaxian's name outside. Like-minded with her husband, she also puts the needs of the country in the first place, strives to carry out medical research while supporting the family, promotes the development of medical undertakings in New China, and the state has cultivated a large number of medical doctors.
Finally, after 28 years of waiting, Xu Luxi looked forward to returning to her husband, and the family was about to usher in a happy life. However, due to his repeated visits to the front line of nuclear tests to collect data, Deng Jia was first exposed to a large amount of radiation, and his physical functions were seriously damaged. After returning home, he was in poor health and has even been hospitalized in the hospital ever since. Although 28 years of waiting in exchange for only the two people in front of the bed together, Xu Luxi is still very happy, she loves the country, but also deeply loves this man, and now the country has returned her husband, and she is satisfied with the time when she can be reunited again in her lifetime.
After Deng Jiaxian's death, Xu Luxi did not remarry. Today, she is 93 years old and has been living in the original marriage room, where there are traces of her and Deng Jiaxian's life together, decoration, furniture, decoration, all of which can make her feel the presence of her husband. In such an environment, immersed in the memories of reuniting with her husband, for Xu Luxi, this is the greatest happiness.