Yang Zhenning and Deng Jiaxian are important figures in the scientific community, one of them received the highest evaluation, the other was controversial, and the return of China in his later years ushered in a lot of insults.
The two of them were actually very good classmates and friends, Deng Jiaxian became good friends when he was in Chongde Middle School, and after the outbreak of the invasion of China, Yang Zhenning's family went with the school to the rear of Southwest University.
Later, Deng Jiaxian was admitted to the National Southwest United University, at this time Yang Zhenning was already a junior student of the school, after the two reunited, often exchanged experiences with each other, Deng Jiaxian once said to his sister, Yang Zhenning is his extracurricular teacher.
After the victory of the war, Yang Zhenning was admitted to the Physics Department of the University of Chicago to pursue a doctorate, and the next year Deng Jia was admitted to graduate school in the United States, and Deng Jia went to the Physics Department of Purdue University in the United States or sought Yang Zhenning's opinion before choosing to continue his studies.
Unfortunately, later the two people chose different paths, Deng Jiaxian returned to his motherland without hesitation, since Deng Jiaxian returned to China, the two lost contact for a long time, and the heavens were separated.
Nine days after deng jiaxian received his doctorate, he refused to be retained by his mentor and friends, but still decided to return to China, and Deng Jiaxian carried out a series of scientific research after returning to China.
After the success of the atomic bomb test, Deng Jiaxian organized forces to explore the design principles of the hydrogen bomb, and led and personally participated in the development and test of China's first hydrogen bomb.
Deng Jiaxian was an excellent representative of intellectuals in Chinese history, gave up too much for the sake of the motherland's prosperity, he was willing to be an unsung hero, he struggled in obscurity for decades, and he often stood in the most dangerous post at critical moments, regardless of personal safety.
Many people may not know that Deng Jiaxian's outstanding contributions were little known when he was alive, and it was not until his death that people learned about his deeds.
It is precisely because Deng Jiaxian is often in the most dangerous position, he is seriously ill by radiation, for example, after an explosion failure, in order to find the reason for the failure, someone must go to the place where the atomic bomb was broken to take some parts back to study.
At that time, people knew that such contact was very dangerous, no one wanted to go, and he still had no hesitation, entered the test site, and personally walked back with the parts he needed.
When Deng Jiaxian was critically ill, Yang Zhenning also arrived at the first time, and Yang Zhenning at this time had already won the Nobel Prize. Yang Zhenning asked Deng Jiaxian such a sentence.
Yang Zhenning asked: "You have put your own life into it, how much bonus has the state given you?" Of course this is a joke, because these two people do research, not for money, they have their own goals and don't care about these things.
Deng Jiaxian also said that the atomic bomb gave ten yuan, after saying this, Yang Zhenning was stunned and did not speak, his heart should be full of mixed feelings, because for him, this is simply unimaginable, because his salary was very exaggerated at that time, and nothing else, he won the Nobel Prize, and the prize money was over one million.
After this incident came out, the people around them were in tears, they cried not because of the lack of money, but Deng Jiaxian's spirit, which was forever admired, if he stayed in the United States, it would be no problem to lose tens of thousands of salaries a month.
At that time, after the nuclear bomb research came out, the state gave the entire research team a thousand yuan, and Deng Jiaxian, as the one with the greatest contribution, divided ten yuan. At that time, China was in ruins, and the state also wanted to give more awards, but unfortunately, there was really no extra money for individuals at that time, and Deng Jiaxian and others did not pay so much for money.
We have to admire the scientists of that era, they only have the future of the motherland and the nation in their hearts, and their patriotic feelings are worthy of our eternal learning, and they are well-deserved examples of the Chinese people and the backbone of the country. However, this is not to say that Yang Zhenning is not good, the two people study things are different, if Yang Zhenning chose to return to China at that time, it is very likely that he will not have such achievements as he has now, strictly speaking, it is completely understandable that he will not return to China.