His wife, Xu Luxi, has been married to him for 33 years but has lived together for only six years.
Mr. Deng Jiaxian, who has made great contributions to the mainland's nuclear weapons, and the friendship between the famous physicist Nobel Prize winner Yang Zhenning spanned half a century.
Many years later, Yang Zhenning returned to China to visit Deng Jiaxian, who was lying on a hospital bed, and asked him how much money the state gave you when he built the atomic bomb.
Deng Jiaxian's answer made Yang Zhenning cry on the spot, who could have imagined that Deng Jiaxian, who had contributed a lot to China's nuclear weapons development, would be paid only ten yuan by the motherland?
A friendship that lasted for half a century
The reason why Yang Zhenning and Deng Jiaxian, two great men, were able to have a friendship that lasted for half a century was mainly from the beginning of their fathers.
At that time, Yang Zhenning's father Yang Wuzhi and Deng Jiaxian's father Deng Yijing were both fellow villagers and colleagues, and their friendship was very good.
The feelings of the father's generation have affected the friendship of the descendants, the two have been good friends since childhood, and Yang Zhenning in Deng Jiaxuan's eyes is a good friend worthy of his trust and dependence.
From childhood to adulthood, Deng Jiaxian admired his good friend very much, and he once said bluntly to his sister that Brother Zhenning was his extracurricular teacher.
Yang Zhenning has excellent academic performance since childhood, ranking among the best is the norm, when the two are studying in the same middle school, Yang Zhenning often takes care of Deng Jiaxian as an older brother.
Excellent people often get together to make progress together, Yang Zhenning and Deng Jiaxian often discuss academic exchange experiences together.
The friendship between the two from their fathers, through their youth, and together to go to scientific research experiments is destined to have an unforgettable companionship between them.
Yang Zhenning's excellence has brought development to his own opportunities, and when the chairman of the committee asked Wu Dayu to develop an atomic bomb, Wu Dayu said,
The most important thing in the development of the atomic bomb is talent, and money is used everywhere to develop the atomic bomb, but who can develop the atomic bomb is the key.
At the beginning, only three people who received this batch of publicly funded studies, one of whom was Yang Zhenning.
He came to the United States before Deng Jia, and received a doctorate in philosophy during his studies at the University of Chicago.
Later, when Deng Jia got up first and went to the United States to study further, he also asked Yang Zhenning which school was more suitable
Yang Zhenning recommended Deng Jia to go to Purdue University in the United States first, and the two schools were close together, which also gave the couple a chance to reunite again.
In the friendship between Yang Zhenning and Deng Jiaxian,
Deng Jiaxian has always regarded Yang Zhenning as his brother, he respects and admires Yang Zhenning, the two grow together on a scientific research path, and he strives to follow Yang Zhenning's footsteps and continue to move forward.
Although Yang Zhenning and Deng Jiaxian are good friends, they have different understandings of problems on the road of scientific research.
Deng Jiaxian responded to the national policy and chose to break through many obstacles to return to the motherland to carry out atomic bomb research, while Yang Zhenning chose a better scientific research environment to stay abroad for development.
Returned to China for research
Deng Jiaxian responded to the state's call to return to China, and after returning to China, he began to secretly participate in the development of China's first atomic bomb.
The initial start was very difficult, and few people in the whole institute had seen missiles, and the only one who had seen missiles was Deng Jiaxian.
However, the equivalent of starting from scratch, did not break this group of young people in the institute, they chose to pay silently on the Gobi beach.
The development of the atomic bomb itself is very dangerous, and the impact of nuclear radiation pollution on the human body once the explosion fails is irreparable damage
After a failed explosion, someone had to go to the site of the radiation-rich site if they wanted to find the real cause.
At this moment, who went meant who gave up his life, pushing and shoving, Deng Jia first made up his mind:
"Don't go, I'll go in."
He walked towards the scene of the "fatal" without hesitation, and quickly returned from there holding a nuclear warhead.
For Deng Jiaxian, this "death" was worth it, and they found the final problem.
After the successful explosion of the first atomic bomb, followed by the successful explosion of the hydrogen bomb, Deng Jiaxian was awarded the title of the Founder of the Two Bombs.
Behind this seemingly glorious honor is not known how many people's sweat and sacrifices have been buried.
In Deng Jiaxian's view, the necessary sacrifices in this research process are worth it, and Deng Jiaxian's sacrifice is not only life.
For so many years, Deng Jiaxian was preoccupied with nuclear weapons tests, and his wife did not know where Deng Jiaxian was or what he was going through.
A living person seems to have disappeared, never existed in the world.
The fall of the great man
When the two bombs and one medal finally contributed to the country, and it was difficult to become the target of bullying after obtaining the atomic bomb, he fell.
In July 1985, being contaminated with nuclear radiation in order to find the cause of the failure became Deng Jiaxian's nightmare, and he developed rectal cancer.
So far, a good solution to cancer has not been found, and death is very close to Deng Jiaxian.
On the hospital bed, Deng Jiaxian, who had a bloody mouth and nose, looked at His Wife Xu Luxi comfortingly, and the Lady had already stopped crying.
But Deng Jiaxian always tried to make her understand that all this he had done was worth it. How could Xu Luxi not know Deng Jiaxian's insistence?
As early as 33 years ago, when he received the task, his husband's resolute face exuded a desire for success, and he said that as long as he did this well, it was worth it to give his life.
Hearing that Deng Jiaxian was seriously ill in the hospital, Mr. Yang Zhenning also returned to China twice to visit. After many years,
The originally spirited teenager is now tortured to the bone because of cancer, and seeing the arrival of his friend, Deng Jiaxian, who was lying on the bed with a bleeding mouth and nose, still tried to welcome him with a smile.
Yang Zhenning was very distressed about Deng Jiaxian, he knew what Deng Jiaxian had experienced silently over the years.
He asked Deng Jiaxian:
"What the state has given you? Is it worth your life? ”
Deng Jiaxian heard this question and smiled as sincerely as a child, he said:
"Ten dollars for an atomic bomb, ten dollars for a hydrogen bomb."
Hearing this number, Yang Zhenning was shocked, and then immediately burst into tears. Yang Zhenning, who earned millions of yuan with the Nobel Prize, couldn't believe his ears.
His friend ended up with only a ten yuan subsidy, and he once suspected that Deng Jia was teasing him first.
Later, in Yang Zhenning's memories, whenever he thought of his good friend, Yang Zhenning was full of pride and pride.
He was proud of his best friend's persistence and silent dedication, and perhaps thinking back to his friend in this life, Yang Zhenning's mind could not forget his smile, and the smile was so sincere and so great.