One
The matter still has to start from Yang Zhenning's father
Yang Wuzhi said.
Talk about its father
Yang Wuzhi resigned in the spring of 1923
His wife and son, Yang Zhenning, who is not yet one year old, went to the United States to study alone.
Yang Wuzhi
He first went to Stanford University in the western United States, where he received a bachelor's degree and then transferred to the University of Chicago in the fall of 1924 to continue his studies.
In 1926
He received his master's degree from the article "Bilinear Invariants". Two years later, with "Various Promotions of the Hualin Problem", Yang Wuzhi became the first person in China to become a doctor because of the study of number theory.
In the autumn of 1928, Yang Wuzhi returned to China after completing his studies, first teaching at Xiamen University for one year, and the following year he was hired as a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University. After that, including the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Yang Wuzhi always taught at Tsinghua University, and for a period of time because of the war, he went to Southwest United University to teach.
When the family came to Beijing, Yang Zhenning was already 7 years old, and then Yang Zhenning was admitted
Chongde Middle School met Deng Jiaxian, who was two years younger.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, his father Yang Wuzhi went to Southwest Union University to teach as a mathematics teacher in order to escape the chaos of war, and Yang Zhenning was also admitted to the Physics Department of Southwest Union University.
In 1941, Deng Jiaxian also came to Southwest Union University and became Yang Zhenning's disciple.
The following year, Yang Zhenning graduated, 20 years old, at this time Southwest Union University came another Li Zhengdao, became Yang Zhenning's disciple.
After graduation, Yang Zhenning became a teacher, and when he was teaching, he met a person who would affect his life in the future, and this person was his first wife: Du Zhili.
Du Salute
In 1945, Yang Zhenning won the "Gengzi Indemnity Scholarship" to study in the United States, under the famous theoretical physicist Edward Taylor, studied for a doctorate at the University of Chicago, and embarked on the same path of study as his father Yang Wuzhi.
In 1948, Yang Zhenning got a doctorate, and as early as 1946, Li Zhengdao also entered the University of Chicago, and after Yang Zhenning got his doctorate, he entered the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study for postdoctoral research, and he also found his own apprentice
Lee Jung-do conducted research together.
At this time, Yang Zhenning has already achieved academic success and career success!
Two
Yang Zhenning, who was far away in the United States, may not have seen the newspaper, but on September 12, 1948, the Northeast Field Army commanded by the Communist general Lin Biao launched an offensive against the Kuomintang Wei Lihuang Department in the western part of Liaoning Province and the Shenyang and Changchun areas, known in history as the Liaoshen Campaign.
Chinese The People's Liberation Army annihilated and captured more than 470,000 Kuomintang troops at the cost of 69,000 casualties, a battle that seriously injured the Kuomintang and completely went down the road of decline and retreat.
The People's Liberation Army became more and more courageous in the vietnam war, the offensive was fierce, the troops were fierce, and they were invincible, and soon defeated Wang Yaowu, the supreme commander of the Nationalist Army. Immediately afterward, the People's Liberation Army launched a powerful offensive against the Nationalist army, which had gathered 700,000 troops, called the Battle of Huaihai.
Du Yuming was captured
On January 9, 1949, Du Yuming, the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Suppression General", who had been besieged in the Huaihai Battlefield for 66 days and nights, was defeated. In this battle, Du Yuming, deputy commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief of the battlefield of Xuzhou," and Wen Qiang, chief of the battlefield general staff (according to Mao Zedong's mother, Wen Qi's nephew), and other high-ranking generals were captured.
Du Yuming's daughter Du Zhili left the battlefield, left her homeland to come to the United States, and met Yang Zhenning at Christmas of this year, the world is so big, I met you, maybe this is fate.
At this time, Du Yuming had already become a prisoner of the order, but this did not prevent Yang Zhenning from falling in love with Du Zhili, who had an elegant temperament and was dignified and generous.
The two began to communicate, in love, you and me.
However, another thing related to Yang Zhenning happened on the land of China, and that was his father
What Yang Wuzhi did next was influence
What Yang Zhenning will decide in the future.
Three
When Peiping City was surrounded by the People's Liberation Army, the Nationalist army was already exhausted and could not support itself.
But the Kuomintang is not an elm knot; they know what is important and what is the capital; at the behest of Chiang Kai-shek, senior members of the Nationalist Government and celebrities decided to turn the tide for the Nationalist Government and soon drew up a list of "rescue personnel."
The list of "rescuers" includes four categories of people: the heads of school administrations; those who must leave because of political relations; academicians of the Academia Sinica; and those who have made academic contributions and voluntarily come south.
A few days before Peiping was occupied by the People's Liberation Army, Chiang Kai-shek personally issued an edict to send a plane to Beiping, and at this time, the president of Peking University, Hu Shi, and the Tsinghua professor Chen Yinke had already rushed to the Zhongnanhai Qinzheng Hall to wait.
Hu Shi, Chen Yinke, Mao Zishui, Qian Siliang, Ying Qianli, Huang Jin'ao, and other famous professors flew away on a plane sent by Chiang Kai-shek.
Mei Yiqi
Soon Chiang Kai-shek sent a second plane, led by Mei Yiqi, president of Tsinghua University, to take off from Dongdan Airport to Nanjing.
Among this second group of people was Yang Zhenning's father, Yang Wuzhi.
The most brilliant Hu Shi first transferred to the United States, then transferred to Taiwan as the president of the Academia Sinica of the National Government and died in office, mei Yiqi was the same, first to the United States, and then to Taiwan as the Minister of Education of the National Government, and founded Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Later, Li Yuanzhe, a student at Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987, which means that Mei Yiqi brought out three Nobel prize winners: Li Zhengdao, Yang Zhenning, and Li Yuanzhe.
It can be seen from this how many talents were pulled away by the Kuomintang in those years, and it is precisely because of these talents that the small Taiwan at that time was very developed, and now our country is rich and strong, and there are many talents, and it is no longer the China of decades ago.
Four
Yang Wuzhi, a professor of mathematics at Tsinghua University who flew to Nanjing with Mei Yiqi, decided to abandon the dark and follow the Communist Party after arriving in Nanjing.
Therefore, Yang Wuzhi, who got off the plane, used the excuse of going to Kunming to pick up his family first, and after receiving his family in Kunming, Yang Wuzhi did not go to Nanjing, but went to Shanghai to greet "liberation", and he hoped that after the liberation in the future, he could continue to return to Beiping Tsinghua to teach.
However, after the liberation of Peiping, the new master led by Wu Han, the representative of the army, kicked Yang Wuzhi out, believing that it was a "crime" for him to follow Mei Yiqi to open Peiping, so he refused to hire Yang Wuzhi.
After the founding of New China, in the face of the tough practices of Wu Han and others, Yang Wuzhi was stimulated and stayed in Shanghai to teach at Tongji University.
In 1950, 28-year-old Yang Zhenning and 23-year-old Du Zhili married in the United States.
At this time, Yang Wuzhi's body also collapsed, and since then, Yang Wuzhi's body has not improved, and he often appears in a coma.
Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao at the award ceremony
It was not until 1957 that Yang Zhenning won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Li Zhengdao that Yang Zhenning's father, Yang Wuzhi, attracted great attention from the central government, but at this time, Yang Wuzhi was over sixty years old, frail and sick, and could no longer enter Tsinghua as a working professor.
However, the central authorities still paid more attention to Yang Wuzhi and released Yang Zhenning's father-in-law, Du Yuming, from prison as a war criminal, which was also a weight to win his service to the new China and the new government.
Perhaps it was because of the relationship between his father-in-law, Du Yuming, that he did not return to China for a long time!
Obviously, this move was very effective, and yang Zhenning helped Deng Jiaxian and others in many things, and also did a lot of cutting-edge scientific research for Tsinghua University.
Five
In 1964, the year china's first atomic bomb exploded successfully, Yang Zhenning became a 42-year-old citizen and became an American citizen.
In 1967, China's first hydrogen bomb successfully exploded, yang Zhenning, who was far away in the United States, contacted his elderly father Yang Wuzhi, hoping to return to China to see, Yang Wuzhi hit the report, and Premier Zhou specially approved it.
Back in China, Yang Zhenning tried every means to meet with Deng Jiaxian, and accidentally hit and bumped into Deng Jiaxian to save Deng Jiaxian's life, and at that time, the country was engaged in a movement.
In fact, Yang Zhenning just wanted to know whether China's atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs were real, and after Premier Zhou's instructions, Deng Jiaxian gave him a reply: China's atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs were all developed by Chinese themselves, and not a single foreigner participated.
In 1973, Yang Wuzhi died, and until his death, he could not forgive Yang Zhenning for becoming an American citizen.
Yang Wuzhi had taught at Tsinghua for 16 years, and he always wanted to return to Tsinghua, but he did not follow him.
In 1997, the return of Hong Kong touched the nerves of Yang Zhenning, looking back on the past, he lamented that he had lost too much, gained something, and lost something indescribable in the tide of history.
In 2003, Yang Zhenning was warmly invited by the leadership of Tsinghua University to complete the unfinished dream buried in his heart to realize his father's return to Tsinghua Garden that year, and Yang Zhenning returned to Tsinghua from the United States.
That same year, Yang Zhenning's wife Du Zhili died at the age of 76.
In 2004, in the shade of Tsinghua Garden, 82-year-old Yang Zhenning hugged a 28-year-old beauty Weng Fangui, QinSer and Ming, which was unexpected.
In 2015, Yang Zhenning re-admitted to Chinese nationality. Finally fulfilled the wish of his father Yang Wuzhi and made up for the regret of his father Yang Wuzhi when he was dying.