"I am a descendant of Datang, and my enthusiasm only wants to repay the country." My roots are in China. ”
This is what patriotic scientist Qian Xuesen said. In 1934, the 23-year-old Qian Xuesen graduated from the National Jiaotong University and was immediately admitted to tsinghua university gengzi indemnity to study in the United States. In September 1935, Qian Xuesen entered the Department of Aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, and later transferred to the California Institute of Technology. Xuesen Not only earned his Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering and mathematics, but also became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology. At the age of 28, together with his mentor von Carmen, he completed the "Carmen-Qian Xuesen" formula and became a well-known rocket and missile expert in the United States.
The founding of New China undoubtedly made Qian Xuesen extremely excited. In a letter to his friends at home, he said: "There is no day, a moment, a moment without thinking about returning to China, participating in the great climax of construction", "impatient as a fire, lest you miss the opportunity.".
Because Qian Xuesen had too many classified Research on the United States, Danny Jimble, then the us Navy Deputy Secretary, declared: "He is too valuable, under any circumstances it is worth 3 to 5 divisions, I would rather shoot him than let him go back to Red China." Therefore, the Americans did not want Qian Xuesen to return to China, and the United States repeatedly obstructed the erection of obstacles, delayed time, and put him under house arrest for five years.
Qian Xuesen confronted the prosecutor directly in order to return to China at the HEARING of the USCIS:
Prosecutor: "What government are you loyal to?"
Qian Xuesen: "I am Chinese, and of course I am loyal to the people of Chinese. So I am loyal to a government that is good for the Chinese people, and I am hostile to any government that is harmful to the Chinese people. ”
Prosecutor: "Now that you're asking to go back to Chinese mainland, will you use your knowledge to help the Communist regime?"
Qian Xuesen: "Knowledge is my personal property, and I have the right to give it to whomever I want." ”
"I am Chinese, of course loyal to the Chinese people", Qian Xuesen's answer was loud and clear, showing a scientist's feelings of home and country and his bold loyalty.
Qian Xuesen was a tenured professor in the United States at the time, and he could freely enter and leave the Pentagon. Regarding Qian Xuesen's achievements, von Carmen once said that it was not me who made him, but he made me, and Qian Xuesen was the first-class rocket expert in the United States at that time.
What Qian Xuesen gave up in order to return to China was: a monthly lecturer salary of $2,000, a monthly research salary of $1,600, an annual research grant of $50,000, a tenured professor at MIT, and a U.S. green card.
"My surname is Qian, but I don't love money", Qian Xuesen took the initiative to give up the preferential treatment of the United States to return to China to participate in the construction of new China, indifferent to fame and fortune and the country first.
Once Mao Zedong asked Qian Xuesen what had always supported his confidence in returning to the motherland even after all the hardships. Qian Xuesen blurted out without thinking: "Profit the country, do not seek wealth." Qian Xuesen's patriotic feelings have left many people without land, and some experts can sell state secrets for tens of thousands of dollars.
In early 1985, Dr. Kiworth, the scientific adviser to the President of the United States, visited China and met with Song Jian, director of the State Science and Technology Commission. Knowing that Song Jian was Qian Xuesen's seniority, Kiworth solemnly asked him to convey to Qian Xuesen that the US Government was preparing to award Mr. Qian Xuesen the highest honor in the field of science and engineering in the United States, the National Science Prize.
Kiworth noted in particular: "The National Science Prize is the highest national honor that many native scientists in the United States have spent their entire lives in the country. "The national science prize ceremony is usually held at the White House. If Mr. Qian Xuesen goes to the United States to accept this honor, I cannot guarantee that the president will attend, but I can guarantee that at least the vice president will attend and personally present him. ”
Kiworth also said that if Mr. Qian Xuesen was willing to go to the United States, there would be no problem in conferring on him the titles of Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the U.S. Academy of Engineering.
Qian Xuesen replied unequivocally: "This is the Yankee playing a slippery head, I will not be fooled." When I left the United States, I was deported, and according to U.S. law, I could no longer go to the United States. If the U.S. government does not publicly rehabilitate me, I will never set foot on American soil again in this life and in this life. ”
In 1979, Qian Xuesen's alma mater, the California Institute of Technology, awarded him the title of "Outstanding Alumnus", in June 1986, the Southern California Association of Chinese Scientists and Engineers awarded him the award, and the 1989 International Conference on Technology and Technical Exchange awarded him in New York.
Qian Xuesen said: "If Chinese people say that Qian Xuesen has done something for the country and the nation, it is the highest reward, and I am not rare in those foreign honorary titles!" Even if Hu Yaobang, the state leader at the time, persuaded Qian Xuesen to go to the United States, it was useless, and Qian Xuesen persisted to the end.
Qian Xuesen's bones are hard, without the slightest servility or charm, and to return to China to build is to fight for the country and the nation. When General Chen Geng saw Qian Xuesen, who had just returned from the United States, he asked a straightforward question: Is it possible for China to engage in missiles? Qian Xuesen replied emphatically: "Foreigners can do it, but can't Chinese do it?" Chinese shorter than them? ”
Qian Xuesen's contribution to the country is obvious to all, the founder of China's manned spaceflight, known as the "father of China's aerospace", "the father of China's missiles", "the father of China's automation control", "the king of rockets", because of Qian Xuesen's return to China, the launch of Chinese missiles and atomic bombs has advanced forward for at least 20 years. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States once made this comment: "Qian Xuesen's achievements in the United States are very good, but they are not convincing enough, and his contribution to the People's Republic of China is truly remarkable." ”
Mao Zedong once asked Qian Xuesen, in addition to engineering cybernetics, what is your greatest strength? Qian Xuesen said solemnly that as a scientific and technological worker, I live to serve the people, and if I can dedicate my strength to the people, it will be the highest reward for me.
Qian Xuesen specially formulated the "four noes" and strictly implemented them. The so-called "four noes" refer to: First, not to engage in backdoor things; second, resolutely not to engage in eating and inviting, still less to engage in public-funded tourism; third, there is no particularly important reason, resolutely not to go abroad; fourth, resolutely do not go to any "who's who's who", "celebrity ceremony" and other such rankings.
"To live is to serve the people", what a touching and simple answer, Qian Xuesen truly achieved a pure person, a noble person, a person who is free from low-level interests, and a person who is beneficial to the people.
On October 31, 2009, Qian Xuesen died of illness in Beijing at the age of 98! Hold a state funeral according to the highest standard funeral! All walks of life were grief-stricken and went to send off, and the number of people sending off reached an unprecedented scale, and hundreds of thousands of people could not see their heads at a glance!
The US media reported the news of Qian Xuesen's death, directly saying that he had laid the foundation for the US aerospace industry. Nasa, the Landing of the United States on the Moon and the Expedition to Mars, many things were laid by him. On his birthday, SpaceX, the rocket company under the name of Tesla's founder, tweeted to wish the founder of NASAJPL a happy birthday!
A patriotic scientist will always be respected by the country and the world.
Touching the award speech awarded by the Chinese Organizing Committee to Qian Xuesen: In his heart, the country is important, the family is light, science is the heaviest, and fame and fortune are the lightest. Five years to return to the country, ten years two bombs. Pioneering the aerospace of the motherland, he was a pioneer, cutting thorns and thorns, forging wisdom into a ladder and leaving it to later climbers. He is a treasure of knowledge, a banner of science, and a model for the intellectuals of the Chinese nation.