Qian Xuantong godson
In the minds of his children, every father is both a respected elder and a loving authority, and every word and deed of the father will leave a deep impression on future generations.
During the "May Fourth" period on the mainland, there was a modern thinker and famous linguist who studied in Japan in his early years, was a professor at Peking University and Beijing Normal University, and the editor of "New Youth", and he had a great influence on the growth of his second son, Qian Sanqiang.
When Mr. Qian Xuantong was a child, he was punished by the master's precepts in order to peek at "Peach Blossom Fan", so he deeply resented feudal etiquette and often said to the children: "If you have a familiar with society, you must reform society after you have learned knowledge and skills." ”
Qian Sanqiang firmly remembered this. From a young age, he developed the habit of reading, but he preferred calculus mathematics, sports, music, and art.
At this time, Mr. Qian Xuantong spoke again: "I will not take care of what you will learn in the future, but a person must have a scientific mind and try his best to seek truth in everything." ”
"Dad, I want to learn to work!" When I was in middle school, one day Qian Sanqiang ran into his father's study and said frankly.
"So, which school do you want to go to?"
"I want to go to Nanyang University." This is also the later Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
"It's all in English, but you're learning French..." The father looked at his strong son, as if to remind him, and as if he were a little surprised.
"Dad, I will first take the preparatory department of The Science Department of Peking University, learn English, and I will definitely catch up."
Father let out a "hmm" and nodded without speaking.
Half a year later, he did catch up, his English scored 65, and my father smiled with satisfaction.
But later, he did not enter the engineering department, and Dan fell deeply in love with atomic physics, in 1936, he graduated from Tsinghua University with honors, the following year studied in France, and studied radium under the Joliot-Curie couple.
On the eve of going abroad, his father was seriously ill, and he hesitated to walk or not to go, and his strict and kind father comforted him, encouraged him, and said expectantly: "The science you learned will be useful to the country in the future. ”
That summer, 24-year-old Qian Sanqiang went far away, under the guidance of the little Curie couple, in cooperation with his lover He Zehui and four other people, first discovered the "three splits" and "four splits" of uranium, this scientific research results, brought him to another world, he was born in a miserable China, but won honor for the motherland. In 1948, when Qian Sanqiang decided to return to China, his appraisal certificate read: "In the past ten years, among the generation of scientists under our guidance, Qian Sanqiang is the best!" ”
After liberation, Qian Sanqiang, together with young people in the spring of science, constantly discovered and created, and won one victory after another. Of course, this is not only to repay his father, but also to be loyal to our motherland and people.
