She was one of the first batch of students to go abroad for further study in the country's reform and opening up, and was also the first person to develop semiconductor materials in China. Leading the progress of semiconductor material technology in the mainland, he has single-handedly won the right to convene a famous international conference for the mainland, and was elected a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences, but he has failed to be elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences four times, and the reason behind this is even more lamentable.
At 9 p.m. on May 1, 2007, Li Aizhen was working in her research room at home when she received a call from the National Academy of Sciences. She was very excited to tell Li Aizhen that she had been elected a foreign member of the American Academy of Sciences.
When the other party said the news, Li Aizhen was stunned for a while and did not react. After a while, she came back to her senses, and her heart suddenly surged with thousands of thoughts, and she was hired as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences. This is undoubtedly an affirmation of Li Aizhen, but also an affirmation of his scientific research achievements, which is the achievement of the dreams of many scientists at home and abroad.
This is the highest achievement of the American scientific community. So far, only a dozen scientists in the country have been elected as foreign members of the American Academy of Sciences.
However, this time is different, among these 11 people, only Li Aizhen is in China, and does not have the title of academician of any hospital in the two courts of the country.
You must know that her strength can fully meet the requirements of academicians, but before this, Li Aizhen has nominated the list of Chinese academicians four times. Sadly, she lost every time,
However, when she was elected as a foreign academician in the United States, many netizens in China began to worry. Will Li Aizhen go abroad to work in the United States because she was not elected as an academician? After all, the United States values him so much and gives him such high achievements.
Just when everyone had no bottom in their hearts, Li Aizhen said such a paragraph.
Without the knowledge of the motherland, I would not have achieved what I have today. I am grateful to those who recommended me as an academician. Thanks to their affirmation of me, but I am also very guilty, living up to their expectations of me, I will always stay in the motherland and continue to fight for the semiconductor cause of the motherland.
Seeing Li Aizhen's speech, many people were touched by it and praised her behavior.
In 1936, Li Aizhen's parents returned from business in the Philippines and settled in Fujian Province.
Li Aizhen was born in a small town in Yongning, and the times were not good. At that time, China was in the midst of japan's brutal atrocities, and her parents, with patriotic enthusiasm, threw themselves into the anti-Japanese front regardless of their own safety.
Perhaps influenced by her parents, Li Aizhen has been very patriotic since she was a child, and she is also deeply aware of it. Only a strong motherland is the foundation of peace.
In 1954, she took the college entrance examination and was admitted to the Department of Chemistry of Fudan University with excellent results. After four years of hard study, after graduating from Fudan University, she was assigned to the Shanghai Metallurgical Institute as a chemical researcher.
During the work, she studied hard and was not afraid of setbacks, zou Yuanxi, then deputy director of the Shanghai Metallurgical Institute, began to pay attention to Li Aizhen, and after a period of assessment, Zou Yuanxi paid more attention to Li Aizhen.
Finally, setting her as her own student, Li Aizhen began to study further, and under the guidance of Zhou Yuanxi, Li Aizhen accepted the discipline of semiconductor materials.
At that time, it was an extremely advanced discipline, and there were no more successful scholars in China.
In the 1970s, with the advent of the information age, the semiconductor industry influenced the development of high-end technologies. The country has also begun to attach importance to the development of the semiconductor industry, but for this technology our country is eager and unattainable. Because the Western countries have imposed a technological blockade on the mainland,
Zou Yuanxi, Li Aizhen's teacher, believes that the best way to solve the technological blockade of Western countries on the mainland is to develop their own new technologies. In order to completely break their wishful thinking.
Therefore, after the reform and opening up, the mainland began to send a large number of high-end talents to advanced Western countries. I look forward to their return from their studies and service to the country.
In the selection of those who went abroad for further study, Zou Yuanxi did not care about political risks at all, and strongly recommended Li Aizhen, a girl from an overseas Chinese family, to go abroad for further study.
At that time, some people in China did not trust people from overseas Chinese backgrounds very much, afraid that they would not come back when they went out. After all, there is a precedent in the family,
Zou Yuanxicai was born to let Li Aizhen go abroad for further study. In the end, Li Aizhen passed the audit and came to Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, the former school of her mentor Zou Yuanxi.
When she came to the United States to study, she knew that she could go abroad for further study, and the teachers overcame many difficulties and obstacles for her, and she remembered this kindness in her heart, plus her own revenge, and did not dare to slacken off. Throw yourself into the ocean of semiconductors,
When she was in school, Li Aizhen often went to Bell Labs, with her own questions, to consult Zhuo Yihe. Zhuo Yihe is a well-known expert and is known as the father of molecular numerals.
Through this conversation, Li Aizhen deeply realized the importance of molecular mathematical techniques. National defense and the lives of the people are inseparable from this technology,
This technology is the most core technology in infrared light change, infrared detection, lidar and so on.
She secretly vowed to bring this advanced technology back to her motherland. Let China no longer lag behind other countries,
Since then, Li Aizhen began to carefully study molecular mathematical techniques.
In 1988, Li Aizhen returned to China and began to develop this technology on his own. But the equipment is too backward, and the technology has not progressed.
Fortunately, after the end of the Cold War in 1994, the Export Control of Molecular Number Outer Rock Equipment in the United States was relaxed, so we took the opportunity to purchase Molecular Number Outer Rock Equipment.
With advanced equipment, Li Aizhen's research began to accelerate, and after six years, kung fu paid off. Under the leadership of Li Aizhen, the mainland successfully gnawed down this difficult bone and had its own laser.
What exciting news is that China has since stepped into a country that has mastered the independent development of such high-tech lasers. Previously, only the United States and Europe had this technology.
China's success shocked the world, and everyone praised Li Aizhen for being one of the few laboratories where she could develop the technology at the time. Li Aizhen can make it independently, which seems almost impossible in the eyes of Western countries.
They didn't believe that China, which was lagging behind at the time, could develop such high-end technology, but she did.
This is a huge credit to China, Li Aizhen has been scientific research for more than 40 years, and if it does not sound, it will be a blockbuster.
Her achievements have amazed China and even the whole world.
In 2003, Li Aizhen was elected as an academician of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials Sciences for this achievement. Soon after, at the Third World Academy of Sciences Academician Congress, Li Aizhen was selected as an engineering scientist of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
She is the first Chinese scientist to receive this award, which is enough to see Li Aizhen's position in the scientific community.
On May 1, 2007, Li Aizhen became a foreign member of the American Academy of Sciences. When Li Aizhen was not a foreign member of the American Academy of Sciences, but a domestic scientist.
She recommended Li Aizhen to run for the Chinese Academy of Sciences four times in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005, but in the 1999 campaign he had not achieved what she has achieved today, so she was not elected. The results of the next few elections are also the same as the previous ones, and they have fallen behind sun mountains.
Until 2005. The Chinese Academy of Engineering encouraged Li Aizhen to run, but Li Aizhen refused, saying that the number of academicians was too precious. She is already more than half a hundred years old, and she has the quota of academicians again, so she can't bear it, so she still has to give more opportunities to those who come after her.
In this way, after being selected four times, the state also respected her wishes and did not nominate academicians for her again.
After Li Aizhen retired in 2001, she could not stop for a moment, and she still got up early every day and went to work in the research institute. Working day and night,
Once, during the New Year's Day, her students called him on the first day of the Chinese New Year to pay respects to the New Year, and there was no one in the house. Later, I called the laboratory and found Teacher Li Aizhen, who was doing experiments.
In 2005 he was invited to participate in the internationally renowned International Conference on Infrared Optoelectronic Materials and Devices. At the meeting, she proposed the 10th session held in Shanghai, China in 2010, to know that this conference is very gold-rich, and which country is held in which country is equivalent to recognizing the technology of which country.
Prior to this, the United States and Europe had always been the venues of this conference, and Li Aizhen's vigorous efforts won the next conference for the mainland.
When Li Aizhen returned to China, someone asked why he insisted so winning the place where this conference was held, and his scientific research skills to reach the mainland were not worse than theirs. Eligible to host.
Another reason is about my mentor Zou Yuanxi, who is an overseas Chinese family who was my mentor when I first studied in the United States and sent me out with great political risks. Before he died, he had told me that he hoped that the mainland would one day be able to hold such an international conference, and now I have fulfilled his long-cherished wish. He has been kind to me, I am a grateful person,
Today, Li Aizhen is the first Chinese female scientist to be awarded a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences. This is also the affirmation of him by the scientific community.
In response to the olive branch thrown at him by the United States, she said she accepted the title but would not leave her homeland. I will not go to the United States to work, if there is no cultivation of the motherland, there will be no achievements I have today, and I will devote my life to building the field of high-tech semiconductors in the motherland.
Li Aizhen's answer touched the people of the country, and they praised her patriotic feelings one after another, calling him Mr. Li Lao.
Time flies, and now 85-year-old teacher Li Aizhen is still struggling in the front line of scientific research, she is a bright light, guiding reporters.
She often told his students that real work was far more important than the honors. Be sure to remember what others have given you and don't care what others have given you. To engage in scientific research, we must sink our hearts, and I think his students will remember the respect and teachings of the old man.
It is precisely because of these people in China that our country can become stronger and stronger and stand tall in the forest of science in the world. Only those who have responsibility and ambition can lead China to prosperity and strength.
It is hoped that more and more patriotic scholars like Li Aizhen will not forget to serve the motherland at any time. At the same time, we must also learn from Li Aizhen's patriotic feelings and fighting spirit. What do you think of such patriotic scientists? Welcome to leave a message to discuss