On April 22, local time, the beautiful scientist Yan Ning was elected as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in addition to being elected as a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences on April 30, 2019, Yan Ning also became an academician of the Two Academies of the United States, which made people cheer and sigh, if she stayed in China, how much contribution could she make!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > first, female school bully Yan Ning from the countryside to the United States</h1>
Yan Ning was born in 1977 in the countryside of Zhangqiu, Shandong. In his childhood, Yan Ning was more naughty, playing crazy in the field all day, the whole tomboy. Later, Yan Ning moved to Beijing with her parents. When she was in elementary school, she always rushed homework at school and started playing crazy when she got home.
When I was in middle school, almost every door was first. When she was divided into subjects in high school, the teacher suggested that she study science subjects, and the teacher forced her into the science class. In 1996, she was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent results and chose tsinghua's biology department.
Yan Ning graduated from Tsinghua University in 2000 and went to study in the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University in the United States, and it took her only 4 years to obtain a doctorate (usually 7 years). Under the leadership of his mentor Shi Yigong, Yan Ning entered the field of molecular regulation mechanisms of tumorigenesis and apoptosis.
Since 2005, Yan Ning has been a postdoctoral graduate student and began to engage in membrane protein research related to important diseases.
In October 2007, Yan Ning was invited by the head professor of the Department of Biology of Tsinghua University to become a young professor at her alma mater, Tsinghua University, when she was only 30 years old. She has served as a professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University and has 10 years of teaching experience at Tsinghua.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, suddenly left Tsinghua for various reasons</h1>
In 2017, Yan Ning left Tsinghua University and accepted an invitation from Princeton University to become a tenured chair professor in the biology department of the university.
For Yan Ning's departure, many people expressed regret. Many people say that the motherland spent a lot of effort to cultivate her, but she left the motherland. Some people also say that because she was nominated as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, she was not selected, and she ran away from Tsinghua in a negative mood. Everyone was very dissatisfied with her departure and thought that she had no patriotic heart.
Yan Ning later clarified: "I am afraid that I have been in an environment for a long time, and I may be self-contained and not self-aware." A different environment is to give yourself some new pressure, stimulate yourself to get inspiration, and hope to make new breakthroughs in science. "I expressed the intention of hoping that everyone would understand."
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > three, Shi Yigong: the noble behind Yan Ning's success</h1>
At that time, when Yan Ning was about to graduate, he wrote a cover letter to Shi Yigong, in which he wrote: "I feel that I am excellent in all aspects, and I hope to spend my time in a more valuable place." But applying to go abroad is a waste of time and money, and if Princeton admits me, I won't have to spend any more energy applying to other schools..."
Shi Yigong was impressed by Yan Ning's self-confidence, so he had returned to the United States and personally interviewed Yan Ning by phone. By the time Yan Ning graduated, Princeton's acceptance letter had also crossed the ocean and came to her hands. At Princeton University, Yan Ning studied under Shi Yigong.
Shi Yigong admitted Yan Ning from Tsinghua University to Princeton University, guaranteed her a master's degree and a doctorate, pointed out a thesis, and successfully graduated. Shi Yigong was Yan Ning's mentor and mentor. After that, Shi Yigong returned to China, and Yan Ning, who graduated with a doctorate, also followed his mentor back to Tsinghua University. Thanks to shi Yigong's help, the best experimental equipment, and the best scientific research conditions, Yan Ning led his research team to make good results, thus becoming one of the youngest female professors and female doctoral supervisors in China.
During her PhD studies, Yan Ning won the "Youth Science Award" selected by the scientific journal and GEHealthcare for her outstanding research on the working mechanism of the apoptosis pathway of nematodes and fruit flies, which is surprisingly high because only 5 people are selected each year in the world. Since returning to Tsinghua Independent Leadership Lab in 2007, Yan Ning has published 40 academic papers, of which 13 papers with her as the corresponding author have been published in top journals such as Nature, Science, and Cell, and her results have twice been selected as the annual top ten progress of Science. He was named one of the ten "Chinese Science Stars" by Nature.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fourth, difference: academician Yan Ning and academician recommended by Moutai</h1>
Academician is the highest honorary title in Science and Technology in China, And Academicians in China usually refer to academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the recommended ones are scientific and technological workers who have made significant contributions to promoting national scientific and technological progress.
However, the first election of the academicians of the Academy of Turtles Rao Yi, Shi Yigong and Yan Ning, who had outstanding scientific research level, failed, and Rao Yi was quite dissatisfied with this and directly announced that he would not participate in the election. Shortly after returning to China, Rao Yi and Shi Yigong jointly issued an article attacking the current situation of scientific research in China and the trend of academic misconduct that seriously affected academic development.
Yan Ning was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, and was elected as an academician of the Two Academies of sciences in the United States after going to the United States, which made people feel that Wang Li, chief engineer of Moutai Group, was recommended by the local government to be selected for the 2021 academician candidate list this year, which caused widespread controversy, and Wang Li was also jokingly called "Baijiu Academician".
The most criticized thing is that the recommendation of researchers dedicated to the study of "winemaking" technology to select academicians is difficult to represent the strategic direction of "rejuvenating the country through science and technology", although the academician of baijiu is only in the recommendation stage, but this recommendation is "not lethal, the insult is extremely strong".