There is a sentence in the Book of Rites and Confucianism: "Profit the country, do not seek riches." What is said is that Confucianism requires the people not to consider personal gains and losses as long as they can benefit the country. As a school with the deepest influence on China, this confucian sentence has also profoundly influenced countless latecomers, and even to a certain extent, it can be said that it has shaped the patriotic concept of Chinese the country before the family.
In modern history, there are many people who "profit from the country and do not seek wealth" to name a few. For example, even though Mr. Qian Xuesen has a well-known reputation and a good salary in the United States, he must return to China without hesitation after hearing about the needs of the motherland; for example, Mr. Deng Jiaxian, regardless of his personal safety, has been buried in the desert for more than ten years in order to study atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs; Mr. Guo Yonghuai, even if he knows that the plane is about to crash, he must hold the briefcase containing atomic bomb materials on his chest... I have to say that the spirit of these scientists in serving the motherland is always worth remembering for our descendants.
But in the same way, in recent years, with the awakening of individual consciousness and well-known reasons, some accomplished scientists have chosen the latter in the choice of "state" and "individual". And this point is vividly reflected in the genius physicist Yin Xi.
He became famous at the age of 23 and became a full professor in the Physics Department of Harvard University at the age of 31, breaking the record of the youngest Chinese professor in Harvard history. Various awards were even softer, but when the media asked whether he would return to China to develop, he chose to refuse.
As for the reason, his words are even more like a slap in the face, which is thought-provoking and thought-provoking.
Teenage genius
Yin Xi was born in December 1983 in Baoding, Hebei Province. Since childhood, he has shown a super high IQ, and the title of prodigy has not gone away. The family conditions in which his parents are both high-achieving students of the University of Geology also allow him to avoid the tragedy of "it is not necessarily better to be older than the hour", and has a very good growth space.
Talent coupled with reasonable planning, at the age of 9 and a half, Yin Xi entered the extraordinary intelligence experimental class of Beijing Eighth Middle School. Just by looking at the name, you know that there are some outstanding prodigies in the class, but even so, Yin Xi is still a top in it, especially in mathematics and physics, he can always come out on top.
At the age of 12 (1996), he set another record and was admitted to the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China with a high score of 572 points, which is also the youngest student of the University of Science and Technology.
You know, at that time, the person who could be admitted to the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China was definitely the existence of phoenix hair and diamond horns. In addition to the top admission scores similar to Peking University and Tsinghua University, the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China also requires students to have an age advantage. This is also in line with the original intention of the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China, after all, its goal is to break the routine to discover, select and cultivate outstanding talents.
On the list of the previous junior classes of the University of Science and Technology of China, we can also find one dazzling existence after another. For example, Zhuang Xiaowei, academician of the Two Academies of Sciences and the Physics Prize of the United States, Zhang Yaqin, chief scientist and chairman of Microsoft, and Luo Liqun, academician of the Two Academies of sciences and the famous biologist of the United States, are numerous.
For Yin Xi, who had just entered the University of Science and Technology of China at that time, these seniors were undoubtedly exemplary beings. Although he was young, he was very mature in the University of Science and Technology of China. Every day, I get up on time and listen carefully to the lectures, and I can always see him in the library.
Five years of study in the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China also laid a solid foundation in the fields of physics and mathematics, which also laid the groundwork for his pursuit of a higher stage.
On the eve of graduation, he applied to the world-famous universities Harvard University, Yale University and other universities. And excellent grades, super talent, and age advantages have all allowed him to get the olive branch of these universities. In the end, he chose Harvard University to pursue a Ph.D. in physics.
From the best platform in China to the best platform in the world, Yin Xi also impressed a large number of people with his performance at Harvard University. With high-quality professor resources and a wide range of thinking perspectives, Yin Xi at Harvard has also made great achievements in the frontier fields of science such as string theory, black hole entropy, and supersymmetric bound states in string theory.
For such a talented physical scientist, Harvard University is to be able to leave him without hesitation to break the rules of the school for a hundred years. Not only did he make an exception to allow him to continue his postdoctoral research, but he also hired Yin Xi as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics after just 2 years. Even more shocking is that in 2015, at the age of 31, Yin Xi had been promoted to full professor, which is also the record of the youngest Chinese professor at Harvard University.
The reason why Yin Xi was able to achieve such achievements is undoubtedly the result of talent and hard work.
Completing teaching at Harvard, becoming a U.S. citizen and reflecting behind it
As a genius physicist from China, people naturally hope that he can be like Qian Xuesen, Deng Jiaxian and other scientific figures who can "profit from the country and not seek wealth" and choose to return to China. However, when some media asked him whether he would return to China for development, his reply was negative, saying that he would not consider returning to China for the time being.
Seeing this, presumably some wolves have become unbearable, already keyboard dancing, not to mention that Yin Xi not only gave up his Chinese nationality to join the United States nationality in the past ten years in the United States, but also married an American wife and gave birth to a child.
However, Yin Xi's next words were more like a slap in the face, which was thought-provoking and thought-provoking.
"The domestic scientific research environment cannot be compared with foreign countries, and there are top physicists at Harvard who can communicate with each other."
Perhaps living in the United States for many years has made Yin Xi less Chinese traditional implications and more straightforward meaning. But in terms of facts, why not?
In 2018, Xu Chenyang, a famous mathematician born in Peking University's School of Mathematics, chose to leave after returning from the United States to teach for 6 years, but he chose to leave without hesitation and returned to the United States as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As for Yun Zhiwei, Zhang Wei and Zhu Xinwen, who are also known as the "Four Heavenly Kings of Peking University Digital College", they also chose to do so, and they stayed in the United States massachusetts institute of technology, California Institute of Technology and other universities.
When asked about the reasons, Xu Chenyang also pointed out the problems of the domestic scientific research environment.
In 2017, after following Shi Yigong back to China to teach for 10 years, Yan Ning chose to return to the United States to teach at Princeton University, and it is interesting that she was not allowed to enter the door of academicians in China, and soon after returning to the United States, she became an academician of the Two Academies of sciences in the United States.
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There are countless such examples, and according to the 2018 statistics of students studying in the United States, more than 79% of phDs in the United States have chosen to work in the United States after completing their studies. If it is difficult to prove it alone, then what does this heavy data illustrate?
Undoubtedly, while acknowledging the gap between domestic universities and foreign top universities, we should also pay more attention to the "scientific research environment" in the mouths of these scientists. When the "Qian Xuesen's question" is answered, we have been able to cultivate outstanding talents, how to break the shackles of the domestic scientific research environment, and retain talents has become a new top priority.
Of course, Yin Xi did not completely block his way back to China. He also said that if he wanted to return to China, he would also bring a physicist from his homeland back to China.
But in such an era of awakening individual consciousness, it is obvious that simply counting on the patriotic sentiment of "profiting the country and not seeking wealth" can no longer solve the problem. Only the original can be traced back to the source, breaking the atmosphere of quick success, thoroughly rectifying the fraud of academic papers, cutting off the path of some people's opportunism, and not using seniority to rank the party is the fundamental place where they are left.
The road is heavy and the road is long, and I hope that the future of the motherland will be even better!