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Hu Hailan
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She is regarded as the "Zhejiang University version of Yan Ning" also failed to be elected academician, but with an achievement ranked first in Asia, bringing hope to 300 million people, netizens worry: don't be like Yan Ning!
Hu Hailan, who is affectionately known as the "Zhejiang University version of Yan Ning" by netizens, won the World Outstanding Female Scientist Achievement Award in June this year, it is not the first time that Hu Hailan has appeared in the public eye as an excellent scientist, after she returned from the United States in 2008, she has been successfully reported frequently, she was once rated as "the first person in Asia" by the People's Daily in the news, but such an excellent scientist was elected as an academician in November last year, and was therefore called "Zhejiang University version of Yan Ning".
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The competition for academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is very fierce, and many well-known scientists in the mainland have not been selected, and even Tu Youyou, who has won the Nobel Prize, has only been shortlisted many times and regrettably failed. But this does not mean that these scientists are not good enough, today we will talk about this talented and beautiful professor of Zhejiang University - Hu Hailan. Follow me, take you to know more about the people, your support is my biggest motivation.
Introduction to the experience
Born in 1973 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Hu Hailan is still only in her forties, she is now a dean of Zhejiang University, but in fact, she has shown amazing talent in science since she was a child, in elementary school, Hu Hailan has a high interest in the subject of natural science, and she is also very lively and cheerful, willing to help teachers help other students, when at home, she is also very filial to her parents.
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Although she was in the midst of a wave of layoffs at that time, Hu Hailan was not distracted by this, but relied on her own efforts to achieve results that made her parents very happy, in this way, she was admitted to a key high school in Dongyang, even if her parents were laid off at that time, their family was still happy and harmonious, and their parents were very proud to have such an excellent daughter.
Pursue science
Although people often say that Jiangnan women are gentle and moving, gentle and quiet, Hu Hailan, who grew up in Jiangnan, did not lose the frizzy boy on the road of pursuing scientific truth. When choosing liberal arts and sciences in high school, her parents felt that Hu Hailan, a slow and rational little girl, was suitable for studying liberal arts, but she did not follow her parents' wishes, but chose science, which also made her father dissatisfied for a period of time, until her daughter brought home the first prize of the National Olympic Prize, and the parents dispelled their worries and began to support their daughter's choice.
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It is precisely because of her outstanding performance in this national Olympiad that Hu Hailan was directly escorted to Peking University after graduating from high school, although she entered the school of her dreams, but she was still worried, why then? As we mentioned earlier, Hu Hailan won the first prize in the Physics Olympiad, and she herself preferred physics, while her high school alma mater sent her to the Biology College, so Hu Hailan was able to enter the biological world and made great contributions because of the "crooked play" at this time.
She once felt uncomfortable for a long time because she did not like this subject, but the turning point occurred after her in-depth study, she found that learning biology is actually more open-minded than when studying physics, a large reason is that when learning biology, you have to consider many aspects, and due to the differences in biological individuals, the more uncertainties caused by the factors, the more you need to dabble in a wide range, which makes Hu Hailan re-examine the biology major, and found that this major is much more challenging than physics. And I also want to break through the world.
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In the four years of study at Peking University, Hu Hailan can be said to have really done "Phi Xing Dai Yue", the library has not yet opened, she has been waiting at the library door, every time in the library to study too much, so that the staff in the library after the closure of the library are "can not drive away" immersed in the study of Hu Hailan, and in addition to the necessary life time, she is a regular customer in the laboratory, many teachers have met her, whenever Hu Hailan in the library encountered problems she did not understand, she will rush to the laboratory for verification for the first time. With her own hands to find answers, even if there are problems that she can't solve, she still accumulated valuable experimental operation experience, which provided great help for her future study and research.
Study abroad in the United States
In 1995, Hu Hailan went to the University of Berkeley in the United States after graduating with her excellent results, and the United States at that time was the world leader in scientific and technological development and academic level, so as soon as she arrived in the United States, she embarked on the road of pursuing more profound knowledge. Other international students came to the United States, many of them have appeared "water and soil" performance, but Hu Hailan's process of seeking knowledge is very handy, she relied on her four years of experimental operation experience accumulated in college, won the favor of many professors in this university that values hands-on ability, compared to others to spend nearly ten years to study, and Hu Hailan only took eight years to get a master's and doctoral degree in neurobiology.
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In 2004, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued an invitation to Hu Hailan, this scientific research institution enjoys the reputation of "cradle of molecular biology", but also has a huge influence in the world, in the face of such an excellent opportunity, Hu Hailan naturally will not let him slip away, so after joining the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Hu Hailan did not relax himself because of his small reputation in the scientific research community, but in this laboratory filled with most of the American elite, some western scientists were robbed of the limelight by her.
At that time, because the study of the causes of depression was more difficult, and the return was much lower than the effort invested, so the modern experts' research on the treatment of depression was still at a relatively shallow level, coupled with the curiosity of scientific researchers, Hu Hailan began to study this topic, she never slackened in the four years of the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory, working nearly 18 hours a day, but this still did not allow her to find the physiological cause of depression.
Resolutely returned home
With the development of the times, the United States is no longer the country that can single-handedly cover the sky in the field of scientific research, and Hu Haiquan has not achieved any tangible results in the United States for more than a decade, so in 2008, he refused the preferential treatment of the United States and embarked on the plane back to China.
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As soon as Hu Hailan returned to China, she went to the Chinese Academy of Sciences to continue her research, and in 2019, under Hu Hailan's "careful cultivation", the depression topic she studied finally produced fruitful results, and she also won the 12th "IBRO-Kemali International Award", which can be called the "Nobel Prize" in the biological world. Bring hope to 300 million people!
Academicians were not elected
In fact, this is not her first award, from 2012 to now, large and small awards can be written on Hu Hailan's personal resume page full of pages, but such an excellent scientist, but in November last year lost the election of academicians, but also by people called "Zhejiang University version of Yan Ning".
Yan Ning
Like Yan Ning, she is also a young and beautiful professor, who has also won world-class academic glory, and also rejected foreign preferential treatment after the end of her studies and returned to the motherland, and also made great contributions to the motherland and the world.
Struggle on the road
But she is also a little different from Yan Ning, she did not leave the motherland again, but chose to stay in her hometown hangzhou. It is indeed a pity for her to not be elected as an academician, but the competition for academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is very fierce, and many well-known scientists in the mainland have not been selected, even Tu Youyou, who has won the Nobel Prize, has only been shortlisted many times, regrettably failing.
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On June 1 this year, Hu Hailan's name appeared in the top 50 of the 2022 Forbes China Science and Technology Women List, this excellent scientist should be known and admired by us, and the new generation of young people should regard scientists like Hu Hailan as idols, rather than just some entertainment actors and singers. Although she is as good-looking and highly educated as Yan Ning, she did not leave the motherland after losing the election as an academician, do you think it is appropriate for netizens to call Hu Hailan "Zhejiang University version of Yan Ning"? If you feel it is appropriate, please type the word "appropriate" in the comments section, and if it is not appropriate, please tell us your reasons.