I don't know if you have seen a video or article similar to this: "Tsinghua high-quality student Lin Ye: giving up his nationality to help the United States build an intercontinental missile, and in his later years he wanted to fall leaves and return to his roots and was rejected."
Filled with righteous indignation, have you ever thought that this thing is true? Is there really such a person?
The eye-catching "Tsinghua high-quality students", "designing intercontinental missiles for the United States", and "returning to China were rejected" in the titles of videos and articles, any keyword extracted is a flashpoint vocabulary that people can't help but contribute a click.
But what if this is not what the article describes?
Who is this legendary Lin Ye?
In various articles, the life experience of "Lin Ye" is like this, born in 1918 in a rich family, from a small family, received a good education, and finally successfully selected by the school, in 1943, went to the United States to study.
After studying abroad, because of the development gap between countries, at first, "Lin Ye" still adhered to the mentality of learning to serve the country, and later because the Americans used hundreds of thousands of dollars to lure under the temptation of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Lin Ye chose to turn his back on his motherland and turn to the United States.
"Lin Ye" stayed in the United States as he wished, became the chief designer of the Militia 3 missile, and in order to express his sincerity to the United States, changed his nationality and became a veritable American.
Lin Ye, who has American citizenship, worked harder, so he developed a missile for the United States and became the father of American missiles.
Later, Lin Ye, who was exhausted by Jiang Lang, was abandoned by the American side and was homeless in his old age, and could only turn around and plead with China to accept him, but he was rejected.
At the same time, in order to contrast with the "Lin Ye" who turned his back on the motherland, most of the articles will also mention Mr. Liang Sili, saying that he is a classmate of Lin Ye's contemporaries, but Mr. Liang chose to refuse the temptation of high salary and serve the motherland.
After reading the life history of this "Lin Ye", what do you think?
As a Chinese, do you sincerely think that he is "deserved" and "deserved", so if you say now, this person may not exist?
This kind of article is a discussion of several parts of Lin Ye's life experience that are more questionable, and readers are welcome to think with me.
Lin Ye's photo has other people
In some articles about Lin Ye circulating on the Internet, the metropolis inserting the so-called "Lin Ye" has the following pictures:
Lu Hefu
Lu Hefu
And the reader will automatically equate the person in the picture with "Lin Ye".
But is this really the case?
In fact, the person in the picture, named Lu Hefu, is a famous scientific researcher in China, known as the "father of China's nuclear energy".
In 1941, after Lu Hefu obtained his doctorate abroad, he immediately returned to his motherland and served as a professor in many universities in China, pouring out what he had learned all his life without hiding anything.
Because the conditions at that time were not good, he could only read books and prepare for classes under the oil lamps of lanterns and grasses late at night, and in order to find a safe place to teach, the dilapidated ancient temple was the podium where he was stationed.
Someone once said that if Lu Hexiu stayed in the United States, then the Nobel Prize would be captured, so some people praised him for rubbing shoulders with the Nobel Prize in order to return to China to serve his country.
In addition to his fruitful achievements in scientific research, he has also trained a large number of talents for China, and 7 of the 11 two-bomb founders were once students of Mr. Lu Hefu.
It can be said that Lu Hefu and "Lin Hua" not only have nothing to do with each other, but also his choice of life is also very different from "Lin Hua".
But his photos have become part of the life experience of "Lin Ye".
Such a Zhang Guan Li Dai did not happen to Mr. Lu Hefu alone, and at the same time, in some articles describing "Lin Ye", another scientist also lay down a gun.
The picture below is also often taken as a photo of Lin Ye when he was young when he was a student.
Qian Weichang
Who is this young man in a bachelor's uniform?
Is it "Lin Ye"?
The young people in the picture, similar to Lin Ye, are both graduates of Tsinghua University, but the similarities between the two are only this.
He is Qian Weichang, one of the founders of Chinese mechanics. His life experience does not need to be repeated, and it is not related to "Lin Ye".
This makes people wonder how someone who can be called the "father of American missiles" not even have a photograph of himself.
Is his status so important that not a single photograph from adolescence to old age remains?
The father of missiles is someone else
If you search for the father of US missiles on the Internet, most of the search results will still be "Lin Ye".
Then let's change our thinking, just search for the "father of missiles", and another person will jump out - Weiner von Braun.
In addition to leading the completion of america's first missile, he is also known as the "father of modern spaceflight."
Weiner von Braun
Von Braun was a Native of Germany, and on the eve of the end of World War II, he chose to defect to the United States in order to protect himself and his team's scientific research, and in 1955, he became an American citizen.
And his many years of hard work, poured into the United States aerospace industry, and the professional scientific research team he brought, but also for the United States science and technology cause to make great contributions.
It can be said that without von Braun, the United States at that time would not have been able to catch up with the pace of science and technology, so he was also revered as the "father of modern aviation" to commemorate his contributions to rockets, missiles and spaceflight.
Von Braun's place in the space industry is self-evident.
Also as a defection to the United States, von Braun has a large number of historical materials and pictures, and according to the trajectory of "Lin Ye's" life, he should have acquired American citizenship earlier than von Braun, so how can someone who is valued by the United States have no whereabouts at all, in addition to turning his back on the motherland, there is no anecdote about himself?
With Feng Braun in front of him, without Lin Ye, who was enough to shock the world's scientific research achievements, how could he become the father of American missiles?
Chief designer of the Minuteman 3 missile?
In May 2021, the United States officially declared the minuteman 3 intercontinental missile test failed.
As a result, the chief designer of the Militia 3 missile on the Internet is Lin Ye, a graduate of Tsinghua University, and such news is endless.
And the name Lin Ye has become an extremely unpopular name.
Most people will be shocked by the content of the article, scolding Lin Ye as a "white-eyed wolf" and a "traitor".
However, the Minuteman 3 intercontinental missile, as a project developed by Boeing Aerospace, was started in 1964, when Lin Ye, who was nearly 50 years old, was just about to reach the age when he was abandoned by Boeing in the article.
Why would Boeing look for a Chinese with little research project as the chief designer of this high-profile project?
From another point of view, if Lin Ye really became the chief designer, out of the siege among a large number of American scientists, how could someone in such a high position be abandoned because he was old and had no merit?
As the saying goes, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and the person who can serve as the chief designer, even if he is worse, will not fall to the point of being abandoned, and his old age is bleak, if nothing else, just by virtue of the scientific research secrets he obtained in the project, which is enough to let him live in his old age.
So, whether "Lin Ye" is the chief designer of the Militia 3 intercontinental missile, presumably the answer is also very obvious.
At this point, several major highlights of Lin Ye's life can be discovered, which cannot be believed, at least, there is no clear historical record, not even a strong description by others.
Most of the articles describing Lin Ye often revolve around these three points, the only one of which mentions others is the interview with Mr. Liang Sili.
Does Mr. Liang Sili really know this "perfidious Lin Ye"?
Li Kui or Li Ghost?
In Liang Sili's interview, he did mention a classmate with the surname "Lin".
And the name of this classmate is indeed very similar to "Lin Ye", named Lin Hua.
Liang Sili said that Lin Hua is a good friend of his own in the United States, Lin Hua is a scientist at Boeing Company in the United States, studying with himself, after graduation, Lin Hua stayed in the United States, with an annual salary of 300,000 yuan, and he chose to return to China.
At the same time, Liang Sili also sighed, indicating that this Lin Hua classmate had passed away.
Mr. Liang Sili is the youngest son of Liang Qichao, and when his father died when he was five years old, he lived under the care of his mother.
Later, because of his excellent grades, he accepted the state subsidy to study in the United States.
During the war, he lost contact with his family and became very difficult financially, but even so, he did not give up his studies, while studying, he worked around to support himself, a waiter in a small restaurant, a dishwasher in the back kitchen...
In order to continue his studies, Liang Sili suffered a lot, and under the premise of facing the pressure of survival, he completed three years of study in two years and successfully obtained his doctoral studies in 1949.
After completing his studies, Liang Sili chose to return to China immediately, and his first task was to formulate a big plan for the development of the mainland's space industry and point out the direction for the mainland's missile cause.
In the subsequent work, he was even more diligent and earnest in his work, bowing to the aerospace industry, and was known as China's "fire trainer".
After carefully reading this passage of Mr. Liang's words, at this point, it is considered that the truth has come out.
Liang Sili
In the misinformation, Lin Hua became "Lin Ye", and the scientists of Boeing that Liang Sili said became the chief designer of Boeing's Militia 3 missile project.
Lin Hua's work in the US aviation industry has also made the fictitious "father of missiles" of Lin Ye.
Under all kinds of exaggeration, the name "Lin Ye" gave a life like a roller coaster.
And in order to confirm that there are evil retributions, it may also be for the sake of being more dramatic, and for this long-deceased "Lin Hua", he added the bleak ending of his old age and being rejected in his return to China.
"Lin Ye" has become synonymous with treasonous clowns, and has become the object of ridicule.
It is true that if there is such a person, then right and wrong really need to be debated.
But in the whole story, the only innocent people are the scientists who are used as photos of "Lin Ye".
These scientists of the older generation, under the criticism of public opinion morality, inexplicably became a "white-eyed wolf of the Internet" and were insulted. There are even some photos, taken to Baidu Zhitu, the first associated word that appears is this fictional "Lin Ye".
How can this not be angry?
Who was the first to treat the pictures of other older generations of researchers as "Lin Ye" and add bricks and tiles to "Lin Ye's" life is no longer possible, but the older generation has innocently borne the infamy for so long, and it is difficult to argue after all.
The development of science and technology has never been the strength of one person
Looking at this storm of "Lin Hua" and "Lin Ye", we can understand the indignation of readers for the content of the article, and in times of danger, they are lured by heavy profits and make weapons to threaten their own countries, which every Chinese will be angry about.
However, in this oolong incident, we must also think that no one can undertake the scientific research and development of a country, the development of science and technology needs a batch of new forces, and the development of China's science and technology to the current status is the painstaking efforts of countless predecessors and successors.
Instead of the fictional "Lin Ye" such a hanging life, China's scientific research career is the scratch paper full of words written by the predecessors, the pencil head that the predecessors can't hold quickly, and the candlelight in the middle of the night.
In China's scientific research industry, there are no giants, only ordinary people with their heads held high, and this history should be respected, rather than becoming a "corroboration" that can be taken at will.
Resources:
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4. Lu Hefu, who rubbed shoulders with the Nobel Prize, Besson 36_39<期刊>, Scientist, No. 08, 2014