Pearl Buck – winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature
The winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature was the Winner of the Earth Trilogy, The Stranger and the East Wind and West Wind, which were Chinese themes; the Nobel Committee commented on her: "A rich and authentic epic description of the life of Chinese peasants, and outstanding works in biography."
Born in October 1892, Pearl Buck was brought to China by her parents as missionaries four months after her birth, spent her childhood and adolescence in Zhenjiang, entered her youth, and lived in China for nearly 40 years, calling Chinese "first language" and Zhenjiang "China's hometown". As an American female writer whose mother tongue is Chinese, she wrote the novel "The Good Earth" about the life of Chinese peasants here, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel in 1932, and won the third Nobel Prize in Literature in American history in 1938. In 1934, Pearl Buck bid farewell to China and returned to China to settle down.
2. Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning – 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics
In 1957, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his experimental proof of the concept of "cosmology is not conserved".
Yang Zhenning, born on October 1, 1922 in Hefei, Anhui Province, is a physicist who joined the United States in 1964 and renounced his American citizenship on April 1, 2015 and became a Chinese citizen. In February 2017, Professor Yang Zhenning was officially transferred to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Li Zhengdao, born on November 24, 1926 in Shanghai, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, is a university-level professor at Columbia University, a Chinese-American physicist, and a Nobel Laureate in physics, known for his contributions to the fields of cosmological non-conservation, Lee models, relativistic heavy ion collision (RHIC) physics, and non-topological isolated subfield theory.
3. Ding Zhaozhong - 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics
Born on January 27, 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, his ancestral home is Rizhao, Shandong Province, China, and is an experimental physicist. Ding Zhaozhong and Burton Richter were awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the J/ψ particle in 1974 at the age of 40.
Ding Zhaozhong's father, Ding Guanhai (1911-1991), a native of Taoluo Town, Donggang District, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, was a well-known expert in civil engineering. In the spring of 1948, he went to Taiwan. The following year, the family moved to Taipei City.
4. Li Yuanzhe - 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Born on November 19, 1936 in Hsinchu City, Taiwan Province, Taiwan, he is a well-known chemical scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his research on the kinetics of chemical reactions at the molecular level, together with Hirschbach and Johann Poláz. He moved to the United States in 1962, became a U.S. citizen in 1974, and on January 15, 1994, renounced his U.S. citizenship and returned to Taiwan to succeed his teacher, Professor Wu Dayu, as the dean of the Academia Sinica, who served as the "dean" and also served as a special chair professor of the Department of Chemistry of National Taiwan University.
5. Steven Chu – 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Steven Chu , born on February 28, 1948 in St. Louis , Missouri , is the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy , winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics , a foreign fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , and currently a professor of physics at Stanford University. In 1997, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "developing methods for cooling and capturing atoms with lasers". He has long been engaged in research in atomic physics and laser science. Thanks to independent, pioneering research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms.
A quote from the "Master Lecture on Scientific Attitudes" at the 3rd World Forum of Top Scientists (WLF) in 2020 is worth pondering: When you realize that your life's work is exactly what you love, not to mention that you can get paid for it.