"Oppenheimer" has been released in China for more than a week, and the popularity set off during this period is comparable to the Spring Festival file.
At the same time, its Douban score is also rising, approaching 9.0, and it seems that the next step is to squeeze out "A Clockwork Orange" to enter the Douban movie 250.
But outside of the film, many media and film critics have also begun to discuss the "disappeared her" in "Oppenheimer".
For example, Wu Jianxiong, who joined the "Manhattan Project" as the only female Chinese national, solved the key problem that the chain reaction of atomic nuclei cannot be sustained with an unpublished paper in graduate school.
Another example is Elizabeth · Graves is one of the few scientists in the Manhattan Project who can operate the Cockwater particle accelerator.
And Lily Lily, Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University. Hornig, Charlotte, who handles top-secret documents. Seber and so on and so forth.
However, in these lists of neglected women, there is another person whose name is rarely mentioned, as if she disappeared in a stage of disappearing her.
She's Joan Hinton, in the Manhattan Project, her contribution is no less than the ones mentioned above.
In addition, she has a lot of ties to China, and she also has a poetic Chinese name: Hanchun.
Hanchun was born in 1921 in Chicago, USA, in a family of scholars, his father was a lawyer, his mother was an educator, and he founded a coeducational independent progressive school, his grandfather and great-grandfather were mathematicians, and his aunt was the author of the novel "Gadfly"...
What surprised Shichao was that Hanchun was not good at physics and chemistry since she was a child, but sports, and she skied skied.
If the 1940 Winter Olympics had gone ahead as scheduled, Hanchun would have represented the U.S. ski team and probably wouldn't have set foot in nuclear physics afterwards.
But the fact is that when World War II broke out, the Olympic Games failed to start, and the gears of fate in the cold spring quietly turned...
She attended Bennington College to study physics before continuing to pursue her master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Wisconsin.
It was at this stage of his studies at the University of Wisconsin that Hanchun was recruited to Los Alamos National Laboratory in the "Manhattan Project."
She was only 22 years old at the time, working as Nobel Physicist Enrico En Rico on the project. Fermi's assistant.
Hanchun's team was tasked with building two reactors to test high concentrations of uranium and plutonium.
She herself, under Fermi's supervision, calibrated the neutron detector used during the explosion of the first atomic bomb.
Fast forward to July 16, 1945, when the first atomic bomb was detonated, a date destined to go down in history.
However, Hanchun was forbidden to enter the experimental area that day, but she did not want to miss such a moment, so she sneaked into the park on a colleague's motorcycle.
The first atomic bomb exploded at dawn, and the scene was already seared in Hanchun's mind.
So when she was asked more than 60 years later, she could still clearly tell how she felt at that time:
The face first felt a wave of heat, and the light after the explosion merged into an 'ocean', which was immediately absorbed by the purple light, rising with the mushroom cloud. ”
It was so beautiful that the morning sun seemed to be illuminated by it. ”
But the excitement didn't last long, and the following month, she learned that the atomic bomb had been developed to destroy two Japanese cities.
When Hanchun first joined the Manhattan Project, he thought that the atomic bomb was just to deter Japan, but he did not expect that it would really hurt countless ordinary people.
In the years that followed, Hanchun threw himself into the campaign against nuclear weapons.
It stands to reason that Hanchun's role in the Manhattan Project is not small, after all, good or bad is also Fermi's assistant.
It's just that if "Oppenheimer" does not mention that she is still reluctantly reasonable, but in some articles that completely sort out the female characters in the "Manhattan Project", the absence of cold spring is somewhat estimated to be deliberately bypassed.
And deliberately bypassing the cold spring is inseparable from her experience after leaving the "Manhattan Project".
After Hanchun gave up nuclear weapons research, under the influence of his brother Hinton and his boyfriend Yang Zao, he became deeply interested in China.
In 1948, with the help of Song Qingling, Hanchun finally arrived in China, successively to Shanghai, Yan'an, and finally chose to stay in the Yan'an Liberated Area.
But Hanchun's move, in the eyes of the Western media, was misread as the defection of American nuclear bomb experts who participated in the "Manhattan Project" to China.
For a long time, Hanchun suffered from suspicion and verbal attacks from McCarthyists, and someone even drew a trench coat cartoon to satirize her, with the title "The atom spy that got away".
The truth is that after Hanchun came to China, she never did any more research in nuclear physics, but switched to cow management and quality improvement with her husband, let alone leaked secrets.
Although he gave up his expertise in nuclear physics research, Hanchun enjoyed his new dairy business.
In the beginning, she and Yang were already managing dairy cows at the "trilateral pasture" at the junction of Anbian, Dingbian and Jingbian counties in northern Shaanxi.
After that, Hanchun's eldest son Yang Heping was born, and they moved to Yanzhuang Dairy Farm in the eastern suburbs of Xi'an.
( As an aside, their eldest son Yang Heping is now also staying in China, and is still a up master with hundreds of thousands of fans at Station B.)
At that time, the domestic dairy business was just beginning, everything was still very primitive, and the Hanchun couple started from scratch and started the mechanized improvement of the dairy farm.
Like what kind of ventilation and warm cowshed, feeding, milking, manure cleaning mechanical facilities, Hanchun personally studied and designed.
But the working environment over there can no longer be described as difficult, it is almost nothing.
But this could not stop Han Chun's enthusiasm at all, to design and draw she picked up some bricks, built a bracket by herself, put plywood, laid out sheets, and the drawing tools were done, and she jokingly called this her "brick (patent)".
During this period, she also developed a milk frozen milk tank, the level was comparable to similar products in the United States at that time, directly broke the foreign monopoly, and won 70% of the domestic market share.
In 1982, they came to the agricultural machinery experimental station cattle farm of the agricultural machinery institute in Xiaowangzhuang, Shahe, Beijing, and by 2001, under the scientific breeding of the Hanchun couple, the yield of Chinese dairy cows had changed from less than 7,000 kilograms of milk per year to 9,088 kilograms of milk per year, and some even exceeded 13,000 kilograms.
As for how to raise it scientifically, for example, Hanchun has a special "cattle management" notebook, which records the impact of various milk machine processes on milk bacteria content since 1963, and the level of detail makes some animal husbandry experts feel ashamed...
They can still make such contributions in a foreign country, so in their later years, they were also officially awarded the title of "old foreign experts".
In 2003, Yang died early, and Hanchun bought the cheapest box in accordance with his wife's will and buried the ashes under the grass of the dairy farm.
The following year, Hanchun became the first person to get a Chinese green card, and in front of the camera, she left such a bright photo under a smile.
In 2010, Hanchun died, and looking back on the rest of her life, almost all of her sweat was spilled on China's dairy farms.
In Hanchun's own words, she devoted all her energy to another faith (the Chinese revolution). In the mouth of friend writer Wei Wei, Hanchun and Yang Zao are also typical "Bethune-style international communist fighters".
In general, in Hanchun's life, although she was a role that could not be ignored in the Manhattan Project, nuclear physics was never the main theme of her life, and the cow and the communist belief behind the cow was.
The release of "Oppenheimer" and the discussion of film critics are also an opportunity, an opportunity to understand and complete that period of history.
Shichao feels that whether it is the so-called protagonists and supporting characters in the incident, their stories and their voices are also worthy of being told and heard.