Authoritative magazines selected the 20 greatest physicists of the millennium of mankind, Newton, Einstein on the list, no Hawking, there is him.
One of the theories he proposed, which was widely used, produced 6 Nobel Prizes in mathematics and 7 Nobel Prizes.
Deng Jiaxian said that if a person can win multiple awards in the same field, he should win two Nobel Prizes.
Ge Molin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, once commented on him: loyal, learned, no temper, elderly demeanor.
Li Xin, editor-in-chief of Sanlian Bookstore, commented: Mr. Yang is patriotic and loves to the bone, he is consistent and will never change. He was straightforward and outspoken, so he attracted criticism from some netizens.
He is Yang Zhenning, Mr. Yang.
Yang Zhenning has always been peaceful, pragmatic, and honest, bent on doing great things and good things, but he has attracted some unwarranted insults.
For example, Yang Zhenning's achievements are not high; for example, Yang Zhenning is not patriotic; for example, Yang Zhenning's return to China in his later years is very chicken thief, such as the immorality of old husbands and young wives...
The ignorant are fearless, and the blind talk nonsense.
Many people who know the truth of the facts have said, Elder Yang, I'm sorry, we owe you an apology.
They said that Elder Yang was so great, we were really fortunate to be born in the same era as him.
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"One day I'm going to win the Nobel Prize."
Yang Zhenning was born in 1922 in Hefei, Anhui Province, where his father Yang Wuzhi was a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University.
When Yang Zhenning was 10 months old, his father went to the United States to study. The rest of Yang Zhenning and his mother depend on each other for their lives. Four-year-old Yang Zhenning had already recognized three thousand words under the instruction of his mother.
Five years later, Yang Wuzhi returned with his doctorate and was hired as a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University. Yang Zhenning's family moved into Tsinghua Garden.
Yang Zhenning had a happy life in Tsinghua Garden. He loves climbing trees and studies plants. Among the children, he was full of whimsical ideas, took a group of children to play crazy in Tsinghua Garden, and was a child head.
Yang Zhenning's head was particularly large when he was a child, and others liked to call him "Yang Datou". He loves to read, and once he came across a copy of The Mysterious Universe in the school library and was fascinated. When he got home, he said to his parents, "One day I will win the Nobel Prize." ”
Yang Wuzhi did not hit his whimsy, he noticed that this child had genius. He wrote on the back of a photo: "Zhenning seems to have a different nature, and I want to write its bo bao."
"Bo" refers to the eldest son; there is a sentence in the "Roselle Endowment", "Yi Posture Is Beautiful, Yi Jing Body Idle", which refers to the abundance of yi, but Yang Wuzhi's "瓌" is used to describe the inner talent, that is, there is "different endowment".
Yang Wuzhi paid special attention to cultivating Yang Zhenning, and twice asked someone to teach Yang Zhenning to learn Mencius and develop his talents in a diversified way.
Eight years passed quickly. The natural and quiet and academic atmosphere of Tsinghua Garden gave Yang Zhenning the best enlightenment and nourishment.
A 35-year-old young Nobel laureate
In 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out. Tsinghua, Peking University and Nankai university were forced to relocate and formed the Southwest United University in Kunming.
The school became Yang Zhenning's alma mater. At the age of 16, Yang Zhenning was admitted to the school with the second best grade in the country, and he was the youngest of the students.
Xueba is different, Yang Zhenning exam express: English test for two hours, others are still scratching their ears and cheeks, he handed in the paper in an hour, but also took the first place; physics and calculus, he often full score or 99 points...
Yang Zhenning, who is inspirational and strong, even if the living conditions are very difficult, he rarely cares. After a Japanese plane bombing, he immediately picked up a shovel to dig out the crushed books, and he held the "rescued" books as if he had been treasured.
The country is in danger, and Yang Zhenning vows to study hard and use knowledge to change the fate of Chinese.
In 1945, Yang Zhenning received the Gengzi Compensation Scholarship, and after a rigorous and lengthy examination, he won with excellent results and went to the United States to enroll in the University of Chicago.
He is a bully in theoretical knowledge, but his hands are weak, and he is always teased by his classmates: where the explosion is banging, it is yang Zhenning who is not wrong.
Later, The father of the hydrogen bomb, Taylor, appreciated Yang Zhenning, guided him to specialize in theoretical physics research, and accepted him as an apprentice.
After graduating with a Ph.D., Yang Zhenning entered the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton for postdoctoral studies. He met Einstein, whom he admired, and the two became colleagues.
Einstein read an article on statistical mechanics written by Yang Zhenning, and he asked Yang Zhenning to exchange views and discuss them.
Yang Zhenning likes to reminisce about this past and is deeply proud. At the same time, he regretted that he had not taken a picture with Einstein.
Yang Zhenning began to shine in theoretical physics research. In 1956, he collaborated with Lee Jung-do and discovered the law of non-conservation of cosmology.
This was a sensational discovery in the physics community, and in 1957, Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The award was won the year after it was proposed, which is simply unique.
His debut was at his peak, and he was only 35 years old.
How many people have won the Nobel Prize at the age of 35 and looked at the world?
This discovery can be described as a revolution in the field of physics.
Yang Zhenning said: "The most important contribution in my life is to help change the psychological role of Chinese I feel inferior to others. ”
The mountains are not condescending and self-exalted. He is not obsessed with fame, but he is obsessed with improving the self-confidence of his countrymen.
The world's greatest physicist
Yang Zhenning, who has been canonized, did not stop the pace of scientific research and continued to climb the peak.
Yang Zhenning took his student Mills and proposed the "Yang-Mills gauge field theory". As soon as this theory was proposed, it caused a sensation in the world, and it solved the major problems of physics.
There are four forces in the universe, gravity, electromagnetism, strong force, and weak force. If we can study and come up with a theory that uniformly explains these four forces, we can uncover the mysteries of this world and establish and complete the "great unified theory." Then he is the greatest scientist.
Yang Zhenning's research, which successfully solved the other three forces in addition to gravity, means that a key step towards "great unification" has been taken.
At the heart of gauge field theory is the Jan–Mills equation. This research has been widely used, resulting in academic breakthroughs and many awards.
There are dozens of Nobel Prizes, related to the theory proposed by Yang Zhenning; there are 6 "Nobel Prizes in Mathematics" for delving into the "Young-Mills Equation"; and 7 Nobel Prizes are awarded according to the "Young-Mills Equation".
Yang Zhenning's achievements are not only this, he has also made significant contributions in the four fields of condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, particle physics, and field theory.
These two photos can best reflect Yang Zhenning's pivotal position in the academic community.
Above is a "star photograph" of the brains of the wisdom of physics, taken at the Fifth Solvay Conference in 1927. Sitting in the C seat was Einstein.
The picture below is a group photo after the International Physics Conference in May 1999, and the C position is Yang Zhenning.
Deng Jiaxian said that if it were not for the restrictions on the Nobel Prize, Yang Zhenning would have been able to win the Nobel Prize twice.
Authoritative physics circles in the United States commented that Yang Zhenning was the third physics all-rounder in the 20th century.
Nature magazine has selected the twenty greatest physicists in the past thousand years of mankind, including Newton, Einstein, Maxwell, etc., Yang Zhenning is also listed, and he is the only one alive.
Those who still scold Yang Zhenning on the Internet for not achieving success should wake up. Yang Zhenning was the greatest physicist of the time, not one of them.
Why was Yang Zhenning scolded for being unpatriotic? This is a misconception
So some people said that Yang Zhenning's achievements were useless no matter how big he was, and he was not patriotic. Is Yang Zhenning really unpatriotic?
Obviously, this is another sin of desire, and there is no excuse for it.
The troll scolded Yang Zhenning for being unpatriotic, in two ways, one is that Yang Zhenning did not return to China.
Since 1957, his father Yang Wuzhi has gone abroad three times to persuade Yang Zhenning to come back: New China has been established, and it is necessary to build airplanes and cars, and the motherland needs talents.
Yang Zhenning rejected his father three times.
He said: My father is actually very contradictory, as a Chinese I must not forget my roots, recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors, and he has repeatedly advised me to return to China to make contributions. But as a scholar, he also knows that academic research needs an environment and wants me to be more academically progressive.
He always remembers the song that his father taught: "Thousands of years up and down, a vein is extended, Chinese boys, Chinese boys...", a thick Chinese soul, injected into the blood.
In 1973, his father Yang Wuzhi died of a serious illness at the age of 77.
Yang Zhenning was very sad, he said that my father had never forgiven me in his life.
"Although my father is no longer there, my body is flowing with my father's blood, and it is also the blood of Chinese culture."
In the summer of 1971, Yang Zhenning was the first to take the lead in returning to China and was the leader among well-known American scholars.
He took a great risk to return home, when U.S. President Harry S. Truman issued an order that Chinese who had obtained a doctorate in science and engineering in the United States should not return home.
But many people compared him with Qian Xuesen and Deng Jiaxian, saying why can the two of them return to China?
The fact is that in order to allow Qian Xuesen, Deng Jiaxian, and others to return to China, the Chinese government has overcome many difficulties and can be said to have tried its best.
So why doesn't the Chinese government help Yang Zhenning find a way?
The truth of the matter is that Yang Zhenning studied theoretical physics, and at that time, New China was too backward to support Yang Zhenning's research, and Yang Zhenning could not use his strength when he returned, and it would also affect his academic theoretical research; Qian Xuesen and Deng Jiaxian were different; they engaged in applied science, and returning to China to study missiles and atomic bombs could play a big role.
The translator Xu Yuanchong said that if Yang Zhenning had returned to China in the early 1950s like him, he would certainly not have won the Nobel Prize.
Qian Xuesen also said that Yang Zhenning's role in staying abroad is far greater than that at home.
The trolls scolded Yang Zhenning for being unpatriotic, on the other hand because of his nationality.
On the issue of joining the United States, in fact, Yang Zhenning has never renounced chinese nationality. In 1945, he went abroad to get a "Republic of China passport". He only became a U.S. citizen in 1964, but he did not renounce his Chinese citizenship, he was a dual citizen.
In 1996, when Yang Zhenning gave a public speech, the host said that Yang Zhenning won the Nobel Prize in 1957, and he raised his hand and said: At that time, I took a Chinese passport!
Yang Zhenning chose to become a U.S. citizen because he often had to go abroad for exchanges and visits, holding a Republic of China passport, and some countries could not pass and would be blocked.
At the end of 2003, Yang Zhenning gave up his American citizenship to return to China to settle down, joined the Chinese nationality, and finally returned to the embrace of the motherland as he wished.
For the motherland, he is willing to be a "bridge"
Back in the motherland, Yang Zhenning stayed at the Beijing Hotel, and saw a couplet at the entrance: In order to sacrifice more ambitions, dare to teach the sun and the moon to change into a new day.
He was very excited, watched it repeatedly, and at the same time was pleased to find that the earth-shaking changes had taken place in New China, and he suddenly felt cheerful, and felt that he should do his part as a bridge to better serve the motherland.
This is the question he has repeatedly considered and studied: Come back, what should I do for my motherland? Just as he had chosen the direction of his research at the time, he made another major right choice.
Since then, in order to be the best bridge in China, he has run around, painstakingly, and done a lot of things for the motherland.
Yang Zhenning is an active advocate of the fishing movement.
In 1970, the Diaoyu Island incident caused great indignation among the people of the whole country. Yang Zhenning did not hesitate to initiate and participate in the fishing campaign.
Yang Zhenning attended the hearing of the US Senate on the "Okinawa Return Agreement", and he made a generous statement in defiance of the public opinion, telling the story of proving that the Diaoyu Islands are Chinese territory from the perspective of geography and history combined with reality.
In 1977, when Sino-US relations were normalizing, Yang Zhenning immediately published an "Open Letter to President Carter of the United States" in the New York Times, and he also published a full-page advertisement at his own expense.
The full text of the open letter was published in English, and a striking Chinese was specially added on both sides: "It is not too late to make up for the dead sheep." In his letter, he strongly called on the U.S. government to abandon the isolation of China and establish diplomacy with China.
Yang Zhenning retains scientific and technological talents for China.
Yang Zhenning returned to China and was received by Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou.
Before the meeting, the Chinese government will ask Yang Zhenning to draw up a list of meetings.
Yang Zhenning listed all the scientists who were important, and they were not free at that time. After the meeting, these scientists are no longer detained, and some can go back to work and engage in scientific research.
Attending the meeting is tantamount to freeing them. Deng Jiaxian was the first person to be met.
In order to cultivate more talents, Yang Zhenning actively introduced Outstanding Chinese Scientific and Technological Talents to the United States for further study.
He set up an academic exchange meeting in New York to help Chinese scholars visit the United States.
He actively promoted the operation and won a total of more than 1,000 Chinese high-end talents and scholars to study in the United States.
He introduced the introduction of top talents to return to China, Yao Zhizhi, a top computer expert, who has made great achievements in the field of computing after returning to China; including Yang Fujia, president of Fudan University, Gu Chaohao, president of the University of Science and Technology of China... and many other experts and scholars.
Yang Zhenning has worked hard for the reputation of the motherland and the cultivation of talents, and he has also solved an important problem, that is, to find funds.
He did everything he could to raise money.
After Yang Zhenning gave up the high salary in the United States to return to China, he sold his American house and donated all the money to Tsinghua; he helped build dozens of laboratories free of charge, returned to China for more than 20 years, and donated 6 million US dollars one after another.
He used his personal prestige to raise large amounts of money. In the Tsinghua Building, he raised more than 10 million US dollars; the establishment of the Yida Youth Invention Award, the Wu Jianxiong Physics Award, and the Chen Shengsheng Mathematics Award were inseparable from him to raise money and prepare;
Chinese talents and scholars need money to study in the United States, and Yang Zhenning went to help raise funds.
Ge Molin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that at that time, the Theoretical Physics Research Center of Nankai University often held meetings, and the funds were raised by Yang Zhenning.
Yang Zhenning's sister said that once Yang Zhenning drove to Chinatown, New York, to give a speech despite his high fever. Because there were many rich and famous people participating, he had to hurry up and raise money.
Academician Mo Wei once wrote to Zhou Guangzhao, then vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, saying one thing: Among the Chinese scientists, only Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao were completely unselfish, and they sincerely hoped that China would be good.
Yang Zhenning did his best for China's affairs, said good things about China everywhere, and sometimes when he heard that there were attacks on China at international conferences, he would protest and even leave the scene in anger.
The famous educator Zhou Peiyuan also affirmed his achievements: Yang Zhenning was the first Chinese-American scientist to visit China, and he built a friendship and bridge between Chinese and American scientists, which is a great contribution.
This person who has devoted himself to the construction of the motherland and is single-mindedly good for China has actually been scolded and blackmailed for decades and is really a great injustice.
Yang Zhenning gave up his high salary to return to China, only because he was patriotic, did not forget the Chinese bloodline, and single-mindedly recognized his ancestors and returned to his roots.
He has a reputation and prestige, as long as he raises his arm, tens of millions of assets will gather, does he care about money, does he need to return to China for the elderly?
Looking at Yang Zhenning with such a shallow and vulgar eye is truly ridiculous.
As for Yang Zhenning's marriage, although the age difference is 54 years, Lang has a concubine intention, and the love marriage is originally free to choose.
Now more than ten years later, they are in and out of the qinser and ming, living a natural and beautiful life, and their love can be seen to be innocent and unswerving.
Learn to respect the choices of others and appreciate a good feeling. Believe that the world will be a better place.
Yang Zhenning said at the 100th birthday celebration on September 22 that Deng Jiaxian wrote a letter to hope that he would "hope that people will be long-lasting and a thousand miles a common path" and that 50 years have passed, and now, he can say with shame that he is in line with Deng Jiaxian's expectations of "common way" and believes that Deng Jiaxian will be satisfied.
Deng Jiaxian knew that he would certainly be satisfied, because China was satisfied, and the Chinese people were satisfied.
Yang Zhenning is a scientist who has achieved unparalleled achievements, and he is also a person who is dedicated to serving the country's merits.
"Don't forget to love forever at every meal, and you should be grateful to the country for your life." This was given to him by Yang Zhenning's father in 1957, and he never forgot it, and he has been doing the same for decades.
Misunderstood for decades, Mr. Yang is so aggrieved, but he never says, does not argue or argue.
The indisputable, the heart is like the sea, and the great love has no boundaries.
It's time for us to owe Mr. An apology: Sir, I'm sorry, we misunderstood you.
For: He who holds the salary for all shall not let him freeze to death in the wind and snow. Those who open the way to freedom must not be troubled by thorns.
Today, I have the privilege of witnessing Mr. Yang Zhenningda's great achievements with his extraordinary talents, and I have the honor of learning that Mr. Yang Zhenningda has spared no effort in serving the motherland with his patriotic heart with his fists and fists.
The motherland has Mr. Big, it is for great luck; it is fortunate to be born with Mr. Big in the same era, with Mu Chenxi, waiting for the dawn of the day, which is the blessing of our three lives.
Mr. Big once said that he hoped to publish another "Great Bright Collection" at the age of 100.
Wait for the dawn together, the future of bright China, can be expected!
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