In the history of modern China's development, there are many scientists who have risen and revived China, but they are not well known to the world and have lived in obscurity. Guo Yonghuai is one of them. There have been ups and downs in his life, but he has never changed his mission of fighting and sacrificing for the motherland.
In 1909, Guo Yonghuai was born in an ordinary peasant family in Rongcheng County, Weihai, Shandong. Guo Yonghuai was gifted and intelligent since he was a child, and his ability to accept affairs was very fast, but due to his poor family, he only started primary school at the age of 9. However, this did not hinder Guo Yonghuai's Xi of study, and under the hard study Xi, he was successfully admitted to the High School Affiliated to Qingdao University in 1926, and became the first publicly-funded middle school student in his hometown at that time.
Later, Guo Yonghuai relied on his hard work to Xi"overcome obstacles" all the way, and was admitted to the preparatory science and engineering class of Nankai University with excellent results, and later, he entered the Department of Physics of Peking University for in-depth study Xi. During this period, this not only gave Guo Yonghuai a solid foundation in physics, but also gave him the idea of "science to save the country".
In 1935, after graduating from Peking University, Guo Yonghuai chose to stay on to teach. However, after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Beiping fell, and Guo Yonghuai had to return to his hometown of Weihai to teach in order to escape the war. During this period, Guo Yonghuai witnessed the indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese army, and also saw the poverty and backwardness of the country. So, I decided to continue my studies to help China develop.
In 1939, Guo Yonghuai successfully obtained the qualification of "Gengzi Indemnity Publicly-funded International Students" in China and Britain. However, when boarding the ship, it was found that the passports of international students were issued by the Japanese government, and Guo Yonghuai was unwilling to accept the need to use a Japanese passport in his own country, so he refused the opportunity to Xi study in the United Kingdom.
In 1940, Guo Yonghuai received another notice to study in Canada. Later, Xi entering the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Toronto, Guo Yonghuai completed his master's thesis in just over half a year under the guidance of Singh, the head of the Department of Mathematics. This can't help but make many professors sigh for this, they have never seen such an excellent talent.
The following year, Guo Yonghuai went to the University of California Polytechnic Institute in the United States to continue his studies, and it was here that he met his senior brother Qian Xuesen, and often discussed problems and researched academically.
After graduating from Dr. Guo Yonghuai in 1945, he was invited by his brothers William and Sears to teach at Cornell University in the United States. It was also during this period that Guo Yonghuai entered the golden age of physics research. For example, in order to solve the problem of aircraft sound barrier, Guo Yonghuai and Qian Xuesen proposed the "upper critical Mach number".
It was also during his teaching at Cornell University that Guo Yonghuai also met his beloved Li Pei. Guo Yonghuai did not forget the purpose of going abroad at that time, "returning to China after completing his studies, and saving the country with science". However, after the United States learned that Guo Yonghuai wanted to return to China, it attracted him with his preferential treatment and status.
However, Guo Yonghuai did not accept the preferential treatment offered by the United States. Therefore, Guo Yonghuai has also entered the "blacklist" of American personnel, and is often monitored, and at the same time, his relevant scientific research will also be hindered, and he will not be allowed to enter the core organs of the United States to consult materials.
However, after many efforts, Guo Yonghuai finally took his wife and daughter to board the ship back to China. After returning to China, Guo Yonghuai served as the deputy director of the Chinese Institute of Mechanics at the invitation of Qian Xuesen. Due to the change in Sino-Soviet relations at that time, the Soviet Union evacuated all scientists from China and took all the research materials with them.
As a result, many scientists, including Guo Yonghuai, began to develop their own atomic bombs, and applied all the knowledge of mathematics, mechanics and aeronautical mechanics accumulated over the years to the development of national nuclear weapons.
In the end, under the repeated experiments and data calculations of Guo Yonghuai, Qian Xuesen and many other scientists day and night, the mainland's first atomic bomb was successfully tested in 1964. Three years later, the mainland's first hydrogen bomb was also successfully tested. The successful development of nuclear weapons on the mainland has not only made the mainland the fifth nuclear-armed country in the world, but has also further enhanced the mainland's strategic strength for national defense.
After the successful development of nuclear weapons on the mainland, the next step is to prepare for the development of artificial satellites and nuclear thermal bombs. Guo Yonghuai once again entered the sand-swept Gobi, and after more than two months of repeated experiments and discoveries, he finally made a breakthrough in discovery. Therefore, Guo Yonghuai wanted to send the news to Beijing as soon as possible, so he contacted the plane that had recently returned to Beijing.
However, just when the plane was still 1 kilometer away from Beijing, an accident unfortunately occurred, and Guo Yonghuai, in order to protect the documents from damage, hugged his secretary tightly and hid important documents between his body. It is precisely in this way that the mainland's important thermonuclear missile data has been preserved.
Twenty-two days later, a team of scientists successfully developed and test-detonated the mainland's first thermonuclear missile using important data and methods from relevant documents.
Guo Yonghuai has been silently dedicated all his life, constantly working hard to achieve the great rejuvenation of China, and sacrificing himself. In 1999, in order to reward Guo Yonghuai for his great contribution to China's construction, the mainland awarded the medal of "Two Bombs and One Star".