He is a famous optician in the mainland, he is an important academic founder, pioneer and organizer of modern optical engineering in the mainland, he led the team to change China with "light", he ended the history of China's no optical glass, he is the mainland's famous "two bombs and one star" Wang Daheng, but also known as the "father of Chinese optics". ”
Wang Daheng was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1915, when Japan proposed the "Twenty-One Articles" mango treaty to China. After Wang Daheng's father, Wang Yingwei, learned of it, he was filled with indignation, so he resigned from his job at the Central Meteorological Observatory in Tokyo, Japan, and resolutely returned to China.
Wang Daheng's father, Wang Yingwei, was originally a private school teacher, and later went to Japan to study for further study, and served as the director of the Tokyo Meteorological Observatory in Japan, is an astronomical meteorological expert, which is also destined to Wang Daheng's future development path will be inseparable from the optical career.
Wang Daheng has been very smart since he was a child, and has an astonishing memory, and his knowledge points are unforgettable. By the age of 5, he was able to clearly recognize thousands of Chinese characters and perform simple arithmetic. As a result, Wang Daheng's parents took him to the famous Confucian School in Beijing.
After entering the school, the teacher was shocked by Wang Daheng's amazing talent, so he decided to directly promote him to the second grade, and he ranked first in every exam and became the school's "little saint". Due to his father, who was an astronomical meteorologist, Wang Daheng often followed Wang Yingwei to observe various celestial phenomena in middle school, and came into contact with scientific precision instruments that others could not touch, which also stimulated Wang Daheng's interest in optical instruments.
In 1932, after graduating from high school, Wang Daheng applied for three universities, and as a result, all three universities were admitted. During the Xi period at Tsinghua University, because Tsinghua University implemented the last elimination system, by the time of graduation, only 10 students were left in the class of 28.
In 1936, Wang Daheng successfully graduated and stayed on to teach. Half a year later, Wang Daheng successfully won the "Shi Liangcai Scholarship" with his excellent talent, and transferred to Professor Zhao Zhongyao's disciple to become a graduate student majoring in physics.
The following year, due to the change in Sino-Japanese relations, Japan invaded the mainland in an all-out way, and Wang Daheng, who was a graduate student, was filled with righteous indignation after witnessing what the Japanese invaders had done. As a result, Wang Daheng decided to give up his blood and devote himself to national defense construction. Due to the environment, Wang Daheng's road to serving the country was interrupted, and then he took the exam to study in the UK.
Later, Wang Daheng successfully obtained a publicly-funded place and went to Imperial College London to study Xi applied optics. In 1940, due to the German air raid on Britain, Wang Daheng transferred to the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom to continue his doctoral studies and conduct research on optical glass.
However, when he was about to graduate, Wang Daheng made a very unexpected decision, that is, to give up his doctorate degree and enter Changsi Glass Company as a technician. At that time, Changsi Glass Company was the largest optical glass manufacturer in the United Kingdom, and in Wang Daheng's view, learning Xi must be the unity of knowledge and action, so he gave up his degree to go to the company to practice.
In 1947, at the invitation of Qian Sanqiang, Wang Daheng had the confidence to return to China for development. The following year, Wang Daheng, who had been away from China for 10 years, resigned and boarded the ship back to China. After returning to China, Wang Daheng worked as a teacher, researcher and technician in an optical glass factory.
In 1949, Wang Daheng successfully came to Dalian University and served as the head of the Department of Physics. Wang Daheng re-found the direction of development here and devoted all his energy and knowledge to the construction of New China. In 1951, Wang Daheng was appointed deputy director of the Instrument Museum of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Soon after, Wang Daheng asked his superiors for instructions, and needed a sum of funds to build the Chinese Academy of Sciences Instrument Museum, and later, the superiors gave 14 million catties of millet as development funds, Wang Daheng knew that it was not easy for the motherland to come up with these. So, Wang Daheng led more than 20 assistants to Changchun to build.
In 1953, the Instrument Museum of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was finally completed, and the China Optics City built by Wang Daheng was officially established in Changchun, and the field of applied optics in China also started.
Later, after the country launched the great project of "two bombs and one satellite", Wang Daheng was in charge of the most important and arduous 105 project, mainly dealing with technical optics, materials, precision instruments and navigation. With the continuous development of the continental space industry, the requirements for optical equipment have gradually increased, and the research and development technology of the continental optical instruments has also been continuously upgraded.
When developing China's first returnable satellite, it was necessary to carry an observation camera with extremely high requirements, so Wang Daheng and his colleagues worked overtime to solve technical problems day and night. In 1975, the mainland's first returnable satellite was successfully launched and successfully brought the information taken by its satellite back to the ground, which was also the first time that Chinese saw clear satellite images.
Because of the emergence of Wang Daheng, China's optical industry has changed from a blank to an international leader, and has promoted the further development of China's space technology.