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Today, I learned that Dr. Sun Weidong, who lives on the streets of the United States, is actually a fellow villager with Yu Minhong, the founder of New Oriental.
Both are from Jiangyin, Jiangsu.
Surrounded by Taihu Lake, this place is known for its fertile land and outstanding talents.
Yu Minhong was born in 1962, while Sun Weidong was born in 1969.
I don't know how New Oriental boss Yu Minhong will react when he sees what happened to this fellow villager who is 7 years younger than him?
Sun Weidong was once the top student in the high school entrance examination and an outstanding student of Fudan, and published 32 SCI articles. With the American Dream in mind, he was recruited to the Dr. Lee Tsung-Dao program, and after graduation, he studied in the United States and stepped into Wall Street, where he was once a dazzling existence.
In contrast, Yu Minhong tried three times in the college entrance examination before being admitted to Peking University, and after he graduated, the whole class chose to study abroad, only he failed because his family was unable to study abroad.
However, he did not give up, and instead founded New Oriental, created an amazing wealth myth, and now has his two children studying abroad.
Sun Weidong is not only a fellow countryman with Yu Minhong, but also has a special relationship with Sohu boss Zhang Chaoyang.
They are both giants in the field of physics, and both have won the Lee Tsung-Dao Scholarship to study in the United States, although both of them were in a somewhat depressed state for a while, Zhang Chaoyang does not seem to have experienced the same frustration as Sun Weidong.
Sohu was once the leader of the portal, and in its heyday, Jack Ma was struggling to start a second business, while Robin Li was still writing code in a small cubicle in Silicon Valley, Ma Huateng and his friend Zhang Zhidong had just started to register a company to run OICQ, and Liu Qiangdong was selling CDs in Zhongguancun......
Of course, we all know the rest of the story. These figures have achieved great success in their respective fields and have become legends of their time.
Zhang Chaoyang is a very interesting person, in addition to running Sohu, he also plays movies, music, etc., but he is a little depressed on the Internet, a bit like the "Fudan homeless man". Although Sohu is not as popular as before, Lao Zhang teaches physics online, as if he is pursuing his original dream.
Lee Tsung-dao is a well-known figure, he and Yang Zhenning won the Nobel Prize in physics together, but then the relationship between the two was not very pleasant, so I won't talk about it here. But his influence and expertise in the physics community are unquestionable.
However, he also did something very important to the country, and that is the "Tsung-Dao Lee Scholarship to Study in the United States", which is actually part of the "Sino-US Joint Graduate Program in Physics" (CUSPEA).
At that time, the relationship between China and foreign countries was not so good, and after Lee Tsung-dao returned to China and saw the domestic situation, he immediately put forward the idea of helping domestic students to study Xi in the United States. He came forward to organize exams and get full scholarships to American schools.
However, at that time, American schools did not recognize Chinese academic qualifications at all, nor did they have any TOEFL GRE tests or the like, so how could they give full scholarships? Therefore, Li Lao spent a lot of effort and personally wrote letters to visit the top universities in the United States, and finally 46 universities agreed, including top universities such as Columbia and MIT.
This was in the 70s of the last century, in order to send Chinese students to receive the best quality education for free and train more scientists.
Review of the Sun Weidong incident:
Recently, a homeless Chinese doctor in New York caused a stir.
The reason is that netizens filmed a video, although this person is ragged and has an elongated beard, his cultivation and conversation are incompatible with the appearance, revealing a high-IQ temperament.
The homeless man, who identified himself as Lao Sun, described himself as a native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, and graduated from Fudan University with a degree in physics, followed by a master's and doctoral studies in the United States, as well as two years of postdoctoral research.
He described his 16 years of wandering, living on food gifts from well-wishers during the day, sometimes going hungry at night, and spending cold nights in the park or subway station.
Despite his wanderings, Lao Sun still maintained communication with Chinese netizens, showing extraordinary conversation and thinking.
He talked about how he once got a good-paying computer job on Wall Street, which was not as decent as the celebrities on Wall Street.
The video quickly went viral on the Internet, and Fudan University also confirmed the identity of Lao Sun, who is a genius in the field of physics in the 85th junior class of Fudan University. At present, Fudan has organized a rescue team, after all, there are many alumni of Sun Weidong in New York.
In the Chinese community in the United States, people found out about Sun Weidong, and his classmates shared the information in the class group. It turned out that Sun Weidong had returned to China once, but after returning to the United States, he lost contact with his family.
Around 1993 or 1994, Mr. Sun returned to China with $30,000. At that time, this money was enough to buy 3 houses in Beijing. It is said that all the money was stolen and he never returned to China since, not even when his father died.
It is speculated that he experienced a divorce and unemployment around 2007, which was a double whammy for him.
Later, he had problems with his mental state and began to live on the streets of New York. His family has been trying to find him. Maybe if he had stayed in China, his life would have been completely different. But now, he has a green card and is a real American.
It is said that in his hometown, Sun Weidong was once a legend and has been an inspiration to many young students for many years.
Until now, despite all this, Sun Weidong's life is still quite outstanding, even surpassing the vast majority of children from ordinary Chinese families. He was once glorious and the pride of his parents!
In 1988, due to the influence of Taiwan's Wen Ho Lee case, the United States restricted Chinese from studying Xi nuclear physics. Rumor has it that Sun Weidong switched to computer science Xi. After completing his PhD, he also did two years of postdoctoral research at the university.
After that, Sun Weidong obtained American citizenship and went to Wall Street to work as a programmer for two years. For some reason, he began to have psychological problems.
His condition is said to be related to a failed marriage. Later, a laid-off female worker from the Northeast came to New York with her daughter, and she was very kind to Sun Weidong. The two later got married, but after getting married, the woman got her green card and left.
The double blow of life and emotions made him feel extremely disappointed in life, and thus began to wander.
If he is happily married, he will definitely make an excellent expert. It's a pity that his ex-wife used him to take advantage of his American identity, which hurt his feelings.
I heard that his marital problems hit him hard, and then he developed auditory hallucinations, and the situation got worse and worse, and finally he could not continue to work.
I think this is true, a science genius like him may be relatively fragile in terms of feelings, and it is difficult to recover once he is injured, I remember that the game genius Su Xiangmao was forced to a desperate situation by a girl named Zhai Xinxin.
Auditory hallucinations usually appear after intense mental stimulation.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, he may have had a marital problem with his ex-wife, which caused the liver qi to be uncomfortable, and the qi was stagnant in the head, causing auditory hallucinations. You may need to seek a Chinese medicine practitioner to regulate your body and receive psychological counseling.
When a well-wisher found Sun Weidong, he had been living on the streets of the United States for 16 years, picking up garbage for a living. A domestic blogger asked him why he didn't go back to China.
Lao Sun said that from coming to the United States to study Xi, getting married, divorced and then wandering, he has spent nearly 30 years in the United States, during which he has only returned to his hometown once, and many relatives and friends have lost contact.
In the end, Lao Sun laughed at himself and said that he missed a lot of opportunities, was unwilling to do manual labor, and always wanted to find an office job, but in the end he lived like this.
Sun Weidong's brilliant achievements back then make people sigh at how much contrast he has now wandering.
An enthusiastic netizen found Dr. Sun's academic information in the scientific research database, showing that his research results during his master's and doctoral studies in the United States were excellent.
In the seven years from 1992 to 1999, he published a total of 32 SCI papers.
During this period, he focused on nuclear physics research, publishing 22 SCI papers between 1992 and 1997, and later turned to condensed matter physics research, publishing 10 SCI papers between 1998 and 1999.
What is even more admirable is that most of these papers are published in authoritative journals in the field of physics.
In other words, he was definitely a rising star in physics at the time. If he had returned to China with these academic achievements, he might have been appointed as a professor at one of the country's top universities, and he could even hold important positions within the academic system.
Today, his academic level is enough to make him an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences! Unfortunately, fate makes people very regretful!
Netizens expressed their stance after learning about his legendary experience, and also exposed his family situation: his father has died, while his mother suffers from high blood pressure and heart disease, and he has a younger brother. Therefore, netizens have left messages hoping that he can return to his motherland and give full play to his wisdom. After all, such geniuses should not be forgotten in the world.
Some netizens thought: "Hurry up and bring him back, this person is fine, even if he is a little sick, it is not serious! In a few years, he will definitely become a top expert in a certain field! Otherwise, the United States may not even want to let him go back." ”
Another person said: "It's still too late, first post two or three papers in the circle of classmates, polish your resume, go back to China directly, get a position as a distinguished professor, and the future will be very stable and happy." ”
Some people also said: "I think there is still a rescue, we can find a way to let him return to China for treatment, after all, he is only in his early 50s, maybe he still has a lot of potential in academics." ”
"Geniuses are often very focused on their professional field, sometimes they have difficulty coping with the complexities of social and interpersonal relationships, and they are easily hurt by emotional distress!"
Like the American mathematician Nash, who had mental problems in his 20s, Princeton University supported him until he won the Nobel Prize in Economics decades later. Maybe our agency can be more lenient and give him an office and pay him a little money every month. It not only embodies humanity, but also taps into his potential!"
Dear readers, what do you think about the situation of this wandering doctor Sun Weidong who has published 32 SCI papers in 7 years?