Death has always been an objective fact that human beings do not want to mention but must face, throughout the ages, whether it is princes and generals or grassroots people, in the end, no one will inevitably die, as the great writer Wen Tianxiang said, who has not died since ancient times.
Although death is an eternal and unchanging law of nature, which cannot be stopped, let alone changed, many of us will still feel grief and grief when we really face death, especially in the face of the sudden death of a person with important social influence.
On May 10, news broke on the Internet that researcher Bai Yilong, a famous mechanologist in mainland China and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died suddenly. As soon as the news was revealed, it immediately caused an uproar on the Internet, and many netizens felt that the incident happened suddenly and distressingly.
After the incident, a media reporter contacted the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to verify the matter. A staff member confirmed the news of Academician Bai Yilong's death, and said that Academician Bai was 83 years old and should be at the end of his life.
To tell the truth, at the age of 83, he is already in his old age, which is considered a high life expectancy compared with us ordinary people. However, for an academician, it is normal to enjoy the medical treatment of ministerial-level leading cadres and live to be over 90 years old under normal circumstances, so after the news of the death of 83-year-old academician Bai Yilong was revealed, it still aroused widespread concern.
On the evening of May 9, the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences issued an obituary, announcing the death of Academician Bai Yilong, confirming that he died in Beijing at 9:21 on May 9. The obituary reviewed the main work experience of Academician Bai Yilong during his lifetime, and highly affirmed his outstanding contributions in the field of nonlinear mechanics of solid deformation damage and catastrophic transformation. He also said that the farewell ceremony for his body will be held at the Babaoshan Funeral Home on May 13.
The obituary also responded positively to the issue of the cause of death that the public is most concerned about, saying that he died due to ineffective medical treatment, and the obituary did not mention the specific cause and specific treatment process in detail.
Attentive netizens found that Academician Bai Yilong's last public appearance before his death was on September 13, 2022, and on that day, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics held a unique event to hold golden wedding and diamond wedding celebrations for many academicians and professors. Professor Ke Fujiu, the wife of Academician Bai Yilong, revealed on the spot that the introducer of their marriage was the famous physicist Wang Zhuxi.
Judging from the photos of the scene exposed at that time, Academician Bai Yilong was in good physical condition, in good spirits, and had no special abnormal performance.
It is particularly worth mentioning that Professor Ke Fujiu, the wife of Academician Bai Yilong, is from an extraordinary background, and her father is Ke Zhao, a famous mathematician and senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ke Zhao graduated from Tsinghua University in 1933, received a doctorate from the University of Manchester in 1937, and was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955.
According to the information obtained by public inquiry, Academician Bai Yilong was born in Xiangyun, Yunnan Province in December 1940, graduated from the Department of Modern Mechanics of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1963, and obtained a master's degree from the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1966.
In 1991, Bai Yilong was elected as a member (academician) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in 2002, he was elected as an academician of the European Academy of Sciences.