The country is a country that has a country before a home, and everyone must not forget their roots. Drinking water thinks of the source, draught does not forget the country of the people who dig the well, since there is a country before there is a home, everyone can not forget their roots. Drinking water and thinking about the source, drinking water and not forgetting to dig wells is a simple truth that teenagers understand, how can they forget that they are Chinese because they are in a foreign country?
Qian Xuesen's nephew Qian Yongjian was born and raised in the United States, but he still has Chinese blood flowing in his body, and after he won the Nobel Prize, he said that he was an American, and the United States was his hometown, which made many Chinese feel cold when they heard it.
He has been a genius since he was a child
In 1952, Qian Yongjian was born in New York, USA, and his ancestral home is Lin'an, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. The Qian family has strong genes and is very talented in science.
Qian Yongjian's father, Qian Xueyu and Qian Xuesen, were cousins, and the two went to the United States to study together in the early years, but after the founding of New China, Mr. Qian Xuesen overcame all difficulties and finally returned to China with the help of Premier Zhou to do his best for the country. Qian Xueyu chose to stay in the United States to continue his development and settle down in the United States.
Qian Xueyu's wife is also Chinese, and his wife's brothers are also developing in the United States, and it is not surprising that Qian Yongjian was born in the United States. At that time, Qian Yongjian's father was an engineer in the United States, and his uncles were engineering professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Qian Yongjian has shown a talent for science since he was a child, and because of his poor health, he suffered from asthma at a young age, and he can't joke excessively like ordinary children, so he often confines himself at home to do research and chemical experiments.
He loves the pleasure of chemistry and fascinates him by the sense of accomplishment he feels every time he creates a different color.
The development of children's interests and hobbies is inseparable from the support and encouragement of their parents.
Qian Yongjian's parents knew that science was the source of changing the development of society, so they let Qian Yongjian embark on this road. Facts have also proved that their choice was not wrong.
In 1968, at the age of 16, Qian Yongjian was awarded the Westinghouse Science Genius Award, created for middle school students, for discovering how metals bind to thiocyanates. It is the oldest and most authoritative science competition award for high school students in the United States, with great gold content, and Qian Yongjian won the first place that year, which can really be described as a young talent.
In the same year, Qian Yongjian entered Harvard University with the American Outstanding Student Award, and four years later, at the age of 20, he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics. He then spent the next five years at the University of Cambridge where he completed his PhD and postdoctoral degrees.
Walking on the road of research, Qian Yongjian has gained a lot of freedom, and no matter what field he is in, he can walk out of a brilliant path, which is the result of talent and unremitting efforts.
Drifting further and further down the path of science
In 1980, Qian Yongjian invented a dye molecule to detect the concentration of calcium ions and improved the method of introducing it into cells.
The dye invented by Qian Yongjian can directly penetrate into cells, which is a leapfrog improvement compared with the previous method of detecting calcium ions by only injecting jellyfish into cells.
Since 1994, Qian Yongjian has been researching GFP, or green fluorescent protein. He improved the luminous intensity of GFP, and invented a variety of different colors of variant proteins, his patents have been cited by scholars and companies around the world, the vast majority of GFP currently used on the market is a variant invented by Qian Yongjian, it can be said that his invention has promoted the development of society.
Qian Yongjian's achievements in biology and chemistry are difficult for ordinary people to match, compared with many of the older generation of scientists who traveled with him, he also has an age advantage, probably because he was born in a good era, there are no wars, and his family conditions are also very good, so he has a lot less setbacks in taking the road of research.
From 1991 to 2008, Qian Yongjian won numerous awards and was invited to give academic presentations, publicizing his academic research and experience to his peers and students. At that time, Qian Yongjian had always been the expected Nobel laureate.
In 2008, Qian Yongjian won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his GFP research results, which is not only an affirmation of Qian Yongjian's scientific research ability, but also a testimony of social progress.
In 2009, he was conferred the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by the University of Chinese and the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by the University of Hong Kong. When the scenery was infinite, he said something that silenced the Chinese.
He has Chinese blood, but he claims to be an American
How difficult Qian Xuesen's road back to China is, everyone in Chinese knows that Qian Lao feels that he is born Chinese and died as a Chinese soul, and he will come back if he says anything. The United States once detained him as a suspect, and in just a dozen days, Qian Lao lost 30 pounds.
It wasn't until China heard that he was persecuted in the United States that many activities tried to bring Qian Lao back to China safely. After five years of tossing and turning, Qian Xuesen was able to return to his homeland with his wife and children to serve the country. Such perseverance is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Compared with Qian Xuesen's patriotic feelings, his nephew Qian Yongjian only regarded the United States as his country, and on Chinese soil, he said in public: "I was born and raised in the United States, I don't speak Chinese very well, I am an American scientist, this is very certain, I am not a Chinese scientist." Such a remark can't say anything wrong, but it will chill the hearts of the Chinese people.
It is not denied that Qian Yongjian was born and grew up in the United States, but he has always had Chinese blood flowing in him. However, he said: "Bloodline does not determine a person's identity, a successful scientist must come from an open society, and a free environment is the key to cultivating scientists." ”
At that time, China's society had been progressing, and there were many preferential treatments for scientists, and it was not without an environment to cultivate scientists, but Qian Yongjian seemed to have been denying China's environment, bluntly saying that the United States could let him develop freely, which was somewhat forgetful.
To be a man, we must learn to look forward and see what we can get, and we must also learn to look backward and see why we can get everything we have now.