In the academic community, she is a beautiful professor who attaches equal importance to beauty and talent, in life she is a "super power person" with a wide range of hobbies and proficiency, she is a goddess in the minds of the majority of netizens, a scientific research bull who cracked the protein membrane structure at the age of 29, a patriotic professor who is enthusiastic to serve the motherland, but because she became an American academician, she was scolded by many people as a "traitor". She is Yan Ning, a former professor at Tsinghua University, a professor of structural biology at Princeton University, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Yan Ning on the Internet can be described as a polarization of evaluation, netizens have their own opinions, some people think she is a traitor, some people say that science has no borders, Yan Ning said: "I never regret it." "So what kind of person is Yan Ning?" Why did she never regret the sound of insults? To know the answer, we naturally have to look for the answer from Yan Ning's life experience.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" > out of Takako</h1>
Yan Ning was born in 1977, but unlike everyone who thinks that he was born rich, Yan Ning was born in an ordinary rural family in Zhangqiu, Shandong, and Yan Ning's parents were ordinary automobile factory workers. Affected by the atmosphere at that time, Yan Ning's family also had a serious preference for sons and daughters, but fortunately, Yan Ning's parents loved this lovely daughter very much, and did not prevent her from reading, but they were very concerned about Yan Ning's reading.
Therefore, even though the family needed more labor at that time, Yan Ning did not work in the field like other rural children, but was resolutely left at home by her parents to study, and no matter how her relatives viewed Yan Ning, her parents decided to do their best to give their daughter the future she wanted. Therefore, when she was a child, Yan Ning was able to rest assured that her mind was on reading and learning.
When Yan Ning was a little older, the family moved to Beijing. After Yan Ning went to elementary school, her father saw her talent in learning, so he had high hopes for her, and he paid close attention to her studies every day. Yan Ning also did not live up to her father's expectations, from primary school to high school has been ranked among the best, in the academic has not been the slightest waste, after the college entrance examination also naturally entered Tsinghua University, admitted to Tsinghua during the days, she became Zhang Qiu word of mouth topic figure.
However, choosing a major has become a problem in front of Yan Ning and her family, and Yan Ning's family hopes that she can choose medicine and become an excellent doctor in the future. However, since Yan Ning was able to enter Tsinghua, he not only had good grades, but also had a certain determination.
Yan Ning has been more afraid of small animals since she was a child, she feels that she can't even solve a small animal, and how to become a doctor, this is not harmful, so Yan Ning, who made up her mind, chose biology. Therefore, although she has lived in the environment arranged by her parents since she was a child, Yan Ning is not a well-behaved baby in the eyes of her parents, she has her own ideas and judgments, and has her own ambitions.
Yan Ning, who entered Tsinghua, did not have a very satisfactory experience at the beginning. In the past, in a middle school, Yan Ning was a bully, a proud son of heaven, and a god of learning in the eyes of his classmates. However, Tsinghua's most important thing is Xueba, and the most important thing is also the pride of heaven, so Yan Ning, who did not adjust the rhythm, planted a big heel in the first exam, and she almost hung up the subject. However, Yan Ning is not an ordinary person, she quickly adjusted her state in a short period of time, quickly digested and absorbed the knowledge she learned, and her grades slowly caught up.
Because she spent all her time on her studies, Yan Ning had almost no extra social interactions during college, although because she was very beautiful, many people asked her out on dates. But at that time, Yan Ning's mind was all on academic research, and there was no extra thought at all. She also lives a life of three points and one line in the classroom, dormitory, and laboratory every day, and Yan Ning stays in the laboratory for at least 10 hours a day.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > mao volunteered to go to Princeton for further study</h1>
Many people may think that the four years of college life is boring and boring, and feel that time is very slow, but for Yan Ning, it is a full and pleasant time. In this way, Yan Ning's college time soaked in the laboratory days passed, and Yan Ning successfully obtained a doctorate from Tsinghua University.
At this time, her family advised her to find a good job and settle down to teach her husband and children, but these were not what Yan Ning wanted, and she was not satisfied. When a person comes into contact with the edge of science, he will want to explore more, which is the mystery and charm of science. Yan Ning is naturally also immersed in the charm of biology, she is very curious to know whether there is more in-depth research abroad in addition to domestic biological research, she is very curious.
At this time, Princeton University professor Shi Yigong, is responsible for the enrollment work in the Chinese mainland, Shi Yigong was also born in Tsinghua University, and later when he was in charge of enrollment work, he also went to Tsinghua University to give a speech, Yan Ning was deeply touched after listening to Shi Yigong's speech, she made up her mind to go outside to see, to contact the more profound biological world, so she introduced herself to Shi Yigong, successfully let Shi Yigong notice her, and later Yan Ning worshiped Shi Yigong.
In Yan Ning's life, if Yan Ning's parents had the grace to nurture her, then Shi Yigong, the benefactor, had the grace to recreate her. Shi Yigong helped her realize the problems in her experiments and break her bad habits. That was Yan Ning's first experiment under Shi Yigong's door, when Yan Ning was nervous and busy, and the experiment was a mess.
Shi Yigong watched silently next to him, and he found at a glance that Yan Ning liked to be opportunistic in his research, and he was more inclined to take shortcuts in any work. Shi Yigong did not let it go, but guided her over and over again, but did not directly name her problems, but waited for her to discover it herself, and she could deeply realize her mistakes and know that she was smart against smart mistakes.
In this way, under the intentional teaching of Shi Yigong, Yan Ning was finally able to appreciate the rigor of scientific research, which would never allow any lazy behavior. At Princeton University, Yan Ning's attitude of studying scholarship is more diligent than in China, often reaching the point of forgetting to eat and sleep, she put all her mind on scientific research, and it is precisely in this way that she obtained a doctorate from Princeton University in 4 years, and then continued to study for postdoctoral research.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > achieved amazing things at a young age</h1>
Yan Ning was 29 years old, which was a very young age in the scientific research community. But this year, Yan Ning successfully made the first membrane protein structure, which is very shocking, after all, this is a problem that has been plagued by global authoritative experts for many years, and it was actually solved by a 29-year-old Chinese woman, and it was also this matter that began to make Yan Ning famous.
After graduating from the postdoctoral program, Yan Ning declined the invitations of many large enterprises and universities and turned to the embrace of the motherland. At that time, Yan Ning was influenced by his mentor Shi Yigong, with patriotic feelings, and after completing his studies, he only wanted to return to the motherland, contribute to the construction of the country, and sprinkle what he had learned in his life on this hot land.
In this way, Yan Ning successfully returned to the motherland as a professor of macromolecular biology at Tsinghua University, and she and Shi Yigong were also the leaders in the field of molecular biology in China at that time.
Tsinghua University allocated her the best research room, and even specially allocated funds to buy the world's most sophisticated cryo-EM equipment for her, giving her sufficient environment and conditions to study molecular biology. Yan Ning is also very grateful, leading the team to soak in the laboratory every day, and strive to contribute to the field of molecular biology in China, becoming a strong stroke in China's molecular biology.
Under such high-intensity work and research, Yan Ning also lived up to expectations, she and her team cracked the analysis of protein structure, which took only half a year, but this problem has plagued the biology community for half a century. This fully reflects Yan Ning's scientific research ability and his talent in the field of biology.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > the academician was elected and fled the United States</h1>
Just when people thought that Yan Ning would be elected as an academician without accidents, an unexpected thing happened. In the selection of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, Yan Ning unexpectedly failed. This news was a big blow to Yan Ning, after all, in terms of her achievements in the field of scientific research, this academician quota was almost in her pocket, but because of her shallow qualifications, it was not rated, which was a blow to Yan Ning.
Also in this year, Yan Ning resigned from his position as a professor at Tsinghua University and went to the United States to teach in Princeton.
For a time, the news that the beautiful professor defected to the country and left the United States to teach exploded on the Internet, some netizens were indignant, scolding Yan Ning as a traitor, and some netizens were more rational, thinking that everyone had the right to choose their own life, and the pursuit of a higher realm of scholarship was beyond reproach, and the People of China at that time did not know the real reason for her departure.
For some people's insults, Yan Ning's response is that although Tsinghua University has given her sufficient research conditions, she has always been in the comfort zone in China, and she also wants to jump out of the comfort zone and change the research environment, Princeton is obviously a very mature academic research environment. As for some people's insults, she didn't care, and she never regretted it, because she was a Chinese from beginning to end.
In fact, we don't have to be so harsh on Yan Ning, because no matter how much she has made contributions to the field of scientific research in China, although she is now abroad, she is still a Chinese, and her scientific research achievements are also the honor of Chinese scientific research. Because she was elected as an academician in the United States, she was widely insulted, which was really a loss of great power demeanor. After all, everyone has the right to choose their own life, she can choose the life she wants, she is a Chinese national, but also a free individual.
In fact, the domestic scientific research environment is now slowly changing, because there was no money, many workers in the field of scientific research rely on the love of scientific research, in order to support them to continue to do. However, now the state attaches more and more importance to the protection of scientific research workers, attaches importance to the improvement of the scientific research environment, and the state is also trying its best to attract Chinese researchers who are far abroad to return to China for construction, and these specific measures are being realized step by step.
I also believe that in the future, with the rise of China and the improvement of China's international status, there will be more and more outstanding graduates who are enthusiastic about serving the country and will definitely choose to stay in China and build beautiful flower families together. When that day comes, we should show the style of a big country and move forward with an inclusive attitude.
We must believe that if we continue to develop according to the momentum of today's China, we will certainly be able to attract foreign talents. I believe that in the future, when our scientific research field becomes a behemoth, then there will definitely be more talents in our country, and then our brain drain can be truly curbed, because only when we are strong can we give the people confidence and retain the talents of our own families!