In 1995, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to american scientists who discovered neutrinos. Soon, it was discovered that the scientists who won the Nobel Prize finally made a breakthrough by relying on the assumptions in the paper of the Chinese scientist Wang Ganchang.
But when the world regretted and even bowed for Wang Ganchang, he said disapprovingly: "The achievements of physics should still be confirmed by experiments, and honor should also be given to those scientists who finally make results." ”
In fact, this time he rubbed shoulders with the Nobel Prize in Physics, which is only one of the three times Wang Ganchang has rubbed shoulders with the Nobel Prize. He missed the Nobel Prize in Physics several times, and has always been cited as a pity for China, noting that since the Republic of China, he has been considered "the most likely Chinese scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Physics".
Unfortunately, most people today know his student, Li Zhengdao, who won the Nobel Prize, but few people know his name Wang Ganchang. Behind this anomaly is the peculiarity of his identity: he was once hidden for 17 years because he was a key researcher in the development of two bombs and one satellite.
The development of nuclear and hydrogen bombs is a top secret of the state, so the scientific research experts who are the leaders are absolutely not allowed to disclose their identities (except for Qian Xuesen, Qian Sanqiang, and a few other people who hold leading positions in the state).
Whether it was in the 1950s and 1960s, when Wang Ganchang was first engaged in nuclear scientific research, or today, whether any country in the world can not be bullied by other countries and whether it holds an atomic bomb in its hand is an absolute weight. That's why the work they were responsible for at that time was extremely important.
In order to ensure that everything can go smoothly, the more scientists in charge of this project at that time, the more scientists in the front line need to be hidden. Therefore, as the number one scientific research expert, Wang Ganchang has even been able to use the pseudonym of "Wang Jing" to secretly engage in this major task.
Also because he is well aware of his importance in scientific research, in order to protect his own safety, in the 17 years of secret work under a pseudonym, Wang Ganchang has never revealed anything to anyone, even his wife and children do not know anything about his career.
It is precisely because he has been busy with scientific research that in the eyes of his wife Wu Yueqin, he has never been a good husband. In their marriage, she has always been the one who pays silently, and this kind of giving is several times greater than that of the ordinary wife to the husband.
Wang Ganchang in his youth
Wu Yueqin was three years older than Wang Ganchang, and their marriage was a feudal arranged marriage. In the year the two were married, Wang Ganchang, who had lost his parents, was only 14 years old, while the bride Wu Yueqin was just 17 years old.
At that time, Wang Ganchang was still a middle school student, and his grandmother and eldest brother arranged marriage for him in such a hurry because they were afraid that Wang Ganchang, who had lost his parents, would not be taken care of in the future.
On another level, the purpose of the family arranging the wedding for Wang Ganchang was to find him a "dependence". Wu Yueqin is their choice based on this consideration: she is three years older than him and very diligent and down-to-earth, such a woman is naturally the best person to take care of him.
Sure enough, after marriage, Wang Ganchang was well cared for by "Niangzi" (Changshu locally called his wife Tuyu), and since then, he has only devoted himself to reading.
Because of his early marriage, Wang Ganchang became a father when he was fifteen or sixteen. When he first became a father, he could not accept the fact that he was already a father, and when he returned home from Shanghai Huangpu Middle School to see the child, he was too frightened to recognize his child.
Wu Yueqin naturally cried and laughed when she saw it, but she was very good at self-consolation, and she thought: Just wait for him to be older.
Wu Yueqin did not expect that Wang Ganchang had not adapted to the role of his father all his life, and he had not even done his duty as a husband.
In 1925, Wang Ganchang, who had several children, was admitted to Tsinghua University after graduating from high school, and since then, his mind has been all about learning and long-term knowledge. Naturally, the affairs of the family, he did not care about it anymore.
"How do children change diapers, how do children cry", these questions, Wang Ganchang tongtong has not considered.
During this period, Wu Yueqin was the only one who ran everything in the family, and she took care of everything in the family with her young shoulders. When her husband returns home, she also has to take care of his food and living. This kind of life, which will be considered by people today as "widowed parenting", is the real life of Wu Yueqin at that time.
Wang Ganchang family portrait
In this regard, Wu Yueqin naturally complained, but she knew that she would not help to share anything with him anymore, after all, he was three years younger than himself and was used to letting his wife bear everything.
In 1930, Wang Ganchang was admitted to study at the official expenses of Jiangsu Province, and he went to the Wilhelm Royal Institute of Chemistry of the University of Berlin in Germany for graduate studies that year, under the supervision of the famous female nuclear physicist Meitner.
In the years when Wang Ganchang studied abroad, Wu Yueqin completely lived a "widowed" life.
At that time, Wu Yueqin thought to herself: It's okay, just wait until he returns from studying abroad. She did not know that when her husband returned to China, her life as his wife would be even more difficult.
In April 1934, Wang Ganchang returned to China. Since then, he has served as a professor in the Department of Physics of Shandong University and Zhejiang University.
During this time, Wu Yueqin was finally able to see her husband often, and they lived a seemingly normal life. But this life is only "quite normal", Wang Ganchang is busy all day long, and when he comes back, he is still busy on his desk, and his world is only knowledge, learning and training students, and nothing else.
The children of Wang Ganchang, who have grown up, are naturally full of complaints when they see their fathers, and their relationship with their fathers is becoming more and more tense. As a result, Wu Yueqin often had to say a lot of good things for him in front of the children.
Soon, with Wang Ganchang's participation in the development of nuclear and hydrogen bombs, his already bad relationship with his family became even more tense.
One day shortly after the founding of New China, Wang Ganchang received a letter from Qian Sanqiang and He Zehui. In the letter, they write:
"Ganchang Senior Director's List:
The news that the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been officially announced on November 1, 1949, and I want to know it... Over the years, Gan Chang brother has made a lot of scientific research achievements in the frontiers of nuclear physics, which is only admired by his brother and is well known to the world. This time to the north, under the leadership of our common master Mr. Wu Youxun, we will unite and cooperate to create good results. Presumably, Chairman Mao Zedong's prediction that the realization of the Chinese nation 'appearing in the world as a highly cultured nation' will not last long. Whether you can go to Beijing as promised, I look forward to a quick call. ”
Wang Ganchang, who already had a passion for serving the country, immediately decided to go north after receiving this letter, and he did not even ask his wife and children for any opinions in advance.
Wang Ganchang and friends
The difference between the north and the south is very large, can the wife and children adapt to life in the north? Wang Ganchang did not consider these questions in the slightest. He was completely immersed in joy, and all he thought about was how to use the country he had studied.
Because he wanted to explore the way, all the expenses of this trip north were all made by Wang Ganchang himself.
In the second year of his journey north, Wang Ganchang was invited by Guo Moruo, then president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to preside over the establishment of the China Institute of Modern Physics and comprehensively launch the nuclear physics research of New China.
For Wang Ganchang, who has experienced more than a decade of war, such job opportunities and positions are simply precious.
After following her husband to the north, his wife and children naturally could not adapt to the climate and life in the north, and his children even fell ill several times due to water and soil.
But when the children need him the most, Wang Ganchang, as a father, is even busier. Wu Yueqin ushered in the widowhood career of "her husband is not home all year round".
In 1956, Wang Ganchang was sent by the central government to the Joint Research Institute of Dubna in the Soviet Union, where he went for another four years. During this period, Wu Yueqin could not even see her husband's face.
In 1961, shortly after the return of the Soviet Union, Wang Ganchang accepted a secret order to participate in the development of the atomic bomb.
Wang Ganchang
Because the work was extremely rigorous, he could not reveal anything to his family. He also knew that this was a few years or more than a decade or two. Therefore, he must "inform" his wife.
As expected, after Wang Ganchang said that he was going to leave home for a long time, Wu Yueqin was anxious, but he did not say specific when asked. Anxious, she finally got angry, and she asked, "Where are you going?" ”
When Wang Ganchang saw that his wife was angry, he had no choice but to casually say, "Xi'an, go to Xi'an." When he said this, he did not dare to look at his wife, after all, this address was made up by him. Fortunately, Wu Yueqin did not ask more questions after listening.
Before this departure, because he knew that there was no return date, he showed great reluctance, and before leaving, he said to his wife with some shame: "I don't know how long it will take to go..."
Wu Yueqin listened but interrupted him: "I am used to it..."
From the beginning of participating in the development of the atomic bomb, there was no longer "Wang Ganchang" in the world, and for countless years after that, there was only "Wang Jing" and no "Wang Ganchang" in the world.
For this reason, Wu Yueqin and the children did not get any news about their father. They don't even know if he's still alive.
Because of the secret mission, Wang Ganchang missed the wedding of his five children. Every time the kids got married, he was in the lab. Such an absence will naturally make the children complain.
Years later, his daughter complained of her father:
"He either didn't stay at home for a few years, or when he entered the house, he was alone in the house and busy with his own business. And as soon as we got home, we had to follow my mother to prepare this and that for him... Can we have no opinion on him? Alas, our father really never knew what the concept of home was!"
Wang Ganchang really had no concept of home, he didn't remember any of their children's birthdays, and he didn't even show up when any of them needed him.
But Wang Ganchang, who has no concept of home, has a deep affection for the "country". As long as it was the task assigned to him by the state, he never slackened off too much. In order to develop atomic and hydrogen bombs as soon as possible, he fought in the front line day and night.
Knowing that the nuclear test would damage his body, he continued to test day and night. As a physicist, he knows better than anyone that only by developing two bombs can China stand tall among the world's strong forests and the world's anti-China forces be scrupulous.
On October 16, 1964, China's first atomic bomb was successfully detonated. That day, Wang Ganchang saw under the black protective goggles that the explosive heart point 23 kilometers away from him suddenly flashed a strong light, and then, after an earth-shattering loud noise, the earth began to tremble violently, and the huge fireball in front of him carried a hundred meters of sand and dust with a thunderous momentum, and quickly lifted up a mushroom-like smoke cloud...
"Dean Wang, we succeeded!" "Mr. Wang, we have finally won!" Deng Jiaxian, Cheng Kaijia and other scientists came to Congratulate Wang Ganchangwei.
Wang Ganchang said with tears in his eyes: "It's so funny! What a pleasure! It was so much fun! After Wang Ganchang's colloquial phrase "too funny" popped out, the disciples couldn't help but laugh.
After this loud noise of Lop Nur, the awakened Western hegemonism has reported on it. It was extremely interesting that they guessed the host and leader behind the success of the experiment, and they thought that he must be "K.C. Wang", "K.C. Wang" is Wang Ganchang's English name.
Subsequently, western media such as the New York Times reported a large number of "anecdotes" and "rumors" of the Chinese Oppenheimer.
But shortly after that, with the unfolding of that special revolution, Wang Ganchang and his family were also affected. This meritorious man became a "reactionary academic authority" here, and China's nuclear weapons development process immediately fell into a terrible fate.
Who would have thought that a national hero would have suffered all kinds of hardships when he should have been greatly praised, and his family had also been treated unfairly because of him.
Fortunately, Wang Ganchang only focused on scientific research and did not take these things to heart. However, during this period, he insisted on scientific research, and the difficulty to overcome was countless times that of usual.
Sometimes, without manpower, he even had to go to the car team to borrow people to do experiments.
Under such a difficult situation, at 8:20 a.m. on June 17, 1967, China's first hydrogen bomb explosion test was successful, and this time, when the earth was illuminated by the strong light that flashed out of the successful explosion of the hydrogen bomb, Wang Ganchang actually "whimpered" and cried bitterly.
His crying was joy, but also countless tears of grievance accumulated in his stomach...
Shortly after the explosion was successful, Wang Ganchang's underground nuclear test was successful. However, at this moment, he received the "No. 1 order" from Vice Chairman Lin Biao: all the institutions of the Ninth People's Court in Beijing were moved to the Mianyang area of Sichuan.
Undoubtedly, this is a complete "demeaning".
After receiving the instructions, Wang Ganchang did not even think about it, and moved with his family from the capital to Mianyang, Sichuan. In this migration, he has become a grandfather and has also brought his granddaughter.
After arriving in Mianyang, Wang Ganchang's family found that all the leaders at the hospital level were only Wang Ganchang's family who had moved... At this time, Wang Ganchang was nearly 70 years old, but after arriving in Mianyang, he had to run around hundreds of kilometers of industrial areas almost every day. Crucially, this is also an earthquake-prone area.
Wu Yueqin was naturally very worried when she saw it, and while complaining about her husband, she advised him to worry less, but he always turned a deaf ear to his wife's words.
In 1976, Wang Ganchang, who was 70 years old, defied his wife's persuasion and arrived at the snow-filled Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Here, he successfully conducted China's third underground nuclear test.
After the End of the Cultural Revolution, Wang Ganchang was finally transferred back to Beijing. It was only at this time that he reactivated the real name "Wang Ganchang". At this point, he could also hear people calling him "Academician Wang Ganchang" in public again.
At this time, Wang Ganchang's wife Wu Yueqin and the children knew that their father was one of the main scientific researchers involved in the development of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs.
Wang Ganchangzhi's end of incognito also means that he can finally spend more time at home.
The days after that were the happiest days of Wu Yueqin's life, her old man could finally accompany herself often, and at this time, the children who had grown up finally had time to talk to their fathers.
However, because he is absent from the growth of the children, no matter how close he is to the children, they will always find the closeness of ordinary fathers and children, and occasionally, he will be ridiculed by the children.
Once, when Wang Ganchang was chatting with his children, he suddenly sighed and said, "None of the descendants of our family have an outstanding person, hey! As soon as his voice fell, the children invariably countered him: "That's because our family doesn't have a father like you!" ”
Wang Ganchang, who heard the words in his children's words, asked, "What does this mean?" ”
When the children saw that their father still did not understand, they told him bluntly: "You are not a little like your father, you are devoted to the country, but the family and children are not doing a good job in this regard." ”
After hearing this, Wang Ganchang was silent, and after a long time, he sighed and half-jokingly said: "It seems that I have done too poorly at home with the symmetry of physical phenomena, it is too bad." ”
After this conversation, Wang Ganchang thought a lot, and he realized that he owed too much to his wife and children. In order to compensate, after retirement, he often accompanied his wife for walks and chatted with his children. At this time, he finally knew the taste of happiness in the world.
Wang Ganchang and his wife Wu Yueqin
Unfortunately, one summer day in 1997, 90-year-old Wang Ganchang was knocked down by a bicycle when he went out for a walk. After the car accident, Wang Ganchang's leg fracture needed to be hospitalized. During this period, Wu Yueqin, who was 93 years old, unfortunately fell while taking care of him, and soon after, she died.
The death of his wife dealt a great blow to Wang Ganchang, and after that, he often murmured," "I owe you, I can't pay it back." Soon after, he was in deteriorating health and went with his wife and children with guilt.
It is a pity that Wang Ganchang, who has dedicated his life to the motherland and the people, has never been able to pay off the kindness he owes to his wife in the end...
The Buddha once asked: In the world, the two complete Dharmas, do not live up to the Qing? The answer is: there is no double full law in the world, choose Rulai, and set the negative Qing!