◎ Science and Technology Daily reporter Lu Chengkuan
I also realized that as a scientific worker, I should be able to be more cultivated by the Party and exert greater strength in the cause of socialist construction and in the struggle for science to reach an advanced international level.
——Excerpt from Yang Zhongjian's "Volunteer Letter for Joining the Party" in March 1956
In the world-famous British Museum of Natural History
There is a picture of a Chinese scientist
Juxtaposed with international scientific giants Darwin and Owen
For the world to see
He is
Pioneer and founder of vertebrate paleozoology in China
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yang Zhongjian
In 1936, Yang Zhongjian studied the fossil humerus of Rongxian Emei dragon in the Cenozoic Research Office of Lou Gonglou of Peking Union Medical College.
Youth
He was filled with patriotic zeal
During his studies at Peking University
He initiated the organization of the Shaanxi Students' Federation in Beijing
Numerous articles in the press exposing the tyranny of warlords were published
1 June 1927 in Uppsala, Sweden.
During the May Fourth Movement
He participated
Burned the Zhao family building Cao Rulin's residence
And the struggle to beat Zhang Zongxiang
In 1921
He was elected Director of the Executive Department of the Junior Chinese Society
Wrote a letter to Mao Zedong, who was in Hunan at the time
Please fill in the volunteer letter to join the Junior Chinese Society
Mao Zedong quickly replied
When you are young
He made a wish to "save the country through scholarship"
In 1928
Returned from studying abroad
He presided over the excavation of the "Beijing Ape Man" site in Zhoukoudian
In May 1934, in the courtyard of the Zhoukoudian office (second from the right is Yang Zhongjian).
The field of scientific research throughout his life
It almost covers everything from fish to man
All areas of vertebrate paleozoology
The focus is on ancient Chinese mammals
and ancient reptiles
and the study of mesozoic strata
He has been fieldworking for more than 50 years
His footprints cover all provinces and regions of the country
and many countries in Asia, Europe, North America and Africa
Outstanding scientific achievements
It has made him a high reputation at home and abroad
It has become a monument in the field of paleontology in our country
In 1963, Yang Zhongjian (right) and student Liu Dongsheng made a geological expedition to Beijing Zhaitang.
He wrote more than two thousand poems in his lifetime
Not for publication purposes
Only the poems as such
A way to express your feelings and passions
"Big husband can only move forward"
This verse of his
It became the best portrayal of his life
In 1958, Guo Moruo and Zhu Kezhen inspected the Institute of Paleovertebrates of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (second from the left is Yang Zhongjian).
He is
He joined the Communist Party of China in April 1956
Source: Science and Technology Daily The pictures in the article are provided by the Party Committee of the organ directly under the Chinese Academy of Sciences