The chemist Zhao Xinna died, and she was zhao Yuanren's second daughter and lady Huang Peiyun

The surging news reporter learned from Central South University that Comrade Zhao Xinna, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, the founder of domestic process analytical chemistry and chemometrics, and a former professor of the Department of Chemistry of Central South University of Technology, died in Changsha at the age of 97 at 18:00 on December 22, 2020 due to ineffective medical treatment.

Zhao Xinna WeChat public number @ Zhongnan Huayuxuan picture

According to public information, Zhao Xinna, a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, is a member of the Communist Party of China, a former professor of the Department of Chemistry of Central South University of Technology, a former director of the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry, and has been awarded the titles of Advanced Worker, Excellent Party Member and Advanced Educator of Central South University of Technology for many times.

In May 2017, the WeChat public account of "Central South University" published an article titled "Zhongnan People | Zhao Xinna: After centuries of ups and downs, the background of life is still clear", introduced Professor Zhao Xinna. The article reads: Remove the labels of "Zhao Yuanren's second daughter" and "Lady Huang Peiyun", I don't know how many people still know the name "Zhao Xinna". But she has always been herself, a brave being with an independent personality.

The surging news reporter noted that the above article recalled a scene that Zhao Xinna and Huang Peiyun got acquainted with: time went back to a certain day in 1941, the sunset was sinking, night fell, and at the home of Mr. Zhao Yuanren, a famous modern scholar on 27Walker Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, dozens of young people from the Tsinghua Alumni Association gathered here. Between the staggering of ideas, it is a prosperous style of collision of views and fierce debate of thinking.

A room full of hustle and bustle, zhao xinna, the second daughter of the Zhao family, found Huang Peiyun washing in the kitchen alone. She walked over to him and reached out to help. "Don't mess up the bowl!" This was the first thing Huang Peiyun said to Zhao Xinna. This was the beginning of their acquaintance. He was 24 and she was 18. It seems that the life that will be taken care of has opened the curtain of Zhao Xin's care for Huang Peiyun's life.

The young students came to see Mr. Zhao Xinna and asked with some gossip: What do you love Academician Huang? She said with a little seriousness: "What love, love, I will not answer the questions you young people ask." We come together because of the common heart, the common interest. ”

At that time, the United States had not yet entered the war, and it was a faction of song and dance. At home, the mountains and rivers are broken, the land is in danger, Zhao Xinna and Huang Peiyun, like many enthusiastic Sons and Daughters of China, are abroad, worried about the country, while studying for a degree, on the other hand, selling greeting cards on the street or part-time part-time jobs, earning some money and materials to support the domestic war of resistance, in order to do their best for students.

In 1945, the two formed a good relationship between Qin and Jin. The following year, the country was in ruins. Huang Peiyun responded to the needs of the country, returned to China to be hired as the director of the Department of Mining and Metallurgy of Wuhan University, and soon after, devoted himself to the establishment of the Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (the predecessor of Central South University), committed to pioneering the construction of powder metallurgy disciplines in China, and cultivating urgently needed talents for the country. Zhao Xinna, who graduated from Harvard University, returned to China with him and taught chemistry at Wuhan University.

A comrade from the Retirement Office had been in contact with Mr. Zhao Xinna many times, and in her eyes, Mr. Zhao Xinna was extremely independent. When he was young, he fled in the Japanese bombing, and experienced the first Japanese bombing of Nanjing, from Nanchang, Wuhan, Changsha, Guilin, to Hanoi, Vietnam, into Kunming, and then encountered the first Japanese bombing of Changsha in Changsha. "She experienced hardships in her early years and was infiltrated by American culture, but she still insisted on returning to China, and her feelings for the country were incomprehensible to many people."

"I am Chinese, and it is my duty to serve my country." "It was a natural choice to return home at that time." "I am a Chinese, although I was born in the United States, but I chose Chinese nationality." Mr. Zhao Xinna tried to reduce her sense of nobility in people's minds, frequently using the bland words "duty" and "nature".

In 1952, Zhao Xinna, with his eldest son, who was more than five years old and his second son who had just turned a full moon, followed in the footsteps of Huang Peiyun and came from Wuhan University to Central South University to continue teaching chemistry.

In 1952, there were only two buildings in Zhongnan, the Democracy Building and the Peace Building, and there were no student dormitories and staff dormitories. Zhao Xin's family of four lived in a small room in an elementary school. "There was nothing at that time. But no one is afraid of suffering, and everyone works together to carry out construction. If there is no chemistry textbook, english textbooks are translated. No laboratory, pick your own bricks to build. ”

When everything seems to be slowly getting on track. Decentralization and the Cultural Revolution followed. Due to complex social relations, Zhao Xinna, who was in the midst of a prosperous career, was completely stopped from his work, and he successively experienced being sent to the countryside for reform, being detained and controlled for use, and so on. This is a painful thing for a teacher who is full of enthusiasm for the country, loves teaching, and loves students.

But Mr. Zhao Xinna regarded the most difficult tribulations in his life as another life experience. "Everybody has to go through something, and I'm just going through it." "The farmers are very simple, they taught me to plant seedlings and pick up burdens, and I can later pick up 90 pounds."

In the decades that followed, Zhao Xinna never mentioned that period of history. No one knows what kind of pain and suffering she endured. After the intersection of light and shadow through history, her spirit has become as clear as the blue sky. Half a century later, when I asked again, it was already light and breezy.

The wheel of time is always rolling forward. More than ten years after the Cultural Revolution was the most beautiful chapter in Mr. Zhao Xinna's career.

Her student, Mr. Man Ruilin, used a "foundation" and a "first" to express Mr. Zhao Xinna's academic achievements that year. She is the founder of process analytical chemistry and stoichiometry in China; in cooperation with B.R. Kowalski, the founder of stoichiometry, she introduced process analytical chemistry and stoichiometry into China, established the first process analytical chemistry center at Central South University; conducted systematic research in the field of X-ray fluorescence analysis, and used this as a platform to carry out analytical chemistry and stoichiometry research, which has a high reputation and influence at home and abroad...

Over the years, there have been countless media interviews, but Zhao Xinna has never uttered half a word about his academic contributions.

In the 1990s, Mr. Zhao Xinna gradually faded out of the academic position. Shortly thereafter, work began on sorting out his father's belongings.

In 1998, Mr. Zhao Xinna, with the assistance of Academician Huang Peiyun, compiled the book "The Annals of Zhao Yuanren", which was published and distributed by the Commercial Press. Since then, mr. Zhao Yuanren has taken more than 20,000 photos and diary manuscripts from 1906 to 1982 and has been mailed back from the United States. For the collation and explanation of photos and the identification of diary manuscripts, Zhao Xin was the best candidate. Invited by the Commercial Press, Zhao Xinna began a long work of sorting out.

The article reads: The two people who love her the most in life have never gone far, one is within reach, and the other is visible. Zhao Xinna's heart was as clear as a mirror, father and husband, never her label. They are what she loves and what her heart cares for.

Column Editor-in-Chief: Zhang Wu Text Editor: Lu Xiaochuan Caption Source: Shangguan Tu Editor Photo Editor: Xu Jiamin

Source: Author: The Paper, Yue Huairang