Zhao Zhongyao is a veritable great scientist. He has many brilliant achievements:
1. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1930.
2. Presided over the construction of China's first and second proton electrostatic accelerators, and was the founder of China's accelerators.
3. The first discovery of the existence of positrons, he was the first scientist in the world to discover antimatter.
4. He observed the annihilation of positive and negative electrons, two years before Anderson, who later won the Nobel Prize. He should have become the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize in Physics with this achievement, but because of the mistakes of others at that time, Zhao Zhongyao lost the Nobel Prize.
5. Nobel laureates in physics Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao, Wang Ganchang, Peng Huanwu, Qian Sanqiang, Deng Jiaxian, Zhu Guangya, Zhou Guangzhao, Cheng Kaijia, etc. are zhao Zhongyao's students
6. In 1931, Zhao Zhongyao went to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom to work with the nuclear master Rutherford. When he returned to China, Rutherford gave Zhao Zhongyao 50 mg radium. As he was parting, Rutherford said to him with some feeling:
"You go back and get some money through the government or the industrialists, and do a good job of science." In the past, you Chinese studied a lot here, and your grades were good, but once you went back, you couldn't hear the sound, and I hoped that you would go back and continue to engage in scientific research. ”
7. Zhao Zhongyao bought back from the United States an important tool for the manufacture of nuclear weapons - accelerators and other parts (US President Trump's uncle John George Trump helped give Zhao Zhongyao a scrapped electrostatic accelerator, and also provided a laboratory, which is also a story), and he was also one of the heroes of nuclear weapons, but unfortunately he was not on the list of two bombs and one star.
It is very sad that Zhao Zhongyao was accused of being a "reactionary academic authority" during the Anti-Rightist and "Cultural Revolution", was "suspected of being a spy", and was imprisoned in a cowshed. The reason for the detention was that he was a secret agent because he was doing scientific research experiments in the United States.
In addition, he insisted on seeking justice for his teacher Ye Qisun and was hit.
As the world's top physicist, Zhao Zhongyao's golden research time of more than 20 years has been wasted.
In 1972, he participated in the establishment of the Institute of High Energy Physics, and in 1973, the Institute of High Energy Physics was established, and Zhao Zhongyao resumed his work as deputy director and in charge of the Work department of Experimental Physics.
Due to the special period, Zhao Zhongyao did not personally participate in the research and development of China's nuclear weapons, but we will not forget that Zhao Zhongyao was the creator of China's "mushroom cloud".