Mr. Yan Keats is one of the founders of modern physics in China, an outstanding physicist and science educator, and an outstanding leader of high moral standing in China's scientific and technological circles.
Yan Keats was born on January 23, 1901 in Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, and died in Beijing on November 2, 1996. Yan Keats' life spanned almost the entire 20th century, with 1949 as the boundary, which can be divided into 48 years before and after. In the first half of his life, he made great contributions to the rooting and development of modern physics in China; in the second half of his life, he served as an important leader of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the scientific and technological circles for a long time, and devoted himself to the cause of science and technology in New China.
Yan Keats in China Post
Most scientists do not like politics, and they tend to devote themselves to pure scientific research and teaching work rather than making policies and participating in various social activities. In stark contrast to these people, as a famous physicist, Yan Keats began to actively devote himself to social work in the late period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and supported the construction of the party and the country.
Yan Keats has been a genius since childhood, at the age of 14, he was admitted to Nanjing Higher Normal College with the first place, and in the third grade, he was entrusted by the principal to teach first-grade mathematics in the county, and graduated from the National Southeast University in 1923, and then went to France to study at his own expenses by relying on the fees obtained from writing books and the financial support of the division commander.
Yan Keats received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris, France
After receiving his doctorate in 1927, he returned to China to teach and engage in scientific research. Not surprisingly, he should have become a pure physicist. Unfortunately, in 1937, when the All-out War of Resistance broke out, Yan Keats returned to China in 1938, and was interviewed by a local reporter while passing through Lyon, and published his anti-Japanese remarks in large characters in the newspaper "Lyon Progress", saying that he would lead a group of French students back to China to resist Japan. He had to change his route to Vietnam and return to Kunming.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, under his leadership, the Institute of Physics of the North Research Institute produced more than 1,000 quartz oscillators for radio transmitters to stabilize the frequency, more than 300 sets of pentagonal rangefinders and telescopes for infantry, and 500 1500-fold microscopes, 200 spirit levels, and 50 sets of microfilm amplifiers for use in field and rear hospitals and scientific research and teaching.
Yan Keats gave a lecture to the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning
During this period, Yan Keats was like an excellent patriotic scientist. In the later stages of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the domestic and international political environment deteriorated rapidly, and he resolutely assumed his social responsibility. In 1948, he joined the Jiusan Society and served as the chairman of the Peking Association of Scientific Workers. At the Academic Conference of the Peking Research Institute held in September of that year, he loudly criticized "the research environment is much worse than that of a decade ago."
He received a great deal of attention for a time, and in order to stay away from the land of right and wrong, he returned to Kunming in October. Under the support and arrangement of the underground party, on March 25, 1949, Yan Keats returned to Beiping and served as a member of the Education Committee of the North China People's Government, participating in the work of the new government led by the Communist Party. Another turning point in Yan Keats's life came, and since then, he has actively devoted himself to the cause of scientific construction in New China with an unselfish attitude.
Yan Keats Hua Luogeng and Guo Moruo sat on the ground
The Chinese Academy of Sciences was founded, and he wanted to return to research, but was appointed director of the general office and director of the Institute of Applied Physics, rather than focusing on the research institute. At this time, he thought: "At that time, I thought that once a person leaves the laboratory, it is the end of his scientific life. ”
Dean Guo Moruo said to Yan Keats: "If we can bring hundreds of people into the laboratory, wouldn't it be a greater good thing?" From then on, Yan Keats began the educational and administrative work for the second half of his life. Yan Keats closely united with the members of the Faculty of Technical Sciences and relevant experts, and put forward many important suggestions for the development of China's technical sciences.
Yan Keats' inscription to celebrate HKUST
He led the Ministry of Technical Sciences in 1956 and 1962 to participate in the formulation of the national long-term plan for the development of science and technology twice; according to the needs of national construction and the development trend of science and technology, he studied and adjusted the disciplinary development direction and institutional layout of the relevant research institutes under the faculty in a timely manner.
Yan Keats also personally served as the leader of the national "two ore (Daye, Baiyun Obo Iron Ore) Processing Research Group" in the key projects of the First Five-Year Plan, organizing the strength of five or six institutes in the hospital to tackle key problems, coordinating and solving relevant problems, and successfully completing the task after more than two years of efforts.
Yan Keats and now Internet celebrity Professor Chen Ping
In 1958, the University of Science and Technology of China was established, and he was a member of the Preparatory Committee of the University. Since 1961, he and Prof. Hua Luogeng have served as vice presidents of HKUST, and in high positions, they have personally taught every year, promoting young teachers and providing many valuable teaching experiences for the development of the school.
Today, as a university student in the new era, we should not only think of becoming a great scientist, famous in the world, exploring the unknown, but also always take Mr. Yan Keats as an example, actively devote ourselves to social work, and truly serve the people. Take the initiative to do education, science popularization work, and pass on the spirit and ideas of science to people who do not understand these professional knowledge.