He was known as China's Hawking, but during his study in the United States, he was unfortunately infected by the virus and was paralyzed for life. However, he did not become depressed, but fought against fate and dedicated 60 years to China's science popularization cause.
The disease made him unable to hold the pen, so he dictated in ambiguous language and commissioned others to record it into text; later, the disease deprived him of the ability to dictate, and he picked up the pen that had been shelved for 40 years, practiced word by word, and wrote dozens of excellent popular science works.
Coatschi
He is Gao Shiqi, a famous Chinese scientist, popular science writer, and educator. As a pioneer and founder of China's science popularization cause, he enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.
Paralyzed, he devoted his life to science communication and educating young people, writing millions of words of popular science works, and leading a scientific popularization team of nearly 20 million people. After Gao Shiqi's death, he was recognized as a "hero of the Chinese nation".
Today, I would like to talk to you about the great deeds of Mr. Gao Shiqi, who has the ambition to serve the country and burn himself to illuminate others.
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Gao Shiqi was born on November 1, 1905 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. The family conditions were superior, and his father was an intellectual who returned from japan and served as an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Qing Dynasty. My mother was also quite literate and well-cultivated.
Gao Shiqi, who grew up in such a family, was kind-hearted and ambitious, and reading for a future became the blueprint for his parents to plan for him.
In 1918, Gao Shiqi was admitted to the predecessor of Tsinghua University, tsinghua preparatory school for studying in the United States. The outbreak of the May Fourth Movement ignited the blood in Gao Shiqi's heart, and he actively threw himself into the movement of "democracy and science" to save the country and established a lifelong ideal of science to save the country.
In 1925, Gao Shiqi graduated with full honors from tsinghua preparatory school for studying in the United States and entered the University of Wisconsin in the United States to study chemistry.
He chose chemistry because he saw Chinese starving, lacking food and clothes, and imagined that chemistry could help. When he was racing on the ocean of chemistry, he received the news that his sister in China had unfortunately died of cholera.
This turning point led him to change his major and switch to bacteriology, and he believes that the most important thing at present is to pull the people of the motherland back from the death line of the disease and not let the tragedy of his sister repeat itself.
Compared with chemistry, a widely used discipline, bacteriology was very unpopular at the time, but he chose this path without regret.
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By 1928, Coatschi was already a doctoral student at the University of Chicago's Institute of Medical Sciences. In the eyes of his classmates, Gao Shiqi's learning cannot be described as "hard", but "desperate". Every time he did experiments, in order to get the most real data and individual feelings, he regarded himself as a "guinea pig" and swallowed food germs to do experiments on his own infection.
Unfortunately, in one experiment, a bottle containing the encephalitis virus suddenly ruptured, and the virus entered the cerebellum through his left eardrum, destroying the central motor nerve of the cerebellum.
Classmates rushed him to the hospital, and at the level of medical care at the time, the doctors asserted that he would be permanently disabled.
The 23-year-old had a good year, and he regretted it for the rest of his life because of an accident. This kind of blow, if it happens to ordinary people, is depressed, and even self-seeking is possible.
However, the fire in Coats' heart not only did not go out, but burned even more vigorously. The doctor asked him to return to China to recuperate, and he said that he had not yet learned all the skills, could not go back, and insisted on studying.
The encephalitis virus brought him inexplicable pain, he would often lose control of his eyes, his neck was stiff, his hands and feet were trembling, he endured severe pain and studied at the Yale University Institute of Public Health for a year, and received a doctorate in medicine under circumstances that everyone thought was impossible.
In order to grasp the current situation and future trend of world public health development, he traveled all the way back from the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia, visited 17 countries and regions continuously, and handed over a qualified "investigation report" for the motherland.
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In 1930, Gao Shiqi returned to his homeland after a five-year absence. His study abroad experience has made him a "national treasure". He is one of only 5 microbiologists in the country. The Nanjing Central Hospital hired him as the director of the laboratory department, but the corruption of the Nationalist government made him very repulsive, and he left his post in anger and lived in Shanghai.
Think of 5 years ago when I went abroad full of ambition, and now my whole body is sick and my career is not going well, this depressed Coats can only be turned into a line of poetry to vent out. In fact, he can completely return to his hometown and live without worry, but he is not willing.
Unexpectedly, he seized an opportunity to change the trajectory of his life.
The famous educator Tao Xingzhi launched the "Popularization of Science" movement in 1932, calling on intellectuals to write popular science books for the people and children.
Gao Shiqi is happy to be such a "lamplight man" and popularize what he has learned to the public, which is his original intention to study abroad.
He participated in it and co-authored the Children's Science Series, and his work is "Three Little Water Ghosts", which symbolizes the three major water plagues of cholera, typhoid fever and dysentery. Someone wrote criticizing him for not being able to use the metaphor of "ghost", because "ghost" was a feudal superstitious statement, and he humbly accepted it, considering how to accurately and graphically tell scientific knowledge.
In the process of writing, he gradually felt that this was a career that he could strive for all his life. Liang Qichao said that "a strong youth is a strong country", in the face of weak old China, how to hand over knowledge and hope to the next generation through their own efforts is difficult.
No one does it, just do it yourself. I don't know how to write popular science, so I think about it myself.
Writing more, he explored a set of methods to combine scientific knowledge and literary creation, use vivid language to tell, anthropomorphic writing, and lower the reading threshold for children.
Different people save the country and choose different ways: soldiers save the country and fight in blood on the front line; doctors save the country and save the dead and the wounded in the rear; writers save the country, the pen is the weapon, and the heart is the strength.
Gao Shiqi trembled and picked up his pen, and accurately encountered the possibility of germ warfare and the necessity of anti-bacterial warfare, science cannot become an accomplice to killing people, but should promote world peace.
In 1934, Gao Shiqi changed his original name to "Gao Shiqi" and announced that he would "remove the people and not be an official, and remove the gold side without money." From then on, the harvest year of his popular science works began. It has successively published "The Food, Clothing, Shelter and Transportation of Bacteria", "Our Anti-Enemy Heroes", "War of Resistance and Epidemic Prevention", "Bacteria and People", and the long-form serial "Autobiography of Bacteria", and has published more than 100 scientific sketches and scientific papers in more than two years.
Before him, China's scientific strength was weak, let alone popular science works. With Gao Shiqi, the people began to open up scientific horizons, and "Mr. Sai" really entered the hearts of the people.
Gao Shiqi's popular science works, with distinctive characteristics, set scientific, interesting and integrated, are catchy to read, and the book is timeless.
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In July 1937, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, Gao Shiqi, who was already nearly paralyzed, broke through many obstacles to leave the war-torn Shanghai, and finally came to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, and chose to be with the poorest people in China.
His actions are very difficult, appearing in public, and can only be carried by others, but he still does not give up writing, and the perseverance of the "Chinese Red Scientist" has become a powerful exemplary force for the anti-Japanese military and people.
The heavy work and the worsening of the disease made Gao Shiqi no longer able to hold the pen, and the popular science writing career he was fighting for was about to be interrupted. In the end, he chose the oral way of creation, using the "science poetry" method to continue to popularize science and awaken the people.
His science poems, a new type of genre, say in his own words, "There is poetry in science, there is science in poetry, science is poetry, poetry is science." ”
The founding of New China gave Gao Shiqi a new life, he still worked hard, with his own mouth to "write" his own heart, from 1949 to 1966, created more than 600,000 words of scientific sketches and popular science papers, wrote more than 2,000 lines of scientific poems, published more than 20 popular science works, deeply loved by the masses, Gao Shiqi became a banner of Chinese popular science writers.
As long as popular science works are mentioned, they must be called Gao Shiqi.
After the beginning of the decade of turmoil, the cause of science popularization was destroyed, and Gao Shiqi's work was unsustainable and he was suspended. The total paralysis did not make him fall, not to let him work, as if to hollow out his heart.
He could not stop, and continued to write letters of advice to the relevant departments; in any case, the work of popularizing science could not be stopped, and this was related to the future of a nation. He attaches great importance to the popular science work of young people, and calls on scientists to write several popular science books for young people, which is not a matter for publishing house editors, but something that scientists should do.
In the end, the state took "Coats its representative science popularization" as the highest evaluation, supported his recommendations, and assisted in the implementation of related work.
In 1977, with a high sense of responsibility and urgency, Gao Shiqi published the poem "Let Science and Technology Contribute Talents to the Motherland", encouraging young people to climb the peak of science forever and contribute to the motherland after completing their studies.
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If you feel like you've reached the bottom of your life, the next thing will make you understand that it could be worse.
Just as the motherland began the "spring of science" and science was developing with a flourishing scene that had never been seen before, Gao Shiqi was deprived of his oral ability by a serious disease. The suggestions about science and the planning of popular science in his head seemed to be broken again.
Gao Shiqi did not flinch, and once again chose to fight against fate. He picked up the pen that had been shelved for nearly 40 years and learned to write, from writing only a few dozen words a day at the beginning, to later exercising into one or two thousand words a day, and the hard work in the middle could not be described in three words.
The disease was devouring his last remaining strength, and as long as his machine was started, he was unwilling to stop, write a little more, write a little more, and work fourteen or five hours a day, far beyond normal people.
His hands were out of control, constantly shivering, he first contacted on the grass paper, and the ant-like words explained his love and dedication to popular science work.
At the age of 80, he drew out a 600,000-word memoir with trembling hands, and he wanted to dedicate his understanding of science and the form of literary and artistic creation to the country and the people.
He actively explores the creation law of scientific literature and art, hoping to find a suitable path for China's science popularization cause, encourage future generations to attach importance to science, learn science, and serve construction.
On December 19, 1988, Gao Shiqi died of illness at the age of 83.
23 years old was eroded by the virus, he was paralyzed for 60 years;
Picking up a pen, opening his mouth, and disseminating scientific knowledge and spirit in the way of popular science, he insisted on it for 60 years.
There is no doubt that he is severely disabled, but he has devoted himself to the motherland and science, and has composed patriotic hymns with popular science works, which is a miracle of life and enough to move China.
The star of science has fallen, but there is one more star in the sky. In 1999, the International Organization for the Naming of Minor Planets named planet 3704 "Coatschi Star". Since then, Gao Shiqi has shone with the sun and the moon, and the spirit of science has fluttered in the sky.
In order to commemorate Coats' great contributions, the "CoatsChi Science Prize" was established to recognize outstanding scientific youth. In 2002, the Science Popularization Act was also promulgated, which was the best support for Coats' life's work.
Coatschit interacts with elementary school students
Coatschi's popular science works have also been reorganized and published, and generations of Chinese read it, feel the charm of science, and appreciate Coats' indomitable spirit of struggle.
One of his classic works, "Adventures in the Bacteriological World", was included in the newly published "Primary and Secondary School Science Classic Reading Series", and under Gao Shiqi's pen, bacteria became a vivid image, taking readers into the magical bacterial world.
Once Gao Shiqi was hospitalized, the attending doctor was superbly skilled, Gao Shiqi was able to be discharged as soon as possible, when Gao Shiqi expressed his gratitude, he did not expect the doctor to thank Gao Shiqi first: "I should thank you, because I read your "Autobiography of Bacteria" and "Catch the Little Devil Alive" in middle school, fell in love with medicine, and later became a doctor." ”
Isn't this the greatest value of popular science?
The impact of a set of excellent popular science books is very far-reaching. When children read popular science books, they must read the books written by excellent popular science writers. This time, the classic "Autobiography of the Bacteria" was included in the "Adventures of the Bacterial World".
The "Primary and Secondary School Science Classic Reading Series" is such a set, and the popular science classics suitable for primary and secondary school students to read are carefully selected from many popular science books, and named them "Chinese Master Science Series".
The series consists of 14 volumes, focusing on the masters of scientists in the fields of mathematics, physics, nature, chemistry, geography and other fields, such as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and famous mathematics educators who wrote "Mathematics Hidden in Life"; "The Language of Nature" created by the famous climatologist Zhu Kezhen, as well as the works of Mao Yisheng, Jia Lanpo and other masters.
Time is limited and only the classics are read. Children read popular science books, it is recommended to choose the "primary and secondary school science classic reading book series" recognized by many parents, and the masters use rigorous and professional perspectives to popularize science with vivid and interesting language to help children embark on the road of scientific growth faster and better.
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"The Adventures of the Bacteriological World" by Gao Shiqi (The Banner of Chinese Science Popularization)
"Mathematics Hidden in Life" by Zhang Jingzhong (Famous Mathematics Educator)
"Mathematical Garden Travels" by Ma Xiwen; Wang Meng et al. comments
"Magical Mathematics" by Tan Xiangbai
"The Thief Who Stole The Brain" by Pan Jiazheng (Chief Engineer of the Three Gorges)
"Crossing the Horizon" by Li Siguang (famous geologist)
"Where Did Grandpa's Grandpa Come From" by Jia Lanpo (one of the discoverers of the Peking man's skull)
"The Footprints of Time" by Tao Shilong
"The Language of Nature" by Zhu Kezhen (famous meteorologist)
The Forest That Woke Up (United States) by John Burroughs translated by Wang Junjian Yang Yong
"Bridge History" by Mao Yisheng (famous bridge expert)
A Brief and Interesting History of Chemistry by Ye Yonglie
"100,000 Whys" by Mi Ilin; translated by Wang Wen
"The Secret of the Ocean" by Lei Zongyou
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