In 1972, the Nobel laureate in physics Li Zhengdao returned to China, and Premier Zhou Enlai personally received him, because there was a gap between talent and scholarship at that time, and Premier Zhou wanted Li Zhengdao to recommend some scientific people to China to give advice or two.
He asked Li Zheng, "Can you invite some foreign professors to come?" ”
Li Zhengdao immediately replied: "In fact, there is no need to ask international professors, we have one in China." ”
In Li Zhengdao's recommendation, Zhou Enlai learned that this person was Shu Xingbei.
Why Li Zhengdao recommended Shu Xingbei, in fact, can be glimpsed in the following deeds.
As early as 1937, bohr, a world-famous physicist, visited China to give a lecture at the invitation of the Chinese physics academic community, and later delivered an impassioned physics lecture at Zhejiang University at the invitation of his friend Zhu Kezhen.
Shu Xingbei and Wang Ganchang
At that time, Zhejiang University was known as the "Cambridge of the East", shining with two dazzling physical double stars - Beam Star North and Wang Ganchang.
Unlike Wang Ganchang, Shu Xingbei was stubborn, a straight tube, and talented, extraordinary, quite an appetite for Bohr, and the two soon fought together in the world of physics.
In this lecture, Bohr directly characterized Shu Xingbei and Wang Ganchang as world-class physicists with academic achievements no less than himself, and their future is immeasurable.
After Bohr returned to China, the physics boom set off by him in China was still undiminished, and many students at that time witnessed the speech of this physics gentleman from Denmark and were deeply impressed by its charm.
After his return to China, many students even wrote letters to Denmark to ask Bohr how to systematically study physics or how to cross the ocean to Denmark to study under his door.
Unexpectedly, the world's most prestigious physics master replied with such a paragraph in a unique way - "Zhejiang University has a world-class physicist like Shu Xingbei, you don't need to come to Denmark!" ”
Bohr
Obviously, this is not a commercial mutual favor in the field of human feelings, and a well-known physics master like Pol has his own sincerity to science and will never make the slightest irresponsible and blasphemous statement about science. Therefore, such a sentence came from Bohr's mouth, which shows the weight of Beam Star North in world physics at that time.
So what kind of person is this Shu Xingbei?
Let's take the wheel of time and jump back to 1979 to see a little story.
In 1979, China's first intercontinental ballistic missile was prepared for test firing under the leadership of Qian Xuesen, and when everything was ready, there was suddenly a big problem in the recovery of key data - when will the warhead data capsule be received and when will it be salvaged?
It can be said that the fundamental purpose of all work is to recover data, and then make corresponding summaries through data, and then carry out corresponding promotion, improvement and optimization.
If the warhead data capsule cannot be scientifically and rationally recovered and salvaged, then everything is in vain. At that time, this problem stumped the comrades of the entire Ocean bureau, and the state even sought experts in the Academy of Sciences, but none of them could give constructive advice.
The relevant departments can only quickly issue 1 million bonuses to experts to solve, but still no one responds. At the critical moment, it was Wang Ganchang who boldly recommended a person.
Beam Star North
In the afternoon, an old man with gray hair staggered into the office of the Missile Research Institute; after reading the relevant data, he did not borrow any computing equipment, but only used a pen and a handful of draft paper to calculate the accurate data of the recovered warhead data capsule in one go in ten minutes.
This cattle man, not someone else, is shu Xingbei, who was once the helmsman of Chinese physics.
Looking back, we find that God gave this "Einstein of the East" a stunning worldly super brain, but did not match the corresponding "emotional intelligence" embellishment.
He is gifted but difficult in terms of human feelings, he has the ambition to serve the country but he has paid the wrong age, and finally can only brush the toilet in a hospital to talk for comfort, what is his story, we come to see how this scientific maniac has a turbulent life today.
In 1931, a 25-year-old science madman in physics returned from the United States, Shu Xingbei.
The 25-year-old has already earned a master's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, and his resume has made many people extremely difficult to reach in their lifetime.
A year as an assistant to Einstein at the University of Edinburgh in Germany is just one of his least memorable experiences.
Caizi returned to China and was immediately hired by Zhu Kezhen to teach in the Physics Department of Zhejiang University, and was called the "Gemini Star" of the Chinese physics community together with Wang Ganchang at that time, and had its own light in the world physics community.
It is no exaggeration to say that in that era, because of The Beam Star North and Wang Ganchang of Zhejiang University, almost all scientists in the West recognized Zhejiang University as the first university in China, and even named it "Oriental Cambridge".
Because of these two major physical superstars, Zhejiang University was able to gain the limelight in the world.
As for the mention of Wang Ganchang, it is even more a big coffee who has passed by the Nobel Prize three times, and everyone in the physical science community knows and knows, but this is all an afterthought.
During Shu Xingbei's teaching at Zhejiang University, in addition to his talent and profound knowledge, his teaching methods were even more unusual.
He does not read the textbooks and lecture notes much in his lectures, and he is the greatest authority.
When it comes to obscure physics principles and concepts, it is often used to use the scenes that are easy to understand in life to enlighten and understand the true meaning of physics for students.
This surprised many students who were accustomed to listening to the physics teacher's clichés and talking: Can the class still be like this?
When it comes to the rise of vividness, he often interacts with the students in an eclectic manner, sitting directly on the students' desks, like an old monk cross-legged, and speaking with relish.
He was straightforward and easygoing, and students listened to his lectures without restraint.
It is not only the atmosphere of the lower riba people, but also the big scene of arguing with Einstein about a certain issue.
Such a teacher is a walking soul to the students.
The more lectures are taught, the more fame spreads.
Many students from other departments came to listen to it with relish. Shu Xingbei found that one of the chemistry students seemed to show great interest in his class, so he took the initiative to talk to him.
It didn't matter if you didn't talk, as soon as you talked, Shu Xingbei was happy to blossom and regarded it as a jade, and this student turned out to be a gifted physics wizard.
Soon, with the strong recommendation and help of Shu Xingbei, the student changed his major, became his closed disciple, and in 1957 won the world-famous Nobel Prize in Physics, he was Li Zhengdao.
However, Shu Xingbei's lectures are unique in humor, and they have repeatedly pierced people in their interactions with people. His IQ is amazing, but his EQ is almost zero, even negative, and eventually brings him disaster.
In 1952, Shu Xingbei taught at Shandong University. That year, Wang Zhuxi, one of the top physicists in China, was invited to Shandong University to give an academic report.
At that time, there were many well-known experts and professors in the lecture hall, and the students in the seats were even more oppressive. When the report was about fiftieth minutes old, an untrimmed guy jumped out, took the chalk from Wang Zhuxi's hand, drew several forks on the blackboard mercilessly, and said: "I need to interrupt, because I think Mr. Wang's report is full of errors, and he does not understand the nature of thermodynamics." ”
Saying that, he explained the mistakes on the blackboard while giving new insights, and what was worse was that it seemed to be all right, and he let Wang Zhuxi, a physics master, stand there silently watching him perform for tens of minutes, embarrassed to the slit of his toes.
This madman is Shu Xingbei.
Afterwards, the Education Committee of Shandong University criticized Shu Xingbei on this matter and asked him to make a review.
Unexpectedly, Shu Xingbei immediately said: "If I am not polite enough to bump into Mr. Wang, I am willing to apologize to him in person." But if it's anything else, I can't do it. There are some things that he has not fundamentally explained, and I naturally can't look at them. Universities used to do this. ”
At this moment, the leaders were held in their stomachs and had not yet had time to say the big truth.
Just as the so-called "thinking of the city is not suitable for the desire of elegance", this sentence is also extremely enjoyable.
Of course, this is only the low side of the EQ of Shu Xingbei, originally this temperament met Wang Zhuxi such a broad-minded person, but it is also a "big celebrity really popular", but if you play this set on the political field, it will be a disaster in minutes. But Shu Xingbei is paranoid about all this and does not know it, like a big white goose that "sings to the heavens", rectum, and is extremely arrogant.
Once, Su Buqing, a mathematician who also taught at Zhejiang University, was wronged by the authorities and was about to take his own life, so he happened to run into Shu Xingbei who was out of the house and saved him.
Upon asking about the situation, Shu Xingbei did not say a word and ran to the Hangzhou Military Control Commission, the most authoritative department in Hangzhou at that time, and found the military political commissar and scolded: "Do you know who Su Buqing is?" He is a world-renowned mathematician, a national treasure of our country, and you dare to do this to him! ”
Although this incident did not cause too much trouble to Shu Xingbei, it was his arrogant white goose-like personality that brought him irreparable disasters in the future.
His eyes could not tolerate sand, and he drew his sword to help him, offended people and was not good at making up for it, but blindly resigned himself to it. Over time, he had very few friends and many enemies.
In 1950, when China and the Soviet Union were in the honeymoon period of hand in hand, the whole people set off a trend of thinking about learning Soviet Marxist philosophy, and many students also spread out Marxist-Leninist books in class in order to complete political tasks.
At this moment, Shu Xingbei was not used to it again, and often said in some large meetings of the school: "Students are not politicians, universities are not party schools, and if anyone wants to be a politician, they should go to special colleges and universities." Engaging in academics is not engaged in academics, but engaging in dialectical materialism, it is really ridiculous to pick up sesame seeds and lose watermelons! If you engage in dialectical materialism, then I will engage in Newtonism and Einsteinism! ”
At that time, engaging in "dialectical materialism" (Marxist-Leninist philosophy), everyone knew that this was a task handed over from above, and no one dared to jump out and say no.
But Shu Xingbei, a crazy student, likes to risk the world's great disobedience, not only scolded the school leaders into it, but also criticized "dialectical materialism" and the superstructure with a gun and a stick, which can be regarded as a golden hoop stick poked into the ear of the Buddha, which was a great rebellion.
Since 1952, the rebellious remarks about Shu Xingbei have been successively delivered to the desks of the relevant departments, and Shu Xingbei has been quietly put on the roster without knowing it.
At the end of the same year, the faculties of Zhejiang University were adjusted, and Shu Xingbei's confidant partner Wang Ganchang invited him to work together in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but he was again strictly rejected by Shu Xingbei, and the reason given by Shu Xingbei was: "There are a lot of political scholars in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and there are very few scientific scholars. ”
Many years later, when Shu Xingbei worked in a hospital in Qingdao and lost his hand in the study of the motherland's atomic bomb, he regretted his original arrogance and arrogance.
In fact, after 1957, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has almost become the only and final refuge for domestic scientists, such as Zhu Kezhen and Wang Ganchang, who were saved because of the protection of Premier Zhou.
However, the original Beam Xingbei cut off this life-saving straw of his own.
In 1958, disaster finally struck. Because of Shu Xingbei's perennial rebellious behavior and remarks, he was quickly suspended and placed on probation.
In the winter of the same year, he was organized to build a reservoir, and during this time, Shu Xingbei could be said to have suffered a lot, and he was more than half a hundred years old, a scholar, not only to carry out overloaded labor, but also to endure hunger, often working and fainting from exhaustion.
Under the hazy moonlight, he often secretly went to dig up sweet potatoes from his hometown to eat. At that time, the beam star was north, unkempt, and there was still a little bit of the style and appearance of the world's physics masters.
In 1960, after the Laoshan Reservoir in Qingdao was repaired, he was sent to work at Qingdao Medical College.
Why not forgive him?
Because during the 3-year labor period, Shu Xingbei's attitude was "bad and repeatedly unchanged".
So what did he do this time to let him go to Qingdao Medical College?
Brush the toilet! Washing a dozen or twenty toilets day and night, all he wanted was a good attitude of admitting mistakes.
In 1960, one day when Shu Xingbei was cleaning toilets at Qingdao Medical College, he suddenly found that his friends and colleagues who had studied physics together had disappeared, and his intuition told him that they must have responded to the call of the motherland to study the atomic bomb.
To this end, For the first time, Shu Xingbei had the idea of "reforming and reforming", and he began to accept labor hard, while striving for meritorious performance with the greatest possibility, and requested to the relevant departments that as long as there was something broken, he Shu Xingbei could repair it.
As a result, this great scientist repaired almost all the advanced electronic equipment in Shandong, from electrocardiographs to transformers, blowers, and radios, all within his business scope.
He spared no effort in doing everything, just to win an opportunity to devote himself to the research of the atomic bomb of the motherland. Using his knowledge to serve the motherland has always been a long-cherished wish buried deep in his heart, even if he compromises his heart.
In 1964, on a certain day when Shu Xingbei was working hard at Qingdao Medical College, he suddenly heard the news of the atomic bomb explosion of the motherland, and instantly covered his face and cried, tearing his heart and lungs. The harsh reality also deprived him of his ambitions, which was worse than killing him, but his heart was happy for the strength of the motherland.
Feeling that his hope of "comeback" was slim, Shu Xingbei could only use his spare time in labor to write several academic papers on the "theory of relativity".
However, because of its past "mistakes", it cannot be published. In a hurry, this great scientist was also childlike, carefully based on the location of the toilet manure he brushed every time, using scientific and rational analysis, and wrote a paper of tens of thousands of words "how to brush the toilet" with a foreign spirit, which made people can't help but look at it.
Because it is full of beam star north helplessness and true insight into physics and dry goods.
When the snow is cleared in winter, those who walk the road he sweeps will always find that this disheveled and smelly madman has written a dense variety of physical and mathematical deduction formulas on the snow with branches on both sides of the road.
In 1971, Shu Xingbei's daughter went to visit him, and on the morning of the big winter, there was a sweeping road in the distance that went straight to the alley, and at the end of the alley, an old man was half-squatting on the ground in rags, and when he looked closer, he found that he was drawing something on the snow with a god, and there were words in his mouth, and the scene was like a jumping god.
If it were not for the determination that it was his physical madman father Shu Xingbei, Shu Xingbei's daughter would almost think that this was a nervous old man.
Of course, although Shu Xingbei's friends are not many, he also has a number of confidants, especially the story between Wang Ganchang, the great physicist Pol and the beloved disciple Li Zhengdao.
When it comes to shu xingbei's fierceness and stubbornness, Wang Ganchang is always the most helpless one. Watching his best friend, the most prestigious physicist Huai Cai did not meet to go to the toilet, which was a shadow that lingered in his life.
But Wang Ganchang always had full admiration and admiration for this old brother in his heart.
One year, Shu Xingbei's daughter went to visit Wang Ganchang and lamented when she mentioned her father's encounter: "If only My father could learn from Uncle Wang, not so stubborn and fierce, and a little gentle and elegant and Sven would be good." ”
Unexpectedly, Wang Ganchang, who has always shown himself as a humble gentleman, broke the sky and became angry, and said to him in a strong voice: "What your father said is that we want to say that we did not dare to say it." What he did was something we couldn't do. He didn't have any problems, just a different personality than we did. Proud of the bones, born at the wrong time. ”
In the autumn of 1972, Li Zhengdao, Shu Xingbei's proud protégé, was invited to visit China, and Premier Zhou cordially received him.
At that time, the era in which China was located was relatively special, domestic academic education was almost stagnant, and there was a serious phenomenon of talent and academic disconnection.
Therefore, Premier Zhou, who was worried about the development of China's academic and educational development, felt this and specially expressed to Li Zhengdao: "We welcome Mr. Li Zhengdao to return to China to give a lecture. I don't know if Mr. Li Zhengdao can help us invite more international people to China to help us give lectures to solve the problem of our current talent and academic faults. ”
Lee Jeong-do and Premier Zhou
Li Zhengdao immediately said without hesitation: "Premier, please forgive me for speaking bluntly." We have such an expert in China, better than thousands of people, but he has not been used, he is my teacher Shu Xingbei. ”
Up to this point, Li Zhengdao still did not know the current situation of his mentor Shu Xingbei, but only wondered about his disappearance, thinking that he had not been reused.
During his current visit to China, Li Zhengdao repeatedly expressed his desire to ask to see Shu Xingbei, but in the end he ended up fruitless and regretted returning to the United States for life.
In fact, at the same time, Li Zhengdao was not the only one who was inquiring about the search for Shu Xingbei.
As early as 1961, Zhu Kezhen went to Denmark to visit his seriously ill friend Pol, during which Time Pol repeatedly asked Zhu Kezhen about the news of Shu Xingbei, but Zhu Kezhen also knew very little about it.
When Zhu Kezhen left Denmark, Pol reluctantly said to Zhu Kezhen: "My friend, after you go back, you must help me inquire about the news of Shu Xingbei, no matter what the situation is, please write to me!" ”
After Zhu Kezhen returned to China, the news of many inquiries about Shu Xingbei was still nothing. He had no choice but to write a letter to Pol, who was far away in Denmark, to apologize.
After receiving the letter, Pol was still not dead-hearted, and later a number of scholars who had known him at Zhejiang University visited him, and he also asked them to help him inquire about the news of Shu Xingbei. Pol once said to this group of scholars: "If you can see your best friend Shu Xingbei again for the rest of your life, you will die without regrets." ”
The feelings of the great scientist, without too many words, are sincere and moving. Only a year later, Pol died of illness with endless thoughts about the north of the beam star. Pol and Beam Star North never saw each other again in their lives.
On October 30, 1983, a generation of physicists died of illness. Before I died, I left such a touching will - "After I die, don't cremation, that would be too wasteful, now Qingdao Medical College specimens are in short supply, you can donate me to the dolls for research." My brain, which is still as well organized as when I was in my twenties and thirties, can also stay and do research. ”
However, at that time, when the hospital leadership changed, after Shu Xingbei's family donated his body to the medical school, the college was sloppy for half a year before remembering Shu Xingbei, and by the time it was found, it had already decayed. I had no choice but to find two students to bury him under the parallel bars of the playground.
It is really regrettable that a generation of tianjiao has finally ended up like this.
Many years later, when Liu Haijun sorted out and wrote the "Shu Xingbei Archives", he specially sent a letter to Li Zhengdao, who was far away on the other side of the ocean, asking for advice, but he did not think that this beloved disciple who had once been Shu Xingbei and a nobel prize scientist did not hesitate to reply to more than twenty pages in a busy schedule, which was full of stories, piles and piles of tears, giving Liu Haijun great reference and reference value.
When the book was completed, Li Zhengdao wrote a preface to it: "Dedicate posterity and admire it for a thousand years."
It is true that even today, even with the passage of time, we recall that in the face of the encounter of Shu Xingbei, there is nothing else to repay except regrets and sighs. In that particular time, there was no longer any need to argue about who was right and who was wrong.
The deeds of such a great scientist are already famous enough in history, and their contributions to China's physical community have been recorded in the annals of history, which may be enough for Shu Xingbei himself.
Suddenly I remembered Yu Qian's "Lime Yin" - "A thousand hammers chiseled out of the deep mountains, and the fire burned as if idle." Don't be afraid of shattering your bones, and leave your innocence in the human world. ”
This poem is given to the great Mr. Shu Xingbei.