Salute! These big names in the technology industry are all born in the Year of the Tiger

In the hearts of Chinese people

Tiger represents bravery and fearlessness

In the tech world

He Zehui, Yu Min, Gu Fangzhou, Fan Jinshi

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These older scientists who were born in the Year of the Tiger

It is reflected in everything

The spirit of scientists who are brave enough to climb to the top and dare to innovate

Year of the Tiger

Today, let us get closer to these scientists who were born in the year of the tiger.

He Zehui

She ranked first, Qian Sanqiang ranked second

- Born March 5, 1914 -

Outstanding nuclear physicist, known as the "Chinese Marie Curie"

Image source: China Nuclear Industry Magazine

In 1931, 17-year-old He Zehui was admitted to the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University with excellent results.

In that era, it was rare for girls to be admitted to a prestigious university's physics major.

But as soon as He Zehui stepped into the school gate, she was greeted by a basin of cold water.

That year, the Department of Physics enrolled a total of 28 students, including 10 girls.

Professors believed that it was difficult for girls to succeed in physics and so they advised them to change departments.

This made He Zehui very angry, and she argued: Why set gender conditions in addition to test scores?

"The more you don't let me come, the more I will come; if you don't let me recite, I will recite anyway!"

He Zehui's graduation photo from Tsinghua University in 1936. Image source: Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Finally, the department had to compromise and agreed to let the girl try out for one semester, but if her grades were not good enough, she would have to transfer.

During her four years of study, He Zehui not only did not change her major, but also graduated with the highest score in the thesis in the class.

Ranked second is her partner Qian Sanqiang.

She and Academician Qian Sanqiang are not only partners in life, but also scientific partners.

After getting married, He Zehui joined the Joliot-Curie laboratory where Qian Sanqiang worked, and soon they jointly discovered the first track of uranium nucleus fission.

Even such an important scientific discovery, He Zehui believes, is "very easy"; as long as one works carefully, "everyone can discover something."

Graduates of Tsinghua University in 1936. The second person from the right in the front row is He Zehui, and the first person from the left in the back row is Qian Sanqiang. Image source: Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yu Min

“Everything is for the needs of the country”

- Born August 16, 1926 -

Hero of the "Two Bombs and One Satellite" program, winner of the "Medal of the Republic"

Yu Min at work (photographed in 1980). Xinhua News Agency

On October 16, 1964, my country's first atomic bomb was successfully detonated. After that, the country clearly put forward the requirement to speed up the development of hydrogen bombs.

Time was running out, and there had been no key breakthroughs in hydrogen bomb research. Yu Min and his team of researchers were immersed in mountains of data calculations almost all the time. It was not until 1965 that the hydrogen bomb development plan finally had some clues. In order to verify whether the plan was feasible, Yu Min led dozens of researchers to Shanghai for the "Hundred Days Battle".

For more than 100 days and nights, Yu Min first buried himself in mountains of computer paper tapes, and then made intensive reports. He led everyone to discover the key to the self-sustaining thermonuclear combustion of the hydrogen bomb, found the technical path to break through the hydrogen bomb, and formed a complete physical design plan for the hydrogen bomb from principles, materials to configuration.

In less than five years, Yu Min and his researchers independently broke through the nuclear powers' blockade of hydrogen bomb theory and technology, and opened the door for China to develop hydrogen bombs with the "Yu Min Plan" that shocked the world...

On June 17, 1967, a mushroom cloud rose in the heart of the Lop Nur Desert, indicating that my country's hydrogen bomb test was a success.

Yu Min (right) and Deng Jiaxian at the nuclear test base in 1984. Image source: Guangming Daily

The "Two Bombs and One Satellite" Medal of Merit, the National Highest Science and Technology Award... Yu Min remained humble as always despite all the high honors he received. He declined the title of "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb". A calligraphy scroll hangs in the living room of Yu's home: "Indifference leads to clarity of ambition, tranquility leads to far-reaching goals."

"Everything is for the needs of the country!" "A person's name will disappear sooner or later. It is enough to comfort oneself if one can integrate one's meager strength into the prosperity of the motherland," said Yu Min.

Yu Min and his wife Sun Yuqin in the early 1990s. Image source: Guangming Daily

Gu Fangzhou

"Do one thing in your life that is worth it"

- Born June 16, 1926 -

A famous virology expert, known as the "Sugar Pill Grandpa"

Image source: Voice of China

Gu Fangzuo devoted his life to studying polio, developing polio vaccines, and controlling polio. He is known as the "Father of Chinese Polio Vaccine" and is affectionately called "Sugar Pill Grandpa" by children.

He once said: "I have done one thing in my life, it is worth it, it is worth it, children, grow up quickly and serve the motherland."

Gu Fangzuo was photographed during his study in the Soviet Union. Image source: Guangzhou Daily

At the end of 1959, the first batch of attenuated live vaccines were produced in China. Animal clinical trials have proven that it is safe and effective in monkeys. But can it be used on humans? Clinical trials on humans are needed.

Gu Fangzuo and his colleagues drank the first batch of vaccine solution.

A week later, Gu Fangzuo and his colleagues' vital signs were stable and no abnormalities were found.

Vaccines are harmless to adults, but what about their safety for children? "My son Xiaodong was just under one year old at the time, so he met the requirements," Gu Fangzhou wrote in his oral memoirs. "It was not very fair for me to not give my own child the vaccine but let others take it."

Gu Fangzuo and his eldest son Gu Xiaodong in 1961. Image source: China Association for Science and Technology Senior Scientists Data Collection Project

"It's nothing, actually." Gu Fangzhou said, "We are in this business and we know what we are doing. I can't just take risks with my child." Facts have proved Gu Fangzhou's judgment.

The next 5 million doses of the vaccine will be distributed and tested on a larger scale. Clinical comparisons show that live vaccines are not only safe, but can also significantly reduce the incidence of disease.

In order to facilitate storage, transportation, distribution and administration, Gu Fangzuo and his colleagues invented the "polio sugar pill".

In 1965, the "sugar pills" were promoted throughout the country. The staff of the epidemic prevention stations in various places put the "sugar pills" in the open thermos bottles used to pack popsicles and delivered them to the children one by one.

In 2000, the "China Polio Eradication Confirmation Report Signing Ceremony" was held at the former Ministry of Health. The 74-year-old Gu Fangzuo solemnly signed as a representative, marking that my country has become a polio-free country.

The signing ceremony of the report on the eradication of poliomyelitis in China. Image source: Voice of China

Fan Jinshi

Trying every possible way to "extend the life" of Dunhuang

- Born July 1938 -

A famous archaeologist, known as the "Daughter of Dunhuang"

Image source: Dunhuang Academy

In 1998, Fan Jinshi was appointed as the third director of the Dunhuang Research Institute.

In Fan Jinshi's eyes, Dunhuang is "the creation of a thousand years of ancient artists. They were unknown, but left us such a rich legacy that is unique in the world."

Grottoes and murals will slowly age, and she tried her best to "extend the life" of those treasures.

Since 1999, more and more tourists have come to Dunhuang. Fan Jinshi is both happy and worried, because "it is absolutely unacceptable to have the caves ruined, but it is also unacceptable to not allow tourists to visit them."

In August 2011, Fan Jinshi inspected the reinforced caves in the northern area of ​​Mogao Grottoes. Image source: Dunhuang Academy

She started running around and proposed to "limit the flow of people".

Fan Jinshi and her colleagues have developed detailed standards for the routes for visiting the caves and the conditions for opening the caves, changing the previous model of single cave visits. "UNESCO has also promoted us as a successful case to the world."

Fan Jinshi proposed the idea of ​​"Digital Dunhuang", which includes establishing a digital archive for the Mogao Grottoes, processing the caves, murals, colored sculptures, and all cultural relics related to Dunhuang into high-intelligence digital images, and so on.

Fan Jinshi uses ultraviolet light to investigate the inscriptions on the murals in Cave 454. Image source: Dunhuang Academy

After more than ten years of efforts, on May 1, 2016, the "Digital Dunhuang" resource library was launched, allowing viewers to enjoy high-definition images of 30 classic cave kilns online and take a panoramic tour of this treasure house of classical art. In this way, they have been "immortalized" in another sense.

In Dunhuang for more than 50 years, Fan Jinshi visited 735 caves of all sizes and looked at every inch of murals and colored sculptures. She chose one thing in her life and that thing lasted for the rest of her life. This is the true portrayal of Fan Jinshi.

In my country's science and technology sector

There are many scientists who are also tigers.

They are making great strides in their respective fields

Dedicated to the advancement and development of science and technology

Salute to them

Source: Science Popularization China WeChat Official Account