On June 8, 1968, a group of researchers from the Institute of Aerospace Materials were busy working. Suddenly there was a loud noise outside. A group of thugs broke into the institute and started beating, smashing and looting in spite of everyone's obstruction. Very confusing.
Screams and fighting were mixed, and suddenly a middle-aged man fell down. This middle-aged man was the director of the institute Yao Tongbin. He was hit on the back of the head by one of the assailants, causing blood to flow on the spot. As noted, under the chaos, Yao Tongbin was not sent to the hospital for treatment in time, and his life ended in such a chaos.
This can be said to be a cruel murder. Yao Tongbin is a great scientist in New China, a two-bomb and one-star champion. In the year he passed away, Yao Tongbin was only 46 years old and was still in the golden age of scientific researchers. It is conceivable that the departure of such an outstanding scientific researcher will be a huge loss to our country.
The most annoying thing is that there was no reason for the murderer to kill. It was only because of the chaos of the people at the time and all the intellectuals were criticized. Researchers such as Yao Tongbin were also targeted by everyone. When it was destroyed, it led to such a tragedy.
After Yao Tongbin's death, his wife Peng Jieqing was in grief, thinking of her husband's innocent death, Peng Jieqing's heart was like a knife, and she vowed to let the murderer be punished by law. She has been waiting for the murderer to be tried. one day.
The ending of Yao Tongbin was something that no one had expected. This scientist was young and promising, the proud man of heaven, he should have had more brilliant achievements, but the accident came too suddenly.
Study hard in the cold window
In 1922, Yao Tongbin was born in a small town in Jiangsu. His family was not rich. His father relied on a small business to support his family. However, Yao Tongbin has been smart since he was a child, and he is very talented in reading. His father used all his savings to send him to school in order for his son to be promising. But when he was in junior high school, Yao Tongbin still couldn't afford the tuition at home. In order to be able to study, Yao Tongbin first dropped out of school and went to work with his father.Finally I saved enough tuition and went back to school.
In the next few years, Yao Tongbin went to school while doing odd jobs around, so that he would not drop out of school. Although life is very hard, Yao Tongbin's grades are always excellent. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at Southwest Jiaotong University , and then came to work at the National Government Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. The director of the research institute admired this outstanding young man very much. The director told Yao Tongbin that he had such excellent abilities and it was best to fight for the opportunity to study abroad. The conditions for scientific research abroad at that time were much better than those in war-torn China. If Yao Tongbin can go abroad, his academic level will definitely be improved.
Yao Tongbin himself is also very eager to continue to learn more in-depth knowledge, so he took the University of Birmingham entrance exam and got the opportunity to study in the UK. He was quickly appreciated by British professors, made several important scientific research projects in mining and metallurgy, and became a rising star in the scientific community.
The way back to China
After graduating, Yao Tongbin took the patent fees from his own scientific research to study in Europe, and his life was very comfortable. With the accumulation of his academic research projects, he was in the scientific community. The status is getting higher and higher. If he chooses to stay abroad, he can continue to enjoy such a superior life, but what Yao Tongbin cares most about is the motherland. After achieving certain achievements in Europe, Yao Tongbin felt that now he should return to his motherland to play.
As soon as Yao Tongbin's idea of returning to China spread, it was quickly opposed by many people. The president of the university where Yao Tongbin worked personally came to persuade him and tried both hard and soft, hoping that Yao Tongbin would give up the idea of returning to China. At that time, because many Chinese scientists studying abroad returned to China, which aroused suspicion in Western society, they tried their best to prevent these scientists from returning to China. But the more Westerners opposed it, the more determined Yao Tongbin became.
In September 1957, Yao Tongbin left everything he had in Europe and returned to China with a suitcase of research materials.
After returning home,As the country urgently needs talents in aerospace materials research, Yao Tongbin was assigned to work in the materials research institute. The research institute was far from high-tech as it is now. It can be said that everything has to be started from scratch. To help the country find suitable materials, Yao Tongbin The Nanhaibei Run even took the students to the garbage dump to "treasure hunt". As a scientist, Yao Tongbin has no pretensions. His principle is for the motherland, regardless of personal gains and losses. He has worked in the institute for many years and has always lived a very simple life. Usually only three or four clothes are changed. One of the tunic suits that he wore for big occasions was patched and patched, and it took him nearly ten years to retire.
In terms of material life, Yao Tongbin is almost desperate. Most of his wages are used to fund his students, or they are donated to the institute. Under Yao Tongbin’s endless research, The research institute has developed high-temperature brazing alloys that are urgently needed in the aerospace industry. Later, Yao Tongbin led everyone to research hundreds of important scientific research projects. Under his leadership, the work of the institute gradually got on track.
But there are unexpected circumstances. This great scientific family died of such an atrocity. The news came and the entire scientific community was in grief. Maybe others don’t know how important Yao Tongbin is, but every scientific researcher Everyone understands that as soon as Yao Tongbin left, the pillars of the Materials Research Institute fell, and another talent like Yao Tongbin appeared. It was not known how long it was. Everyone felt very heavy.
The saddest thing is naturally Yao Tongbin’s wife Peng Jieqing. She can’t understand how things turned out to be like this. There are three young children in the family who need to feed, and the murderer who hurt her husband has not been caught. Peng Jieqing was under tremendous pressure, but she did not bow her head. She ran from department to department with a complaint on the merits, insisting on asking for a statement for her husband. She would never allow the murderer who killed her husband to go unpunished.
She persisted until 1976. In this year, the murderer of Yao Tongbin was finally arrested by the police. After trial, the principal criminal was sentenced to 15 years in prison and the accessory to 12 years in prison. Peng Jieqing finally waited. To the justice that I have been waiting for.
Yao Tongbin’s life is admirable and regrettable. In the most difficult years of the motherland, he decisively returned to the motherland and dedicated his life to the motherland. He did not seek fame and fortune, not status and status, but only sought the peace of the country and the people. A kind of spirit cannot be surpassed by ordinary people. His life is short, but his name will continue to circulate, and we will not forget this great scientist.
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