Post丨Ma Mingxi
Watched "News Broadcast" last night, the responsible comrades of the Ministry of Education went to Tsinghua University on September 22 to visit Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences , famous physicist Yang Zhenning, presented a flower basket Convey his best wishes for his 100th birthday. Seeing this news, I couldn’t help but think of a history when the centenarian visited Shaoshan 45 years ago...
It was July 17, 1973. Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou met for the first time in Zhongnanhai. Mr. Yang Zhenning, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and the world-renowned physicist who returned to China. At that time, Chairman Mao, who was already 80 years old, still had a keen interest in natural sciences. During the one-and-a-half hour meeting, he asked Mr. Yang Zhenning a lot of physical issues such as matter and particles, which made Mr. Yang Zhenning feel Mao The chairman cherishes science and scientists. When leaving, he sincerely asked Chairman Mao: "I want to visit Shaoshan, your old man's hometown."
Two days later, on July 19, 1973, Mr. Yang Zhenning and his wife came to Shaoshan from Beijing accompanied by the leaders of the Foreign Affairs Department of Hunan Province. On behalf of the Shaoshan Special Economic Zone Party Committee and the government, I warmly received Yang Zhenning and his wife. After accompanying the guests to the old residence of Chairman Mao and taking photos with everyone, Mr. Yang Zhenning enthusiastically visited the exhibition rooms of Shaoshan Exhibition Hall, and then I invited Mr. Yang Zhenning and his party to the VIP room in the exhibition hall to take a rest. Mr. Yang Zhenning wandered into the newly decorated and brightly lit lounge. After looking around, Mr. Yang Zhenning might feel that the room lighting is a bit dazzling, so he bluntly said to me: “The lighting setting has a reasonable proportional relationship with the area of the room. It’s not that the brighter the light, the better the effect”, and then he said sincerely: “Don’t think that physics is very mysterious and profound. In fact, it is a high-level generalization of people’s daily life.” Immediately, Mr. took out a pen to write a series of mathematical formulas on a piece of paper, and handed it to the staff member: "I suggest you configure the lights according to this formula in the future." From such a small matter, I can't help but admire the world-famous physicist's scientific and rigorous attitude.
[Responsible editor: Liu Hanlu]
[Source: Hunan Daily · New Hunan Client]
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