964, Deng Xiaoping came to a factory in Lanzhou for inspection . He talked with the accompanying staff while waving to the staff in the factory.
At this moment, a simple-dressed female worker attracted Deng Xiaoping's attention. When Deng Xiaoping saw the female worker's face clearly, was very surprised. He immediately walked up to ask, "Why are you here?"
Who is this female worker, and why was Deng Xiaoping so shocked when he saw her?
pic丨Deng Xiaoping
gave up the favorable conditions and always cared about the motherland
This seemingly ordinary female worker in the factory has a great background. She is a famous female physicist who has made great contributions to my country's scientific research career and - Wang Chengshu .
You should know that in the field of physics research, few girls can achieve outstanding achievements, and Wang Chengshu is the only one in this field. She not only persisted in studying physics, but also achieved very excellent results.
Wang Chengshu was born in 1912. The turbulent era background destined that she could not study stably in China. At the age of eighteen, Wang Chengshu was successfully admitted to a nationally renowned university - Yenjing University .
1936, after completing her master's degree, she chose to stay at her alma mater as a teacher. However, at that time, domestic turmoil and wars occurred frequently, and the entire society was in dire straits.
The safety of people’s lives has not been guaranteed, let alone the development of scientific research and education. So, after repeated thinking, Wang Chengshu decided to go abroad to study with her husband Zhang Wenyu , learn advanced scientific research knowledge, and then return to China to serve the country.
pic丨Wang Chengshu
Just like that, Wang Chengshu and Zhang Wenyu embarked on a journey and began a wandering life.
By chance, they learned that there is a project in the United States called the Balbo Scholarship Fund. specifically recruits talented unmarried women from the whole society and provides them with learning funds.
This made Wang Chengshu a little difficult. She was very hungry about knowledge. In the past few years, she never gave up any learning opportunities. Therefore, she was very eager for the institution's funds, but she was already married.
In order to give himself this rare opportunity, Wang Chengshu wrote a long letter to explain his situation to the institution, and wrote in the letter: "Handle Whether a woman can achieve her career is definitely not determined by whether she is married or not. "
Then, Wang Chengshu waited for the result at home . He thought the United States would be very strict and would not accept her as a married woman.
Picture丨Wang Chengshu and Zhang Wenyu
However, what did not expect was that Wang Chengshu was really accepted by the institution , that is to say, this foundation is willing to provide scholarship assistance to it, which may be the wealth and charm of knowledge.
That's it. Wang Chengshu went to the University of Michigan in the United States to pursue a doctorate with the bonus provided by the American scholarship institutions.
Although she is in the United States, , Wang Chengshu's heart has been in the country. She always pays attention to the domestic situation and war trends. Whenever the motherland faces a major war, her heart also sucks.
Wang Chengshu was worried about the safety of the motherland. Although the motherland failed to give her good material conditions and growth environment in the era she lived in, she was not blinded by the generous conditions of the United States.
She still loves the motherland, thinks about the motherland, and thinks about the motherland. She hopes that the motherland can be liberated as soon as possible and restores peace. Wang Chengshu has made up his mind. When the domestic environment is stable, he must return to the country and participate in domestic construction.
pic丨Wang Chengshu
Because Wang Chengshu knows in his heart: she is Chinese.
1944, Wang Chengshu completed his doctoral study in at the University of Michigan and obtained the corresponding degree certificate.
During his studies at school, Wang Chengshu and her supervisor Urenbaker worked together to complete many academic papers and explored many fields of American physics. The University of Michigan naturally realized the value of this talent.
After Wang Chengshu graduated from Ph.D., the University of Michigan invited Wang Chengshu to continue teaching at the school, so Wang Chengshu began to take up the position of teacher in the United States. I have to say that outstanding people can achieve success in doing anything.
Even as a teacher, Wang Chengshu can stand out among many teachers and receive unanimous praise from colleagues and students. Her position, , has also successfully transferred from a small associate researcher.
Picture丨Wang Chengshu
In addition, Wang Chengshu also received from Princeton Advanced Institute , a famous American university, and has participated in the discussion work twice.
Now Wang Chengshu can be said to have been doing well in the United States and has a place for her own. If she continues to live such a stable life, then the future will be bright.
But Wang Chengshu, she didn't think so. The longer she stayed outside, the more she missed the country's hometown . She missed the mountains and rivers of China, just like a wanderer who went out to study, wanting to return to her hometown.
Finally, she survived until the day of the founding of New China. In 1949, Wang Chengshu knew that she could finally return home. So she and her husband planned to find a suitable day to return to the mainland of the motherland.
However, reality is far from what she thought. She wants to return to her motherland, but the United States may not want to let her go.
Picture丨Wang Chengshu (the first on the left in the back row)
has been twists and turns, and he returned to China after seven years
Wang Chengshu, who has been studying in the United States for several years, can be said to have mastered various cutting-edge secrets of cutting-edge knowledge of American physics. In addition to not wanting to let such a talent go, the United States does not want this talent to flow to its hostile countries.
When New China was just established, Wang Chengshu wanted to return to his motherland, but she was pregnant at that time and was very inconvenient to move. Therefore, the couple decided to give birth to their children, and after the situation became stable, they would return to China to develop.
However, unexpectedly, the accident happened soon. 950, the Korean War broke out in , and North Korea and China were in a relationship with each other. The United States captured North Korea, which greatly threatened China's national interests, and the relationship between the two countries was tense.
At this time, Wang Chengshu, who is in the United States, dared not come up with the idea of returning to China. In desperation, Wang Chengshu had to watch his motherland fall into a war crisis. Fortunately, the Chinese Volunteer Army was extremely brave and won the Korean War.
After the situation in China and the United States has stabilized, Wang Chengshu couldn't wait to apply to the US government for returning home. Because she always looks forward to being able to return to the motherland as soon as possible.
pic丨Wang Chengshu and Zhang Wenyu
However, the United States directly rejected her application. In order to retain talents, the United States first sent the mentors who led Wang Chengshu to study and her colleagues, and asked them to come forward to persuade Wang Chengshu to continue to stay in the United States.
Her friends also advised her that after all, the United States has such a stable domestic environment, and all technologies are very developed, and she is at the forefront of the world. If stays in the United States to develop, her personal value can be further exerted.
Why didn’t Wang Chengshu know about these things? How could she not know China's backwardness and the United States' advancedness? However, she has chosen a country between individuals and countries.
This time I returned to China, is to develop China's physics career and bring advanced technology back to her motherland. Therefore, even though Wang Chengshu was grateful for the dissuasion of his mentors and colleagues, he was a little reluctant to let go, but his intentions were decided and naturally he would not change.
Seeing that colleagues failed to persuade them, the United States even intervened and the official personnel came forward.
Picture丨Wang Chengshu and his wife, Deng Jiaxian and Yang Zhenning
They promised Wang Chengshu and his wife that they could give them very generous treatment, and clearly stated that if they were willing to continue to stay in the United States and participate in scientific research work, then they would become the most important citizens of the United States.
Faced with such a huge temptation, Wang Chengshu and his wife did not agree to . They did not care about their personal development. They simply wanted to return to their motherland.
This time, the United States was a little anxious and showed their ugly faces. The FBI , in order not to let Wang Chengshu and his wife return to their motherland, began to control the two of them, and even restrict their personal freedom.
The United States naturally returned the letter of return to China by the couple repeatedly. is still full of spies near their homes, for fear that they will escape.
In fact, Wang Chengshu already knew that the journey of will not be so smooth, it will definitely be full of hardships.
Picture丨Wang Chengshu
However, she is ready to face difficulties. Since the United States does not want them to go back, then they will convey information to the motherland bit by bit.
In fact, after the two decided to return to China, they had already expected that they would definitely be rejected by the United States. So, as early as that time, the witty Wang Chengshu of began to mail letters to the motherland little by little, passing information.
In order not to make people doubt, Wang Chengshu will choose a different location every time, and only send some fragmentary information.
The FBI has been supervising them, but even under such high pressure, Wang Chengshu and his wife are still conveying information to the country. In just a few years, as many as 300 copies of precious information have been passed back to the motherland in this way.
This is enough to show the sincere patriotism between Wang Chengshu and Zhang Wenyu.
Picture丨Wang Chengshu
It can be said that our country has achieved such great achievements and progress in a very short time, which is inseparable from these people who silently contribute to the motherland. They care about their motherland, and the motherland has never forgotten them.
During this period, the Prime Minister has been negotiating with the US for a week and speaks out in the international community, wanting to take these Chinese people who are restricted by the United States because of their territory.
Finally, in 1956, after 7 years, Wang Chengshu and his wife finally returned to the motherland they missed every day and were thinking about.
With the continuous negotiation efforts of our country and the two of them insisted, they were finally deregulated. US customs is very strict with because of concern that Wang Chengshu and his wife would bring back some scientific research secrets from the United States when they return to China.
However, compared to the United States, which seems a little petty at this moment, Wang Chengshu and his wife look calm. They don’t do these things at all. When comes, they naturally won’t bring anything when they leave.
Picture丨Prime Minister Zhou
In order to ensure the safety of the couple, our country also took the two to detour, transferred from India to prevent malicious elements from attacking . In this way, after going through twists and turns, the couple finally returned to their motherland.
set foot on his homeland again, and the oncoming familiarity that came to made Wang Chengshu's tears flow unstoppable. has been away for so long and has stood on such a land again, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.
She is finally back, and everything here in makes people feel so at ease. As for her tears, on the one hand, she was about the hardships of her past journey back to China, and on the other hand, she was about the excitement of returning to the motherland.
However, Wang Chengshu quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and showed a happy smile. adjusted her condition, and she walked forward with her head held high.
pic丨Wang Chengshu and Zhang Wenyu
left their family and devoted themselves to the scientific research of the motherland
In the 1960s, at that time, evaluating a country's comprehensive national strength and military strength, a very important aspect of is weapons.
At that time, my country was extremely short of technical talents in the field of atomic bomb research and development. Wang Chengshu's successful return to China was undoubtedly a powerful fresh blood injected into my country's atomic bomb research and development field.
After returning to the country, Wang Chengshu first served as a researcher at of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and also worked as a part-time professor at Peking University . In the motherland, she shouldered the important task of researching physics theory.
In 1958, my country planned to build the first thermonuclear fusion research room. In that era, my country's talents in this area were very scarce.
After Wang Chengshu returned, she was naturally arranged to , the Thermal Nuclear Fusion Research Office of the Institute of Atomic Energy, , to conduct theoretical research.
Figure丨Wang Chengshu and other scientific researchers
In fact, this field is somewhat different from Wang Chengshu's academic research direction. However, in order to contribute his own strength to the development of the research of the motherland's atomic bomb, Wang Chengshu was willing to study and study in this blank field.
Three months after returning to China, she devoted herself to the research work of atomic energy in China.
And at the beginning of 1961, Wang Chengshu unexpectedly received a task. Qian Sanqiang came to Wang Chengshu's office and had a conversation with her, asking her if she was willing to contact a brand new blank field - gas diffusion.
This made Wang Chengshu a little confused because he was a whiteboard in this regard. Later, Qian Sanqiang explained to her why he found her to do this: First of all, gas diffusion is to prepare fuel for the launch of the atomic bomb.
In this regard, our country has been using the help of the Soviet Union, but due to the tension in international relations, the Soviet Union withdrew its experts, which has led to a very vacant number of experts for gas diffusion, and seriously shelved the research progress.
Picture丨Qian Sanqiang
If the energy problem cannot be solved, let alone the research of the atomic bomb, we will launch exhibition . In desperation, Wang Chengshu, who has strong learning ability and solid theoretical basic knowledge, has undoubtedly become the most suitable candidate.
She is still a person at the forefront of my country's research field and is very suitable for this work. Research in the field of was a national confidentiality project at the time, and even her own family could not inform her.
Therefore, the task of is a long way to go. On the one hand, it requires people to have great patience, and on the other hand, they have to endure the pain of not being able to contact their family.
Qian Sanqiang thought Wang Chengshu would hesitate and discuss this matter with his family, but unexpectedly, after telling Wang Chengshu the whole story, Wang Chengshu did not say anything, and directly replied to : "I do."
In this regard, Wang Chengshu's explanation was: The country needs me, so I am willing to shine for the country. Before , she chose the country in front of individuals and the country, and later, in front of small families and everyone, she chose everyone again.
Picture丨Wang Chengshu and Zhang Wenyu's family
1961, Wang Chengshu joined the Communist Party of China. In the next few years, she was at the two points and one line between the laboratory and the dormitory. This mess left by the Soviet Union is a very difficult problem to overcome.
However, Wang Chengshu was not afraid of this, nor did he back down. She studied it day and night, maintained a rigorous work attitude, and solved the problems left over from the Soviet Union one by one, and proposed feasible solutions.
In a simple environment, she even had to pay for some daily necessities by herself, but even so, Wang Chengshu had no complaints. Finally, after more than two years, under the leadership of Wang Chengshu, my country successfully developed enriched uranium .
In 1964, when Deng Xiaoping inspected the 504 plant produced in Lanzhou, he accidentally discovered this famous female physicist , which is the scene we started.
During the three years of participating in the research, Wang Chengshu met with his family at a handful of times.
Picture丨Wang Chengshu (right)
After the project ended, she undoubtedly wanted to go home and reunite with her husband and children, , but just when her things were not packed, Qian Sanqiang found her again.
The arrival of Qian Sanqiang means that there is another new task now. And this time, although she thought of her relatives at home in her heart, she still agreed without hesitation.
The task assigned by Qian Sanqiang, is to serve as a researcher at the 605 Institute of North China, conducting research on physics. Now, her itinerary for her home was put on hold again.
However, Wang Chengshu had no complaints in her heart. She still worked hard and devoted all her energy to the scientific research career. During this period of time in the research institute, Wang Chengshu was still serious and diligent in research.
In 1973, Wang Chengshu took the initiative to put forward two proposals: centrifugal separation method and laser separation method. Both research methods are included in the national key scientific research plan, and Wang Chengshu is also the leader of the expert group of these two project plans.
pic丨Wang Chengshu at work
1978, at this moment, Wang Chengshu is already 66 years old, and her age has caused her physical condition to decline day by day.
In response to this, country proposed to let her return to the agency to work and live at home , which would benefit her body.
But Wang Chengshu directly refused. She did not want to leave the front line . She wanted to continue to struggle and train some young scientific researchers at the forefront of scientific research in the motherland. It was not until 1980 that Wang Chengshu returned to the government office.
Even so, she still did not neglect. After returning to the institution, also served as a professor in in the Department of Engineering Physics of Tsinghua University, and a professor in the Department of Physics of Dalian Institute of Technology.
On June 18, 1994, Wang Chengshu passed away in Beijing at the age of 82. In one sentence, she summed up her life, that is, to constantly shine for the cause of the motherland. Her unparalleled achievements will be forever in history and will be celebrated forever!
