People who mature early may not have achievements, and those who arrive late may not have failed to achieve greatness in the future. There are also many late bloomers in history.
Jiang Ziya was discovered by Zhou Wuwang at the age of 72 and was given a surname.
Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, beheaded snakes at the age of 48, and collected 3,000, 5 1 year-old.
Lincoln experienced all kinds of failures and rejections when he was young, and was elected president of the United States at the age of 5 1.
Qi Baishi lived by selling paintings for the first half of his life, and didn't get ahead until he was 65.
life experience
In Japan, there is such a strange person. He is a middle-aged uncle named Shuji Nakamura. He graduated from a little-known third-rate university in Japan-Tokushima University, which doesn't even have a physics department.
After graduating from college, he worked in a small factory, and his job was to run quartz tubes. Quartz tube explosions often occur in the workshop. Whenever there is an explosion, colleagues say with one voice: Nakamura again!
Whenever the leader sees him, he can't help asking: Why don't you resign? Don't stay here in a mess, the quartz tube is about to be blown up by you.
But no one expected that the scum in the eyes of teachers and the waste in the eyes of leaders found a way to mass-produce blue LEDs at work. Results It won the 20 14 Nobel Prize in Physics. What kind of legend is behind him?
Award winning scene
My childhood was dull and I was admitted to a third-rate university.
Shuji Nakamura, 1954, was born in an ordinary fisherman's family in Ichimachi, Japan. When I was a child, Nakamura's appearance was not amazing, and his grades were below the average.
Japan consists of four islands, the smallest of which is the birthplace of Nakamura. After graduating from high school, Nakamura was admitted to the third-rate Tokushima University in Japan with a very low score. In college, his major was electronic engineering. Why did he choose this major? Because the elders said that this major is easy to find a job in the future. In the class, he was not a bully, and his grades were low. He just got his diploma and got married in college.
After graduation, he has no lofty ideals in his career, and unlike other young people who are bent on traveling in big cities, he has a wife and children to take care of at home. In other words, a third-rate college graduate like him went to big companies like Panasonic and Toyota, and people didn't want him. He just wants to find a small factory at home and live in peace.
Shuji Nakamura is at work.
Work in general, looked down upon by people.
1979, in order to support his family, Nakamura came to work in a small local enterprise, mainly producing phosphors for color TV and fluorescent lamps. There are less than 100 people in the whole company.
At that time, the market for producing phosphor in Japan was basically saturated, and the company wanted to develop new LEDs to improve the market competitiveness. As a result, I recruited Nakamura, who graduated from college.
Some people may wonder why the company wants to recruit a third-rate college student, because it wants to develop new LEDs. The answer is to recruit students from 2 1 1 and 985 universities. Their wages are too expensive for people to come. Secondly, the company is just holding a try attitude and has no hope at all.
At that time, the technology of red and green LED was very mature. What if we develop a new one? It is difficult for many large companies to make a breakthrough, not to mention a small company with 100 people, no skills, no talents and no funds. If it can't develop, neither can the leaders. Nakamura wants to implement it, and the leaders don't give money.
Therefore, Nakamura is also in a dilemma in the company, and everyone thinks that he is very idle. Never made a product, never made a plan, never got paid. Everyone naturally feels unbalanced, so why does he do nothing and get the same salary as us? In the company, Nakamura naturally suffers from everyone's eyes.
Even the company leader will ask him every time he sees him: Why don't you quit? If I were an ordinary person, I would say: I quit!
Studying abroad, determined to break through.
Nakamura is also very depressed. There is a big mountain in front of him. How easy is it to climb the mountain? Faced with the cynicism of his colleagues, he turned anger into motivation. The more the leader looks down on him, the more he wants to prove to everyone that he is not an idle person!
But with his current education level, it is definitely not possible. He applied to the leader for further study abroad. The leader doesn't like him every day. He treated a dead horse like a living horse doctor and agreed to let him go abroad.
1988, Nakamura came to America. With a breath of life, he vowed to learn something and go back to make some achievements for the company. At that time, the red and green LED technologies were mature, and Nakamura thought twice. He wants to make a breakthrough in blue LED.
Similarly, Nakamura suffered from anger in the United States. He has a poor foundation and has never achieved decent results. Everyone treated him coldly, and Nakamura was full of anger. He remembered his motto again: anger is the driving force of his work.
When you return to China, you will be hit again and go forward bravely.
Nakamura, who is angry abroad, wants to make great achievements after returning home. Suddenly the leader said to him, our project has been cancelled, so you can do something else.
Reality is like a ruthless knife, but it hasn't changed the appearance of Nakamura at all. He has experienced so many setbacks, and this time it is not bad. So, after work, he secretly studied the blue LED. Be the first to go to work and the last to get off work every day. Colleagues all thought he had a brain problem, and the two apprentices who studied with him also felt hopeless and resigned one after another.
In the laboratory, every time there is an explosion, colleagues are used to it. Say calmly, what is Nakamura doing?
After countless failures, summarize, continue to fail, and then find the reason. Finally, one day, Nakamura succeeded, and he danced with excitement. Colleagues said in unison: Nakamura is completely crazy this time.
Be ignored and eventually break the ice.
He took the paper to the company leader, who just shrugged his shoulders. He published his paper on the Internet in his own name, until his paper caused a sensation in the physics circles in Europe and America, and the Japanese still didn't know who Nakamura was. Japan has always judged the ability of individuals in the name of universities or companies. In their eyes, Nakamura may be a liar or an imitator.
1993, blue light release of nakamura LED. The phone of the company was blown up by the media, and the leaders didn't notice it. The young man stood up and really developed a very awesome product.
At this time, Riya Company suddenly realized that Nakamura was an excellent employee of our company and thanked him for his contribution to the company. Then, Nakamura's LED patent was first applied by the company. After the application, the company began to mass-produce blue LEDs. His invention made a lot of money for the company, and Niya became a giant LED company.
How awesome is the blue LED invented by Nakamura? Some people say that the incandescent lamp invented by Edison illuminated the 20th century, and the blue LED invented by Shuji Nakamura will illuminate the 20th century.
How much bonus does the company give to Nakamura who has made the greatest contribution? Only 20,000 yen, converted into RMB 1304 yuan.
Nakamura is full of anger again. Obviously the company didn't take him seriously.
Immigrating to America and attacking Japan.
The company doesn't take him seriously, but some people pay special attention to him. The University of California dug Nakamura and equipped him with a professional research team, funds and equipment. Nakamura was very moved and went to America.
Riya company is in a hurry, why do you want to leave? You can leave if you want. You can't study LED blue light technology in America for two years.
This is simply the overlord clause. Of course, Nakamura won't sign it. If he doesn't sign it, he won't give you a pension.
Nakamura angrily replied: If you don't give it to me, don't.
45-year-old Nakamura angrily resigned from the company and became a leading figure in American physics research. The Japanese still refused to let Nakamura go and catch up with the United States to sign the overlord clause.
This time, Nakamura was fed up and chose to fight the company to the end. He sued the Japanese company in court, demanding the return of the patent and compensation.
In 2002, the court ruled in the first instance that the patent belonged to the company, but Niya had to pay 20 billion yen to Nakamura to buy out the patent. Riya was really stupid this time, crying that she had no money. Finally, after out-of-court mediation, Niya paid 840 million yen to Nakamura. In fact, this is all the fault of Japan Asia company.
In 20 14, the blue LED invented by Nakamura made great contributions to physics and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. In life, we can't live without LED. car headlights, mobile phone, TV and so on are all displayed with LED.
Now, Nakamura has immigrated to the United States. In the United States, he dared to criticize Japanese education, Japan's contempt for scientists, and even encouraged Japanese young people to leave Japan.
It is undoubtedly the saddest thing that a pillar of Japan dislikes Japan the least.
Winning numerous Nobel Prizes is the key to education.
However, it is undeniable that Japan won 19 Nobel Prizes in the past 19 years, especially after entering the 2 1 century, Japan ranked second in the world in terms of the number of awards.
Japan, in particular, has won many Nobel prizes in medicine. This is inseparable from their education. Japan pays special attention to cultivating children's awareness of exploration.
Yoshinori ohsumi, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 20 16, said: "A person's initial and naive interest and desire to explore come from contact with nature at an early age, which is a very important scientific enlightenment education and a way to produce a generation of scientific masters."
Paying attention to nature education is the characteristic of Japanese education.