At the end of 2005, University of Science and Technology Beijing. Academician Guozhi Zhou, who is nearly seventy years old, has a smile on his face in his elegant and simple home. The sun shone in the living room, and the gentle scientist sat on the sofa, calmly telling his memories. Decades of ups and downs, ups and downs, bravely marching forward in the "torrent", seems to confirm his own sentence, "Self-improvement is the true nature of our Chaoshan people"-

The first paper: Dare to challenge the members of the department.

1964, Guozhi Zhou, a young teacher of Beigang, did something that impressed the academic community: he boldly entered an insoluble problem, and was the director of Shanghai Metallurgical Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

At that time, Zou Yuanxi, director of Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a paper on calculating activity from chemical phase diagram in Journal of Metals. Because the integrand tends to infinity, it affects the use of this method. Guozhi Zhou, who happened to read this article, has been thinking about this problem for a week. One night, he suddenly thought of a solution. He jumped out of bed happily, turned on the light and lay on the table until dawn. He wrote down his ideas and immediately sent them to Professor Zou.

Zou Yuanxi is a knowledgeable old scientist (198 1 elected as a member of the department, that is, an academician today). Out of his love for young scholars, he answered as quickly as possible, enthusiastically praised this method as "very clever" and selflessly gave Zhou all the information he had to help him write his paper. Guozhi Zhou's first paper, The Application of θ Function Method, was born under the care of the older generation of scientists. 15 years later, this method was actually used by Professor Elliot of MIT to guide doctoral research.

This seemingly "small" move is like an accelerator for Guozhi Zhou to break into the hall of science. Fearless courage and self-improvement spirit have become the strongest background color in his life.

"I want to fight to the end!" Academician Guozhi Zhou hit the floor and said: "The growth of a scientist lies in diligence first, in never being satisfied with harvesting the fruits on the surface, but in bravely drilling in and going deep, and catching the frontier of science at the fastest speed!"

The first point 100: the biggest turning point in life

Guozhi Zhou said that the biggest turning point in his life was his youth.

Guozhi Zhou was born in Nanjing, 1937. His father Zhou Xiuqi studied in Germany and became a professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University after returning home. He taught his children all his life: "Serve the country with industry". In such a scholarly family, Guozhi Zhou, who was naughty as a child, didn't like reading, but he was an expert at catching cricket and fighting crickets.

The child's "competitive heart" has become the driving force for his transformation. Before the second grade, he always relied on his sister to help him with his homework. Once, he was forced to solve the problem "by himself" because he quarreled with his sister and asked for help. He spent nearly an hour solving a geometry problem and almost wanted to give up. He persisted for a while and finally solved it. This incident has greatly inspired and educated him and cultivated his perseverance and self-confidence. Guozhi Zhou, who was never good at doing homework, suddenly solved a difficult problem in class and became the only student in the class who could solve it. "This greatly stimulated my interest in learning, and later I got 100 in the geometry exam."

"This 100 integral is a small matter for others, but it is a big deal for me. Since then, I have studied hard. This year is a sudden change for me, and it has become the biggest turning point in my life. I think, don't always scold children, give more encouragement, so that they will have confidence. "

1955, Guozhi Zhou, 18 years old, was admitted to Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel (now University of Science and Technology Beijing) with the first choice and excellent results. The era of "great steelmaking" followed, and he ended his studies in turmoil and stayed in school to teach. At that time, young teachers were pushed to the front line of the lecture hall instead of "criticizing the old professors". Guozhi Zhou, who has only attended the basic course for one and a half years, has to face a pair of eager eyes under the podium. Feeling that there was too little ink in his stomach, he began to make up lessons by himself, which brought him a new leap. "Self-study, self-confidence and self-encouragement, that's how I succeeded step by step."