Yang Zhenning's composition material: 1 1.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in science, Yang Zhenning was admitted to the Physics Department of the Institute of Science for postgraduate study. During her postgraduate studies, Yang Zhenning lived in the postgraduate dormitory of North College of Union University. His roommates are Ling Ning, Jin Qihua and Gu Zhenchao, and Huang Kun and Zhang Shoulian come to stay for a few days occasionally. These future elites of the Chinese nation get together, talk and discuss in a simple room and explore the mysteries of science together.
2. The eldest son of Yangmen
As Yang's parents, he made some attractive rules to encourage his younger brothers and sisters to study more: during the day, whoever studies well, listens to his mother and helps with housework, will be given a red dot, and vice versa. On weekends, whoever has three red dots will be rewarded-he will take it to Kunming to see a movie by bike.
3. A great teacher and a great apprentice
When Yang Zhenning was studying in the Physics Department of the General Assembly, he gave a first-year general physics class to Professor Zhao Zhongyao, a physicist who is good at experiments, a second-year electromagnetism class to Professor Wu, a famous scholar, and a mechanics class to Professor Zhou Peiyuan, a famous scholar who has studied general relativity.
But for Yang Zhenning, besides those directly taught by the Physics Department, his father Yang Wuzhi also had a great influence on him. At school, when Yang Zhenning encounters problems that he doesn't understand and things that are difficult to handle, he always goes to the office of the Department of Mathematics to ask his father for advice.
Yang Zhenning also said many times: "The two professors who have the deepest influence on me are Mr. Wu Dayou and Mr. Wang Zhuxi." 1942, when Yang Zhenning graduated from university, he chose "Studying the vibration of polyatomic atoms with group theory" as his graduation thesis, and asked Wu Dayou to be his thesis supervisor. Yang Zhenning was educated and guided by Professor Wang Zhuxi while studying in graduate school, and became interested in statistical physics. 1944 when he graduated from graduate school, Yang Zhenning asked Professor Wang Zhuxi to be the instructor of his master's thesis. Under his guidance, he successfully wrote his master's thesis, and superlattice was one of them. After the death of Professor Wang Zhuxi 1983, Yang Zhenning sent a message of condolence saying, "My interest in statistical physics was influenced by Teacher Zhu Xi." I also recalled: "In the next forty years, the two directions directed by Mr. Wu and Mr. Wang-symmetry principle and statistical mechanics-have been my main research directions."
Yang Zhenning began to pay attention to "field theory" after listening to Professor Ma Shijun's class in graduate school, and he was also very interested in the thermodynamics of deformable objects.
1957 65438+February 10, 35-year-old Yang Zhenning and 3/kloc-0-year-old Li Zhengdao both published the article "Questioning the Conservation of Parity in Weak Interaction" in the American Physical Review, and won the Nobel Prize in Stockholm. Before that, I wrote to thank Mr. Wu for guiding him into the field of symmetry principle and group theory, and said that many research works, including parity conservation, were directly or indirectly related to the ideas introduced to him by Mr. Wu 15 years ago.
Yang Zhenning's composition material 2 A woman who only studied in a private school for a few years taught her son to know 3000 words before he was 6 years old. This woman must be very clever. Yang Zhenning was inspired by such a mother. A 78-year-old scientist recalled his mother who had not received any new school education, which was touching.
"My mother 1896, from Hefei, Anhui. She wrapped her feet when she was young. In the Republic of China, she released them again, so her feet were not three inches golden lotus, but deformed feet. Every time I see her feet, I feel sad. She studied in a private school for several years. The first 3000 words I knew were taught by my mother. At that time, my father was studying at the University of Chicago, and only my mother and I lived together. I have met many old-school women like my mother, and I admire them very much. They are influenced by China's traditional ethics and have a firm belief in these ethics. Today, some people will think that this belief is foolish, loyal and filial, but if we abandon this value, the power of this so-called foolish, loyal and filial piety is endless.
"So, for a man or woman younger than her, I think this strong will is gradually disappearing, because the whole world is developing in another direction. So you have to ask me, what did my mother leave me besides raising me and teaching me 3000 words? I think what she left behind is the belief that I understand a strong will, which is an unparalleled force. "
Yang Zhenning Composition Materials 3 Yang Zhenning came to Tsinghua Campus at the age of seven and lived here for eight years. At that time, the affiliated primary school was called Chengzhi Primary School. There are two "big heads" in it, one is Yang Zhenning and the other is Yu Pingbo's son Yu Datou.
When Yang Zhenning was a child, at least he was not the most disciplined child. According to himself, he climbed every tree in Tsinghua.
The middle school is in Maofang Hutong, which is now Beijing 3 1 Middle School. There are less than 300 students in that school. At that time, Yang Wuzhi, the father of a Peking University mathematics professor, already knew that his son had a strong mathematical learning ability. If he teaches his son to analyze geometry and calculus, his son will learn quickly, which will make him very happy. But he didn't do it. On the contrary, he asked Professor Lei Haizong to introduce a history student to Professor Yang Zhenning's Mencius during the summer vacation between grade one and grade two. So in middle school, Yang Zhenning could recite the full text of Mencius.
Yang Wuzhi likes Go and Peking Opera, but he didn't cultivate his son's interest in these aspects. Playing chess can make my son play 17 pieces, and only teach him to sing some songs in the early years of the Republic of China, such as "Up and down for thousands of years, a continuous vein", "China men, China men ..." and so on.
Yang Zhenning often looks through many English and German math books on his father's bookshelf. Because the foreign language foundation is not enough, I can't understand the details. Every time I ask, Yang Wuzhi always says, "Take your time, don't worry."
When studying in class, Yang Zhenning likes to look around. He once read The Mysterious Universe written by Eddie, which talked about some phenomena and theories of some new physics discovered from the 20th century to that time. He was immediately aroused great interest, so when he got home, he joked with his parents and said that he would win the Nobel Prize in the future.
In the summer of 1945 after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yang Zhenning left home to study in the United States. The details of that morning are still vivid: "My father accompanied me to take a rickshaw from the northwest corner of Kunming to Tuodong Road in the southeast suburb to Wujiaba Airport. When I left home, my four siblings were reluctant to go, but my mother was very calm and did not cry. "
"When I arrived at Tuodong Road, my father said something encouraging, and both of them were very calm. After saying goodbye, I got on a crowded bus. At first, I could see my father waving to me from the window. A few minutes later, he was pushed into the distance by the crowd. There are many students going to America on the bus. When I spoke, my attention shifted to issues such as flight routes and climate change. After waiting for more than an hour, the car never started. Suddenly an American next to me motioned me to look out of the window, and suddenly I found my father still waiting there! He is thin, wearing a robe, and his hair on his forehead has turned gray. Seeing his anxious face, I endured tears all morning, and I couldn't help myself. "
"1928 to 1945 this 17 years, is my father and I often together, is my childhood stage. The ancients said that parents have the grace to raise their children. I won't talk about it now, but I think its philosophy is of eternal value. My father introduced me to the spirit of modern mathematics and left an indelible impression on me. "
Forty years later, Yang Zhenning wrote, "Most of my physics colleagues have a utilitarian attitude towards mathematics. Perhaps because of my father's influence, I appreciate math better. I appreciate the values of mathematicians, and I praise the beauty and power of numbers; It has tactical originality and flexibility, as well as strategic talent and foresight. Moreover, the miracle in the miracle, some of its wonderful concepts, is actually the basic structure that dominates the physical world. "
In any case, the difference between father and son is the most logical, melancholy and unforgettable difference in life.
This time, I went to Yangguan three times and sang all over Qian Qian. Yang Zhenning, 23, probably didn't expect that he really realized his joke at the age of 12 and won the first Nobel Prize from China people.
Yang Zhenning's composition material is 4 1944. She studied in the National The National SouthWest Associated University for six years, and Yang Zhenning taught in a middle school for one year. The biggest gain from teaching is to know a female classmate in her class, named Du Zhili. That year, Du Zhili 17 years old, and later she became Yang Zhenning's wife.
When Yang Zhenning went abroad, she did not fall in love with Du Zhili. But her beauty and elegant manners left a deep impression on me. Two years later, Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili met unexpectedly in the only China restaurant in Princeton, and both of them felt "electrocuted". They later thought, I'm afraid this is a marriage in a previous life.
This marriage not only gave Yang a lifetime of happiness, but also unexpectedly brought her parents-in-law who seemed to be separated for life together in the spring and autumn period of 14. Become a dusk love song in the history of the national war.
/kloc-at the end of 0/948, Du, then the deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Xuzhou "suppression general", went to the battlefield with the feelings of going to the execution ground, was defeated and captured, hit his head with bricks twice, and attempted suicide. When Chiang Kai-shek got the news, he couldn't help crying. But unexpectedly, General Du entered the prison of the * * * production party. It was completely "red" in a few years and was released by the first batch of Amnesty in 1957. Chiang Kai-shek was humiliated and furious, and DUZH's wife and children were not allowed to enter and leave Taiwan Province. Cao Xiuqing, with her mother-in-law and five children, is embarrassed to live in Taipei. In order to realize the promise of Chiang Kai-shek's letters, Cao Xiuqing found Song Meiling, Zhang Qun and others to reflect the situation, but they all failed.
1957, Cao Xiuqing suddenly received letters from her daughter Du Zhili and her son-in-law Yang Zhenning. He said, "Your old friend wrote to me. He cares about you very much and misses the safety of your mother and son. " Cao Xiuqing suddenly realized that "an old friend" was her husband Du Yu Ming, and she missed him very much.
Cao Xiuqing knew that she could only go to America to meet her "old friend". So she made a request to the Taiwan Province provincial authorities to visit her daughter in the United States. But Chiang Kai-shek "cares": "Du's wife and children must not leave Taiwan again!"
/kloc-one day at the beginning of 0/958, Song Meiling suddenly sent a car to send Cao Xiuqing to Qiu Guan Shilin. When they met, Song Meiling held her hand and said, "Mrs Du, congratulations on your son-in-law winning the Nobel Prize. You should go to America to see him! " Cao Xiuqing was overjoyed. Song Meiling went on to say, "Mrs. Du, I hope that when you come back from the United States, you will take Yang Zhenning back to Taiwan Province Province and ask him to help President Jiang counterattack the mainland." At this time, Chiang Kai-shek also came into the room and asked, "What happened to the children? How is your body? "
Thanks to her son-in-law, Cao Xiuqing was finally allowed to visit relatives in the United States for half a year. If he doesn't return after the deadline, he will be fined a lot of money. In order to prevent accidents, Taiwan Province Province did not allow her to take care of children, and specially found two people with quite high positions as guarantors. From 65438 to 0959, Ms. Cao came to the United States and never returned to Taiwan Province Province.
Du's greatest wish after his release from prison is that his wife can come to the mainland to reunite with him. However, Cao Xiuqing has always had doubts. Her husband is a loser and still supports others. What good days can there be? She didn't believe that according to her husband's personality, he would really stay in the mainland. So she wrote to her husband and advised him not to force himself. When she finally realized that it was not an expedient measure to let her husband take root in the mainland, she returned to Beijing on June 1963 and was willing to live a poor life with her husband. Before returning home, she heard that the mainland was short of materials and wrote to ask her husband what he needed. The husband wanted to know what kind of refrigerator could store food, so Duff brought back a luxurious household appliance from America. Du, who has been fighting in the sea of blood and smoke for most of his life, never imagined that the isolation between husband and wife caused by political reasons at home would be resolved by a Nobel Prize for physical reasons.
Yang Zhenning's composition material 5 Yang Zhenning was born in Hefei, Anhui on 1 June, 922+10/October1day (later, his date of birth on his passport abroad was mistakenly written as June, 65438+September, 22, 0922). He was born less than one year old, and his father Yang Wuzhi went abroad to study in the United States at public expense. At the age of 4, his mother began to teach him to recognize Chinese characters. 1 For many years, she taught him 3000 words. At the age of 60, Yang Zhenning recalled: "Now the words I know add up, and it is estimated that they will not exceed twice that number."
1928 When Yang Zhenning was 6 years old, his father came back from America. As soon as he saw him, he asked him if he had studied. He said that he had read it. What books have you read? Read Long Wen Whip Shadow. Tell him to recite it, and he will recite it all. Yang Zhenning recalled: "My father then asked me what this book meant, and I couldn't explain it at all. However, I remember that he gave me a pen that I have never seen before. "
When Yang Zhenning was in primary school, he did well in math and Chinese. He was admitted to the National The National SouthWest Associated University before graduating from high school. He was only 16 years old at 1938. 1942, 20-year-old Yang Zhenning graduated from university and immediately entered the research institute in The National SouthWest Associated University. Two years later, he got a master's degree with honors and was allowed to study in the United States at public expense. He went to the United States to study at the University of Chicago on 1945, and received his doctorate on 1948.
From 65438 to 0949, Yang Zhenning entered the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies as a postdoctoral fellow and began to cooperate with Li Zhengdao to study particle physics. During this period, he encountered many puzzling phenomena and unsolvable problems. They boldly doubted and carefully verified, and finally overturned the law of parity conservation, so that the confusion disappeared and the problem was solved. Yang Zhenning said in his Nobel Prize speech in 1957: "At that time, physicists found that their situation was like a person groping for a way out in a dark room. He knew that in a certain direction, there must be a door to get him out of trouble. But in which direction? " It turns out that the direction is parity conservation law, which does not apply to weak interaction. "
Yang Zhenning has made extensive contributions to physics, including particle physics, statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. In addition to discovering the non-conservation of parity with Li Zhengdao, Yang Zhenning first proposed the "Young-Mills Gauge Field" with R.L. Mills, and established the "Young-Backus Equation" with American physicist and Nobel Prize winner R.Baxter. E.Segre, praising Yang Zhenning as "one of the three theoretical physicists who can be called all-rounders in the world for decades".
Yang Zhenning remembers the legacy of his father Yang Wuzhi: "Remember the kindness of the country when you are alive." He was the first American scientist to visit China in the summer of 197 1. He said: "As a Chinese-American scientist, I have the responsibility to help these two countries that are closely related to me build a bridge of understanding and friendship. I also feel that I should make some contributions to the development of science and technology in China. "
Yang Zhenning said this and did the same. For more than 20 years, he frequently shuttled between China and the United States and made many fruitful academic contacts. He wrote two such poems: "The clouds, the water, the wind and the thunder are changing rapidly, and natural selection is competing."