Two Founding Fathers-Deng Jiaxian
1950 received a doctorate in physics from Purdue University in the United States. Return to China in the same year. 1956 * * Joined China. He has successively served as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Modern Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, an associate researcher at the Institute of Atomic Energy, director of the Ninth Institute of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry, deputy director of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry, deputy director of the Science and Technology Committee of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, member of the Department of Mathematical Physics of China Academy of Sciences, and the first and second executive directors of the China Nuclear Society. He is a member of the 12th the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Committee. Participate in organizing and leading the research and design of China's nuclear weapons. He is one of the founders of China's theoretical research on nuclear weapons. Great contributions have been made from the principle breakthrough and test success of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs and their weaponization to the major principle breakthrough and development test of new nuclear weapons. As a major participant, its achievements have won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award and the special prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.