This is what Huang Danian said. This professor from the College of Earth Exploration Science and Technology of Jilin University returned to his alma mater from overseas in 2009 as the first special expert of the "Thousand Talents Program" in Northeast China, and was elected as the chief scientist of the national "Research and Experiment Project of Key Instruments and Equipment for Deep Exploration".
After returning to China for seven years, Huang Danian led the team to stay up all night, and made a series of outstanding achievements in the field of aviation geophysics, filling a number of technical gaps in China's "exploring the sky, exploring the ground and diving into the sea".
20 17 1.8, Huang Danian died in Changchun at the age of 58.
When I met Huang Danian, he was gone forever.
In the expansion, in the memory of relatives, friends and students, he is tall, thick and strong, always carrying a backpack in a hurry. He said he was in a hurry.
1978, becoming the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination. From Guangxi in the southwest to Changchun in the northeast, he spent almost every day in the reading room of the Geological Palace. He is anxious to "find back the lost time".
1993, at the University of Leeds in England, Huang Danian, who was sent abroad by the government, strictly supported him every minute. Geophysical research abroad is changing with each passing day, and he is very anxious. Before leaving, he promised his teachers and classmates: "I will definitely bring back foreign advanced technology!" " "
20 10, Huang Danian, who has returned to China, dropped his mobile phone at a business meeting because someone was late. He said frankly: "I am impatient sometimes. I can't stand people dragging their feet on the progress of research. " I'm afraid that if this continues, China won't catch up! "
Dreams from the Geological Palace
"As a China person, no matter how much you have achieved abroad, but the field you are studying is far behind or even just starting in your own country, then you are not really successful."
The Geological Palace of Jilin University is the central symbol of Changchun. This palace-style building with a building area of 30,000 square meters is almost unknown. 195 1 year, Li Siguang, who broke through many obstacles and returned to the motherland from Britain, founded the Northeast Institute of Geology (the predecessor of Changchun Institute of Geology and later merged into Jilin University), which was the first geological school in new China.
The Geological Palace is a milestone in the geological history of New China and an important starting point for Huang Danian's life. He started here all the time and started again.
From 65438 to 0958, Huang Danian was born in Nanning, Guangxi, and his parents were intellectuals. When graduating from high school, the local geological team will recruit two airborne geophysical operators. Huang Danian, 17 years old, stands out from hundreds of people because of her quick response and excellent grades. This job gave him the first chance to get in touch with aviation geophysics, and since then, he has forged a lifelong fate with this cause.
1977 resume the college entrance examination. Huang Danian works during the day and studies hard under the oil lamp at night. Finally, he was admitted to Changchun Institute of Geology with excellent results. After graduating from master's degree, he stayed in school to teach, and later he was promoted to associate professor.
1993, Huang Danian, as the only geoscience major among 30 overseas students in China, was selected to study at the University of Leeds in the UK. 1996 got the first place in the geophysical doctor's degree from Leeds University. After finishing her studies, Huang Danian returned to her alma mater despite her tutor's efforts to retain her.
However, after returning home, President Sun listened to his report, keenly foresaw that it was now or never to train talents, held a special meeting to study and decided to let him stay in the UK. With the ardent expectations of teachers, Huang Danian, 38, went abroad again to continue his research work. He became one of the few China people engaged in the research of this high-tech sensitive technology at that time, aiming at high-precision detection of underwater hidden targets and deep-water oil and gas.
This line is 13.
13 years, Huang Danian has been working as a senior researcher and director of R&D department at ARKeX Aerogeophysical Company in Cambridge, England, leading a team of 300 people including academicians, and many achievements in R&D are in the leading position in the world.
This makes him a world-renowned "pursued" in the field of geophysical research and is highly respected.
He has a successful career and a stable life, but there is always a fire burning in the heart of the Kanghe River. "As a China person, no matter how much you have achieved abroad, but the field you are studying is far behind or even just starting in your own country, then you are not really successful."
In 2009, my alma mater sent the materials of the national "Thousand Talents Plan" (a plan to introduce overseas high-level talents around the national development strategic goals). Huang Danian seemed to hear the call, and he immediately said that he would return to China.
Return to China, really resolutely return to China. Give up the world's top scientific research environment and projects, and give up the leisurely life. My wife, who is engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, had to sell two clinics that she worked so hard to run, and her only daughter was still in school and stayed in Britain.
"He Kang left my attachment, and the Geological Palace engraved my dream."
Longing for Huang Lang opens China's "deep era"
How many secrets are hidden in the depths of the earth? This is the dream pursued by mankind and the strategic demand of a country. Western developed countries have completed a round of deep exploration in 1970s and 1990s, firmly occupying the commanding heights in the field of geological science, while China just started in the early 20th century.
From the moment he set foot on the land of the motherland, Huang Danian, as the chief scientist, organized more than 400 outstanding scientific and technological personnel from universities and research institutes all over the country to carry out two scientific research projects: "High-precision airborne gravity measurement technology" and "Development and experiment of key instruments and equipment for deep exploration".
Generally speaking, the former is like installing "clairvoyance" on mobile platforms such as airplanes, ships and satellites, which can see through mineral deposits and hidden targets deep underground; The latter is a self-developed instrument and equipment for doing CT and nuclear magnetic resonance for the earth, which makes the underground two kilometers or even deeper "transparent".
Huang Danian, who has lived abroad for many years, is well aware of the importance of related equipment to national development and how foreign countries strictly control the export of these equipment to China. In order to catch up with the progress, Huang Danian began to work hard.
The light in Room 507 of the Geological Palace of Jilin University has been on until two or three o'clock in the morning, which is Huang Danian's office. In order to work, Huang Danian became a "trapeze" and spent most of the year on business trips. In order not to affect his work during the day, he always takes the latest flight back and forth.
Therefore, the people who are most familiar with Huang Danian's routine and itinerary are not only his secretary, but also the doorman at the reception desk of Geological Palace and the taxi driver who has been picking him up for a long time. The doorman often opens the locked car door for Huang Danian in the middle of the night, and the driver often puts Huang Danian, who is still explaining the problems to the students, into the car in case he misses the plane.
In order to improve efficiency, Huang Danian has also implemented the responsibility system layer by layer, introduced online management system from abroad, and decomposed technical tasks into monthly, weekly or even daily. Every night 1 1, he checks it on the computer.
Many people question how scientists can be like robots. But for Huang Danian, it is necessary to quickly catch up with the forefront of Europe and America.
Huang Danian's pattern and vision are different, jumping out of the professional limitations and thinking at the national strategic level and the international frontier.
Under his impetus, Jilin University established a research and development center for mobile platform detection technology. Among all the airborne geophysical instruments, the most critical one is the airborne gravity gradiometer, which can reflect the gravity anomaly caused by the sudden change of underground density, has very high detection accuracy and is of great significance to resource exploration and national security. The research and development center of mobile platform detection technology is to establish a three-dimensional detection system with airborne gravity gradiometer as the core. Huang Danian is concerned about the goals to be achieved in the field of aviation geophysics in the next few decades.
At present, the prototype of the airborne gravity gradiometer independently developed by China is ready and will be carried on aircraft and ships for testing during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period.
On June 28th, 20 16, the "Key Instruments and Equipment Project for Deep Earth Exploration" presided by Huang Danian, Chief Scientist of Deep Earth Exploration Center of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, passed the evaluation and acceptance. This shows that, as a high-end technology and equipment to accurately detect the depths of the earth, the aviation mobile platform detection technology and equipment project has completed the journey of western developed countries for more than 20 years in five years.
China has entered a "deep era".
Under his encouragement, Wang Xianchang, Ma, Cui and a large number of overseas renowned "Thousand Talents Program" experts joined in succession. 2065438+In September 2006, the interdisciplinary department of Jilin University was established, which consists of radiation geology department, medical department, physics college, automobile college, mechanical college, computer college and international politics department. Huang Danian served as the first Minister of Science.
This strategic vision involves scientific research in the fields of satellite communication, automobile design, big data exchange and robot research and development. , can be derived from the traditional disciplines in the new direction, is expected to drive hundreds of billions of industrial projects.
Personality plays a role in heredity.
"Be sure to go out, be sure to come back when you go out, and be sure to serve the country when you come back."
"Pure and perfect intellectuals", many people who are familiar with Huang Danian say so.
In junior high school, Huang Danian was sent to the rural May 7th Middle School in Luocheng County, Guangxi. At that time, there were many excellent teachers in the school, most of whom were great intellectuals "assigned" here. Huang Danian recalled that they made him understand that intellectuals would shine wherever they were placed. Their hard-working, persevering and coping personality on the road has deeply influenced him.
Unconsciously, he also became such a person-indifferent, determined and homesick.
Huang Danian, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, is not an academician himself. Colleagues and leaders all said that with his ability and contribution, he could have declared as an academician long ago, and repeatedly advised him to declare quickly. But he said, "Time is limited. Let's get things done first. "
As the chief expert of the "Deep Exploration Technology and Experimental Research" project, he is in charge of huge scientific research funds. However, Huang Danian did not only look at its own schools, but looked for the most suitable scientific research units all over the country. He will fly directly to the laboratory and workshop of the institute to learn about each other's qualification level. Once the scientific research unit is selected, he will directly call the other person in charge and give the other person a project. This kind of initiative to send money to the door is even suspected to be a liar. Experts who thought they had a good relationship with him came to him and wanted to get some funds for some units. He refused directly. Later, the other party found that "even Jilin University didn't get a penny more".
Huang Danian had an operation. Two nights before the operation, at 12, Dr. Zhou received his short message. The text message said that she had written a letter of recommendation for an exchange at Cambridge University.
"Be sure to go out, be sure to come back when you go out, and be sure to serve the country when you come back." This is Huang Danian's belief and what he often says to his students. In recent years, Huang Danian has sponsored 26 students to go abroad for exchanges and attend academic conferences.
When Huang Danian was an undergraduate, a lecture by Professor Teng Jiwen, who later became an academician of China Academy of Sciences, gave him an international perspective and benefited him for life. He said that we should also cultivate students' international vision and the spirit of pursuing Excellence like our own teachers.
This is a kind of inheritance.
1In late February, 978, Huang Danian came to Changchun, Jilin Province to study in the ice and snow. The counselor carried the luggage at the station and sent it all the way to the dormitory. Growing up in Huang Danian in the south, the clothes he brought could not withstand the cold in the northeast, so the teacher sewed cotton trousers for him personally. Many years later, Huang Danian often mentioned the past emotionally. He also inherited this teacher-student relationship.
He is famous for his kindness to students-buying computers for the whole class, paying tuition fees for students, and helping students raise money when their mother is ill ... In the eyes of students, Huang Danian is perfect. At holiday parties, Huang Danian will take pictures of students with his camera; When I go abroad, I will bring two empty boxes to buy gifts for students; When answering the academic phone, put it on the speaker and let the students listen together.
He thinks that training talents is the first priority. In Huang Danian's eyes, every student is a rough piece of jade, and he should carve it carefully.
Zhou Shuai, a doctoral student, has published five SCI papers in succession. Huang Danian helped him revise it word for word, and also helped him collect international academic materials. Zhou Shuai tried to sign the teacher's name, but Huang Danian refused again and again. He said, "It doesn't matter, as long as you succeed in the future. But remember, doing scientific research is not just writing articles. Can withstand loneliness. "
2065438+On May 26th, 2007, Zhou Shuai, who finished his graduation thesis defense, came to the teacher's office again, respectfully put a bunch of flowers on his desk and said softly, "Teacher, I have successfully stayed in school to teach, and I will definitely follow your path, be a good person and do a scientific research in the future." ?
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Huang Danian (front row) went hiking with students (photo). Huang Danian is a teacher and a friend of the students. ? Xinhua news agency? Image provision
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Huang Danian took a photo in front of Changchun Institute of Geology. ? Xinhua news agency? Image provision
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Huang Danian took photos when he was studying in England. ? Xinhua news agency? Image provision
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Zhou Shuai, a student from Huang Danian, took photos in the UAV hangar of the mobile platform detection technology research and development center of the College of Earth Exploration Science and Technology of Jilin University. Zhou Shuai stayed on as a teacher after graduation this year. He said to be a good person and do research like a teacher.