Yao Qizhi, the founder of Tsinghua University Yao Ban, turned from physics to computer science. He is a scientific academician who is committed to training professional computer talents for the country. He returned to China to repay the motherland, which promoted the progress of China's computer industry, trained countless elite talents for the country and made great contributions to the development of computer technology in the motherland.

Character experience

1946 65438+On February 24th, Yao Qizhi was born in Shanghai, China, and his ancestral home was Xiaochang County, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province.

1967 obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from Taiwan Province Provincial University, then went to study in the United States and entered Harvard University, where he studied under glashow( 1979 Nobel Prize winner in physics).

1972, Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University.

1973, 26-year-old Yao Qizhi gave up physics and turned to computer technology to study for a doctorate at the University of Illinois.