Professor Yang Zhenning is a well-known Chinese scientist in the world. Nobel laureate. Some people misclaim that Professor Yang Zhenning participated in the Manhattan Project in the United States. However, Yang Zhenning could not participate in the Manhattan Project!Yang Zhenning
The Manhattan Project of the United States also has another name - the United States implemented a program to develop an atomic bomb using nuclear fission reactions!
This was after the outbreak of World War II, when the United States specially developed a new type of lethality against Nazi Germany in order to end the war as soon as possible. This classified project brought together the best scientists in the West at the time, outside of Nazi Germany, who were studying nuclear science. More than 100,000 people were mobilized at that time. The cost is as much as 200 million dollars. Finally, on July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear ** was completed!
In 1945, Mr. Yang Zhenning went to the University of Chicago to study at the University of Chicago through the Gengzi Indemnity Scholarship of the United States. At that time, Mr. Yang Zhenning was still an immature student. It was not until 1948 that he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In 1949, he entered the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University for postdoctoral research. Started the beginning of Mr. Yang Zhenning's brilliant life path!