He was the first president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Be low-key. All his life, he only focused on nuclear research.
It is among the 23 "two bombs and one star" fathers.
The last one to be declassified.
He has been "dealing" with nuclear weapons for almost half a century.
He was the technical director of the development of China's first atomic bomb.
It is recognized as the "commander of all the marshals" in the field of China's nuclear research
He is Zhu Guangya.
February 26, 2011.
Zhu Guangya died suddenly due to illness.
He was 87 years old.
Zhu Guangya's soul returns to "Zhu Guangya Star" to shine in the sky forever!
Today. Let's salute together.
This great scientist is deeply hidden and famous.
We in China are going to come out, and our nation is no longer a nation that has been insulted! We've got up, let's go back! The Motherland is eagerly waiting for us! ”
This sonorous and powerful text comes from the famous "An Open Letter to Students Studying in the United States". It was 25-year-old Zhu Guangya who took the lead in drafting the open letter.
March 18, 1950, "Newsletter of Students Studying in the United States".
As early as September 1946, Zhu Guangya entered the University of Michigan in the United States, and while working as Wu Dayou's assistant to do theoretical physics projects, he also studied for a doctorate, studying one of the research fields closest to the "dream of the atomic bomb", experimental nuclear physics.
Just before this letter was published in the "Student Newsletter in the United States," Zhu Guangya had already refused relief money from the US Economic Cooperation Administration and boarded the steamship "Cleveland" bound for New China.
Young Zhu Guangya.
Only four days after returning to China, 25-year-old Zhu Guangya stood on the podium of the physics department of Peking University. He was the youngest associate professor at Peking University at the time, teaching optics and general physics.
In 1956, the People's Republic of China decided to develop its own atomic energy industry. In this year, Zhu Guangya participated in the preparation for the establishment of the Lanzhou Physics Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (the predecessor of the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), and undertook the important task of training the first batch of atomic energy professionals for China.
At 15 o'clock on October 16, 1964, a strong light flashed in the Gobi Desert in the northwest, and China's first atomic bomb was successful! Looking at the mushroom cloud jumping in the sky, Zhu Guangya burst into tears. That night, he was drunk at the celebration banquet, the only time in his life.
In June 1967, Zhu Guangya participated in the successful development of China's first hydrogen bomb. From the atomic bomb to the hydrogen bomb, it took 7 years and 3 months for the United States, 6 years and 3 months for the Soviet Union, and only 2 years and 8 months for China!
In September 1969, Zhu Guangya participated in the organization and command of China's first underground nuclear test, which provided strong support for the rapid and sustainable development of nuclear technology.
In the chronicle of Zhu Guangya's life, the most common sentence is "presiding over the success of a certain nuclear test." China has conducted more than 40 nuclear tests, and Zhu Guangya has visited the site more than 30 times.
** (center), Wang Ganchang (left) and Zhu Guangya (right) at China's western nuclear test base.
In 1994, Zhu Guangya became the first president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
On September 18, 1999, Zhu Guangya was awarded the "Two Bombs and One Star" Meritorious Service Medal by the state. It was only at this time that Zhu Guangya was pushed from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and his deeds gradually became known.
In December 2004, the International Minor Planet Center and the International Committee on Minor Planet Nomenclature approved the official naming of the asteroid discovered by the National Astronomical Observatories of China with the international number 10388 as "Zhu Guangya Star".
This is the main thing I have done in my life - to engage in China's nuclear **. Zhu Guangya once said, "But this thing is unusual - it is an earth-shattering thing, a thing that changes the world!" That's the thing that makes the Chinese raise their eyebrows and straighten their backs! ”
*: CCTV National Memory.