In the forties of the last century, a couple from China discovered the three ** of uranium nucleus, and then the wife of the husband and wife found four ** alone, and the probability of three ** at that time was one percent, and the probability of four ** reached 1 in 10,000.
This scientific discovery has caused a huge sensation in the international scientific community.
The husband and wife who created this achievement are named Qian Sanqiang and his wife is named He Zehui. When it comes to Qian Sanqiang's name, it can be said that he is a household name in China, and compared with her husband, He Zehui, as a wife, is relatively unfamiliar in the eyes of many people.
EditorIn fact, He Zehui is also a heroine among women, she and her husband Qian Sanqiang studied under Marie Curie, and they are the first female doctor to get a doctorate in physics in New China and the first female academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
These titles are not enough to accurately cover the achievements of Academician He Zehui, who also has another name, which is "China's Marie Curie".
Marie Curie's achievements and contributions to humanity in the field of science are well known. can be called China's Marie Curie, which shows that He Zehui's contribution is also not small.
In fact, with the three ** and disintegration of the uranium nucleus discovered by her and her husband, it was enough to win the Nobel Prize, but unfortunately China was poor and weak at that time, and the world powers always had a discriminatory mentality against us, and because of this, the Nobel Prize passed by the Chinese for the first time.
He Zehui can achieve such a high achievement, in addition to his own talent and talent, inseparable from family education and his own self-discipline and hard work, He Zehui was born in the He family in Lingshi, Shanxi Province.
According to the records of "Lingshi County Chronicles", the He family only produced 15 jinshi, 29 lifters, and hundreds of tributes and supervisors during the Qing Dynasty alone. So much so that there is a saying in Shanxi that "everything is open".
That is to say, He Zehui is a scholarly family, family history, he was admitted to Tsinghua University at the age of 18, and went to Germany to study at the age of 26. The two met and created their own miracle together.
After completing their studies, at the most difficult time in New China, they gave up the favorable living conditions abroad and the generous treatment, and resolutely chose to return to China and began to make their own contributions to the motherland in the field of nuclear physics.
Before He Zehui's death, she said most often: "No matter if the country is worthy of you or sorry for you, as long as it is beneficial to the country, I will do it." ”
That's what she said, and that's what she did. She has held key positions in various departments of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has made outstanding contributions in key fields such as high-energy astrophysics, cosmic ray physics, and ultra-high-energy nuclear physics.
Until his later years, Mr. He Zehui still insisted on working at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and did not care about his quality of life at all.
Originally, with her contribution and status, the relevant leaders of the unit proposed to equip her with a special car many times, but she categorically refused every time, and she insisted on squeezing the bus every day, going to work and buying groceries.
People who have never seen Mr. He Zehui will never dare to imagine that she is a superstar in China's scientific circles when they see her on the bus, and they can't see the slightest bit of great scientist style from her.
Until the beginning of this century, she still carried a faux leather backpack that had been used for decades to commute to work, this backpack could clearly show signs of wornness, after years of use, even the strap had been broken, she still did not discard, sewn it together with needle and thread herself.
The backpack used for work is still like this, and the clothes on my body are even more simple. Her clothes were covered in patches, and her shoes were still old-fashioned liberation shoes, which were quite worn.
The furnishings in the editor's home have not changed for many years, and she said that she wanted the family to retain the appearance of her wife, Qian Sanqiang, when she was alive.
This life lasted until the last moments of He Zehui's life, and at the age of 90, she still insisted on working.
He Zehui has spent his life practicing all the excellent qualities of a true scientist, that is, "simplicity, truthfulness, diligence, honesty, and truth-telling".
On June 20, 2011, at 7:39 a.m., Academician He Zehui passed away in Beijing at the age of 97.