Wang Ganchang, the father of the two bombs, died in a car accident while walking, and was not caught.
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Wang Ganchang was awarded the "Two Bombs and One Star" Meritorious Service Medal in 1999, but unfortunately, he was unable to see the arrival of this honor with his own eyes, nor did he personally receive this glory that belongs to him.
Because on December 10, 1998, Wang Ganchang died of illness at the age of 91. It is worth noting that although Wang Ganchang was still physically strong when he was 90 years old, when he was 90 years old, he was hit by a bicycle one day while going for a walk, causing his physical condition to deteriorate dramatically within a year.
Wang Ganchang, a name that few people knew before 1999. However, since his death, more and more people have begun to know and admire his life story.
In the last year of his life, his health deteriorated, and he finally passed away after dedicating his life to the country, which makes people feel sorry.
Although he did not win the Nobel Prize in his life, and even missed the Nobel Prize three times, his research results and ideas have deeply influenced countless people in the industry, making them admire the actions of this brilliant scholar in his life.
His childhood was not a happy one, but that didn't affect his love and pursuit of science. Today, he has been awarded the "Two Bombs and One Star" Meritorious Service Medal, and his deeds have spread throughout the country.
Wang Ganchang's life is an extraordinary life for an ordinary person, and his story will continue to inspire us to move forward.
In 1907, Wang Ganchang was born in Changshu City, Jiangsu Province, to a family of traditional Chinese medicine. However, China was in the midst of a great crisis, with social unrest and many families torn apart.
Although Wang Ganchang was born in a relatively good family environment and avoided most of the turmoil, when he was 4 years old, his father's death made his stable life forever.
From then on, the burden of supporting the family fell on the shoulders of his mother. In order to ensure that Wang Ganchang can grow up smoothly, her mother is under tremendous pressure, and the burden of life gradually crushes her body.
When Wang Ganchang was 13 years old, his mother died of overwork. At this age, he lost both parents, and in order to survive, he had to rely on his grandmother.
With her help, the young Wang Ganchang found a job herding sheep to make ends meet.
Although Wang Ganchang's childhood was full of sorrow, he always pursued academics relentlessly. With the support of his grandmother, he started in a private school in the countryside of Jiangsu, passed through Shaxi Primary School in Taicang County and Pudong Middle School in Shanghai, and finally entered a foreign language school in 1924.
He then enrolled in a technical school to learn how to drive and repair cars. In those days, cars were still very rare, and very few people knew about them.
If Wang Ganchang completes his technical school studies, he will not only be able to support himself easily, but even live a relatively comfortable life. However, this quiet life was not what Wang Ganchang was after, and he longed to study physics more deeply.
Therefore, when he learned that Tsinghua University had begun to enroll students in 1925, he did not hesitate to sign up for the relevant examinations and successfully became the first undergraduate student of Tsinghua University.
Since then, Wang Ganchang has gone further and further on the road of academic exploration, and even missed the Nobel Prize three times.
Wang Ganchang, a distinguished talent in the field of physics, graduated from the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University in June 1929. During his time at the university, he was highly praised for his academic talent, which not only attracted the attention of professors at Tsinghua University, but also after he graduated, he was retained as a teaching assistant to guide him to complete China's first experimental study on atmospheric radioactivity.
Since he came into contact with physics, Wang Ganchang has been deeply attracted to it, but the domestic level at that time was not in the forefront of the world. In order to study deeply and serve the country, he was admitted to Jiangsu Province in 1930 to study at the official scholarship of Jiangsu Province and went to the University of Berlin in Germany for further study.
At the University of Berlin, Wang Ganchang missed the Nobel Prize for the first time, and this was directly related to his mentor, Ms. Meitner. Ms. Meitner was once hailed as "a woman scientist with a talent comparable to Marie Curie" and was a pioneer in the field of nuclear physics in the world.
However, her excellence also made Wang Ganchang miss the Nobel Prize for the first time.
During his study in Germany, Wang Ganchang was fortunate to have access to the latest scientific achievements in the world. He studied tirelessly every day, and the accumulation of new knowledge brought his thinking skills to the peak.
In this state, he had new thoughts about physical phenomena and conclusions, and came up with new experimental methods. However, he needed to borrow Ms. Meitner's cloud room detector to make his idea a reality.
However, as a graduate student who has just arrived in Germany, Wang Ganchang's status in the academic world is not high. Although Ms. Meitner has a lot of experience, she did not pay enough attention to Wang's application.
She just said coldly: "Marie Curie, haven't they already come to a conclusion?" There is little point in experimenting again. ”
Despite Ms. Meitner's explicitness, Wang Ganchang still insisted on applying and repeatedly asked her. At first, Ms. Meitner would discuss the topic with him, but as time went on, she even began to ignore Wang's application altogether.
Wang Ganchang, who was in a foreign country, had no other way to deal with this situation, so his experimental ideas were stifled. Two years later, however, a British physicist confirmed the existence of neutrons through a series of experiments, using the cloud chamber experiment method that Wang Ganchang had proposed to his mentor.
In the end, the British physicist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery. If Wang Ganchang had successfully validated his experimental idea at that time, he would have been the first to discover neutrons.
However, when Wang Ganchang's mentor found out about this, he regretted it very much and blamed himself for it. Although Wang Ganchang regretted this incident, the failure to win the Nobel Prize did not stop him from moving forward in his vast academic exploration, which is why he missed the Nobel Prize three times.
Wang Ganchang, a person who resolutely gave up the superior conditions abroad and returned to the motherland to devote himself to the cause of science. When he received his doctorate in 1934, he chose to return to China, despite the turmoil in the country, and his German colleagues could not understand his choice.
Despite attempts to keep him, he always insisted on his convictions: "As Pasteur said, although science has no borders, the scientific community has a homeland, and my motherland is suffering, and I must go back!" ”
After returning to China, Wang Ganchang continued to explore in the field of physics. His efforts paid off in 1942 when his proposal for the detection of neutrinos was published in the American journal Physical Review.
Wang Ganchang, a scientist who forged ahead bravely for the motherland, regardless of personal gains and losses. His spirit will always inspire us to contribute to the nation's scientific cause.
Wang Ganchang's ** provides physicists around the world with a new perspective on neutrino measurement, the American scientist Allen was the first to practice and achieve results, and in 1953, the American scientist Leynes successfully captured neutrinos, and his method is based on Wang Ganchang's suggestion.
Since then, Rheins has been awarded the Nobel Prize for this achievement, which in fact should have belonged to Wang Ganchang. At that time, Wang Ganchang did not experiment himself, but made his ideas public, because his country could not carry out such experiments.
If conditions permit, Wang Ganchang will undoubtedly be a Nobel Prize winner. This is the second time Wang Ganchang has missed the Nobel Prize, and although it has been regretted by some of them, he has not regretted it.
At this time, he was still determined to continue to explore in the field of physics and contribute to the country. And this belief of his also led him to miss the Nobel Prize for the third time.
In 1956, Wang Ganchang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, went to the Dubna Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in the Soviet Union to cooperate with experts from 12 countries to find new high-energy particles.
Under his leadership, the research team succeeded in discovering anti-sigma negative hyperons, an achievement that earned Wang Ganchang the Nobel Prize. However, when people were expecting him to win the Nobel Prize, Wang Ganchang suddenly disappeared from the eyes of the world, and this disappearance was 17 years.
During that time, people didn't know that he had gone or what he was doing. However, when it became known that Wang Ganchang disappeared for 17 years to build atomic and hydrogen bombs for the country, everyone deeply admired his decision.
Wang Ganchang was killed by a bicycle in his later years in order to develop two bombs. In April 1961, he resolutely decided to remain incognito for the rest of his life for the country. When the country needed him, he did not hesitate and replied firmly: "I am willing to promise the country with my body!" ”
Since then, Wang Ganchang has shouldered the heavy responsibility of national nuclear research, and his name has gradually disappeared in the world, leaving only the pseudonym "Wang Jing" to devote himself to difficult nuclear research.
In order to achieve the goal as soon as possible, Wang Ganchang, who is more than half a hundred years old and has slightly gray temples, often works late into the night, and even comes to the workshop to cheer up the workers in person. He firmly believed that only in this way could the atomic bomb be successfully developed at an early date.
With the joint efforts of many scientists and workers, on October 16, 1964, China's first atomic bomb was successfully launched. After the success of the atomic bomb, Wang Ganchang devoted himself to the research and development of the hydrogen bomb, and on June 17, 1967, China's first hydrogen bomb was successful.
Behind the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb**, Wang Ganchang's contribution is indelible, and although this contribution was only known after his death, he never regretted it, but was proud of it.
After devoting himself to the research and development of the two bombs, Wang Ganchang's exploration of knowledge did not stop, and even in his twilight years, he persevered. However, an accident in 1997 interrupted his research path.
In order to maintain his physical health and continue to explore the field of science, he often used his free time to take walks. That year, he was unfortunately hit by a bicycle, and although a well-wisher was sent to the hospital in time, his physical condition was not as good as before.
After five months**, although his appearance was restored, his physical condition deteriorated day by day.
Although the doctors did their best to treat Wang Ganchang, fate made the bicycle the culprit that took his life on December 10, 1998. However, to this day, the person who knocked down Wang Ganchang is still at large, because there were no pedestrians nearby at that time, and his face could not be recognized, and the surveillance equipment at that time was not perfect, and nothing was found in the investigation.
With the passage of time, the case is still unsolved, and this ** has not yet fallen into justice. Although Wang Ganchang is no longer with us, his deeds and spirit will live on forever, and future generations will always remember his contributions to the country, and his selfless dedication will inspire generations of people to move forward.