Tomb-sweeping mourning the backbone of science and technology of the Republic

——35 academicians left us this year

　　Our reporter Lu Chengkuan

　　It is another year of Tomb-sweeping Festival, when the pear blossom wind sends grief.

Since the Qing Ming Dynasty last year, 35 names have been added to the list of the late academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering.

They devoted their entire lives to the scientific and technological undertakings led by the party.

In the face of these pillars of the country that have left us, we send heroic spirits away in words.

　　Among the 35 academicians who passed away in the past year, Peng Shilu's feelings for the party are extraordinary.

He was born in Haifeng County, Guangdong Province in 1925. He was the son of Peng Pai, a proletarian revolutionist and leader of the early peasant movement in my country. When he was young, his parents sacrificed for the revolution one after another.

At the age of 4, he became an orphan.

　　In order to avoid the Kuomintang’s "cutting the grass and roots", Peng Shilu led a life of surnames, eating food, and wearing clothes. He was arrested twice by the Kuomintang in prison, and once lived by begging.

It wasn't until 1940 that Zhou Enlai was found by the people to find him and sent him to Yan'an, the holy place of revolution.

　　In 1945, Peng Shilu joined the Communist Party of China.

In 1951, he was recommended by the organization to study in the Soviet Union.

　　At the end of the 1950s, Peng Shilu, who had returned from his studies, was assigned to work at the Institute of Nuclear Energy, focusing on nuclear power.

Since then, he has forged an indissoluble bond with the nuclear industry.

　　Peng Shilu is known as the pioneer and "blazing cattle" in the field of nuclear power in my country. He presided over the design and construction of my country's first nuclear submarine onshore model reactor, participated in the successful development of the first nuclear submarine, and introduced the first million-kilowatt nuclear power plant in Daya Bay. Nuclear power plant, organized independent design and construction of the first large-scale commercial Qinshan Phase II nuclear power plant, and has done pioneering work for the research, design and construction of China's nuclear power.

　　He once wrote in his self-report: "It is enough to live to love and be loyal to the motherland, and to sacrifice for the prosperity of the motherland!"

　　Many academicians cherish this kind of loyalty to the party and patriotic dedication to the family and the country.

　　Most of the 35 academicians who died in the past year were members of the Communist Party of China.

The determination of two academicians to serve the country through science and technology under the leadership of the party expressed in the "Voluntary Letter for Joining the Party" is impressive. They are Tong Binggang and Wang Shouwan.

　　In the "Volunteer Letter for Joining the Party" submitted in 1978, Tong Binggang wrote: It is precisely based on the belief and prestige of the Party. In the past 30 years, despite the ups and downs, my faith in the Party has not wavered and I have always inspired myself. Study diligently and work actively, hoping to benefit the cause of the party and the people.

In 1979, Wang Shouwan wrote in his "Party Membership Volunteer": At the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the realization of my country’s four modernizations was written into the Party Constitution. At the Fifth National People’s Congress and the Science Conference, the Party sent us a message to march toward science Call, as a scientific worker, I feel greatly encouraged and spurred, and I am determined to do my best to repay the party’s expectations of us.

　　It can be said that the historical achievements of the scientific and technological undertakings led by the party have condensed the hard work and sweat of the majority of academicians.

　　Among the 35 academicians who died in the past year, Dai Yuanben, Feng Duan, Wang Shouwan and Shen Shanjiong were the first to be elected academicians.

　　Dai Yuanben is mainly engaged in the research of quantum field theory and particle physics theory, and has made a series of important results in the Ricky pole theory of singular potential and non-local potential, and the research of straton model;

　　Feng Duan is mainly engaged in the research of condensed matter physics and is one of the pioneers in the research of crystal defects in my country. He has achieved original results in laser crystal multi-domain, nano-modulation structure and metal superlattices;

　　Wang Weiwan has long presided over the overall development of my country's astronomy, led the development of China's first radio astronomy telescope and other important observation equipment, and jointly proposed the construction of the national "Ninth Five-Year Plan" major scientific project-the Guo Shoujing Telescope (LAMOST);

　　Shen Shanjiong specializes in exploring the genetic relationship between symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria and host plants. His achievements in nitrogen-fixing genetics are internationally recognized, and he has made important contributions to the development of molecular genetics in modern China.

　　They were elected members of the Faculty in 1980.

This year, 23 years have passed since the last co-election of members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The last co-election was in 1957.

After the reform and opening up, the Chinese Academy of Sciences restarted the co-election of members of the Faculty.

In November 1980, the Faculty of Chinese Academy of Sciences elected 283 members of the Faculty.

　　"Fanshuang is full of hard work, sprinkled on Qianfeng Qiuye Dan." Academicians of the two academies are the wealth of the country, the pride of the people, and the glory of the nation.

　　Most of the 35 academicians who have died in the past year have reached their old age.

　　Two hundred-year-old academicians: Li Dongying and Shen Shanjiong;

　　19 "post-90s" academicians: Zhang Qianer, Tong Binggang, Zeng Yi, Cao Chunan, Dai Yuanben, Liu Ruozhuang, Bao Zheng, Feng Duan, Wang Shouwan, Cheng Rongshi, Zhou Yulin, Xie Yuyuan, Yu Mingfang, Xiao Bilian, Wen Fubo, Chen Haozhu , Hou Feng, Shen Zhonghou, Peng Shilu;

　　12 "post-80s" academicians: Li Jijun, Chen Dingchang, Zhang Xinshi, Zhang Lina, Jin Zhanpeng, Zhou Youyuan, Chen Zhaoyuan, Xu Qifeng, Zheng Shouren, Li Guanxing, Zou Deci, Li Jingwen;

　　It is regrettable that two "post-60s" academicians left China's scientific and technological circles prematurely. One is Wan Weixing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the other is Wang Yupu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

　　They devote their lives to scientific and technological undertakings led by the party, or achieve original results, or break through core technologies, or solve major problems... They are the backbone of the Republic's science and technology, and we will always miss them.