The inspirational story of Qian Xuesen

I remember when I was still in elementary school, my teacher would take many of Qian Xuesen's stories to educate us to love our country and to learn scientific and cultural knowledge. That is still small, just remember that Qian Xuesen is a very great scientist and the teacher's teachings outside, it can not be from this little story to experience more admiration and moved.

A 96-point hydraulics paper

In the library of Jiaotong University, there is a 96-point hydraulics paper, and the person who made this paper is Qian Xuesen. After such an ordinary paper, there is a touching story. The original Qian Xuesen in Shanghai Jiaotong University when studying, both academic and academic excellence, all subjects have more than 90 points. In a hydraulics exam, Qian Xuesen answered all '6 questions correctly, his teacher Jin teacher was very happy, gave Qian Xuesen 100 points full marks. However, Ch'ien realized that he had mistakenly written the symbol "Ns" as "N" when he answered the questions. Qian Xuesen took the initiative to tell his teacher about this small mistake, and the teacher gave him 96 points out of 100. Mr. Jin, his teacher, kept his protégé's test papers in his suitcase even during the war and migration. When Qian Xuesen returned to his alma mater in the 1980s, Mr. Jin took out this precious test paper and presented it to his alma mater. This small test paper also reflects the strict requirements of a world-famous scientist, meticulous, modest and honest in learning and scientific research.

Second, overcoming the obstacles difficult to return to China

In the 1940s, Qian Xuesen has become the mechanics, nuclear physics, and the authority of modern aviation and rocket technology pioneer. In the United States, Qian can live a rich middle-class life, however, Qian Xuesen has been attached to the motherland across the ocean. Learning of the news of the founding of New China, Ch'ien was excited and felt that it was the right time to return to his motherland. The U.S. authorities know that Qian Xuesen to return to the news, naturally do not want to let go, because Qian Xuesen knows too much about the latest and most cutting-edge technology. In customer service after a hundred obstacles, Qian Xuesen finally returned to the new China.

Back to the motherland he quickly put into the work, from the successful design of the first liquid air probe missiles launched, to the successful development of China's first artificial Earth satellites; from the organization and leadership of the development of carrier rockets and intercontinental missiles, to the design and manufacture of China's first nuclear-powered submarine, as well as China's first successful launch of the first return satellite, he has always been at the forefront of the scientific and technological cause of the new China, breaking through countless scientific research and development.

Three, Qian Xuesen's view of money, power, fame and fortune

As early as the 1950s, he generously offered the book "Engineering Control Theory" of ten thousand yuan of honorariums to support the poor students; in the 80s, he will be the "on systems engineering" in their own share of honorariums donated to the research funding. In his later years, he received two scientific prizes of one million Hong Kong dollars, and donated all of them to the western part of the motherland for desert control. In the face of the Ministry of Defense Fifth Research Institute, the seventh vice minister of the Ministry of Machinery Industry, deputy director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology and other official titles, he did not reach out to anyone, but to let go of his own accord. Even though the United States has repeatedly invited Qian Xuesen to visit the United States, granting him the title of academician of the American Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Engineering, but still he refused, leaving behind. He said, "If the Chinese people say that I, Qian Xuesen, have done something for the country and the nation, that is the highest reward. I don't care about foreign honors."

He once said, "My surname is Qian, but I don't love money." He once said, "I am a scientific and technological personnel, no matter what the big officials, those big officials of the same treatment I do not want." He had set for himself "not inscriptions, do not write to people, not on the Who's Who, do not attend the event, do not participate in the results of the appraisal, do not accept the media interviews," the principle.

This is our generation of great scientists of the concept of money, rights, fame and fortune.