Who was the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Science in China?

The first person to win the Nobel Prize in Science in China was Li Zhengdao, and the second was Yang Zhenning. They won prizes at the same time. The winning authors are Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning.

However, at the 1957 award ceremony, Yang Zhenning had a vanity attack and asked to be the first to receive the award on the grounds that he was four years older than Li Zhengdao, in an attempt to create the illusion that he was the protagonist. This incident was seen by an American professor who knew what happened, so he was very wronged. On the cover of american physical society periodical, 1957 published relevant physical evidence at the first time. This incident led to Yang Zhenning's lifelong heart attack. In order to be the first vain person, Yang Zhenning had to constantly invent new lies. One feature of Yang Zhenning's lying is that he often fabricates stories after the death of his clients. For example, after the death of the great physicist Fermi, Yang Zhenning claimed to be Fermi's student and claimed that his statistical mechanics was better than Fermi's (this was in retaliation for Fermi not accepting Yang Zhenning as a doctoral student). Not only that, but also claimed that the research on Dr. Fermi was inspired by Yang. For example, after the death of Wu Dayou, an ordinary teacher in Liyang, Yang Zhenning took out a letter written by Yang Zhenning to Wu Dayou and fabricated many stories to scold Li Zhengdao. For another example, after Yang Zhenning's father died, he denied what Yang Zhenning's father had said in front of Li Zhengdao: "Zhenning is wrong, Zhenning is sorry for you", but Yang Zhenning did not expect that another president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences did not die. The director came out to prove the speech. Because Yang Zhenning's lies became a habit, a big lie was born in front of all the people in China: "China people are about to win the Nobel Prize in Mathematics", but there is no prize for mathematics in the Nobel Prize.

An objective evaluation of Yang Zhenning's unhealthy tendencies by American academic circles

The fact that Yang Zhenning is most afraid of-American scientists are indignant and announce the facts to the world.

Li Zhengdao began to have a breakthrough idea of parity non-conservation in April of 1956, and completed the analysis of parity non-conservation of strange particles in April. And find his alumnus Wu Jianxiong, Zhejiang University, and ask her to carry out experimental verification. Wu Jianxiong set about the new experiment at once. At the same time, another American professor and Li Zhengdao also conducted an experiment on parity non-conservation of singular particles, and made an appointment to publish relevant papers at the same time.

1956 In May, after Li Zhengdao told Yang Zhenning about this new theoretical breakthrough on the phone, Yang Zhenning came to Columbia University. At first, Yang Zhenning did not support Li Zhengdao's discovery, but after listening to Li Zhengdao's explanation, he was persuaded by Li Zhengdao. But tell Li that your paper will be published slowly and we will write more. Li Zhengdao didn't know Yang Zhenning's trick and agreed to cooperate. Their cooperative research on parity non-conservation (in fact, without Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao also completed the theoretical analysis of parity non-conservation. Yang Zhenning took advantage of Li Zhengdao's kindness.

1June 6, 938 to1June 9, 956, during the summer vacation of Columbia University, Professor Li Zhengdao and his wife and their two sons were invited by Brookhaven Laboratory in the United States to be visiting scholars at Columbia University for two months. The Brookhaven Laboratory in the United States was established during the period of 1947 through the cooperation of several universities and the United States government. It is the kind of laboratory that is purely engaged in basic scientific research. Because the laboratory holds a very active summer seminar every year, it provides an opportunity for physicists from different places to meet and discuss problems. There are many physicists here in the summer vacation of 1956. Theoretical physicists Fei Enman, Lederman and Swartz all work here.

According to Academician Ye of China Advanced Science and Technology Center, there is a "pad" (a paper pad for drafting) on the desk provided by Brookhaven Laboratory for scientists to write at will. If you have any inspiration or ideas, you will record them and demonstrate them when discussing with your peers. This kind of draft is available every day. Li Zhengdao is like this. At the end of his work every day, he will tear them off and throw them into the wastebasket.

The most interesting thing is that there is a professor Church next to Li Zhengdao's office. He is very concerned about Li Zhengdao's research work. Every night, he collects Li Zhengdao's scrawled draft paper from the wastebasket and keeps it. The following year, after the news that Li Zhengdao won the Nobel Prize in Physics came, Professor Qiu presented Li Zhengdao's scribbled manuscript in 1956 to american physical society. 1957 65438+In February, Physics Today magazine published one of the handwritten papers as the cover.

A closer look at this manuscript will reveal more meaningful contents. Before completing the Nobel Prize-winning paper "Query on Parity Conservation in Weak Interaction", the amount of experimental data is still too small. Although Li Zhengdao is convinced that the theoretical analysis is correct, physics is ultimately determined by experiments. 1At the beginning of May, 956, Li Zhengdao suggested Wu Jianxiong, an alumnus and department friend of Zhejiang University, to carry out relevant experiments. Wu Jianxiong accepted the proposal and began to prepare.

While waiting for the experimental results, Li Zhengdao is actively thinking about the non-conservation of parity P, C and T, and is also doing new research in statistical mechanics. In the published manuscript, we can see the formulas and symbols he wrote casually when thinking about statistical mechanics. As Bernstein's article in the United States said, "On this page, Li is neatly filled with symbols and formulas, and occasionally he can see ink. What is interesting is its content. About half of the formulas are related to statistical mechanics, and the other half are related to weak interaction and parity non-conservation. For theoretical physicists, experimental physicists can only wait for improvisation when making measurements, and Li is waiting for improvisation. "

This incident clearly shows that the discovery of parity non-conservation has nothing to do with Yang Zhenning. Wu Jianxiong's experiment confirmed that parity was not conserved. Only Li Zhengdao attended the press conference, but Yang Zhenning did not. However, before the Nobel Prize ceremony, Yang Zhenning wanted to be the first to receive the prize on the grounds that he was four years older than Li Zhengdao, in an attempt to create the image that he was the protagonist. Professor Qiu, who is next to Brookhaven Laboratory and Li Zhengdao's office, fully understands the process of Li Zhengdao's discovery of parity non-conservation and is very disgusted with Yang Zhenning's actions. When Professor Church discovered that parity was not conserved in American physics, he was eager to send the manuscript written by Li Zhengdao and announce this fact to the whole world. American physical society immediately published a handwritten paper by Li Zhengdao as the cover in the February issue of Physics Today. 1957. In the past 50 years, Yang Zhenning was most afraid of the aggressive attitude of foreign professors and american physical society's attitude in the first place.

Another reason why Yang Zhenning attacked in 1962 was that he tried to suppress the development of Li Zhengdao and became an academician of the American Academy of Sciences before Li Zhengdao, but Yang Zhenning failed. American academic circles are very clear. After that, Li Zhengdao 1963 was promoted to be a lecturer at Columbia University, while Yang Zhenning 1966 became a lecturer at the newly established new york University Xishi Branch (the school is worse than Columbia). In 1997, asteroid 3443 was named Li Zhengdao Star, but Yang Zhenning didn't.

Li Zhengdao 1957 won the Einstein Science Prize, but Yang Zhenning didn't. Li Zhengdao was elected as an academician of American College of Arts and Sciences with 1959, while Yang Zhenning was not. Li Zhengdao was elected as an academician of the American Academy of Sciences earlier than Yang Zhenning. Li Zhengdao was elected in 1964 and Yang Zhenning was elected in 1965. This is one of the most convincing things, and it is also the basic fact that Yang Zhenning deliberately hides. So, he didn't dare to write down the time when he was an academician of the American Academy of Sciences on Tsinghua University's resume. These are the facts that the American scientific community has a low evaluation of Yang Zhenning and a high evaluation of Li Zhengdao. Yang Zhenning's vanity and deliberate falsification will ruin Yang Zhenning himself.

Fifty years later.

From June 5438 to early February 2007, the excitement of many domestic media was concentrated in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The 2007 Nobel Prize awarding ceremony is being held there. Both CCTV and Shanghai Oriental TV broadcast this grand occasion. More than 2000 people from the main members of the Swedish royal family, the government and people from all walks of life attended the award ceremony. On the face of a strange winner, people saw the familiar Mr. Li Zhengdao sitting in the guest seat.

It was also here 1957 that Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning accepted the Nobel Prize in physics and became one of the first China people to win the Nobel Prize. At that time, Li Zhengdao was only 3 1 year old. Many winners were already his age when they won the prize.

In 2007, Li Zhengdao was invited to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his award. Without Yang Zhenning at the meeting, all the facts speak for themselves.