1995 was elected as an academician of China Academy of Engineering.
The story of Yuan Longping.
Juvenile Yuan Longping
Yuan Longping's childhood was in an era of rapid social turmoil, and his suffering was accompanied by his growth.
Yuan Longping's footprint in De 'an, Jiangxi. Grandfather Yuan Shengjian served as secretary-general of Guangdong Qiongya Chief Executive and county magistrate of Wenchang County during the Republic of China led by Sun Yat-sen, and his father Yuan Xinglie served as principal and superintendent of county high school, and then studied in the Chinese Department of Nanjing Southeast University. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he took an active part in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement. He used to be the head of overseas Chinese affairs of Nanjing government.
On September 1930, Yuan Longping was born in Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Ranked second among the five brothers, so it was named Ermao. Because it belongs to a horse, everyone also calls it a pony.
The foal in childhood has many naughty stories. In the eyes of the family, this pony is not pleasing to the eye and sometimes looks clumsy. Let him take the bowl, the bowl is broken; Ask him to take the cup, which fell to the ground; The robe you are wearing is either torn or burned with a hole. However, he loves to use his brain and always wants to experience new things. As a result, he caused a lot of trouble.
Yuan Longping's childhood was in the 1930s when the Japanese invaders trampled on China. He traveled around with his parents and has been to Beijing, Chongqing, Nanjing and Wuhan. In the process of escape, he experienced hardships, saw people and their families, witnessed bodies scattered in the streets, and countless tragic scenes shocked his young heart. The cruel reality of suffering and broken mountains and rivers made him more or less understand the causes of suffering in old China. Inspired his ambition to study hard and serve the motherland.
Yuan Longping, a teenager, has always been good at school, with lofty interests and wide hobbies, and likes to ask questions. In math class, the teacher said: positive number times positive number, negative number times positive number. Yuan Longping felt suspicious. So he asked the teacher: Teacher, why does a negative number multiplied by a negative number have to be a positive number? At the National Science and Technology Awards Conference 50 years later, when talking with another mathematician, Wu Wenjun, Yuan Longping said: Mathematics is the mother of science. When I was in junior high school, I asked my teacher why negative numbers are positive numbers, but I still can't figure it out.
1943, Yuan Longping transferred to Boxue Middle School. I studied and lived there for four years. During this period, my life was quite difficult. I ate miscellaneous grains rice and lit tung oil lamp. I can only play "Rich Food" once a week or two. However, the research is still intense and regular. Getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning and having to wash in the playground after 10 minutes has undoubtedly developed his neat and punctual style.
Boxue Middle School has always emphasized English education. Fortunately, Yuan Longping received a good family education in his childhood. His father taught him Chinese and his mother enlightened him in English. Made him interested in English. As Yuan Longping himself said: "The reason why I can communicate in English in various international activities now is mainly because my alma mater has laid a good foundation for me."
In the book, as a teenager, Yuan Longping read Einstein's story and came into contact with his theory. "When I knew the name Einstein, I admired him very much. I admired his extraordinary way of thinking and his courage to make bold innovations." Einstein's innovative spirit had a great influence on Yuan Longping's later hybrid rice research.
Yuan Longping has excellent academic performance and is an active member among his classmates. He likes all kinds of sports and learned tap dancing, which has been preserved until now. But his favorite is swimming. Yuan Longping learned his swimming skills in his childhood.
Yes 1937, fled from Hankou to Taoyuan County, Hunan Province with her parents. When crossing the Yuanjiang River by boat, I accidentally fell into the turbulent river. Fortunately, a boatman saved me in time, and I only got my life back. At the age of seven, he was determined to learn to "paddle" like a boatman and save people in the water. From then on, I practiced swimming hard and dared to swim across the Yangtze River before I was ten years old, which surprised my classmates and teachers.
1947 A swimming competition was held in Hubei Province, but Yuan Longping was not selected because of his small size. Not convinced, he entered the stadium on the day of the game and sat behind his classmate's bike. The PE teacher found him very enthusiastic and reluctantly agreed to let him have a try. Results I unexpectedly won the first place in the men's 100 meter and 400 meter freestyle in Hankou Division. None of the other students were selected. Soon, he won two silver medals in men's freestyle in Hubei Province.
"If you hit the water in the middle stream, the waves will stop the flying boat." Yuan Longping likes Chairman Mao's poem very much. Whether in Hunan Huinong School, experimental field in Hainan or research institute. He will swim across the Yuan River, fight the waves, or show his skill in the swimming pool. This not only exercised his body, but also shaped his indomitable and fearless character.
From 65438 to 0948, Yuan Longping moved to Nanjing with his family and attended the middle school affiliated to Nanjing Central University. After graduating from high school, he was faced with the choice of going to college. His father advised him to apply for a prestigious university in Nanjing and get ahead in the future. Yuan Longping has other plans. The turbulent childhood formed his strong patriotism and love for the people. He loves nature and is determined to study agriculture and serve the country. Stubborn Yuan Longping finally persuaded his family to be admitted to Chongqing Xianghui Agricultural College (the predecessor of Southwest Agricultural College) on 1949.
During her college years, Yuan Longping majored in genetics and breeding. This choice determines Yuan Longping's life trajectory; This choice made his life rich and legendary, and a world-famous scientist appeared in China.
Yuan Longping in my eyes
■ New Ye Zhen
One day four years ago, I walked into his office in fear, and my awe was self-evident: Yuan Longping, this is a world-famous scientist! Who knows, just a few words with Yuan Ning, my mood is much easier. He is kind and easy-going and does not put on airs, encouraging me to work hard. As I get to know him better, I think he is so charming and touching. I think he is a very strange person.
He is a legend. I grew up in a good family. Although I am in the era of war, I have been studying and receiving education, and have been to Beijing, Chongqing, Wuhan and Nanjing. His mother enlightened his English and went to a missionary school, so he can speak fluent and authentic English. Growing up in a big city, I chose to study agriculture and devote myself to it. 1964, he opened the first page of China's research on hybrid rice. During the Cultural Revolution, he was almost classified as a "ghost", but he was magically spared from criticism because of an official letter from the State Science and Technology Commission. ...
He is a selfless man. In the 1970s, he distributed the "wild barnyard grass" materials discovered by his research team to 18 research units all over the country without reservation, thus speeding up the pace of cooperative research and quickly realizing the three-line matching. He donated all the bonuses of more than 100 thousand yuan awarded by UNESCO, set up an award fund and awarded it to the scientific and technological workers who made contributions; He also used the consulting fee obtained from the annual cooperation with Rice Science and Technology Company of the United States as the director fund, and donated nearly 1 10,000 yuan to support researchers, especially young people with potential, to carry out project research; Many international institutions and organizations offered him a well-paid job abroad, but he declined politely. He said that fame and wealth are a burden.
He is a man full of inspiration and insight. He believes that inspiration plays an almost equally important role in scientific research and artistic creation. Inspiration is the sublimation product of knowledge, experience, pursuit and thinking ... so don't let go of the spark of thought in the process of scientific research. He is good at creative thinking and grasps the opportunities brought by inspiration. His research on hybrid rice was inspired. 196 1 year, he found that the rice plants that stood out in that year were disappointing after planting the seeds collected in the next year, but he realized "natural hybrid rice" from it, thinking that hybrid rice can also be cultivated artificially since nature exists, so he chose the research topic of hybrid rice. He once again used inspiration to lead hybrid rice breeding into the forefront of ultra-high yield research. Yes 1997. He went to Jiangsu to inspect the two-line hybrid rice. When observing the inter-subspecies hybrid rice, he suddenly had a brainwave, and the dream super-high yield hybrid rice morphological model came out! Therefore, he carefully designed a morphological model characterized by high canopy, short panicle layer and high lodging resistance, and formulated a technical route for cultivating super hybrid rice by organically combining excellent plant leaf shape with strong interspecific heterosis. This original theory has played a very important guiding role in the research work and made great progress. 199 was demonstrated in Jiangsu and Hunan in 1999, including1400 mu and 1 1000 mu. The average yield per mu exceeds the yield index of super rice in China set by the Ministry of Agriculture (700kg per mu for mid-season rice). In Yongsheng, Yunnan, it also set a record of 1 138 kg per mu. He predicted that super hybrid rice could be successfully studied within 1-2 years.
And gradually put it into production and application, making new contributions to further greatly improve China's rice yield.
He is an optimistic, cheerful, agile and active person. Anyone who has contacted him knows that he doesn't feel like a pedant. He is humorous and has vivid language. At the international conference held by the Philippine International Rice Research Institute in April this year, he used the idiom "adding wings to a tiger" to describe China's super hybrid rice. Later, foreign experts toasted him with great interest. He is not only knowledgeable, but also full of stories and jokes. Once he tells all his experiences and stories, they are always vivid and lifelike, so young people love to play jokes on him and he will always have a young heart. He likes music. When he hears a good song, he sings along. When he is happy, he will play a song on the violin. He likes reading books, visiting bookstores and buying English best.
Novels, he is also interested in astronomy and geography; He also loves motorcycles, and has bought ten motorcycles from August to September, which is euphemistically called: expanding domestic demand and stimulating consumption; Swimming is his strong suit. His speed and time in the water are unmatched by many young people. Sometimes he plays chess and mahjong to relax; He also performed tap dancing at the party held by the company. ...
Yuan Longping is a great scientist. In my mind, he is amiable and respectable.
Biography of Yuan Longping
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