The rapid development of the information age has made science an important leading factor in national competition. However, it is not that easy to find or create a strange object from nature. Sometimes, a piece of research and results take several eras and the joint efforts of several generations of scientists to become available.
Therefore, it is not easy to be a scientist. Not only do they have to absorb a large amount of knowledge and develop extraordinary logical abilities, but they also have to face repeated failures alone on the road to success. Moreover, the most important thing for scientific people is to have a lonely and strong heart, so that they will not be exhausted by boring experiments.
As the highest pursuit of Chinese scientists, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the ultimate dream of countless scientific people. However, Chinese female scientist Li Aizhen failed to apply for academician status of the Chinese Academy of Sciences four times, but was finally admitted to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. Is there any misunderstanding in this?
In 1936, Li Aizhen was born in Gangbian Village, Yongning Town, Shishi City, Fujian Province. She has achieved excellent results since she was a child, and she always carries with her the spirit of a scientific person who refuses to admit defeat, striving to do her best in everything. While her peers were still confused about what to do in the future, she already had a clear goal. In July 1954, Li Aizhen was admitted to the Chemistry Department of Fudan University in Shanghai. In order to master more knowledge, she is either in the laboratory, library or teacher's office every day. Four years later, she entered the Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy as an outstanding graduate and officially started the research and development of semiconductor materials. Through unremitting efforts, she has pushed China's semiconductor materials research results to a higher platform.
In August 1980, Li Aizhen was sent by the government to study in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Here, Li Aizhen felt for the first time the huge gap between the Chinese scientific community and the American scientific community. In order to learn more knowledge and narrow the gap between the Chinese and American scientific communities. Li Aizhen is no longer the scientist who has made great contributions to the Chinese scientific community. She has become a student again, asking questions to American scholars modestly and politely, taking notes, and sometimes having one or two academic exchanges. While she was concentrating on learning technology in the United States, many voices in the society said: After Li Aizhen was trained by China, she went to play in the United States and she will not come back. Li Aizhen did not give any explanation for this, but returned to China directly after the two-year study period to break this rumor.
After returning to China, she used the skills she learned to make outstanding contributions to China's scientific cause. Academically, she published 256 scientific research papers during her more than 60 years of scientific research career. She promoted China's semiconductor material research to the international platform, applied for 21 national scientific research and invention patents, and won a silver medal in the International Invention Award. As the saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. After returning from the United States, Li Aizhen successively established the Molecular Beam Epitaxy Semiconductor Microstructure Materials and Devices Laboratory, the Solid-State Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy Laboratory, and the Gaseous Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy Laboratory of the Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy. It provides a higher experimental platform for Chinese scientific research. In addition, Li Aizhen also trained a large number of outstanding scientific talents for our country.