What do you think of Yang Zhenning giving up his foreign nationality and becoming an academician of China Academy of Sciences?

Symbolically significant. I noticed this sentence when I read the press release today: Because it is the first time in the history of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that a foreign academician has proposed to be an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, there is no precedent and no procedure to follow. China Academy of Sciences has specially formulated the Interim Measures for Foreign Academicians of China Academy of Sciences to be Academicians of China Academy of Sciences. According to the newly formulated procedures and rules, Academician Yang Zhenning joined the Department of Mathematical Physics of China Academy of Sciences and Academician Yao Qizhi joined the Department of Information Technology Science of China Academy of Sciences.

At present, there are 754 academicians of China Academy of Sciences and 78 foreign academicians. From this passage, we can see the level of this meaning. With the establishment of New China, China Academy of Sciences is the highest academic institution of natural science in China, the highest scientific and technological consulting institution, and the comprehensive research and development center of natural science and high technology in China. A number of outstanding leaders such as Qian Xuesen, Li Siguang, Deng Jiaxian, Hua, Wang Xuan and Zhu Kezhen were born. However, the transfer result of foreign academicians is zero.

Now these two top people, one is a master of physics and the other is a master of computer science. They gave up their status as foreign academicians and returned to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has to be said to be a pioneering work. I don't know Yao well, but a man who can win the Turing Award is not bad at all. As for Yang, there are many discussions in Zhihu, but in today's physical circle, it is a mountain that cannot be left. The ancients said that 1000 yuan would buy horse bones, but now they have bought two live swift horses (although they have white hair, they are still doing things). Who else can come back? Li zhengdao? Gao Kun? Cui qi? Steven Chu? As for the reason why they chose, I think it is the second one. Take it to heart? Who knows? Duke Zhou was afraid of gossip, and Wang Mang was humble to usurp it! So this thing: no trace!

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