Ma Shijun’s Ma Shijun-Introduction

Cambridge University

Ma Shijun, a native of Huili County, Sichuan Province, was born in Beijing in 1913. In 1931, he studied in the Department of Physics of Peking University. In 1934, Peking University awarded the Yang Lianfu Memorial Scholarship to three students with outstanding academic performance, each with a scholarship of 120 yuan. Ma Shijun was among them because of his outstanding academic performance. Graduated in 1935 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

After graduation, Ma Shijun was admitted as a graduate student by the Physics Department of the Institute of Science of Peking University with excellent results. He studied and researched under the guidance of Professor Wu Dayou. In 1936, he published his earliest work on the double excited state of helium atoms. Calculation of variational wave functions and two academic papers on the observation of double excited state spectral lines of helium atoms. In January 1937, Ma Shijun received a graduate student scholarship from Peking University. Due to his excellent performance, he received the maximum amount of 500 yuan per academic year.

In 1937, Ma Shijun passed the public-funded study abroad program in the UK with excellent results. He entered Cambridge University and became a student of the famous theoretical physicist W. Heitler. He studied meson theory and received his doctorate in 1941. . It was during the Second World War, and Ma Shijun returned to China and was employed by Peking University. From 1941 to 1946, he served as a professor at Southwest Associated University in Kunming, the rear area of ??the Anti-Japanese War, and engaged in teaching and research under extremely difficult and difficult conditions.

After the end of World War II, Ma Shijun engaged in research work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the United States, from 1946 to 1947, and from 1947 to 1949, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Dublin, Ireland. From 1951 to 1951, he engaged in research work at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Chicago, USA, and from 1951 to 1953, he engaged in research work at the National Research Institute in Ottawa, Canada. In 1953, many units in the United States invited him to work. Unwilling to face the hostile and sometimes insulting attitude adopted by the US Immigration Service towards Orientals, he declined the invitations from these units. Later, he accepted an invitation from the University of Sydney, Australia, to engage in research and teaching in the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Sydney, Australia.