When did Yang Zhenning become a Chinese citizen?

The news that Yang Zhenning and Yao Qizhi gave up their foreign nationality and became academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences triggered heated discussions among netizens. This is the first time in the history of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that the two scientists have returned to China. The patriotism of the two scientists is self-evident. However, many people completely misunderstood the significance of this major news, and Yang was criticized overwhelmingly...

But the fact is this; in March 1978, Yang Zhenning and others Under the initiative of , the University of Science and Technology of China established the first junior class.

In 1980, Yang Zhenning initiated the establishment of the "Academic Exchange Committee with China" at the State University of New York at Stony Brook to fund Chinese scholars to study at the school.

On December 28, 1983, Yang Zhenning suggested to Deng: "Foreign countries believe that it is more advantageous to engage in software between the ages of 15 and 18." As a result, the computer software major was established in the junior class of HKUST.

The "Elida Youth Invention Award" initiated by Yang Zhenning from 1984 to 1986. The "Wu Jianxiong Physics Award" and the "Chen Province and County Mathematics Award" were established successively.

In 1997, at the suggestion of Chen Ning Yang, Tsinghua University decided to establish the Center for Advanced Research at Tsinghua University based on the experience of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Yang Zhenning donated all his salary at Tsinghua University to introduce talents and train students.

At the age of 90, Chen Ning Yang is still teaching undergraduates at the age of 90.

Shortly after the thaw in Sino-US relations, Yang Zhenning immediately decided to return to China to take a look. The physics volume of "Encyclopedia of China" records: "Yang Zhenning was the first well-known American scholar to visit New China."

The FBI has approached Yang many times for this reason, but he has rejected him every time. go back. Yang gave speeches everywhere in the United States, introducing the situation of New China. Under his influence, many Americans began to be willing to get closer to China; some Chinese-American scholars returned to visit China one after another.

During the vigorous Chinese "Diaoyu Islands" movement in the 1970s, Yang Zhenning told the U.S. Senate hearing the fact that the Diaoyu Islands are Chinese territory. The speech he delivered among the Diaoyu Islands students had a huge impact on Taiwanese students studying in the United States at that time, and he was therefore known as the spiritual mentor of the Diaoyu Islands movement.

Yao Qizhi resigned from his tenured teaching position at Princeton University at the age of 58, only 4 years after winning the Turing Award - the most golden and mature age for a scientist. , sold his house in Princeton. One person, one ticket, return to the motherland.

His return to China full-time filled the gap in domestic computer science: this was not only because of his undisputed academic status, but also because in the fields of algorithms and complexity he was engaged in, there was almost no research available at that time. Figures of domestic scholars in China. This field is not only the mainstream direction of theoretical computer science in the United States, but also the field with the largest number of winners of the highest award in the computer industry - the "Turing Award".

As a result, Tsinghua’s computer science discipline has for the first time gathered outstanding scholars in the four major fields of theory, application, system structure and software, which is also rare in the world.

Today, almost all theoretical computer scientists around the world know about the Tsinghua University Theoretical Computer Science Research Center, and no scientist denies that this is a world-leading computer science research center.

In 2010, he launched the "China Computer Science 2020 Plan" - spending 10 years to build a relatively independent, medium-sized computer discipline that is close to the mechanisms of world-class universities, and in 2020 It can compete with the top 10 computer science disciplines in the world every year.

In 2011, the "Full Quantum Network" 973 major scientific issue-oriented project of which he served as chief scientist was launched. The project will create a new prototype of a full quantum network within 5 years and complete the world's first full quantum network.