Why don't Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao get along? What's the contradiction between them?

1957, Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao won the Nobel Prize through joint efforts. At one time, they were all top physicists in the world and were envied by their peers? Gold partner? . Moreover, in the history of the Nobel Prize, this is the first time that a China person has won the prize, which is a great initiative.

People thought that the two of them would go forward hand in hand and create more miracles together in the following years, but unexpected things happened and their former bosom friends broke up. Even after winning the prize for more than 20 years, with the help of the media, the struggle between them was infinitely magnified and evolved into a tragedy of an era.

Dale and his wife took a photo of them winning top international awards together. What unknown story happened between them, which turned their once tacit partners against each other?

Li Yang first met Yang Zhenning in the 1940s. Yang Zhenning is older than Li Zhengdao. When Li Zhengdao went to study in the United States on 1946, he met Yang Zhenning, a teaching assistant in Chicago. They are all alumni of The National SouthWest Associated University, and gradually developed into close friends in their ordinary contacts.

Dale and his wife took a group photo at 1950. Li Zhengdao planned to work in California after finishing his studies, but California was arrogant towards China at that time, so Yang Zhenning invited his friends and his wife to work in his research institute. Since then, Li Yang and his wife have become neighbors, and the relationship is closer than before, and cooperation has officially begun.

However, in these days of cooperation, despite outstanding achievements, disputes between them are gradually occurring. After Li Yang finished two papers together, according to the practice at that time, the signatures of the authors of the papers were arranged in alphabetical order according to the surnames at that time, so Li Zhengdao's name naturally came before Yang Zhenning.

When the first paper was published, Yang Zhenyu made a suggestion to his friends, hoping that his name would come before Li Zhengdao on the grounds that he was older than Li Zhengdao. Only for this surprising request, Li Zhengdao did not refuse.

When Yang Zhenning tried to do this for the second time, Li Zhengdao persuaded his friends to sign the agreement in accordance with international practice. It is because of the signature event of these two papers that there is a gap between them, and even there is no cooperation for the remaining year and a half.

Yang and Li didn't win the prize until 1953. Li Zhengdao questioned a paper published by Yang Zhenning at that time, and the two began to cooperate again. The following cooperation also brought their academic career to the peak, because in the month of 1957, they all won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

165438+ 10, they are preparing for the upcoming award ceremony. At that time, media reporters usually put Li Zhengdao's name first. Who knows that when the two of them arrived at the awards ceremony, Yang Zhenning once again expressed the hope that she would add friends after winning the prize, and Yang Zhenning's then wife, Du Zhili, would also be at the forefront of the awards dinner that day.

Yang Zhenning was surprised and dissatisfied with his friend's unreasonable demands in his later years. Who knows that instead of continuing to ask his friend, he turned to ask his friend's wife Qin. Li Zhengdao's wife, afraid of making a joke at the party, lost the face of China people and persuaded her husband to agree to it.

Because of the great honor at that time, Li Zhengdao, immersed in joy, did not take this matter to heart. Until1May, 962, when they published another paper, Yang Zhenning put forward the first two requirements. He could no longer bear the unreasonable demands of his friends, so in June this year, he submitted his resignation to the teacher.

From then on, Li Zhengdao and his wife began a decades-long dispute about Li Yang, which was not only a feud between them, because when they were asked to visit China, they held different views on the scientific development of China. As long as Li Zhengdao agrees, Yang Zhenning will undoubtedly raise objections. Every time I disagreed, I was impulsive, but people at that time didn't know the inside story of this matter. They always think that Yang Zhenning is more famous than Li Zhengdao, which makes the scientist unhappy.