Li Zhengdao Yang Zhenning revealed the truth.

The truth of the break between Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning is the name sorting dispute.

165438+ 10, Li Zhengdao will go to Stockholm to receive the prize. They all write speeches and speeches. At that time, in the notice of the Nobel Prize Committee and all media reports, the order of the two names was the same as the signature of the winning paper, with Li Zhengdao in the front and Yang Zhenning in the back.

"I didn't expect this," the book says. When they arrived in Stockholm, Yang Zhenning suddenly suggested that according to the age order, he hoped to win the prize before Li Zhengdao, and his wife Du Zhili hoped that the king would be accompanied at the dinner party, that is, when entering the dinner party, she had to go ahead, and Yang Zhenning came second, accompanied by the queen.

Li Zhengdao was surprised by this and did not agree to do so. However, I went to ask my wife Qin. Qin told that it was shameful for foreigners to joke about it. So Li reluctantly agreed.

This is an episode. Although Li Zhengdao was unhappy, he was soon diluted by the glory of the Nobel Prize. However, 1962 broke up with an article published in the American New Yorker on May 2. Bernstein wrote Parity Sidenotes, describing the story of Li Yang's cooperation in finding parity non-conservation. At that time, Li Zhengdao had returned to Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. In April, he received the proof of Bernstein's article, and did not make any changes.

Yang Zhenning suggested that in some places in the article, he wanted his name to be written before, and his wife's name should also be put before Qin, because she was one year older than him. The next day, I went home and asked, "Did Li and Yang write?" Add a note in all places, indicating that it is out of the habit of alphabetical sorting. Li Zhengdao is tired of Yang Zhenning's demands.

That evening, Yang called again and said that those notes could be omitted, but the article should be written as "Yang and Li". Li Zhengdao was disappointed and had to advise them not to cooperate in the future. According to this book, Yang Zhenning immediately became very excited and began to cry, saying that he was very willing to continue cooperation. But Li Zhengdao felt helpless. Finally, everyone agreed to suspend cooperation.

A brief introduction to the background of Li Zhengdao's break with Yang Zhenning.

Ji Cheng said frankly, "When I write about their grievances, I write history with an objective attitude, narrate the facts, be impartial and draw no conclusions." Both Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao deeply regret this disagreement, but they disagree. Although Yang Zhenning thinks that the permanent breakdown of friendship with Li Zhengdao is a lifelong regret, he is the first person to disclose the "truth".

Yang Zhenning also quoted Su Dongpo and his younger brother's poem "Be brothers for generations, but for no reason" to express his admiration for Su Shi's brotherhood. He said, "It's a pity that Li Zhengdao and I couldn't do this."

In July 2003, Li Zhengdao publicly published a letter, "The split between Yang Zhenning and me is undoubtedly a great tragedy of the Chinese nation, but it is a fact and cannot be avoided." At the same time, I told the truth publicly. "The main focus of my argument with Yang Zhenning is: in our paper published jointly in 1956, who was the first to put forward the ideological breakthrough on parity non-conservation and won the Nobel Prize in 1957."