Historical figures who became famous after suffering disasters

1. Chen Jingrun

When I was a child, a professor gave me a pearl.

More than 20 years ago, a reportage "Goldbach's Conjecture" shocked the whole of China. ” made a mathematical wizard famous overnight and became a household name. To a certain extent, this man's deeds even promoted the early arrival of a great era of respect for science, respect for knowledge and respect for talents.

His name is Chen Jingrun.

Not good at talking, he was once an "ugly duckling"

Usually, a person who is born deaf will have particularly sharp eyesight, a person who is born blind will have very sharp hearing, and a person who has not been exposed to people since childhood Pay attention to the unpopular "ugly duckling" characters, who often cannot help themselves or have no choice but to meditate, explore things, learn from things, and seek a suitable position for themselves in the universe and develop. own potential.

You can say that this was forced, but such "forcing" often results in many great people being "forced". For example, Chen Jingrun in his childhood.

Chen Jingrun was born in a family of a postal clerk in 1933. He had just turned 4 years old when the Anti-Japanese War began. Soon, the smoke of the Japanese invaders reached his hometown of Fujian. The whole family fled into the mountains in a hurry, and the children enrolled in mountain schools. The father was too busy running around to make a living and had no time to care about the education of his children; the mother was an old-style housewife who worked hard all her life and had 12 children, but only 6 survived in the end. Chen Jingrun is the third eldest, with older brothers and younger siblings. According to the old Chinese saying, "the little girl in the middle has a flat head." In addition, because he is thin and weak, it is easy to imagine that he is not favored by his parents and treated well by his siblings.

At school, his situation was not much better as he was taciturn and unarticulate. Unpopular, bullied, and often beaten and scolded for no reason. But he was stubborn by nature and never asked for mercy in order to improve his situation. Unknowingly, he developed a self-enclosed and introverted character.

People always need to communicate, especially children. A child with average talent might turn into a dull person with perverse behavior when faced with this dilemma, but Chen Jingrun did not. His natural enthusiasm for numbers and symbols made him forget the difficulties and worries of life, and he devoted himself to the pagoda of knowledge. He wanted to seek breakthroughs and go there to find the happiness of life.

The so-called teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is to create a space for each student to fully develop according to his or her own characteristics through certain educational and teaching methods and means.

Little Chen Jingrun teaches himself in accordance with his aptitude.

It is a great blessing in life that a primary school student meets a great professor

But he is still a child after all. In addition to immersing himself in books, he also needs face-to-face, hand-by-hand guidance. After all, what can bring the greatest, most direct and vivid inspiration and joy to children is the kind of communication and contact between people, which can make brilliant sparks burst out of people's souls.

Fortunately, when his family returned to Fuzhou later, Chen Jingrun met Shen Yuan, a famous teacher who he said had benefited a lot from him throughout his life.

2. Bill Gates

Born into a family of lawyers and teachers, the adults in this family paid great attention to the intellectual development and training of little Gates.

When Gates was three or four years old, his mother always took Gates with her when she went out. When he explained the history of Seattle and the museum to students in school, Gates always sat in the room. At the front of the class, although Gates is an active child, he is more focused and serious than other students in the classroom.

Gates has loved reading since he was a child. Although he is a child, he likes to read adult books. In his own home, he can browse through his parents' book collection at will.

When he was 7 years old, his favorite book was the "World Book Encyclopedia". He often read this encyclopedia for hours, word by word, from beginning to end. Little Gates' parents also encouraged and provided him with various opportunities as much as possible. When he grew up, his parents encouraged him to participate in Boy Scout camping activities. Little Gates got the satisfaction of friendship from getting along with other children.

From the day Gates entered the small computer room at Lakeside Middle School, computers had an irresistible fascination for him. At the age of 15, he wrote extremely complex payroll programs for an information company.

In the spring of 1973, he was accepted as a student at Harvard University. He was even more unstoppable and often worked all night in the computer room.

On several occasions, Gates told his parents that he wanted to drop out of Harvard and join others in the computer industry. But his parents strongly opposed their son starting a company, especially before graduation. The parents also invited Storm, a well-known and respected self-made entrepreneur, to persuade Gates to give up the idea of ??starting a company. Instead of trying to dissuade him, Storm listened to the teenager's speech and encouraged him to do a good job.

In 1977, Gates officially dropped out of school. He is not tired of Harvard, but he hopes to have a bright future. After entering the 1980s, IBM began to seek partners. After talking to Gates for 5 minutes, the people at IBM thought this was one of the best people they had ever dealt with. Since then, Gates has written more eye-catching and interesting stories for himself.

3. Hawking’s story

Scientist Hawking’s learning ability did not seem to be strong when he was a child. He learned to read late in life, and his grades in the class have never been among the top 10 since he started school. Moreover, because his homework was always "very untidy," the teachers thought he was "hopeless" and his classmates also regarded him as a child. The object of ridicule. When Hawking was 12 years old, two boys in his class bet with a bag of candy that he would never be successful. His classmates ironically nicknamed him "Einstein." Unexpectedly, more than 20 years later, the little boy who was not outstanding at that time really became a master figure in the world of physics. What is the reason for this?

It turns out that as he grew older, little Hawking became interested in how everything works. He often took things apart to get to the bottom of things, but when he put them back together, he was at a loss. However, his parents did not punish him for this, and his father even served as a "coach" for him in mathematics and physics. When he was thirteen or fourteen years old, Hawking found that he was very interested in the study of physics. Although physics in middle school was too easy and too simple, and seemed particularly boring, he believed that this was the most basic science and was expected to solve the problem of where people come from. and the question of why here. From then on, Hawking began his real scientific exploration.

4. Cutting through walls to steal light

During the Han Dynasty, Kuang Heng was a very diligent and studious young man. Because his family was very poor, he had to do a lot of work during the day to earn money. Only at night could he sit down and read in peace. However, he couldn't afford candles, and he couldn't read when it got dark. Kuang Heng was heartbroken for this wasted time, and felt very painful inside. His neighbor's family was very wealthy, and candles were lit in several rooms at night to light up the house. One day, Kuang Heng plucked up the courage and said to his neighbor: "I want to study at night, but I can't afford a candle. Can I borrow an inch of your house?" The neighbor always looked down on people who were poorer than his family, so he made a vicious sarcastic comment. Said: "Since you are too poor to buy a candle, why should you read?" Kuang Heng was very angry after hearing this, but he was more determined to read well. Kuang Heng returned home and quietly cut a small hole in the wall. The neighbor's candlelight came through the hole. With this faint light, he began to read books eagerly, and gradually read all the books at home. After reading these books, Kuang Heng felt that the knowledge he had mastered was far from enough, and his desire to continue reading more books became more urgent. There is a wealthy family nearby with many books. One day, Kuang Heng packed up his clothes and appeared in front of a wealthy family. He said to the master: "Please take me in. I will work for your family for free. Just let me read all the books in your family." The master was moved by his spirit and agreed to his request to borrow books. . Kuang Heng studied diligently in this way. Later he became the prime minister of Emperor Yuan of Han Dynasty and became a famous scholar in the Western Han Dynasty.

4. Nobel’s story

(1833-1896)

Sometime in 1864, there was a boat on Lake Mara near Stockholm, Sweden. It has been parked there. The nearby residents are full of fear of the ship, and no one dares to approach it, because the explosives king Nobel is conducting experiments on making explosives on the ship.

Why do experiments on the ship? It turns out , Engaging in the research of explosives is a very dangerous job. When Nobel was experimenting with explosives in the laboratory, a big explosion occurred, killing 5 people on the spot, including Nobel's brother, and his father was also seriously injured. .After this disaster occurred, the surrounding residents were very panicked and strongly opposed Nobel's making explosives there. Nobel was not intimidated by the explosion. He moved the equipment to the nearby Mara Lake and continued his experiments on the boat.

Nobel is a Swede. He has been frail and sick since he was a child, but has a strong will and is not to be outdone. His father likes chemical experiments and often tells stories about scientists to Nobel, encouraging him to grow up and become a useful person. There are Once, when little Nobel saw his father developing explosives, he opened his round eyes and asked: "Dad, explosives can hurt people and are terrible things. Why do you want to make them?" Dad replied: "Explosives can mine mines and build roads. It is needed in many places." Nobel nodded in understanding and said, "Then I will also make explosives when I grow up."

In his youth, Nobel, as an engineer, visited European and American countries for inspections. For 4 years, I had an in-depth understanding of the industrial development situation in various countries. At that time, many countries urgently required the development of the mining industry and speed up the mining process, but explosives could not meet this need, which was a big problem that urgently needed to be solved. After Nobel learned about this situation , decided to improve the production of explosives and develop new explosives.

Before Nobel, many people had researched and manufactured explosives, such as Chinese black powder and nitroglycerin invented by the Italians. The explosion of nitroglycerin It is much more powerful than black powder, but it is difficult to control, easy to explode on its own, and not easy to explode according to human requirements. It is very dangerous to manufacture, store and transport. People do not know how to use it, so within a dozen years after its invention, During the years, people only used it to treat angina pectoris.

Nobel started with the manufacture and research of nitroglycerin. At first, he used black gunpowder to detonate nitroglycerin, and later invented a detonator to detonate nitroglycerin, and achieved the goal of making nitroglycerine detonated. An effective method to explode glycerol.

After the initial success, there was a huge setback when the laboratory exploded. Nobel had to move the laboratory to the ship. After several twists and turns, he worked in a laboratory called Winterwegen. He found a new factory site and built the world's first nitroglycerin factory there.

On the road to Nobel research, it was really difficult and troubled. The nitroglycerin he manufactured , explosions often occur: a train in the United States was blown into a pile of scrap metal; a factory in Germany was turned into ruins; a seagoing ship sank, killing people.

These tragic accidents, Countries around the world lost confidence in nitroglycerine, and some countries ordered a ban on the manufacture, storage and transportation of nitroglycerin. Under such difficult circumstances, Nobel did not lose heart and would never give up until the instability of nitroglycerin was solved. After After many repeated experiments, he finally invented a way to absorb three parts of nitroglycerin with one part of diatomaceous earth (a very small biological shell called diatom), and for the first time made a product that was easy to transport and use. A very safe industrial explosive. Nobel continued his efforts and took his invention one step further. He used guncotton and nitroglycerin to create a highly explosive gelatin - explosive glue; and then added a small amount of camphor to the nitroglycerin. and explosive glue, smokeless gunpowder was made.

After the invention of safety explosives, they were immediately widely used in mining, road construction, etc. The output of explosives increased significantly, and Nobel's financial resources also increased. But Nobel's life was still very frugal. In order to do research, he never even got married. One year before his death, Nobel left a will, using part of his inheritance to establish a scientific research institute, and the other part as a reward fund to award physics awards. , chemistry, biology and medicine, literature and peace (an economic prize was added in 1968) prizes are awarded to people around the world who have made outstanding contributions in the above fields. People regard winning the Nobel Prize as the ultimate achievement in science. A great honor.

Nobel was very thin when he was a child.

When he was ten years old, he went to Beidelburg, Russia with his mother, reunited with his father, and began to receive guidance from his tutor. When he was seventeen years old, he went to the United States to study. Two years later, he returned to China and joined his father's company to engage in research.

Nobel was influenced by his father and was very interested in studying explosives. Later, he made a lot of money by manufacturing explosives and developing oil fields. However, he was very sad to see the explosives he invented used in war, so he worked hard throughout his life to appeal to the world to use gunpowder for peace. Nobel used his huge fortune to establish a fund and issue bonuses every year to people in the world who have made outstanding contributions to physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, literature, and peace. Being able to win the Nobel Prize has always been considered a great honor!

It was foggy in the laboratory, and Nobel was working selflessly. His brother came to him and said: "Nobel , I am compiling the genealogy of our family. You are a world-famous person. How can I do it without your autobiography? "

"Brother, no need."

"What can we do?" Nobel's brother persuaded, "Brother, you are not writing your autobiography for yourself, but for our family! You can write it. Your autobiography is in our family's genealogy. It will add glory!"

Nobel still disagreed, so his brother repeatedly persuaded him, and finally even begged: "Brother, are you afraid of wasting your time? In that case, you can Tell me, let me record and sort it out."

"It's hard for me to obey," Nobel said in a humble but firm tone, "I can't write an autobiography, there are grains of sand in the Ganges in the whirlpool of the universe. There are so many planets, but we are so insignificant, what is there to write about? ”

That’s it! He thinks that everything he does is just a little thing that should be done for mankind. Why should he exchange his small contribution to mankind in exchange for honor. Therefore, he never agreed.

Nobel’s brother had no choice but to sigh and leave. Nobel immersed himself in experiments again.

Nobel’s will is the essence of his ideals and the crystallization of his hard work. Although he was extremely wealthy, he was unwilling to distribute his property to his relatives and friends. He believes that large amounts of property are a scourge that hinders human talents. Those who have wealth should only leave necessary education expenses to their children. If they leave too much money, it will reward laziness and prevent them from developing their own talents. competence.

Therefore, despite the opposition of his relatives and friends, he decided to use all his property to establish a Nobel Prize to reward the contemporary world elite.

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