Chapter 178: the Grand Master

A person who can make Guo Yicheng such an old Dexin industry leader so admired and call it the "Taishan Beidou" must be a great master who has a reputation in the Chinese academia and has made great contributions to New China.
Who is the one?
Tan Zhenhua thought of lightning flashing, and each name flashed through his mind. Suddenly, he thought of a person "tightly" and blurted out: "Guo Jiao Lao, this one you are talking about, is it a teacher?"
Guo Yicheng looked at Tan Zhenhua with a little surprise and said, "Oh? I don’t see that Zhenhua has heard of that old man’s name at a young age? Although his reputation is thunderous in our industry, it is because of the field he is engaged in. It belongs to basic research, and it has not been used in newspapers and magazines. You can actually know him, not bad."
Tan Zhenhua was full of admiration: "Guo, boy, I have read for a few years, and I have been born into an intellectual family. I know that the name of the teacher is right."
Senior teacher, winner of the highest national science and technology award, outstanding metal science and materials scientist, founder of superalloy research, pioneer in the field of material corrosion, leader of carbon fiber composite materials, strategist participating in the formulation of national science and technology policies, China Academician of the Academy of Sciences, founder, deputy dean and academician of the China Academy of Engineering.
After he burned out his wax torch at the age of 94, he left behind a generation of legends of "the father of Chinese material science".
The reputation of the veteran is not as loud as those of the two bombs. Many people don’t even know his existence. However, it is he who laid the material foundation for many of China’s cutting-edge equipment. It can be said that without him, there would be no future China. Long Teng Dongfang.
He was born in 1920 in a big family of "Poetry and Book Succession" in Daying Village, Xushui County. His father was a scholar in the late Qing dynasty, with both strong Confucianism and strong patriotism; his mother was born in a family of officials, and was industrious and kind. He was later admitted to the famous Baoding Normal University, and in 1940, he walked to southern Shaanxi alone and was admitted to the Mining and Metallurgy Department of Northwest Institute of Technology, and started his own path of "saving the country with science and saving the country with mining".
In September 1948, he entered the School of Mining and Metallurgy, University of Missouri in the United States. During his master's degree, he used the principle of vapor pressure in a vacuum to improve the method of extracting gold and silver from liquid lead with zinc 100 years ago. The zinc obtained from the lead smelting process is used to separate the silver to achieve a purity of more than 90%.
In May 1949, he received a master's degree from the School of Mining and Metallurgy at the University of Missouri. In June 1952, he received a Ph.D. from the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Notre Dame. Then, under the guidance of Professor M Cohen, a famous metal scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engaged in research on the role of silicon in ultra-high strength steel.
This research later served the U.S. Air Force directly. The 300M ultra-high-strength steel developed on the basis of his work solved the problem of accidents caused by insufficient fracture toughness or impact toughness of aircraft landing gear in the past, and became the most commonly used aircraft landing gear in the world from the 1960s to the 1980s. Use steel.
In 1950, the United States invaded the Korean Peninsula. China sent volunteers to start a war that shocked the world with the "United Nations forces" headed by the United States. The U.S. Ministry of Justice banned Chinese students studying science, engineering and medicine from returning to China. He was the 35 who were explicitly prohibited from returning to China. One of the Chinese students.
However, he did not give up his efforts to return to the motherland. Taking advantage of his good relationship with an Indian student, he handed over a letter pleading to return home to the Indian Embassy in the United States, and then passed it to China’s Zhou Shoufu at the time. Zhou Shoufu used this letter to expose the U.S. government. It was a lie that these students were willing to stay in the United States, and through arduous negotiations, the conditions for releasing a group of American pilots captured during the Korean War were exchanged for the right to return to the country.
In 1955, after going through hardships, he finally returned to the embrace of the motherland with the efforts of all parties. Since 1957, he has been responsible for the "Alloy Steel and Superalloy Research and Development Work" of the Institute of Metal Research.
Superalloy was an indispensable material in the development of aviation, aerospace and atomic energy industry at that time. Starting from China’s lack of nickel and chromium, and being blocked by Western countries, he proposed to vigorously develop iron-based superalloys and high-alloy steels. At the same time, he proposed that rare earth elements are China's high-yield elements and should also be used in superalloys. Suggest.
In the fall of 1964, he received the task of developing a high-temperature cast alloy hollow blade material used in a new generation of jet aircraft engines.
The key part of contemporary aeroengine is the high temperature turbine, known as the "heart of the engine", and the turbine blade is the key to this. The maximum temperature that the blade metal can withstand during long-term work determines the power of the jet engine, as well as the flight speed and altitude of the aircraft. Therefore, the level of turbine blades marks the level of a country's aviation engines and superalloys.
He was originally studying physical metallurgy and was very new to hollow blades. So he organized researchers in all relevant fields to participate in the formulation of the research plan, so that the plan not only absorbed all the information at home and abroad, but also built on the basis of sufficient scientific basis.
After full mobilization and careful arrangement, he organized nearly 100 people in the whole room into alloy design, core materials, smelting, casting, analysis, and testing teams to tackle key problems. All the assistants were convinced by the commander.
He also borrowed the latest foreign-language technical books and periodicals from the reference room and researched them day and night. Finally, a new piece of information was found in the data. Following this, a new material that can be used as a core was found. He organized everyone to quickly develop and experiment, and finally succeeded.
In 1966, China's first generation of iron-based superalloys was born in his hands. In the same year, China's first generation of air-cooled hollow blades were successfully developed after blower and bench test runs!
From design and development to successful development, they only took less than two years. In Britannia, it took 15 years to complete this journey afterwards.
Even in the severe winter of frustration, he did not give up when he was overthrown and accused of the "Sijia Village" of the Institute of Metal Research. Even if he was assigned to teach in a secondary technical training class, he did his best. Working locally, in just six months, he actually compiled more than 700,000 words of teaching materials.
In 1980, the senior veteran who was more than sixtieth birthday was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (and later an academician of the Academy of Sciences), and finally recognized his achievements and abilities at the national level.
However, in Tan Zhenhua's history, this glorious moment is just a trivial node in the scientific exploration of teachers and elders.
In 1986, the National Natural Science Foundation of China was established, with the senior teacher serving as the deputy director. He vigorously advocated paying attention to traditional materials while paying attention to new materials; he found that many structural material resources were increasingly depleted, so he suggested that the Ministry of Science and Technology should vigorously develop inexhaustible magnesium as a key point of research; he realized that When the research and development of my country's nanotechnology will enter a state of disorderly competition, the Government Affairs Council has also submitted a letter to the Council for the establishment of a "National Nanoscience and Technology Steering Coordination Committee." These suggestions have had an important impact on the development of science and technology in our country.
Under his appeal and impetus, the China Academy of Engineering was formally established in 1994. He was more than ancient and he resolutely came out to serve as the deputy dean of the Academy of Engineering. However, he has stood at the highest point of China's academic honor and did not stop himself. The pace of exploration.
At the beginning of the new millennium, the teachers and elders disregarded their 80-plus years of age, and disregarded China's repeated failures in the carbon fiber industry with national efforts, and took the initiative to take the lead in the carbon fiber public relations project.
The research fields of carbon fiber and the elders were very different. However, he made full use of his appeal in various departments and industries, organized national experts, and formulated the programmatic document for the development of China Carbon Fiber under his leadership. He also personally wrote to the then Great Elder of China, calling on the country to increase its attention to and investment in this industry. These efforts have finally achieved results. Huaxia has included the basic research work of carbon fiber as a key development direction. After ten years of research, it finally formed its own industry.
The life is not extinguished, and the teachers and elders are struggling.
In 2010, under his advocacy, the "Technical Innovation Strategic Alliance of Carbon Fiber and Composite Materials Industry" was established, ending China’s previous state of disorderly competition in the carbon fiber industry, and organically turning the industry through the "production-learning-research-application" The integration of the industrial chain has also put an end to China's carbon fiber being controlled by others, and has laid a solid material foundation for China's many new equipment.
Teachers and elders are not only widely respected in China, but also have an outstanding international reputation.
In the 1950s, he was a member of the American Society of Metals (ASM); in the 1980s, he was a member of the American Society of Materials Research (MRS).
In 1987, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the University of Tokyo was held. A seminar on "Materials and Society" was held. More than 10 internationally renowned scholars were invited. He was the only Chinese scholar and gave an academic report at the conference.
The "International Conference on New Materials" held in Tokyo, Japan in 1988, the "World Materials Conference" held in Chicago, the United States in the same year, and in Gaul in 1991, the "International Materials Federation" hosted by the European Society for Materials Research (E-MRS) He is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the First Advanced Materials Conference.
In 1990, he was one of the chairmen of the Advanced Materials International Conference held by China Materials Federation (C-MRS).
In 1992, the "First Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Technology" was jointly initiated by the China Metal Society, the U.S. Society of Minerals, Metals and Materials, the Japanese Society of Metals, and the South Korea Metal Society. In the same year, the International Sheet Forming Research Society ( He was elected chairman of the "17th International Conference" organized by IDDRG).
In 2010, the teacher won the "National Highest Science and Technology Award".
In the whole life of teachers and elders, when teaching and educating people, they are all over the world; when they are engaged in scientific research, they have made great achievements; when they are writing academic papers, they are like books.
Without him, there would be no cornerstone of China's many cutting-edge equipment.
Tan Zhenhua's previous life was not destined for this old side. At this moment, listening to Guo Yicheng mentioned it, he couldn't help but feel excited. He said: "Guo, if you can please this old man, this will happen, but I have a request."
"What request?"
"I want to have the opportunity to pay a visit to his old man. I have no other meaning. I just want to express my admiration for his old man."
"That's simple. The little old man is a dozen years younger than me. When he meets me, he has to respectfully scream old brother. If you want to see him, you can anytime, I will arrange."