Today, we pay tribute to the old man!

4 years ago today

January 16, 2019

Yu Min, the hero of "two bombs and one satellite", passed away

In remembrance, and in tribute!

Yu Min was born in Tianjin in 1926.

Experienced the warlords' melee and the Anti-Japanese War

The humiliating memory of the conquered

Let him set the ambition to revive the country since he was young

▲ Yu Min took a photo with her parents

The year when New China was founded

Yu Min ranked first in the Department of Physics

Graduated from Peking University

His teacher's evaluation of him is

“I have never seen anyone as good at physics as Yu Min”

As the "strongest brain" at that time

Yu Min relied entirely on his own exploration

Mastered the atomic nuclear theory that no one in China understood

He also published Lectures on Nuclear Theory.

A first in China

Never studied abroad, completely self-reliant

Yu Min is known as the "No. 1 domestic expert"

In 1961, Qian Sanqiang told Yu Min

The institute decided to make him the deputy team leader.

Leading and participating in preliminary research on China's hydrogen bomb theory

At this time, Yu Min's research on nuclear theory

We are at a critical stage where we may achieve important results

But he still chose without hesitation

Obey the assignment

"The country needs me, I will do my best"

Several slide rules and a blackboard

This is the starting point of China's hydrogen bomb design

Only a computer that can do 10,000 operations per second

But only 5% of the time is available for team use

My former mentor Peng Huanwu said:

Yu Min's work is entirely on his own.

He has no teacher!

September to December 1965

Yu Min leads the scientific research team

Completed the history of China's nuclear weapons research

The famous "Hundred Days' Battle"

He often kneels on the ground

Watching the data on the paper tape spit out by the computer

I am afraid of missing some useful information.

In a mountain of paper tape

And in the dense data

Yu Min grasped the key to the theoretical design of the hydrogen bomb

Breaking the Western monopoly

June 17, 1967

my country's first hydrogen bomb exploded successfully

From the first atomic bomb to the hydrogen bomb

It took the United States 7 years and 3 months

It took the Soviet Union 6 years and 3 months

It took the UK 4 years and 7 months

China took only 2 years and 8 months

Became the fourth country in the world to possess hydrogen bomb

Before 1988

Few people know who Yu Min is

Even fewer people understand what he is doing.

In 28 years

Yu Min hides his real name

For state secrets

He kept his mouth shut to his wife Sun Yuqin

His wife later said

"I didn't expect Lao Yu to do such high-level secret work"

Yu Min has been traveling abroad for many years.

The wife takes care of all the housework

In 2012, Sun Yuqin died of a sudden heart attack

Whenever I'm asked what's the most regrettable thing in my life

The first thing Yu Min thought of was his wife

“The first person I owe is my lover”

Yu Min once said

"A person's name will disappear sooner or later.

Can use the meager power

Integrate into the prosperity of the motherland

It’s enough to masturbate.”

Do earth-shaking things and be an anonymous person

The motherland will not forget, and the people will not forget

In memory of the old!