Here are the translations for the given content: Famous laboratory's magical stories

Author: Tong Rui
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Do you know the "youthful rebel" at the age of 12? The famous Chinese-American physicist, Yang Zhenning, who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics, was once also a staff member at the "Brookhaven National Laboratory"! When Yang Zhenning was 7 years old, he started studying at Tsinghua Affiliated Primary School. He then stayed in Beijing for 8 years. As a child, Yang Zhenning was not a well-behaved child. According to his own account, he had climbed every tree at Tsinghua. During his middle school years, his father, who was a mathematics professor at Peking University at the time, discovered his son's strong mathematical ability. Occasionally, he taught his son analytical geometry and calculus, and the son learned them almost effortlessly, which made his father very happy. However, his father did not deliberately teach him mathematics when he was young. Instead, during the summer vacation between the first and second years of junior high school, he arranged for a student from the history department to teach Yang Zhenning "Mencius." Because he believed that cultivating a person with ideals, ambition, and moral integrity was more important than cultivating a scientist. In his spare time, his father also taught young Yang Zhenning some patriotic songs, such as: "Countless years, one lineage extends," "Chinese men, Chinese men," and so on. Yang Zhenning did not disappoint his father's expectations. Once, when the 12-year-old Yang Zhenning opened a book on his father's bookshelf—Edwin Hubble's "The Mysterious Universe," which described some new physics phenomena and theories discovered from the 20th century to that time. He was instantly fascinated by the magical science described in the book. After reading the book, the young Yang Zhenning ran to his father's side and solemnly told him, "I know what I want to do in the future. I want to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 20 years!" In mid-December 1952, the young scientist Yang Zhenning, who had already made a name for himself in the world of physics, received a letter from the "Brookhaven National Laboratory" inviting him to visit for a year. It is worth noting that the "Brookhaven National Laboratory" had the world's largest proton accelerator at the time, capable of producing mesons and strange particles. Many famous scientists and research groups from around the world worked there, and many significant results were achieved. For this reason, Yang Zhenning decided to accept the invitation and worked at the "Brookhaven Laboratory" from 1953 to 1954 for a year. And it was this short year that created favorable conditions for Yang Zhenning to achieve his brilliant achievements in the future and realize his dream from the age of 12.