Stone pays attention to people's all-round development. During high school, he practiced long-distance running. The events he practiced ranged from 800 meters to 1500 meters and then to 3000 meters. After entering Tsinghua, since the long-distance running team only recruited professional athletes, Shi changed to practice walking, from 5000m to1000m. He also set a record for the whole school in the school sports meeting. It was not until 1994, five years after he graduated from college, that this record was broken. 1at the beginning of 990, Shi went to the United States for further study, and studied for a doctorate in biophysics and chemistry at the first-class Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States.
When Shi first came to America, the first gap he found was his poor English. He stipulated that he should recite 25 new words every day. In scientific research, he is diligent, hardworking and persistent. On one occasion, the dean and director of the laboratory thought that he had discovered a major theoretical breakthrough in biophysics and excitedly demonstrated it to the students. Shi pointedly pointed out the mistake of a calculus problem of the tutor on the spot. From then on, the tutor looked at him with new eyes. When I graduated, my tutor publicly declared that "Shi is my best student".
1In April, 997, Shi was hired as an assistant professor by the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University before completing his postdoctoral research project. Since then, Princeton University has provided him with a laboratory with an area of 200 square meters and nearly $500,000 in start-up funds. At that time, such treatment was unbearable for many people. Good scientific research conditions and mechanisms provide space for teachers to display their talents. In just nine years, he obtained the highest-level professorship at Princeton University and soon became the leader of the Department of Molecular Biology.
Shi's wife is also an undergraduate student in Biology Department of Tsinghua University, and a doctor in Johns Hopkins University. They have twins. An internationally renowned structural biologist and tenured professor of history at Princeton University, USA, faced with broad career development prospects and superior living conditions, he made a decision that surprised and admired many people: to give up all this and return to his alma mater, Tsinghua. In his view, "patriotism is the simplest emotion. Who doesn't love his mother? " After the hardships of climbing, there will always be endless scenery on the top of the mountain. If it is only because of scientific research, Shi will not come back. He has higher ideals and pursuits.
In February 2008, Shi, a 40-year-old internationally renowned structural biologist and a tenured professor at Princeton University in the United States, returned to China full-time and was employed as a tenured professor at Tsinghua University, and served as the vice president of Tsinghua University Institute of Life Sciences and Medicine.
Shi said: "China's science, technology and education system, as well as the research and teaching of China University, are far behind the first-class universities in the United States, and China is making efforts to this end. I will sincerely pay more for the further development of the science and technology education system in Tsinghua and China. "
After returning home, he wrote to the president of Princeton University, saying, "When I return to Tsinghua, I will make a much greater contribution to Princeton University than when I was in Princeton. I hope there will be more student exchange activities in the future, so that undergraduates from famous universities such as Princeton, Yale and Harvard will have the opportunity to come to Tsinghua and China, because many students from these three universities are future leaders of the United States. I hope that these outstanding people from the United States can stay in China for a while when they are young and really understand China. "
Now, Shi hopes that he can offer an ideological and political course for undergraduates in Tsinghua, and use his tortuous and real experience abroad to inspire students' patriotic feelings. 2011/In February, Shi and another professor who returned home full-time were elected as new academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. According to media reports, the failure was due to the issue of "nationality". In response, the Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Presidium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences officially responded that there was no problem with the nationality of Shi and Rao Yi, and their failure to be elected academicians had nothing to do with "nationality". On the issue of nationality, the Ministry of Public Security sent a letter to the Presidium of China Academy of Sciences. There are two sentences, one is that you have China nationality from a certain date, and the other is that the relevant formalities have not been completed. After discussion, the Presidium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences determined that they had China nationality and were listed as valid candidates.