Of course there are countless stories about our ancient Chinese country, which is full of talented scientists, but since you asked, I will find one for you as a reference:)
Mao Yisheng
< p> Mao Yisheng, courtesy name Tangchen. Born on January 9, 1896 in Dantu County, Jiangsu Province (now Zhenjiang City). His ancestors were engaged in business, and his grandfather Mao Qian was a civil servant with progressive ideas and revolutionary tendencies. He once founded the "Nanyang Official News" and was a famous figure in Zhenjiang City. Shortly after Mao Yisheng was born, his family moved to Nanjing.Mao Yisheng went to private school at the age of 6. At the age of 7, he enrolled in Siyi School, the first new primary school in China founded in Nanjing in 1903. He entered Jiangnan Commercial School in 1905 and was admitted to Tangshan Road School in 1911. Mine School. In 1912, when Mr. Sun Yat-sen gave a lecture at the Tangshan Road and Mine School, he pointed out the importance of opening mines and building railways, which strengthened Mao Yisheng's path of "saving the nation through science" and "building the nation through engineering." From then on, he studied harder and regarded building the motherland as a Do it for yourself. In every exam, he ranked first in the class, with a five-year average of 92.5 points in all subjects, which is rare in the school's history. In 1916, Mao Yisheng passed the graduate entrance examination of Cornell University in the United States. His excellent results surprised and admired the professors of the school. At the graduation ceremony a year later, the principal announced on the spot that from now on, all postgraduate students from Tangshan Industrial College (formerly Tangshan Road and Mine School) would be exempted from taking the exam to register. Mao Yisheng won great reputation for his alma mater abroad. In 1917, he received a master's degree. After being introduced by his mentor H.S. Jacoby, he interned at the Pittsburgh Bridge Company, and at the same time used his spare time to study for a doctorate in engineering at night school at Kaliki Institute of Technology. In 1919, he became the school's first doctor of engineering. The original idea of ??the doctoral thesis "Bridge Truss Stress" is called "Mao Shi's Law", and he won the "Fettis" Gold Research Medal for Outstanding Graduate Students of Cornell University. When he was invited to visit his alma mater of Kaliki-Mellon University in 1979, the president awarded him the "Outstanding Alumni" medal in recognition of his contribution to world engineering technology.
In 1920, Mao Yisheng was invited to return to his alma mater as a professor. At the age of 24, he was the youngest engineering professor in China. From then on, more than 30 years of engineering education began. The following year, he served as deputy director (vice president) of Jiaotong University Tangshan School. In July 1922, he was hired as a professor at Southeast University. In 1923, the school established the Engineering Department and served as the first director of the Engineering Department. In 1924, the Engineering Department of Southeast University merged with the Hohai Engineering College to form Hohai University of Technology, and Mao Yi was promoted to be the first president. In 1926, he was appointed professor of Peiyang University. In 1928, he served as dean of the Second College of Engineering of Peking University (Beiyang Institute of Technology). In 1930, he was appointed as the Director of Water Conservancy of Jiangsu Province and took charge of the planning of Xiangshan New Port. In 1932, he returned to Peiyang University to teach. During his tenure as principal, he made major improvements in school management, teaching system, curriculum facilities, teaching equipment, etc., making the school a vibrant and prosperous situation, deeply supported and loved by teachers and students.
Mao Yisheng served as the president of Tangshan Jiaotong University five times. He always cared about the rise and fall of his alma mater and won honors and achievements for his alma mater. In 1991, a bronze statue of Shumao Yisheng was commemorated by Southwest Jiaotong University (Tangshan Railway College moved to Sichuan Province after the Cultural Revolution and was renamed Southwest Jiaotong University).
Mao Yisheng pioneered the heuristic teaching method of "Students Test for Teachers" and devoted his life to education reform. He published more than 20 papers such as "Research on Engineering Education" and advocated "Learn first, learn later, "Learn while practicing", an education system that combines theory with practice.