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When Chen Jia'er was studying in middle school, the movie "Edison, the King of Invention" was released in Shanghai. One day his father rushed to school to pick him up to watch the movie. It rained heavily on the day "Madame Curie" was released, but his father still picked him up from school and went out to watch the movie. After watching it, he said to Chen Jia'er, if you can make some discoveries and do something for society like Madame Curie, A big contribution would be great. In this way, his father led Chen Jiaer step by step onto the path of science.

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Chen Jia'er remembers that when he was very young, his father always wrote alone in the study. One day, Chen Jia'er sneaked in quietly and happened to be caught in a thunderstorm. The lightning and thunder during the weather suddenly scared me to tears. His father held him in his arms and comforted him while asking why there was thunder. Chen Jiaer said that I heard the neighbor's grandmother said that it was the God of Thunder who wanted to kill unfilial people. His father said that was not true. Thunder was the result of the collision of negative and positive electricity in the clouds.

My father talked about static electricity again and placed a glass plate on two stacks of books. He asked Chen Jia'er's mother to cut out some small paper figures and put them underneath. He also wrapped a building block with a piece of silk cloth and placed it on the glass. The board began to rub rapidly, and due to static electricity, the little paper figures began to "dance" under the glass board, leaving a deep impression on Chen Jia'er.

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Once there seemed to be a power outage somewhere on the campus of Peking University. Chen Jiaer was very anxious when he found out about it, so he ran to the power distribution room to find his coworkers and asked them to go build. When people asked him who he was, he said: I am Chen Jiaer. The worker thought for a long time and said: Chen Jia'er? Don't know.

This incident is as classic as the time when a freshman at Peking University asked Vice President Ji Xianlin to see his baggage. This is evident from the low-key and peaceful manner in which Principal Chen Jiaer behaves.

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A reporter who interviewed Chen Jia'er said: "The first time I met him, he had just finished a fund committee meeting and was wearing a An ordinary jacket. But at the beginning of our oral interview, even though there was no camera, he put on a neat dark suit, which made me feel his respect for others."

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A student from Peking University once sent an email to Chen Jiaer, but the student actually didn’t expect him to reply, because he had written letters to some teachers at Peking University before, but none of them responded. The person's qualifications were far inferior to him, so he didn't write the letter very seriously and just asked some questions. In the end, he sent it without wishing a happy Spring Festival.

As soon as he opened his mailbox the next day, the classmate received his reply. Mr. Chen first welcomed the student to apply for his program, then wished him good luck in passing the exam, then answered his questions, and finally expressed his New Year blessings. Chen Jiaer: After the Renaissance in Europe in the 15th century, Newton synthesized the achievements of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and other achievements, established a complete theoretical system, and laid the foundation for the rationality of obtaining complete physical causal relationships through systematic experimental methods. The thinking system established the authority of reason and science; Maxwell completed the Maxwell equations of electromagnetism by summarizing the four laws of electromagnetism obtained from a large number of experiments, and established the classical field theory. The concept of "field" that he established as the basic component of material movement in nature further developed people's view of matter and movement, and triggered the subsequent development of electrical engineering and the entire communications industry. Since the 20th century, the revolutionary development of physics represented by the theory of relativity and quantum theory has not only formed mankind's new views of time and space, motion and matter, but also greatly deepened mankind's understanding of all aspects of nature from micro, macro to cosmic. The understanding of the basic laws of scale levels has promoted the development of the entire science and triggered a huge leap in technological civilization. These scientists have always insisted on using systematic scientific experimental methods to understand the universe and the external world of human beings, rising from experiments to theories, and then using them to guide practice. From them, the scientific spirit of truth-seeking and pragmatism has always been reflected.

Despite this, current human understanding of the natural world is still very limited. The various elements, various microscopic particles and antiparticles known to us humans only account for about 5% of the entire universe.

In this process, physics has profoundly affected the development of human culture, helping to inspire human beings' lofty spiritual realm and create a better material life. ●My father told stories to open the door to reading

Chen Jiaer said that his father was born in a poor family with seven or eight brothers and sisters. His grandfather was just an ordinary store clerk and died young. In order to support the family, his father finished reading I went to a normal school in elementary school, teaching and going to school at the same time. He likes to tell stories when teaching, and he created and published his first book based on his students at the age of 17.

Chen Jia'er is an only son. In his memory, there were many books at home since he was a child, including not only many fairy tale books written by his father, but also ancient and modern Chinese and foreign literature books and various newspapers, magazines, illustrated magazines, etc. His father wrote every day I compile books and often have letters and manuscripts sent to my home. In a family full of books, Chen Jia'er first came into contact with illustrated books, which were a bit like comic books. They were thread-bound and hard-covered, and he couldn't bear to put them down in his hands. At that time, he was in primary school and was only six or seven years old.

My father often told him stories. The earliest ones were fairy tales. He would often stop halfway through the story and say, "Go and watch it yourself." This became a stepping stone for Chen Jiaer to enter the door of reading. When I see something I don’t understand, I ask my mother, a piano teacher. By the third grade, I was able to read and read newspapers independently. I even bound a "Novel Monthly" with only myself as the author, imitating the "Novel Monthly" at that time.

●Read biographies of famous people to establish your outlook on life

My father wrote "Miss Alice", "Master Polo Joe", "The Son of the Chinese Family", "Children on the Line of Fire" "Them" deeply moved Chen Jia'er. The 72-year-old Chen Jiaer still remembers it vividly. My father's fairy tales promote eliminating evil and promoting good, pursuing justice and peace, and opposing oppression. It was precisely because of his father's influence that Chen Jia'er initially determined to be a writer, and it was his father who set him on the path to pursue science.

My father likes mathematics very much. He has said more than once that if his family had money, he would continue to study. At that time, foreign powers were bullying us, and we needed science and technology to save the country. His father told him scientific stories, recommended some popular science books, and took him to watch the movie "Edison, the King of Invention". He still remembers the time when it rained heavily and his father took him to watch "Madame Curie". After reading it, he told him that if he could be like Madame Curie in the future, he would be worthy of living this life. After watching the movie, he found the biography "Madame Curie" written by Marie Curie's daughter, and felt it was wonderfully written.

When he was a child, the book that had the greatest impact on him was "The Great Man Sun Yat-sen". The book says that when Sun Yat-sen was a child, he asked his mother what the meaning of life was. Her mother replied, "Life is like a dream, and it slips away accidentally." Sun Yat-sen learned from this that "we must cherish time." This story deeply touched Chen Jia'er when he was young, and had a great influence on the initial establishment of his outlook on life and world view.

After entering university at the age of 15, it was the time to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. He read many patriotic books, such as "Matrosov" and "Zoya and Shura" etc. Matrosov, who used his chest to block the enemy's bullet holes, once said that a person's existence is valuable only if it makes other people's lives better. This allowed him to gradually establish a belief: as a human being, you must have a role and contribution to society.

●Reading must be guided

“Books have accompanied my growth. When I have difficulties, I find books to solve my problems. When I am not satisfied, I read books to calm my mind. When I have time, I read books to appreciate them and share them with others. "My career requires more reading." Chen Jia'er is still teaching doctoral students and spends more time reading professional books and literature.

He kept in mind the words of Mr. Qian Sanqiang, "To read a book well, you must read it more and more." Books come from practice and must go back to practice, so as not to "teach books to death" ”, and only in this way can you make it your own and improve yourself step by step.

Chen Jia'er said: "Reading must be guided, you must have a high taste, and be guided by correct and scientific values. There are good books and bad books, and some books look good. , although some books are good to read, they may not be good for your outlook on life and values.”