Physicist donates 3m yuan to support young researchers on 100th birthday

On his 100th birthday, Ye Minghan, a renowned physicist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, donated 3 million yuan from his personal savings to the Education Foundation of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to support young researchers in the field of high-energy physics. Academician Wang Yifang, director of the institute, said that in the 1950s, during a time of extreme poverty, Ye participated in the development of China's first and second electrostatic particle accelerators, which are crucial foundations for high-energy physics. The Beijing Electron-Positron Collider is one of the world's eight major high-energy accelerator centers, the first high-energy accelerator in China, and a significant piece of scientific and technological infrastructure for high-energy physics research. "He led the entire institute in arduous struggle and bold exploration, and according to plan, completed China's first major scientific device — the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider and the Beijing Spectrometer — and achieved many world-class physics results," Wang said. "China's high-energy physics research has gained a place in the world's high-tech field, and a large number of important research achievements continue to emerge.