张青莲:化学巨擘 学子师表

Zhang Qinglian:Chemistry Giant and Students’Mentor

张青莲(1908~2006)先生是我国著名化学家、化学教育家、中国科学院院士,他是中国稳定同位素化学的开拓者和奠基人。张先生早年留学欧洲,在战火纷飞的1937年学成归来,报效祖国。他长期从事重水和稳定同位素化学的研究。早年张先生在重水方面的研究独树一帜;上世纪60年代为我国核工业的发展做出重要贡献;耄耋之年仍坚持工作,带领团队精确测定的铟、铱、锑、铕、铈、铒、锗、镝、锌和钐等10种元素的原子量被相关的国际组织确定为这些元素原子量的新标准。他敬业爱生,致力于化学人才的培养,不仅推进了我国高等教育中无机化学教学体系的发展,还对中学的化学教育和教学产生了积极且深远的影响。张青莲先生的一生中有很多感人、动人、激励人的事迹,这些事迹可以作为化学课程“思政内容”的精彩素材;他身上所体现出的科学家精神值得我们后辈去学习、传承和积极践行。

Prof.Zhang Qinglian(1908~2006)was an outstanding chemist and chemistry educator in China,an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.He was the pioneer and founder of the stable isotope chemistry in China.In the early time,Prof.Zhang studied in Europe and received award of PhD degree.In 1937,a year that the flame of war spread over the country,he came back to China for serving his motherland.He had been engaged in long-term research on the heavy water and stable isotope chemistry.In his young time,Prof.Zhang had achieved some internationally influential research results on the heavy water.In 1960s,Prof.Zhang made important contributions for the development of the nuclear industry of China.In his senile time,Prof.Zhang led a group to conduct the accurate measurements of the atomic weights of 10 elements,including indium(In),iridium(Ir),antimony(Sb),europium(Sb),cerium(Ce)erbium(Er),germanium(Ge),dysprosium(Dy),zinc(Zn),and samarium(Sm).The data contributed by Prof.Zhang have been accepted as the new international standards.He dedicated himself to science and cared for his students.He devoted himself to cultivating young scientific talents.He not only promoted the development of inorganic chemistry education in Chinese universities,but also had a positive and profound impact on the chemistry teaching in the middle schools of China.In Prof.Zhang’s whole life,there are quite many touching and incentive stories,which could be selected as wonderful materials for the ideological and political education involved in the chemistry courses.The scientist spirit embodied in Prof.Zhang’s life is worth inheriting and actively practicing by our young generations.