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 ($415,000) 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.

On Tuesday, dozens of physicists, including several academicians, gathered at CAS' Institute of High Energy Physics to cut a cake, offer blessings, sing birthday songs and celebrate Ye's birthday.

Ye is one of the pioneers in high-energy physics research in China. Around the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, inspired by Qian Sanqiang's encouragement that "China must develop its own nuclear physics", Ye enrolled in the graduate school of Tsinghua University and conducted research in nuclear physics under the guidance of Qian.