Tao Shiyan's Wisdom River

In Beijing in June, the sun poured down on every street. The bustling Zhongguancun High-tech Park is a quiet courtyard, the family courtyard of Zhongguancun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the home of Academician Tao Shiyan.

"Come on, you bring the chair." Teacher Wang speaks with an authentic Jiangsu and Zhejiang accent, with a gentle and cordial tone, but he speaks quickly and is full of enthusiasm. He said that my students usually come to my house to sit in this position. Such a relaxed and easy-going atmosphere is as kind as an old man in a big family. "From years of research experience, what do you think is the most important quality of researchers?" Tao Shiyan replied without hesitation: "I will catch the question." He further said, I think scientific research must have three qualities, the first is the ability to find problems, the second is the ability to find solutions, and the third is the courage not to be afraid of failure and difficulties. Of these three points, he values the first one most: "find the problem."

Academician Tao Shiyan's research achievements in monsoon are internationally recognized. He has written many papers on the theory and method of contemporary weather forecast in China, and published more than 80 scientific and technological papers and 8 monographs. In the middle and late 1950s, together with Ye Duzheng and Gu Zhenchao, he completed three papers on the study of atmospheric circulation in East Asia, all of which were published in the internationally renowned meteorological magazine Tellus. Won 1978 national science conference award, 1980 national science and technology commission and national agriculture commission's scientific and technological achievements popularization and application award, 1987 first prize of national natural science award for East Asian atmospheric circulation research (in cooperation with Ye Duzheng and other academicians), and 1992 first prize of natural science award of China Academy of Sciences. Because of his outstanding achievements, he won the 1996 He Liang Heli Science Progress Award.

He has been practicing this principle all his life. In his 60-year scientific research career, this is how he asked himself to proceed from the urgent needs of the country and seize one international frontier issue after another for research. In 1950s, he cooperated with Academician Ye Duzheng to study the atmospheric circulation in East Asia. At that time, the forecast of winter cold wave deeply troubled forecasters. Starting from the atmospheric circulation in the northern hemisphere, he proposed that there are three main paths for the cold wave to affect China. In the 1960s, he saw that satellite cloud pictures had been used in weather forecasting in developed countries, led students to carry out satellite meteorology research, and summed up a set of application methods of satellite cloud pictures, which were popularized throughout the country. In 1970s, he made a systematic and comprehensive study on the synoptic characteristics and dynamics of rainstorm and mesoscale system. After 1980s, he took the lead in jointly conducting monsoon research in lasg and China Meteorological Bureau, which made China step into the world's advanced ranks in monsoon research.

1950 In March, upon the proposal of Tu and Zhao Jiuzhang, central weather bureau and the Institute of Geophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Joint Weather Analysis and Forecast Center, the predecessor of the National Meteorological Center. Tao Shiyan is the deputy director of the center. The center sends short-term and medium-term forecasts to the front lines of China and North Korea every day, and has accumulated a lot of valuable experience on weather analysis and forecasting methods in China and East Asia, laying a solid foundation for his future theoretical research. Since the 1960s, China has carried out research and experiments on cutting-edge national defense technology. From 1963 to 1967, he provided accurate meteorological support for these national defense science and technology experiments many times. Because of its outstanding contribution to weather forecast, 1956 won the title of national advanced worker. At the end of 1960s, in order to fill the domestic gap in the daily weather forecast business of satellite cloud images, Mr. Tao began to develop satellite cloud image receiving equipment and compiled the User Manual of China Satellite Cloud Images. He also developed a set of methods for identifying weather systems by using satellite cloud images, especially for forecasting the occurrence and development of typhoons, which are still used by meteorological stations. In the process of forecasting and scientific research, Tao Shiyan has trained a large number of young business backbones, and many people have become the heads of meteorological bureaus and stations in some provinces and cities. Today, 86-year-old Mr. Tao has two doctoral students. His keen scientific research perspective, excellent insight and understanding, like air, are silent but everywhere. In the eyes of students, his curiosity about scientific research has never stopped. He never tells others that you should do this and not that, but often takes the initiative to talk about specific places in a paper, an author and a report, so that students can be inspired by seemingly casual communication.

He often tells students that to look at something, we should look at its value from our own perspective. Reading is not reading for the sake of reading. For example, reading literature, some thinking methods are novel, and some writing is beautiful; Sometimes even after reading the whole article, you think this inference is not valid, but perhaps there are particularly wonderful sentences and unique pictures, which are all desirable. No matter what shortcomings it has, it should not prevent you from appreciating it and getting what you need from it.

Another vision that reading needs is to find the shortcomings, see if it is not done enough, and how you should improve it; When you see something wrong, you must dare to question it. "In the three years that my husband took me, these are the four words that I said the most: for my use." Zhang Xiaoling, his 1998 doctoral student, said. "In addition to grasping the general direction of students, he also corrects small deviations. When Mr. Wang returned the original document I had seen to me, I was surprised to find that it was full of marks written in pen. Once, he told me seriously that a paper you asked me the day before yesterday, I went home and thought about it, and I thought it would be better to change the word. "

"When I was a doctoral student of Mr. Tao, I heard someone ask:' Mr. has so many affairs, do you have the energy to manage you? Besides, Mr. Wang is so old, how many new things can he teach? However, three years later, I got too much from my husband. He has been tracking international frontier topics without interruption. Wei Jie, who works in the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said frankly. In Mr. Tao's eyes, you can't stop touching new things in scientific research, because only when what you see and hear is the latest and most cutting-edge, can you think, speak and make the most cutting-edge and useful things. Stopping is the end of scientific research life.

The reporter learned in the interview that Mr. Wang has mastered four languages: English, Japanese, German and Russian. As early as Jiaxing No.1 Middle School, mathematics and physics textbooks were English textbooks, and several other foreign languages were taught by themselves. It should be said that a deep foreign language foundation is very helpful for him to acquire international frontier knowledge. But he believes that it is necessary to master a foreign language, but it is more important to update people's ideas and apply what they have learned. Therefore, looking back on his life, he denied that he was "a person who was locked in his room to read, write and study."