My scientist mother

In 1966 I was in a grade of primary school, the teacher gave us the first homework: find out the father\'s career, tell the class the next day. I returned home, immediately asked mother father is doing, the mother said she and her father is a scientist. I asked her what scientists. She handed me a spoon, I throw it to the dinner table. I throw out, but the spoon dropped onto the ground. She asked me \"why spoon on the floor and not floated to the ceiling? \"I never thought this\" why \". She said: \"due to gravity, always drop, and hot air balloons always float upwards. \"It left a deep impression on me. The next day, I told the class children: \"my father is a scientist, my mother is also a scientist. \"25 small eyes stared at me in surprise. At this point, I began to understand my mother how unusual it is.

Now, after more than 40 years of geophysical research, as the United States senior scientist at NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Qiong·fanman my mother is about to retire. Greatest achievement in her life was probably invented and perfected the count the number of high energy particles are likely to hit the spacecraft approach model and predict sunspot activity cycle. Both of these inventions have been used by scientists around the world. In addition, is both a scientist and mother of women for decades in the United States it is very rare, mother\'s career dramatically changed Americans \' views on women scientists.

Brother guidelines science road

Mother\'s earliest memory was at the age of 2 stations in small bed with fence pulling her brother hair. Her brother lichade·fanman became one of theoretical physicists of his generation\'s greatest pioneer and father of nanotechnology, Quantum dynamics, and won the Nobel Prize award. At that time, his sister solve simple math problems, got her pulling hair at a time. Normally, he frequented in the streets of New York, Pocket screwdriver, who repaired radios. At that time he was 11 years old.

My mother at the age of 5, Richard of 2 cents per week wages to employ her, he built in his room as a Assistant of e-lab. Mother says: \"my work instructions to be flipping the switch, I can only switch on the climb to the box. ”

Richard explained to her an amazing fact: dogs, iron and iron in her own home is made up of atoms. He also let her hand pointing right triangle in the frame, let her recite the sum of the squares of the two right angles in a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. She said: \"I don\'t know what it means, but he like reciting poetry back this formula, I also like to follow back. \"One night, he pulled up from the bed she ran to a nearby golf, means for her to see the Big Dipper.

Aspired to be a scientist

Qiong·fanman announced that the age of 8 she aspired to be a scientist, but kindly grandmother said this was impossible, she said: \"the woman cannot be a scientist, because their brain is not enough. \"My mother lay crying on a campaign in the living room chairs. \"I know told me she thinks she is an unavoidable fact. However, a little girl told her dream is impossible, this is how painful thing. ”

Though the greatest chemist Marie Curie is also a woman, but this does not give mother any comfort. She said: \"for me, Madame Curie was a mythical character, not ordinary people can imitate. ”

Today until March 1942 on her 14 years old, wants to be a scientist\'s ideal fire rekindled. Richard gave her a birthday present is a book called astronomy. Mothers with eyes closed recalls: \"it is a University textbook, I do not understand at the beginning, but I insist on reading down again and again, read 407 pages, I see a chart, it has changed my life. \"This simple chart is part of a female scientist\'s work, the mother said,\" she gave me the courage to explore science. ”

Outstanding contribution

My mother after graduation time, the housewives, cooking, washing clothes at home, taking care of my brother and I. Until 1964, when she got a job in lamengteyiduoerdi Astronomical Observatory, studying the relationship between the solar wind and magnetosphere. Soon, she and her colleagues first announced that the magnetosphere (controlled by the Earth\'s magnetic field, the solar wind can not enter the part of the space) is not the end, it dragged an infinitely long tail, rather than as it is generally believed that he would be closed the teardrop-shaped.

In 1974, my mother worked at Armes Research Center in California. She found there have been significant in the solar wind. Solar wind has two forms, one was stable, are transient. Although it has long been known that transient of the solar wind is made up of great Crown-Jet, but it is difficult to find the solar wind. My mother found that the solar wind can be identified by large amounts of ammonia in the solar wind.

Her success in his career, when United States economy has started to decline, NASA significant reductions of the budget, my mother once again become a housewife. A few months later, she worked at the National Center for atmospheric research, our family moved to Boulder, Colorado. Later, she has worked in National Science Foundation and Department of physics, Boston University. In 1985, the mother came to NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she reveal some secrets of the Aurora in the laboratory. Using Explorer, 33rd won her the data proves that when the solar wind magnetic field of the same Earth

Aurora appears interaction of magnetic fields.

In 1974, she became United States Geophysical Society official, led a Committee ensuring the fair treatment of women. In 1999, she was appointed as the senior elite scientists at NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA outstanding scientific achievements awards and the following year.

With a good teaching way

In 1970 at the age of 10 for the first time I have exposure to chemicals. At that time, my mother was busy baking of the Jewish new year eating white bread, she wants me to help in the kitchen. After putting bread into the stove, she gave me a plastic bottle and a cork. She told me the bottle filling some baking soda, add some vinegar immediately north of the Great Wall after the Cork. Results with a bang, Cork play on my forehead. Food of the explosion, I am very surprised. Mother told me: \"this is called a chemical reaction. \"Since then, I took much interest in chemistry.

When I was 12 years old, my mother taught me resonance of knowledge. We need to find some tree branches to make a fire in the camping. We are brother and sister trio is nowhere to be found everywhere. Mother pointed to a dry branch on the tree, while shaking the tree trunk while we look. She told us: \"each branch shaking frequency is not the same. Note that one dead branches, if we shake the trunk at the appropriate rate, making it the same as floor shaking frequency, dead branches will fall off, \"\" we soon get old branch this way.

When I was 14 years old, my mother taught me physics knowledge. I was fascinated with the blue grass music, really like to go for the laerfu·sitanli show. Although the mother did not like country music, she went to the concert with me. Climax of the concert feierde·Keli mimic the train coming from far and near and vocal mimicry by the near and away from performance. She said to me: \"do good? This is the use of the Doppler effect. \"I never expected my mother told me physical knowledge at the concert. After returning to home, my mother explained to me: \"train approaching, sound frequency becomes higher and higher, left low frequency becomes more and more, this is the Doppler effect. You look at the stars in the sky, you can see the same phenomenon: If you move the light source, it will be blue to if he is to leave you, it will change to red. Most of the star to red change, because the universe is continually expanding. ”

Mother will soon be retired, but she was still concerned about the Earth\'s climate changes. She said: \"subtle changes can make long island of the Sun\'s rays into a skating rink. ”