A towering figure in Chinese physics and one of the founding fathers of the nation's nuclear energy. During the 1970s, he was sent to a southern island as a reformed 'bad element' and lived in a cattle shed. Under dim light, he derived crucial nuclear physics formulas on scraps of straw paper, laying the theoretical foundation for the country's future major scientific projects. He was extremely frail, wearing a threadbare Zhongshan suit, with one leg of his glasses tied with string. Su Ci recognized him from future textbooks and secretly helped him survive.
