Physics Discipline of Nankai University will celebrate its centennial in October 2022. On October 16, the launch ceremony of the centennial of the establishment of Physics discipline of Nankai University was held, with the attendance of Yang Qingshan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Nankai University, and Ge Molin, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

At the event, Zhang Guoquan, Dean of the School of Physics released the centennial announcement (No. 1) and held the launch ceremony of the centennial of the establishment of Physics discipline of Nankai University.

In his speech, Yang Qingshan pointed out that in nearly 100 years of development, Nankai physics, with the successive efforts of generations of physicists, has gradually established the development concept of equal emphasis on theory and experiment, integration and innovation of science and education, and provide service to national needs. We have condensed and formed a discipline system led by theoretical physics, optics and condensed matter physics, trained a large number of outstanding physics talents, achieved a series of original scientific research results and made important contributions to the development of Chinese physics and the progress of national science and education. Through the unremitting efforts of several generations, Physics discipline of Nankai University has developed into a physics teaching and research base that is known nationwide and of significance worldwide, and is making solid progress towards the goal of becoming a world-class discipline.

To commemorate Prof. Shen Shouchun’s outstanding contributions to experimental physics, the alumni of Nankai physics have established the Shen Shouchun Experimental Physics Scholarship in 1989. This year, the alumnus Ge Yi funded and re-established the Shen Shouchun Experimental Physics Scholarship to encourage Nankai students’ innovation in experimental physics.

This year coincides with the 130th anniversary of the birth of the famous physicist Rao Yutai. After the launch ceremony, Rao Yutai Lecture was held, and academician Ge Molin gave a lecture titled “The Achievements of Yang Zhenning in Physics”, which was also the first academic event celebrating the centennial of the establishment of Physics discipline of Nankai University.

In the following year, the School of Physics of Nankai University will carry out commemorative activities around academic exchange, talent training and alumni activities, including national academic conferences, frontier physics workshops, alumni forums, dean’s forums, and filming of the promotional film “Centennial of Nankai Physics”.

(Reported by Qiao Renming, photographed by Nie Jici, edited and translated by Nankai News Team.)