In 2004, this old American woman who lived in China for 56 years was the first foreigner to get a green card in China. She was over 80 years old when she got the green card. If someone went to the cow base in Xiaowangzhuang, Changping more than ten years ago, you can still see this old woman, and now you will never see her again. Ms Joan Hinton died of illness on 20 10.
This woman who has been raising cattle for decades at Xiaowangzhuang Experimental Station in Changping turned out to be a high flyers graduate of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the University of Chicago. Her teacher is the famous Fermi, and she participated in the famous Manhattan Project. The result of this project is the successful development of the atomic bomb. And finally invest in Japan, prompting the Japanese to surrender unconditionally.
When Ms. Joan Hinton went to school in Chicago, she was in the same class as a native of China. The China native later won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and at the age of 82, he married a 28-year-old young lady, the famous Yang Zhenning, and Ms. Joan Hinton was Yang Zhenning's teacher elder sister.
When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, Ms. Joan Hinton felt sorry for her career after seeing the great power of the atomic bomb. She thought that the atomic bomb was too horrible, so she came to China with her boyfriend Irving Engelster and went to Yan 'an to raise cattle for decades.
In 1950s, her husband Erwin Engst served as the deputy director of Xi 'an Dairy Farm, and Ms. Joan Hinton served as a technician. And both of them are engaged in improving the quality of dairy cows and innovating agricultural machinery.
In the 1970s, the couple transferred to Beijing Hongxing Commune to improve agricultural machinery and realize the mechanization of dairy farming. ? In addition, the project of "Automatic Cleaning and Disinfection of Milk Pipelines" undertaken by Joan Hinton and Irving Ingeste won the second prize of scientific and technological achievements of Beijing Municipal People's Government.
In 1990s, Joan Hinton won the "Magnolia Award". And become a consultant of the mechanical department. After entering the Millennium, Agricultural Machinery Institute awarded Irving Engelster and Joan Hinton "Individual Contribution Award (Golden Bull Award)".