Ye Zhetai
Ye Zhetai was a physics professor who taught mechanics, quantum theory, relativity, and the big bang theory at his university, a man who held the laws of nature to be more binding than any political doctrine.
Ye Zhetai is brought out last at a struggle session at Tsinghua during the Cultural Revolution, saved for the end because victims like him, who will neither repent nor go numb, have grown rare. The others wear tall hats on bamboo frames, but his is made of thick steel bars welded together. The plaque hung from his neck is an iron door from a laboratory oven, with his name written on it in black and struck through with a red X.
Six Red Guards bring him onstage, twice the usual escort: two young men in their fourth year, who are his own students, and four younger girls from the junior high attached to the campus, in uniforms and bandoliers. The charge is that between 1962 and 1965 he added Einstein's work to the introductory course on his own authority. He answers that no basic survey course can leave it out, then stands silent under the weight of the iron hat and plaque.
How far into The Three-Body Problem have you read?
Set your place and this page rewrites itself to exactly that point. Nothing ahead of you will show.