Zhou got support from so-called overseas Chinese scientists , who had begun to visit their homeland in droves , like Chen-Ning Yang , then of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton , N.Y. , and Tsung-Dao Lee , of Columbia University , who were Nobelists and heroes in China , and who talked up the importance of basic research to Mao and others .
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