Upon arrival at He Zehui's home, Premier Wen was delighted to see the 95-year old physicist had recovered from an illness.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao(1st, R) supports He Zehui(C), a renowned Chinese physicist, during his visit to He in Beijing, capital of China, on Aug. 6, 2009.

It was the fifth consecutive visit by Wen to He in the past five years after her husband, physicist Qian Sanqiang, died in 1992.

Qian and He were described as China's Marie and Pierre Curie by Western media when the former couple jointly discovered a new method of nuclear fission in the 1940s.

Both Qian and He were engaged in groundbreaking research and development of nuclear energy for military and civic purposes. As a leading nuclear expert Qian also delivered a lecture to Mao Zedong and other senior political leaders.

"Comrade Qian made a great contribution to China and you are also one of China's most prominent scientists," Wen told He.