my scientific age

Chapter 241 Do you like aerospace engineering?

Zhao Zhongyao and Feng Kamen knew each other because Zhao Zhongyao's teacher, the Nobel Prize scholar Millikan, acted as a link.

There are often academic meetings and banquets in the school. At one banquet, Zhao Zhongyao met the world's top aerodynamics master. After going back and forth, the relationship between the two sides gradually became familiar, which can be called a good friend.

Before Zhao Zhongyao returned to China, Feng Kamen knew about the misfortune that happened to Zhao Zhongyao, and wrote a letter to Zhao Zhongyao, who was already teaching at Tsinghua University, expressing his protest against this incident.

This is the darkness in the history of the Nobel Prize.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences completely ignored Zhao Zhongyao's paper and awarded Anderson the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of antimatter phenomena, just because Zhao Zhongyao came from a weak China.

His identity as a Chinese made him unable to win the Nobel Prize!
It is undoubtedly a devastating blow to a scholar who has made Nobel Prize-level achievements but failed to receive the honor he deserves.

Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics, also publicly protested after learning about this, and before Zhao Zhongyao returned to China, he specially gave 50 mg of radium, which is the source of 50 mg of radium in the laboratory.

You must know that radium, a radioactive substance, is the basic material for the study of nuclear physics. It is embargoed by countries all over the world, and it is one of the highest-level controlled resources.

At this moment, there is an atmosphere of joy in the laboratory.

After a brief accident and shock, Professor Zhao Zhongyao reacted immediately, stepped forward quickly, and greeted Feng Kamen with a smile on his temples and white face.

However, Yu Hua is still in a dazed state. What's going on? Why is Professor Feng Kamen here?
Yu Hua is very aware of Professor Carmen's gold content and academic status in the field of aviation, but he has no idea about Feng Kamen's daily life and experience, nor is he aware of Feng Kamen's two trips to China.

Yu Hua expressed his surprise to Professor Feng Kamen who is now in the laboratory.

Wait, now that Professor Von Kamen is here, then...

What about Senior Brother Qian?

Yu Hua looked away from Zhao Zhongyao and Feng Kamen, and hurriedly looked at the crowd behind. After careful screening, the entourage, except Professor Ye Qisun, were all strangers, and they did not see the familiar young faces in history.

There are some regrets in my heart, but Yu Hua suddenly remembered the experience of Senior Brother Qian. He entered the Department of Aeronautics of MIT in September 1935. After a year, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September 9. A master's degree in aerospace engineering, and then easily passed the Caltech entrance exam, which is regarded as the most difficult exam by American students, and studied with Von Karmen.

According to the timeline, Brother Qian, who got a master's degree in aerospace engineering from MIT, has not been at Caltech for a year, and it is common sense that he has not followed.

"Professor Carmen, why did you come to Tsinghua?" Zhao Zhongyao took a step back after hugging Feng Kamen, and his words were full of respect.

"Academic visit, my first stop is Europe, the second stop is Moscow, and the third stop is China. It has been eight years since I last came to Tsinghua University. I came to see the development level of your aviation career and conduct academic exchanges. ."

With a peaceful and benevolent smile on his face, Von Karmen looked at Zhao Zhongyao, a 35-year-old scientist at his peak, and explained the purpose and reason of his visit: "Before leaving, Chairman Millikan asked me to bring a sentence to Dr. Zhao Zhongyao, his favorite Chinese student. talk."

"Professor Carmen, what did the teacher say?" Zhao Zhongyao held his breath and was a little nervous.

Feng Kamen took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zhao Zhongyao with a smile.

Zhao Zhongyao took it and opened it, only one sentence was written in the letter.

To dear Zhao:
It's been seven years since you left school, and I heard that you are teaching in your home country, which is a good thing, but I hope you can come back to the academy for cutting-edge research in nuclear physics, which has the best academic environment and hardware Fundamentally, your talents are in the field of scientific research, not pointless teaching in the classroom.

Robert Andrew Millikan, May 1937, 5.

The letter was folded and put into his arms. After reading it, Zhao Zhongyao was full of complicated feelings, moving and entangled. For a physicist with top talent like him, it is indeed the best to go to the United States for nuclear physics research. choice, because China does not have this kind of environment and foundation.

At the age of 35, it is the golden age for a scientist to make achievements.

But as a Chinese... Zhao Zhongyao couldn't let go of his motherland in misery.

"Professor Carmen, thank you." Zhao Zhongyao didn't make a decision in a hurry, packed up his emotions, and expressed his sincere thanks to Feng Carmen.

"This is what I should do, Professor Zhao, this student is..." Feng Kamen smiled and said that he was fine, then turned his attention to Yu Hua who was standing behind him. With the keen awareness of a scholar, he could feel the name of the name. Chinese students look at themselves in very different ways.

"I'm sorry, Yu Sheng, come here." Zhao Zhongyao heard the words and knew what he meant. He turned around and beckoned to Yu Hua, motioning for him to come forward.

Immediately, everyone in the laboratory focused on Yu Hua. Yu Hua let out a sigh of relief, held his breath, and subconsciously straightened his collar, came towards the two of them, and stopped beside Zhao Zhongyao.

This is an opportunity.

A sudden and very precious opportunity.

Yu Hua's choice was to... grab it.

"His name is Yu Hua. He is an assistant I hired, a student of the Department of Computing Science of Tsinghua University, to assist me in conducting nuclear physics experiments. His mathematical calculation ability is very good." Zhao Zhongyao introduced Yu Hua to Feng Kamen.

"Hello, Professor Carmen." Yu Hua greeted Feng Kamen in fluent and standard German and extended his right hand.

"Hello, Yu Hua, my name is Von Kamen, a professor in the Department of Aeronautics at Caltech. Your German is very standard. Can you tell me how you learned it?" Feng Kamen was stunned when he heard the standard German in Yu Hua's mouth. Suddenly, I was a little surprised. I didn't expect to hear such kind German in the country of China. With a smile on my face, I stretched out my right hand.

The two right hands were clasped together and then released naturally.

"When I was in high school, I had a very good foreign language teacher, she knew five foreign languages, and there was also a German physics teacher, who often told me various stories about Germany, and my German came from these two teachers. "Yu Hua spoke calmly and elegantly, and answered with a smile.

Feng Kamen praised: "It seems that you have a very good language talent."

"Thank you for your compliment, Professor Carmen." Yu Hua smiled and accepted the compliment from Feng Kamen.

Zhao Zhongyao, who was standing on the side, was slightly confused, watching Feng Kamen and Yu Hua communicate fluently in German, and was once again surprised by the performance of his 'student assistant'.

Not only Zhao Zhongyao, but Ye Qisun and the school staff behind him were equally confused about the smooth communication between Yu Hua and Feng Kamen.

As a Hungarian, von Kamen studied at Göttingen University and Paris University, and later taught at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. For him, German is far more friendly than English and Hungarian. Yu Hua uses German to communicate, that is, For this reason.

"Yu, Professor Zhao said that your mathematical ability is very good. Do you like aeronautical engineering?"

(End of this chapter)