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Chapter 809 The upcoming Nobel Prize Ceremony

只要关注诺贝尔奖的朋友都清楚，诺贝尔奖每年举办颁奖典礼的时间都固定在12月10日下午，地点为瑞典斯德哥尔摩市政厅。选择这个日子自然是有着特殊的意义——诺贝尔正是1896年12月10日下午4：30去世的。每年选择固定的这个颁奖典礼时间，正是为了纪念这位对人类进步和文明做出过重大贡献的科学家。

However, the award ceremony held by the Stockholm City Hall in Sweden only awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Economics. The Swedish Nobel Committee invited the king to issue a Nobel Prize certificate to each winner. , Medals And Bonuses.

The Nobel Peace Prize is an exception. It is not awarded in Sweden, but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee at the invitation of the King of Norway to present it at the Oslo City Hall, also on the afternoon of December 12.

The location of the two is inconsistent, which made this year because of the holding of the award ceremony, the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Norwegian Nobel Committee had a lot of quarrels.

After all, two scientists who won both the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Peace Prize were born in this session for the first time.

The Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Norwegian Nobel Committee were responsible for the selection, and each kept the results of the awards confidential. Until October 10, the Swedish Nobel Committee announced that Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun had won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which has already completed the entire voting process, decided to abide by the voting results after urgent discussions, and awarded the Peace Prize to Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun as originally planned.

Then it was time for the two Nobel committees to wrangle, and they had a heated argument about which award ceremony Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun would attend.

After all, the locations of the award ceremonies originally planned by the two countries are too far apart, even if it takes two and a half hours by plane, it is obviously unrealistic for two Nobel laureates to travel back and forth to attend the award ceremony.However, if the two winners were to give up any award ceremony, it would be a result neither of the two Nobel committees wanted to see.

Later, a few respected elders who had served as judges for many years came out to mediate, saying that Mr. Nobel entrusted the selection of the Peace Prize to Norway in the hope that Sweden and Norway could maintain peace, so there should be no quarrel over this matter.

In the end, the Swedish and Norwegian Nobel committees each took a step back.The King of Sweden lowered his posture and invited the King and Queen of Norway to visit Stockholm on December 12.

In this way, there is also an explanation for the Norwegian nationals-because the king and queen are visiting abroad, the Nobel Peace Prize cannot be awarded in the Oslo City Hall, so they can only "swiftly" place the awarding place in a large Norwegian nobleman in Stockholm. Inside the hotel.

This hotel is only a 15-minute drive from the Stockholm City Hall, which is convenient for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun to go to different venues.

In return for the concession made by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the Swedish Nobel Committee agreed to postpone the awarding time from the original 16:00 to 17:00, so that the two Nobel Peace Prize winners could first receive the award from the King of Norway at 16:00. After receiving the Nobel Peace Medal and having cordial talks, he took a leisurely ride back to the Stockholm City Hall to attend the awarding ceremony of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

One is a time concession, the other is a place concession. For the first time in history, the conflict caused by two great scientists winning the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel Peace Prize at the same time has finally been successfully resolved.

After this incident, both the Swedish and Norwegian Nobel committees began to deliberately avoid such "trouble" and refused to "make an exception" to award the prize to the same class of scientists.This also makes Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun unique "special cases" in the history of the Nobel Prize, who won both the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel Peace Prize in the same session.

Of course, these discussions between the Swedish and Norwegian Nobel Committee members did not leave Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun alone and made decisions independently, and both of them had been solicited for their opinions in advance.Qin Ke didn't want Ning Qingyun, who was pregnant with a baby, to go back and forth on planes in order to receive the award, so he made his attitude clear early on.

In the end, Qin Ke's attitude was also a key factor that contributed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to change the awarding city to Stockholm.

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The Nobel Prize was originally the focus of attention every year. These "disputes" behind the award ceremony attracted more attention from the media, and various news and reports were serialized, making Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, the parties concerned, even if they were very low-key, they still continued. Becoming the focus of global attention, especially after the photo of the two of them was published on the cover of Time Magazine, it directly set off an upsurge of "studying" these two young mathematicians and scientists.

This is the youngest couple of scientists ever published in Time Magazine. With the aura of double Nobel Prize winners, the two have a very high reputation among ordinary people all over the world.

Many writers and self-media people have seized this top-level traffic, and quickly started writing small essays, such as "Two or Three Things About Professor Tao Zhexuan and Professor Qin Ke", "The Shocking Rise of a Small Town as a Questioner", "Hand in Hand, Never Stop——The Scientific Research Road of Academician Xia Guoqin Ke and Academician Ning Qingyun" "Two Great Mathematicians and Three Mathematical Conjectures"...

Countless people watched it with gusto, no matter whether it was true or not, photos of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were printed and sold by various people, and countless parents with children bought them and posted them at home to educate their children at any time... …

These frenzy and turmoil from the outside world were transmitted back to China from abroad, causing an even bigger wave of frenzy.

But fortunately, with the strict protection of Qingmu University, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, who lived in the ivory tower, did not suffer too much trouble from these frenzy.

The life and work of the two are still simple and pure.

On the contrary, Qin Xiaoke's popularity in the school skyrocketed, and he suddenly became a "man of the hour" in the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Originally, her cultural subject scores in the college entrance examination ranked among the top ten in the school, which attracted a lot of attention. She was called "the goddess of both wisdom and beauty", which made Qin Xiaoke excited for a long time. After a while, after all, she looks immature and smaller than her peers. She was called a "beautiful girl" before, but this is the first time she has been called a "goddess".

Then in October, she was dug out as the younger sister of Academician Qin, and became the focus of attention. Even the professors in the college greeted her with smiles, and the leaders of the college also cared for her. Plus, take good care of her, she can choose any position of class monitor and president of the student union, but Qin Xiaoke is not interested in it.

It can be said that Qin Xiaoke's college time was very beautiful and happy. Except that he didn't make any sincere girlfriends, he didn't have too many regrets, and there were no short-sighted dudes who dared to provoke her—of course, the pursuit of There are still many boys of hers, whether it is the boys from Jingyang Academy of Fine Arts or Qingmu University, there are definitely not a few boys who launch a love offensive against Qin Xiaoke.

It's just that Qin Xiaoke doesn't like any of them. He never dates any boys. After class, he goes back to Qingmu University's villa. He either practices painting by himself, or walks the dog, or chats with his sister-in-law Ning Qingyun, giving her the best of luck. The baby tells stories and sings, which is called "prenatal education in advance".

Qin Ke sometimes wants to laugh when he sees it, because such a young baby has not even grown his hearing organs...

Compared with Qin Xiaoke's "magnificent" campus life, the lives of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are relatively much calmer.

Ning Qingyun still practiced the Oriental Secret Code every day, because she hadn't yet shown her pregnancy, no one knew she was pregnant with a baby for more than two months when she was walking on the road or standing on the podium.

Ning Qingyun's appearance is also the same as usual, like a young girl of eighteen or nineteen years old, without any trace of age, so she is also enviously called "Goddess of Frozen Age" by the students of Qingmu University in private.

In addition to normal teaching, teaching students, and doing research, Ning Qingyun's focus is on the two babies in her womb. Every night, she spends her spare time reading parenting books with Tian Jianlan and Qin Xiaoke, the old and the young. Books, imagining the scene after the baby is born, sometimes Qin Ke will join in and chat together, but the number of times is not too many.

Qin Ke never wanted to tie Ning Qingyun by his side, so seeing her getting along so well with academician Tian Jianlan and Qin Xiaoke, he was happy to see it happen, and hoped that this would become Ning Qingyun's exclusive Social relaxation time.

As for work and scientific research, although Qin Ke did not deliberately increase the intensity of scientific research, he did not slow down. The mysterious message from the distant universe and the main task of the system all herald a catastrophe in the future world. Qin Ke Naturally, Ke will not take it lightly, and he must work hard to do what he should do.

Just to avoid making Ning Qingjun too tired, Qin Ke took the initiative to take on more scientific research tasks.Originally, the division of labor between the two was about 6:4, but now it has gradually changed to 7:3, that is, Qin Ke's workload has risen from 60% to 70%, and Ning Qingyun's workload has dropped to 30%. .

Generally speaking, everything is going smoothly. The research of the various laboratories under the two men, whether it is the analysis of the causes of extreme abnormal weather in the country and its future deduction, the research and development of the second-generation topological quantum superconducting material, the re-optimization of the perfect desert sweet potato, or The research and development of chip materials under the guidance of "Mr. Q" and the research of seawater desalination in Yuanzhou are in full swing.

There are capable scientific research managers for each topic, so that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun don't need to take action on ordinary problems. Usually, the two mainly guide the experimental plan and revise the research route.

The only thing that needs to be done by two people is mathematics.Yang-Mills' "mass gap problem" is still slowly advancing. The difficulty of this millennium problem is indeed very high. It is not an easy task to completely solve the problem.

Now Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are constantly trying to launch attacks in various ways. Although they still haven't found a clear idea, the constant trial and error has narrowed the most likely direction of success narrower and narrower.

There is nothing to worry about leading graduate students. After all, they can become their graduate students. Whether they are from home or abroad, they are all outstanding ones. They have quick thinking and draw inferences from one instance. It is not difficult for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun to guide them.

What really made the two of them a little nervous was the pair of twin girls who were pregnant with hope for the future.

Pregnancy with twins is indeed more difficult. Ning Qingjun's pregnancy was not obvious at the beginning, but it became a bit serious in the eighth week of pregnancy. She vomited after eating something sweet and greasy, and she couldn't even smell it. She couldn't sleep well, and later she asked the most famous old Chinese doctor to write a diet therapy list, and the three doctors and nurses who lived with her in the villa took good care of her. In addition, Ning Qingyun insisted on practicing the oriental secret classics, and the serious pregnancy was in the past. After more than ten days, it slowly disappeared. Compared with other ordinary mothers who are pregnant for five to six weeks, they are much happier.

And every pregnancy test was a nervous process for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, the parents-to-be, for fear that there would be something unusual about the two babies.

Even great scientists like Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, who have experienced many storms and stood on the world stage, still have their hearts beating faster when they are waiting for the pregnancy test report, and they hold each other's hands nervously.

——Qin Ke is not used to this feeling of being out of control, but life, a taboo unknown field, has too many uncontrollable factors, unlike mathematics, where the correct answer can always be found.Life is more like a rare miracle born after countless collisions of random functions.

Fortunately, the early Tang screening, NT examination, and non-invasive DNA all passed the test all the way, and all the indicators were very normal, showing that the two babies were growing up healthily in Ning Qingyun's womb, which made Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's half-suspended heart finally let go, and the elders who cared about them, such as Uncle Yang and his wife, Uncle Chen and his wife, Jiang Weixian, Tian Jianlan, etc., all heaved a sigh of relief.

After passing these checkpoints, the follow-up is basically flat.

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The time has come to the end of November in a blink of an eye, and the footsteps of autumn have come around. The campus is full of yellow leaves and the school road is covered, giving people a kind of incomplete beauty.

As the time for the awarding of the Nobel Prize draws closer, Qin and Ke are also preparing to go abroad.

This trip of the two of them abroad has affected the nerves of countless people, and Wei Feng, the commander-in-chief of the security personnel, is even more busy. I heard that in order to ensure that the two of them can go back and forth safely, countless manpower and material resources have been mobilized. By the way, there are ten full-time accompanying medical staff alone, not to mention the security forces behind the scenes.

This exaggerated treatment made both Qin Ke dumbfounded.

Qin Ke jokingly said, "Brother Feng, why don't we both stop going abroad, so that the country won't waste money and people?"

Wei Feng hurriedly said: "Academician Qin, don't be joking. How many people are looking forward to you to take back these two historic medals? Following your example and joining the scientific community, how could you not accept the award?"

Qin Ke was delighted: "Brother Feng has returned from his busy schedule recently, and he has become a routine when he talks about these things. He has made great progress. Do you want to go into an official career after being demobilized and transferred to another job?"

Wei Feng said helplessly: "I hear similar words dozens of times a day, and I almost recite them... Academician Qin, please don't worry, we will do everything possible to ensure your safety, so as not to affect you and your relatives and friends. Normal social activities abroad."

Qin Ke also sympathized with the difficulties of Wei Feng's responsibilities, especially when he thought of the 56 places in the group of relatives and friends between himself and Ning Qingyun, which really caused Wei Feng a lot of trouble, so he will arrange it now.

Yes, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have a total of 56 quotas for relatives and friends.

According to the usual practice, a Nobel laureate can take 14 relatives and friends abroad to attend the award ceremony, and during the period, food and accommodation are included, and travel expenses are reimbursed.Because Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun won two Nobel Prizes at the same time, they were specially allowed to double the quota of their relatives and friends, making Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's original 28 quotas directly become 56 quotas .

56 places may not seem like a lot, but it is not an easy task to find all 56 people and take a good share of the "wool" of the Swedish and Norwegian Nobel Committees.

Just for this quota, it took Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun a day to finally make a decision.

(End of this chapter)