I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 909: They are different, and I am proud to award them with awards.

The news that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics and the Wolf Prize in Physics caused a sensation in the international mathematics and physics circles in just half an hour, and spread back to China at an extremely fast speed.

For the media industry, the names "Qin Ke" and "Ning Qingyun" now mean huge traffic, but the domestic media do not dare to report some groundless news casually, but the two young academicians are particularly low-key. , does not accept interviews and does not easily speak out online, and usually only appears on the campus of Qingmu University, making breaking news particularly difficult to find. Therefore, the media naturally reported crazy news about winning awards like this, and even did not hesitate to learn from the self-media to use various methods. This kind of headline-making behavior is just to increase click-through rates and traffic.

"my country's two youngest academicians once again won these two world-class awards! 》

"Academician Qin and Academician Ning have created a miracle again!" 》

"Shocking!"incredible!They set this new record! 》

"Get on the hot search!" "The academician couple won four awards in a row"! 》

"Excellence requires no words, the awards will prove it!"Five Wolf Prize medals were awarded to Xia Guo! 》

—The final title shamelessly includes Edward Witten’s medal.

As the media said, the entry #青 academicianshining academician won four top awards again# unexpectedly shot to the top of the hot search list, followed by the word "explosion" to show how popular this hot search was.

However, although the response from Xia Guo's netizens was enthusiastic, it was not particularly enthusiastic. At least it was much duller than the response when Qin Ke and Qin Ke won the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel Peace Prize at the same time. Most of them were just Leave【666】【Proud!satisfy!Excited] [The couple who are the greatest academicians in our country are worthy of all awards] and other complimentary comments, and then they stopped paying much attention to this incident.

After all, netizens subconsciously believe that it is natural for Qin Kening Qingyun to win the award, and the Wolf Prize is not well-known in Xia State. In the eyes of most ordinary netizens, its popularity is not as good as the country’s highest science and technology award-this is also the Wolf Prize. One of the reasons why the Wolf Foundation plans to set up an awards branch venue in Xiaguo to expand its influence.

The reaction of Xia Guo's academic and scientific research circles was completely opposite to that of ordinary netizens.For experts and scholars who understand what the Wolf Prize means, this news is nothing less than a bombshell, which shocked them so much that they were speechless for a long time. Even Qin Ke and his wife had not received two Nobel Prizes before. They were such a big shock.

After all, before Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun, the youngest Nobel Prize winner in physics, William Lawrence Bragg, was only 25 years old when he won the prize, and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousaf Zai, His winning age was even 17 years old - of course, the Nobel Peace Prize has been spoiled. People like Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun won the Peace Prize for their real work in solving desertification problems and food crises. It's a minority.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, who were 22 years old at the time, won the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Peace Prize, which was not much different from these records.

Even when Qin Ke and Qin Ke won the Wolf Prize for Agriculture, it did not cause much repercussions. After all, all agricultural awards are regarded as unpopular prizes for "lower people" in the world, and their influence is not great.

But the Wolf Prize in Mathematics is different from the Wolf Prize in Physics. They are both top awards with huge influence, and are often only awarded to senior scientists over 60 years old. They are truly the "Old Man Prize". The few exceptions are also over 40 years old.

For example, Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat's Last Theorem, won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics at the age of 42. Chaos theory master Mitchell Feigenbaum, and cosmology and black hole theory master Stephen William Hawking respectively won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. The 42-year-old and the 46-year-old won the Wolf Prize in Physics.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, who won two of the most famous Wolf Prizes at once, and lowered their age record from 42 to 24, how could they not shock and envy scholars, professors and experts? ?
In particular, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have already won all the top grand slams in physics, and are only one Abel Prize away from the top grand slams in mathematics!

The most important thing is that they are not yet 25 years old!

Some people quickly adjusted their mentality: Okay, okay, some people are born to break the rules. For example, the original Dirac Medal had always adhered to the rules and would not be awarded to Fields Medal winners and Nobel Prize winners. Later, Didn't he still break his own rules and award them to Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun?
There are also a small number of narrow-minded people who are so jealous that they can't even eat or sleep well. They can't get any big prize that they long for in their lives, but those two "little kids" who think they are too small for their own grandchildren seem to have no need to spend money. If they keep getting the big prizes one after another - oh, in fact, these grand prizes do not cost money, and they can also get bonuses - how can they not make their mentality unbalanced?
But no matter what the mentality of domestic colleagues is, they cannot have any impact on the results of such a grand prize. Moreover, the news that the two won two Wolf Prizes has just fermented for two days. On January 1, the World Food Prize Fund The conference announced the list of winners of the latest "World Food Prize".

"After rigorous and serious selection, our foundation has decided to award this year's World Food Award to Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingjun from Qingmu University in Xia Guo, in recognition of their cultivation of the perfect desert sweet potato and the creation of the Computational seed science has made a huge contribution to solving the problems of desertification and famine, and improving the efficiency of plant breeding!"

As soon as the news came out, it once again shocked the world.

The World Food Prize is the highest international honor in the field of agriculture, slightly better than the Wolf Prize in Agriculture. This award was established in 1986 by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug and is awarded annually. The prize is US$25 for "individuals who have made outstanding contributions to providing nutritious and sufficient food for mankind."

Originally, this award was only influential in the agricultural and botany circles, but unfortunately the timing of releasing the list of winners was perfectly timed. It happened to be when Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun became famous all over the world for their two Wolf Prizes. The reputation of the Food Prize Foundation and the World Food Prize has also reached new heights.

Therefore, many people criticize the World Food Prize Foundation for "simplifying traffic".

Yes, even the top prize in agriculture is just the icing on the cake for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun at this time. On the contrary, their reputation will be enhanced because of them.

Of course, the World Food Prize Foundation denied it and repeatedly stated that it was just a coincidence. However, it is true that many award selection agencies joined in the fun and issued statements after January 1, stating that they would award the award to Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingyun of Xia Guo. .

Some of these awards are indeed quite famous, such as the "Kyoto Prize Medal", "Prince of Asturias Award", "Shaw Award", "Kavli Nanoscience Prize", etc., but most of them are second or third prizes. An award that is not even popular.

These awards are basically set up by small countries and small foundations, and some are set up by private companies themselves. The prizes only range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, and their reputation and influence are very small.

These second- and third-rate awards have successfully attracted traffic and increased their reputation, and have appeared in many large international media. This has further intensified the momentum of "awarding" to Qin Ke and Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun in January. Here, more than a hundred awards and medals, large and small, have been "awarded" one after another.

News about the two winning awards almost never stopped in the following week, so much so that some people jokingly said: "Others are proud to win awards, but Academician Qin and his wife are different. They are proud to be awarded awards." "

Just when the media and the Internet were talking a lot about this "awards craze", Qin Ke suddenly issued a scarf and expressed his gratitude to various award agencies from all over the world for their recognition of him and his wife Ning Qingjun, but suggested that more changes should be made. Many awards are given to other scientists who need positive encouragement. Spring is not a single standout, but spring is when a hundred flowers bloom. The development of world scientific and technological civilization cannot be promoted by an individual, but requires the joint efforts of countless outstanding scientists.

At the end of the bib, Qin Ke even said that in the first half of this year, he will only accept the two Wolf Prizes and the World Food Prize that were first awarded to the couple on or before January 1, and the rest will be awarded to him one after another after January 22. He and Ning Qingyun's awards and medals, no matter how big or small, were all declined.

As soon as this scarf was released, it quickly spread all over the world's Internet. The news that Academician Qin declined hundreds of awards once dominated the headlines of major media, making those second- and third-rate "grand awards" quite uproar. Although he looked a bit disgraced, he attracted praises from countless people.

[Academician Qin, who is amazing to me, rejected hundreds of awards in one go!I have even heard of some of the awards, they are awards with a long history. 】【Sober in the world, indifferent to fame and wealth, he is indeed my favorite male god! 】

[Big thumbs up, big awards like the "Kyoto Award" and "Shaw Award" are just that. Those small awards that can't even be found are actually embarrassed to be awarded to our Academician Qin, Academician Ning?This act of siphoning off traffic is so disgusting, and now Academician Qin’s decision is simply very satisfying. 】

[I envy Academician Qin so much... He refuses the award until he is soft-hearted, but I hope for the award and see through it.As a doctorate dog, even if you give me the most inconspicuous small prize, I will be happy for a few days... At least a thousand dollars can improve my food for a month. 】

[Upstairs, do the math. You can book your own air ticket to receive the award. The round-trip air ticket will cost more than a thousand dollars. Going to receive the award will be a huge loss. 】

The Internet was filled with joy, and even those scholars and professors who were originally jealous of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun had to sigh that Qin Ke's decision was truly remarkable.

At least in this era when many scholars are relying on foreign pheasant universities to obtain diplomas and academic qualifications, and are complacent about winning some unknown foreign "grand prizes", people like Qin Ke have not even won the famous "Kyoto Prize" and "Astu Prize". It is simply unique that he has declined prestigious awards such as the Prince of Rias Award and the Shaw Award.

After Qin Ke's scarf was released, this crazy wave of "awards craze" finally stopped.

Those minor awards have become a laughing stock, but the management organizations of those major awards have shown excellent emergency handling methods. For example, the Shaw Prize Foundation Co., Ltd., the management organization of the "Shaw Award", quickly issued a statement in response, saying He understood and supported the decision of the two young academicians and said humorously:
“This year’s Mathematical Science Prize will be given to other mathematicians while respecting the wishes of the two academicians. However, considering that Liu Bei visited Zhuge Kongming’s thatched cottage in ancient times, we at the Shaw Prize Foundation are also willing to continue to try to give the prize next year and the year after that. Academician Qin and Academician Ning present the Mathematical Science Award. After all, according to the award rules, as the two masters of mathematics who have achieved the most outstanding mathematical research achievements in the world and are still active in the field of mathematics, they are the top candidates for this award."

The Inamori Foundation, the management body of the "Kyoto Prize", also expressed its condolences and said that these two academicians will still be given priority in the selection of the next "Advanced Technology Award" and "Basic Science Award" in recognition of their contribution to mankind. He has made outstanding contributions to the development of science and civilization.

Such a statement was met with applause.

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Amid this craze, Qin Ke and his team were still walking low-key through remote mountain villages in the prairie, inspecting various student aid projects.

He had already discussed with Ning Qingyun before handing out the scarf. Now that the two of them had no shortage of big prizes, why should they stand at the forefront of the storm?Even if it was the World Food Award, Qin Ke only accepted it because it was a world-class award specified in the system mission "Please continue to obtain the honor of the top of science", otherwise he would have simply rejected it.

Now that he is in such a prestigious position, except for a handful of major awards such as the Nobel Prize, Wolf Prize, Abel Prize, Chern Prize, and Crafford Prize, which are worthy of him, all other awards awarded to him are regarded as Taking advantage of his reputation.

After giving out the scarves, Qin Ke stopped caring about these chores and focused on the inspection activities of the student aid project in front of him. In addition to coaxing his children to enjoy family happiness, Qin Ke spent his free time with Ning Qingyun, Edward Witten, Together with Lao Tao, they studied the topic of "Application of string theory to control the 'random events of decay' of radioactive elements."

By the way, on the second day after entering the prairie, the group met Secretary-General Huo Baoyan, who happened to be here for a year-end inspection, and her assistant, Qin Ke's high school classmate Wu Zhu.

There was joy in the reunion. Huo Baoyan had fully recovered from her injuries and was in excellent spirits. Seeing Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, the two "little bosses" who had saved her life and changed her destiny, her eyes were a little red. .

Wu Zhu was even more excited. Under Qin Ke's persuasion, he gave up teaching at Shicun Primary School and joined the Qing Ning Student Aid Foundation. He discovered the value of his work and gained love with Xu Jialing. Now the two have met. Both parents' marriage was also on the agenda. How could Wu Zhu not be grateful to Qin Ke?

After the pleasantries, Qin Ke simply invited Huo Baoyan and Wu Zhu to accompany him, just in time to learn more about the foundation's operations over the past year.

So the team for this inspection grew again.

Naturally, the group was warmly welcomed by the villagers in the various mountain villages where the aid was provided. The innocent smiling faces of the children also made everyone deeply aware of the significance and value of student aid.

But Qin Ke also discovered some problems. At present, the Green Lemon Student Aid Foundation has only solved the problems of "from scratch" and "from decline to continuation" of primary schools in mountainous areas. However, the teaching staff is weak and the educational resources lag behind those in big cities. The situation cannot be changed for the time being.

The gap between urban and rural areas can no longer be ignored, let alone remote mountain villages with even worse conditions.

If he wants to truly solve this problem, he may have to wait until he actually develops a rural teacher robot equipped with extremely advanced AI in the future, so that the teaching resources and level of rural primary schools can be relatively close to that of urban primary schools.

Of course, urbanization is a trend of the times, and more and more rural villagers will move to cities, but Qin Ke always insists that as long as there are still children in remote mountain villages who want to study, it is necessary for the Green Lemon Student Aid Foundation to continue Implement student assistance programs.

Just to see the innocent smiles on the faces of the children in the mountain villages, just to have a different future where knowledge can change their destiny.

Another problem is that there are still few crop varieties that can withstand high temperatures, droughts, and severe cold and snow, and the planting area in remote mountainous areas is limited.

Qin Ke said to Huo Baoyan and Wu Zhu: "Sister Huo, Zhuzi, this year's summer and winter will be difficult. Common crops will basically suffer a huge loss or even be unable to survive. You must tell the officials in various places and remind the villagers in remote mountainous areas. Take disaster prevention measures in advance and prepare disaster prevention materials. In addition, the Lime Plant Breeding Laboratory has successfully developed a batch of new crop seeds that are resistant to high temperatures, droughts, and severe cold and snow in the past two years. They should be handed over to Da Nong Seed Industry. The seeds are produced and sold. You contact the large agricultural seed industry, and then purchase in large quantities and distribute them to villagers in remote mountain villages for planting."

The economy in remote mountainous areas is more vulnerable to pressure, and the villagers' lives, which have just improved, cannot withstand severe crop yield reductions or even crop failures throughout the year, so they must be given focused care and support.

"Yes, we understand, and we will start implementing it today!"

Huo Baoyan and Wu Zhu had no doubts about Qin Ke's judgment and acted quickly that day...

The inspection trip of Qin Ke and his party lasted for more than two weeks. Seeing that the New Year was approaching and New Year's Eve was very close, they ended their trip and flew back to Yuanzhou to prepare for the Spring Festival.

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