Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 108 56
After returning from the visa application in London, Chen Muwu returned to the laboratory and continued to devote himself to the experiment of electron diffraction.

Although the efficiency of taking two photos per day is not high, as the operation becomes more and more proficient, the experiment is getting better and better.

Chen Muwu also followed the teaching of his teacher Rutherford, and took time out to write a letter recording the preliminary results of the experiment and sent it to the editorial department of "Nature".

In the next ten days, he and de Broglie changed the four materials of gold foil, aluminum foil, platinum foil and celluloid sheet, and changed the accelerating voltage, and conducted comparative experiments on electrons of different wavelengths. .

After sorting out and calculating the experimental results, the comparison between the lattice lengths of various diffraction materials and the lengths measured by X-rays, the error between the two is not more than one percent, this result is enough to show that electrons are indeed a kind of Wave.

The experiment came to an end. As usual, after the paper was finished, Chen Muwu still sent it to the Journal of Natural Sciences.

De Broglie also personally wrote a French version of the paper and submitted it to a related journal of the French Academy of Sciences.

During the experiment, De Broglie also received a reply letter from his teacher Langevin, agreeing to take him to the Solvay meeting.

So after the experiment was completed, De Broglie did not leave Cambridge and return to Paris immediately, but stayed in the UK, planning to go to Belgium with everyone in the Cavendish Laboratory after a while.

As for the vacuum pump that had completed its mission, he also donated it to the Cavendish Laboratory.

Unlike De Broglie, who had nothing to do and ran to London to watch George Bernard Shaw's new play "Joan of Arc" in the past few days before his departure, Chen Muwu's place here is one mountain.

Because this experiment was completed by Chen Muwu and De Broglie together, he had no reason to sign his own name on the paper, and his plan to write it as a graduation thesis was also in vain, so he had to find a new one again. direction.

Fortunately, at this time, Stoner delivered a life-saving straw.

After finishing the electron diffraction experiment, Chen Muwu joined Stoner's group next door, thinking about writing a new paper on the incompatibility principle as soon as possible, and taking this theoretical paper as his graduation thesis.

In addition, several trivial things happened in his life.

First, as the weather got warmer, Best of the Swimming Club started recovery training in the Cam River again, in order to prepare for this year's Cambridge-Oxford Joint Games.

Chen Muwu also tried to go into the water a few times. Although he hadn't been in the water all winter, his body functions were still there, and his speed was basically the same as last year.

Last year, because of Oxford University, a New Zealander who swam very fast turned out to have almost swept the entire swimming competition, making Cambridge University lose face.

After a whole year of hard work and courage, and with Chen Muwu as a strong player, Best is determined to win this year, and he insists on letting Oxford University experience the pain of being dominated.

It's just that there is an embarrassing thing that makes the president of the club a little worried, that is, Chen Muwu said that he will go to Belgium to attend a physics conference in late April, and he doesn't know if he will be able to come back before the sports meeting , Let him feel completely elated once.

There is another thing. After holding the manuscript and discussing with Chen Muwu several times about the plot direction, Ye Gongchao finally finished the book "Murder on the Paris Express".

His plot and psychological descriptions in this version are very good. After Chen Muwu read it, he felt that this masterpiece, which was published a few years earlier, would definitely crush all the current detective novels on the market, including the Fu Manchu series of course.

He persuaded Ye Gongchao to find a publishing house as soon as possible, let this novel come out, and be prepared to make a lot of money.

But a few days later, Ye Gongchao, who came to Chen Muwu with the manuscript, had a depressed expression on his face.

When he was studying at Amherst College in Massachusetts, USA, he published a collection of English poetry under the guidance of the school's professor Robert Frost.

Ye Gongchao originally thought that he had publishing experience, and this novel was well written, so it shouldn't be a problem to publish it in the UK.

So he went to London excitedly with the manuscript, and visited many large publishing houses, but because of his nationality, basically no one was willing to publish the book for him, and many people didn't even read the manuscript.

Even if one or two small workshop-like publishing houses agreed to publish, these black-hearted businessmen all pressed the royalties to an extremely low price.

Ye Gongchao, who was bumping into walls everywhere, couldn't make up his mind. In addition, he was about to graduate and had a lot of things to deal with, so he had to go back to Cambridge first, and bring the manuscript to Chen Muwu to discuss how to do this matter.

Chen Muwu remembered that he still had a group of rich and powerful good brothers in Cambridge, that is, the group of people from the Apostle Club.

So he took the manuscript from Ye Gongchao, and brought it with him during a regular meeting of members of the Apostolic Society on a Saturday.

When Chen Muwu first heard that he had written a detective novel, everyone felt incredible, thinking that the Chinese genius had played a joke on them.

Isn't he a physics researcher? Why did he suddenly write novels?

Chen Muwu didn't talk nonsense, and directly found a member of the commune who usually liked to write poems and recite them in public, dumped the manuscript to him, and asked him to read the first few paragraphs for him.

At first, everyone didn't think so, but gradually, the venue became quieter.

By the time the great poet read for more than an hour, his mouth was dry and his voice was hoarse, and he planned to take a break, everyone was completely attracted by the story.

"and then?"

"Don't stop, keep going!"

Some people also started to discuss who is the murderer, and even caused a debate in the venue because of this topic.

Of course Chen Muwu didn't want them to listen to the whole story before discussing the publication.

He directly signaled the poet to rest temporarily, and then said to the audience: "Actually, I also have my own selfish intentions in writing this novel, that is, I don't like Saxon Romer and his Fu Manchu. Write a detective novel and fight him in the ring.

"You have already heard part of the story just now, and I'm not boasting. I believe everyone has already understood the level of this book..."

"Chen, it is indeed a good novel! The development of the plot, the conflicts, and the appeal to the readers are all top-notch! I have also read a copy of the Fu Manchu novel you mentioned. Whether it is character creation or storyline, it is incomparable to your book!"

The person who said this was George Rylands, a literature student at King's College and a well-known up-and-coming director in the Cambridge University Drama Club.

He knew very well whether a story was good or bad, so after some of his comments, all the apostles present also nodded in agreement.

"However," Chen Muwu looked at me poorly, "I took this book and traveled to several major publishing houses in London, but no matter which one it was, because of the color of my skin, they didn't even read the contents of the manuscript, and just read it. Tell me straight up that they have no intention of publishing the book.

"That's why I brought the manuscript to this gathering today. I want to ask everyone to brainstorm, talk about their views on this matter, and whether they have any good ideas to solve the problem."

He didn't ask you directly who has the relationship to help me publish this book, but chose to insinuate.

After hearing Chen Muwu's request, the apostles started brainstorming.

Someone said to ask Chen Muwu to give himself the manuscript, and let him, an Englishman, come forward and talk to those publishing houses in London.

This should be regarded as a bad strategy, and Chen Muwu didn't express his opinion.

Some people also said that there is a relationship between their family and a certain publishing house, and they can go home and ask their family members to help them publish this book.

Chen Muwu made a note of the person who said this, and planned to have a private chat with him after the party.

But at this time, someone made another opinion.

"Those publishing houses have suppressed the price to death, and then set the price of the book to be very expensive. In addition, because of the content, they may not vigorously promote this story, so it may not be possible for Chen's book to be published. The novel sells a good sales volume.

"I do have an idea, why don't we come forward and set up a publishing house, with Chen and several other writers present providing works, maybe we can become a hit!"

Founding a publishing house may sound like a fantasy to others.

But in the eyes of the members of the Apostolic Society present, it seems to be a trivial matter.

And this matter quickly attracted everyone's interest, because all along, the young masters of the Apostle Club have been labeled as relying on their family members, and they also want to prove their strength in person, and then this publication The company's idea was delivered to the door.

After getting along with them for a long time, Chen Muwu also began to have their aristocratic thinking.

What he didn't think about was how complicated it was to establish a publishing house, but he had already begun to think about the operation model of the publishing house after its establishment.

Chen Muwu thought of the famous Penguin Publishing House in the future, and he naturally remembered how this publishing house established itself in the UK.

That is to publish cheap, good-quality paperback books that are easy to carry, and adopt the model of small profits but quick turnover, so that the price of a book is equal to the price of a pack of cigarettes, and naturally it can be obtained from the hardcover books that are still serving the upper class. In the book market dominated by books, by opening up the reading market for the public, they can grab a piece of meat.

The business idea he put forward was more than ten years ahead, and soon won the support of the apostles.

Everyone also struck while the iron was hot, and simply took this opportunity to allocate capital investment and shareholding ratio.

Chen Muwu took out the reward for discovering the planet, the personal money he had saved from the living expenses that he could not spend at all, and the two thousand pounds that had been kept in the bank all the time.

Adding up these funds, he took out a total of [-] pounds and became one of the major shareholders of this publishing house.

The reason why he was so forthright with the money this time, and not as timid as when he was considering whether to buy the vacuum pump from General Electric before, was because Chen Muwu knew that this investment would definitely make money.

As for how to register the company, how to join the British Publishers Association, obtain the license of the publishing house, etc., the manpower of dozens of people in the Apostolic Society is completely insufficient. Naturally, the family behind them will come forward and send special personnel to deal with it.

Having found a place for this novel, a stone in Chen Muwu's heart finally fell to the ground.

He told Ye Gongchao about this, and then plunged into Stoner's laboratory.

(End of this chapter)