Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 109 Chapter 57

Just after leaving Longtan, he entered the tiger's lair again. After being "tortured" by a vacuum pump for five hours to take a photo, Chen Muwu went into the next-door laboratory and followed Stoner to irradiate different atoms with X-rays every day to observe their Different states between different energy levels.

Knowing the results of the experiment and the theory behind the experiment, but not being able to say it, the feeling of being forced to keep it secret is really uncomfortable.

After spending more than half a month in the laboratory, Chen Muwu felt that he really couldn't wait any longer.

After finally completing another experiment with a potassium atom and getting exactly the same results as before, he persuaded Stoner that he could try to write a thesis.

Just at this time, it was time to leave for Belgium. Chen Muwu Guan Stoner asked for a copy of the experimental data, and planned to use the journey of these few days to write a first draft, and then go to the Solvay meeting to read out his own data. this new paper.

Because Chen Muwu and Rutherford talked about the graduation thesis, Rutherford initially asked him to use electron diffraction experiments for his doctoral thesis, but because this thesis had an extra collaborator out of thin air, and as the funder, Deb Luo Yi wanted to have his name appear in the big physics journals.

Therefore, Chen Muwu had no choice but to write the paper that verified the volatility of electrons at the same time after the electron diffraction experiment was over, and then submitted them to British and French journals respectively.

Now the content of these two papers is the same, and the papers in different languages ​​have been published in the corresponding journals in April. Some physicists have already got them, while others are still on the road.

But Rutherford disagreed with Chen Muwu's idea, and used a theoretical paper explaining electron orbits (that is, the exclusion principle) as his graduation thesis.

He even half-jokingly and half-angrily told Chen Muwu that it is enough to have one theorist Fowler in the Cavendish laboratory. If Chen Muwu wants to be a theorist, he must at least wait until Fowler retires, or let Bo Er came to be the director and converted the laboratory into the Cavendish Institute for Theoretical Physics.

There is no way, Chen Muwu now wants to graduate this summer, so he can only come up with another experiment.

So after thinking about it for a few days, Chen Muwu had two ideas in his mind about the new experiment.

One is to carry out the Davidson-Germot experiment of bombarding metal surfaces with low-speed electrons to prove the existence of electron fluctuations.

But like Zweig said in "The Great Tragedy", the first to arrive has everything, the second to arrive is nothing.

Although the first to arrive is also himself.

But since he has already done an electron diffraction experiment with high-speed electrons, doing another experiment with low-speed electrons, although it can be said to be the icing on the cake, is not too much after all.

Moreover, Davidson-Germot's experiment has lower accuracy and greater error. In the original time and space, Little Thomson did the high-speed electron diffraction experiment after learning the result of this experiment in order to reduce the error.

The second is that since electrons have been proven to have volatility, on this basis, electron microscopes with a higher resolution than optical microscopes can be developed by using electrons with shorter wavelengths than light.

Of course, in a short period of time, Chen Muwu is unlikely to rub a real thing with his bare hands, but writing down the principle, drawing a structural diagram, developing a small part, such as an electronic lens, and then applying for a patent should still be no problem.

Although the vacuum pump was not paid by Chen Muwu, the Yankee still made a tearful $[-] from his experiment.

He had to take the money back from them hundreds or even thousands of times.

Of course, these are only ideas that exist in the brain now, and Chen Muwu didn't immediately start preparing for the experiment.

Because De Broglie invited them to leave a few days earlier, take a look around Paris, France, and then meet his teacher Langevin and other French scientists there, and it is not too late to leave for Belgium together.

Anyway, taking the train from Paris to Brussels now is only a four-hour drive.

Along with them, apart from Rutherford and de Broglie's servants, there was also Blackett.

Because with the help of Chen Muwu, Blackett discovered the process of nuclear transmutation and oxygen-17 in the photos in advance at the end of last year, which allowed him to successfully get the Moseley Scholarship.

Henry Moseley, still a graduate of Trinity College, was also a British physicist whose main research direction was X-rays.

However, his fate was not very good, and he died young when he was less than 28 years old.

But it wasn't disease that took Moseley's life, it was war.

In 1914, he had just left Manchester University and planned to teach at Oxford University.

Then, World War I broke out, and Moseley responded to the call of the British government to go to war. In the summer of 1915, in Gallipoli, Turkey, he died after being shot in the head by a Turkish sniper.

Compared with Moseley, Eddington, who refused the British government's military service because of his religious beliefs, was undoubtedly much luckier.

If Moseley did not sign up for the army, but stayed in the laboratory and continued to do experiments, then he would very likely win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1916 (the award that year was bye, and he did not win the second prize. annual supplement).

His death forced the British government to adjust the scope of conscription.

Moseley's family also paid out of their own pockets to set up a scholarship named after him in his memory.

Blackett is the second person to receive this scholarship, which can fund him to conduct a one-year exchange activity in a foreign university or research institute.

In the end, Blackett chose the University of Göttingen in Germany. The reason why he came here was to study the energy level of atoms with Professor James Frank.

Frank and Gustav Ludwig Hertz proved the quantum nature of atoms in 1914 because of the Frank-Hertz experiment named after their two surnames. In the original space-time, they will thus obtain the 1925 No. Bell Prize in Physics.

The Hertz above is not the Hertz who used experiments to prove the existence of electromagnetic waves and named the unit of frequency in the International System of Units after him, but his nephew.

Because no matter going to Germany or Belgium, they always have to cross the English Channel and arrive in Calais, France, so Blackett also chose to go with them.

Chen Muwu is very happy that his good friend can get this scholarship to study abroad.

However, it can only be said that he was too happy too early, never thinking that if Blackett leaves so early, he will be the one who will suffer for him next.

De Broglie, who was not short of money, waved his hand and asked the servant to help everyone buy a full set of first-class train and cabin tickets and boat tickets to Paris.

Although Blackett is also a shy character who doesn't talk much, but with Dirac in front of him, De Broglie's impression of him is much better.

After staying in Cambridge for more than a month, De Broglie couldn't escape the temptation of mahjong tiles. Since Kapitsa taught him, he soon fell deeply into it.

Now that they finally had enough time, as soon as they boarded the ship from Dover, De Broglie pulled everyone to the bar on the ship, and the four of them built the Great Wall around the card table.

After playing a few laps, Chen Muwu found that although he was a Chinese, his poker skills seemed to be far inferior to those foreigners who played one or two laps every day. The pocket money in his hand was getting less and less.

Zena, who has won glory for the country for so long on the physics track, did not expect that he lost his master here in the national essence.

Chen Muwu had just planned in his mind to use the exhaustion of the journey as an excuse to leave the poker table after playing this hand. Unexpectedly, a hand stretched out from behind, pointed to a two-of-a-kind card in front of him, and said in standard Mandarin: "Play this."

(End of this chapter)