Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 116 64
Disembark from the ship at Dover and take a train to Victoria Station in London. After leaving the station, the three parted ways.

Old Prague returned to his unit, the David Faraday Laboratory at the Royal Institution.

Rutherford, on the other hand, took Chen Muwu to the editorial office of "Nature" weekly just as he told Chen Muwu on the ship crossing the strait last night.

He asked Chen Muwu to deliver the warm paper he had written overnight on the ship directly to Sir Richard Gregory, the editor-in-chief of Nature.

"I have received papers one after another, and I finally met a real person today, Sir Rutherford, you really have accepted a good student!"

Gregory's flattering skills are really proficient. In a short sentence, he can get two in one shot.

After all, before he took over as the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Rutherford single-handedly brought their journal to fire.

Although Rutherford now retreats behind the scenes and takes up a leadership position, the Cavendish Laboratory under him is still full of talents and produces countless papers every year.

Their "Nature" editorial department must not neglect this big thigh, let alone offend Eddington, who shouldn't be provoked by the unlucky "Philosophical Journal", and Chen Muwu, who seems to be even more inappropriate behind Eddington.

Just like Gregory said, Chen Muwu himself has lost count of how many papers he wrote have been published in this well-known magazine in later generations.

But Chen Muwu knew that he was not the first Chinese to publish a paper in Nature.

As early as 40 years ago, in 1881, Xu Shou published an acoustic paper in "Nature" with only simple experimental methods and primitive experimental equipment.

This Xu Shou is also a big man. He developed China's first steam engine, the first steam ship and steam warship, and he has translated many works on physical chemistry and other subjects.

The Chinese names of many elements on the periodic table are all from him.

But just because Xu Shou didn't have a good reputation in the imperial examination, he was always marginalized by the Manchu court, and could only enter the shogunate of such high officials as Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, as a small aide who made suggestions.

Rutherford did not show politeness to Gregory, but put forward his request straight to the point: "Richard, the latest issue of "Nature" magazine has not been printed yet, right?"

"Sir, we have just finished making the plates, and we are going to send them to the printers by this afternoon."

"That's great. Here's a short paper that's not too long. I hope you can plug it into this issue of Nature. Don't worry, this paper is in the just-concluded Solvay It was read out in public at the meeting, and the quality is absolutely guaranteed.”

"Okay, Sir, we will definitely do it. I will ask them to add a few pages of typesetting this afternoon, and send it to the printing house in the evening." Gregory replied respectfully.

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After returning to Cambridge, after two days and one night of exhausting travel, Rutherford went directly to the Cavendish Laboratory and asked Kapitsa to put down all the work at hand, and cooperated with Chen Muwu to do the experiment of hydrogen atoms in the ground state. Thurn-Glach experiment.

"Chen, I haven't seen you for a few days. What kind of enchanting potion did you give the crocodile again? Why did he start to care about Ni's experiment after a trip to Belgium?"

After Rutherford finished explaining the matter and left, Kapica couldn't understand why the director was so interested in the experiment proposed by Chen Muwu, so he asked with a puzzled face.

"Not at all, the director has always liked me, but you have always pretended not to see it.

"Oh, by the way, Peter, speaking of Belgium, I met your teacher in Sulian, Professor Joffe, at the Solvay conference this time.

"After he learned that you and I were in the same group in the Cavendish Laboratory, Professor Joffe expressed deep sympathy for me.

"He said that you are always chattering every day. Once you open your mouth, it is difficult to close it again. In order to keep your ears clean, that's why you had to be sent abroad."

The reason why Chen Muwu changed the topic jokingly was because he couldn't give an answer.

It's not that he wants to be cheap, but that he really doesn't know the answer to this question.

From publishing papers to arranging experiments, Chen Muwu also didn't understand why Rutherford was in such a hurry.

I have already preached the main body of that paper at the Solvay conference, under the witness of so many physicists.

Is it possible that the teacher is still afraid that there will be desperate academic thieves who will write the uncertainty principle into a paper and publish it in advance?

In fact, Rutherford wanted Chen Muwu to make another physics achievement quickly, and used this to create momentum for him, hoping to make the members of the Nobel Prize jury in Sweden focus on his student body.

After hearing Chen Muwu's joke, Kapiza didn't delve into the reason for this problem.

Because he also knew that after Chen Muwu came to Cavendish Laboratory, he didn't do many experiments.

But every experiment he participated in played a pivotal role in the development of physics.

Now that he has embraced the thigh of a Chinese genius, he only needs to follow his arrangement, and it will be done wherever he points.

Blackett left the country with his thighs, and he couldn't stay under others for a long time.

The difficulty of the experiment Chen Muwu is going to do is not the magnetic field, but the hydrogen atom.

In the original Schönig experiment, the silver they used was a metal, so it was a monatomic molecule.

It only needs to apply high temperature to the silver vapor, and the single silver atom with violent molecular thermal motion can escape from the silver vapor, and form a silver atom beam after being collimated by the slit.

However, hydrogen exists in nature in the form of diatomic molecules, and the two atoms are connected by covalent bonds.

If you want to break the covalent bonds in the hydrogen molecules, you need a higher temperature.

Moreover, compared with silver, hydrogen is not only colorless and odorless, but also cannot be attached and deposited on the surface of a glass plate like silver atoms.

How to test what the ground-state hydrogen atoms will split into after passing through a magnetic field is a bigger problem than how to generate hydrogen atoms.

Therefore, compared with the experiment in the original version, this experiment has become much more difficult, whether it is from the emission or collection of atoms.

Fortunately, there are not only physicists in the Cavendish laboratory, but also many chemists.

There is a specialization in the art field. After Chen Muwu and Kapiza asked for help in the laboratory like a hero post, someone finally sent them a piece of advice.

He suggested that when doing experiments, molybdenum trioxide can be coated on the screen of the receiving device, and hydrogen atoms can reduce molybdenum trioxide at high temperature.

In this way, the inconveniently observed hydrogen atoms can be converted into the easily visible metal molybdenum.

Of course, this experiment also needs to be carried out in a high vacuum environment.

Chen Muwu felt that it was a wise move for him to fool De Broglie into buying a vacuum pump.

Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, only need to make experimental phenomena, and after corresponding data processing, the obtained results can be consistent with the theoretically calculated values, and it can be proved that the electrons do still exist. Spin this property out.

……

After hearing the news that Chen Muwu had returned to Cambridge from abroad, Best, the president of the swimming club, had a heart that had been hanging in the air these days, and finally fell back into his stomach.

So he came to the door excitedly at the first time.

"Chen, you are finally back!"

Had it not been for seeing the black and oily lab coat Chen Muwu was wearing, Best would have rushed forward to give him a big hug.

Hearing the sound and seeing the person coming, Chen Muwu's head grew bigger again.

Now he not only has an experiment to do, but also a paper to write after the experiment is completed.

However, in just a few days after returning to Cambridge, several groups of people had approached Chen Muwu, and Best was even the latest one.

First is Ye Gongchao who is going to graduate in the same year as Chen Muwu.

When Ye, Ka, and Chen got together for a meal, Ye Gongchao and Chen Muwu said that he decided to leave Cambridge after getting a master's degree from Magdalen College, leave England, and go to the Paris University Research Institute in France. Several years of research.

If he can receive a letter of appointment from a domestic university during his stay in France, he will return to China by boat from Marseille.

After hearing these words, the first reaction in Chen Muwu's heart was not the sadness of parting between brothers, but that your brother left, but who should continue to pursue my wonderful mystery novel ideas?
……

As soon as the novel was mentioned, the people from the Cambridge Apostles met with Chen Muwu at a Saturday gathering.

The publishing house jointly established by everyone has begun to take shape, and the cooperation contract for the printing factory has also been negotiated.

The first major event that the publishing house is facing now is to publish Chen Muwu's "Murder on the Paris Express".

Because this is the first book published by the publishing house, everyone attaches great importance to this matter. Of course, Chen Muwu has also been harassed back and forth several times.

They took the trouble to come to the door with various cover pictures and illustrations such as books, and let the "author" of this novel, Chen Muwu, make the final decision.

……

Then, today when Chen Muwu was in the Cavendish laboratory, he saw Best who hurriedly climbed ashore from the Cam River as soon as he heard the news, and didn't even have time to change his wet clothes.

Chen Muwu feels that he is like Li Tiemei in "Red Lantern" now. He "has countless cousins" and they are all "no important things to visit".

When Best came to find Chen Muwu, it was naturally about the upcoming Cambridge-Oxford Joint Games.

"Lawrence, why are you so happy today?"

"Chen, you really know how to joke. Are you asking this knowingly? Of course it is because I heard that you are back!" Best shook his head like a big golden retriever, and the water droplets on his hair were thrown out along the tangential direction, " Let me tell you a good news. The time for this year's joint sports meeting has been set, and it will take place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday next week. We still have plenty of time to prepare!

"The swimming competition is scheduled for Saturday afternoon, right after the high-profile rowing competition. There should be a lot of people cheering us on.

"This time, on behalf of Cambridge University, you must give a lesson to those guys in Oxford, especially the arrogant and arrogant New Zealander."

Best suddenly lowered his voice and whispered: "Chen, I heard that Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, and Prince Albert, Duke of York, will be present to watch the competition.

"One of these two Princes graduated from Oxford, and the other is a graduate of your Trinity College.

"They come to the game, the meaning is self-evident."

The more Best said, the more proud he became, as if he had also become a knight in armor and charged for the British royal family.

Chen Muwu twitched his lips, thinking that they are your royal family, not mine, so why does imperial power matter to me?
"Lawrence, as you can see, the experiment I'm doing is very important, it's related to graduation, and I don't know if I can finish it before next Saturday.

"But since I have already promised you, I will definitely participate in this competition. Please rest assured about this."

While watching the whole thing, Kapitsa slapped his chest loudly, "Chen, don't worry, go to the competition and win glory for our Cambridge University. I am here for the experiment!"

"Thank you, Mr. Kapitsa."

Chen Muwu rolled his eyes in his heart.

What he said just now was just to let Best accept him as a favor, maybe it will be useful to him in the future?

Unexpectedly, Kapica came out halfway—although Chen Muwu believed that he really wanted to help him.

As a result, the gratitude in Best's heart was directly transferred from him to Kapitsa.

Sigh, don't think about it so much, let's hurry up and finish the experiment in less than two weeks.

There are still a lot of things waiting for him!

(End of this chapter)