Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 128 76 Depressed De Broglie

Sitting in the car, on the way from the train station to the residence prepared by De Broglie for Chen Muwu, the two good friends hadn't seen each other for several months. First, they introduced each other's living conditions in the recent period.

Chen Muwu said that after the Solvay conference, he returned to Cambridge, not only performed the Stern-Gerlach experiment on the ground state hydrogen atom, but also finished his graduation thesis, successfully completed his defense, and got his Ph.D. He also got a teaching position at the University of Cambridge.

He said this unintentionally, but when he mentioned the word doctor, de Broglie was also very happy to tell Chen Muwu that after visiting Einstein and other scientists in Germany and returning to France, he also got a doctorate.

This made Chen Muwu a little strange. How did de Broglie get his doctorate without his thesis on matter waves?
In the ensuing chat, de Broglie further revealed the answer to the puzzle.

It is estimated that everyone knows that it is too embarrassing for a doctorate to be in the sixth year, so both his mentor Langevin and his elder brother Morris are secretly working hard.

In the end, they let De Broglie go to Morris's private laboratory to do an experiment related to X-rays, write a thesis, and then got his Ph.D. defense site.

With the top and bottom management of Langevin and Morris behind him, De Broglie barely got his doctorate this time.

Hearing that his graduation process was so difficult, Chen Muwu felt more and more sorry for the person in front of him.

But in the car, De Broglie, who had just obtained a Ph. Todd Broglie" responded.

Unlike the last time he came to Paris, De Broglie changed Chen Muwu's residence this time.

Compared with the villa I stayed in when I went to Brussels to attend the Solvay meeting last time, this new residence has a large yard, which is more like a castle than a villa.

As soon as he entered, Chen Muwu found the standard swimming pool that had been dug on the side of the yard.

Compared with the shabby beggar's version of 50 meters by 50 meters dug by the members of the Cambridge Swimming Club by the Cam River, the little nobles directly arranged for people to dig a tall swimming pool of 25 meters by [-] meters.

De Broglie even proudly introduced to Chen Muwu: "This is the construction team for this Olympic Games that I specially invited, and I asked them to completely reproduce the size of the venue for this year's competition. Although the conditions are a bit crude, I think it should be It’s enough to get you familiar with the game environment in advance.”

Honey, how much did it cost?

Chen Muwu asked himself, he would never be able to do such a big deal with his friends.

Best knew that nobles were rich, but he didn't know that nobles could be so rich.

He was obviously taken aback by the scene in front of him, he didn't expect that Chen Muwu's friend would be so generous.

The servants had already tidied up the rooms, and everyone chose one to live in.

De Broglie said that he had nothing to do in summer anyway, so he just stayed here and lived with Chen Muwu.

……

De Broglie's country house has an elegant environment, clean rooms, delicious meals and high-quality services.

Everything is good, the only thing that is not satisfactory is that the location is too far from the center of Paris.

Of course it doesn't matter to people like Chen Muwu and Best who train in the swimming pool all day, but it's different to people like Ye Gongchao who loves to be lively.

It was his first time in Paris, and he was in the villa on the first day, but everything he saw was fresh.

But after this novelty passed, Ye Gongchao began to feel a little uncomfortable.

So on the second day in Paris, Ye Gongchao said goodbye to Chen Muwu, and moved out of de Broglie's villa with his luggage.

He said that before he came to France, he found a house in downtown Paris through the relationship of the Chinese Student Association in Paris.

Ye Gongchao plans to move out in the next few days to familiarize himself with the surroundings of the campus.

When Chen Muwu started the competition, he went to the scene to cheer and cheer for him.

Chen Muwu originally thought that with Ye Gongchao, a gourmet, by his side, it would be more convenient for him to eat something after training.

But De Broglie never gave Ye Gongchao the opportunity to cook. He felt that Chen Muwu practiced too much every day, so he always asked the kitchen to serve various delicacies in different ways.

Although compared with 100 years later, there are indeed various inconveniences in life, no Internet, no TV, no high-speed trains and cars...

But in terms of food, the gap between the present and the future is very small, and people's tastes have not changed much.

Aristocrats are worthy of being nobles. The things on the dining table are all high-end things that Chen Muwu could not have dreamed of when he was a poor student in his previous life.

But now, he is afraid that he will make something wrong before the game because of his greedy mouth, so he can only taste every kind of food in front of him.

Apart from training, Chen Muwu also wanted to write a letter to that Scie Ton Fa, inviting him to de Broglie's villa, or find time to meet him and talk about the opening ceremony.

After De Broglie knew about Chen Muwu's plan, he stopped him again:
"Chen, even in the same city as Paris, it takes a day or two to write a letter like yours from mailing to delivery. Besides, my place is too far away from the city center, so I might as well send a servant. Follow this person's address to find the door, send him a message directly, and invite him to come and be a guest?"

So on the second night in Paris, Chen Muwu met this Scie Ton Fa in de Broglie's villa.

This person is about 40 years old, with an upturned mustache on his mouth, and looks both Eastern and Western. It seems... a mixed race?

Chen Muwu cupped his hands: "Mr., please come and go yourself. The junior is Chen Hanchen."

"Mr. Chen is indeed a man of talent. He is really a young man born from a hero since ancient times."

"Thank you sir!"

"Please."

The host and guest were seated separately, and after chatting for a few more words, they found out that Xie Daming, Xie Dongfa’s father, traveled across the ocean to France with Zeng Jize, the minister of Britain and France on a mission to the Qing Dynasty in 1878, and took root there. He started a porcelain business and married a French wife.

Although Xie Dongfa claims to be from Jiangju, he has been living in Paris, France since he was born in 1880. He only returned to Qihai once in 1902, where he obtained the nationality of the Qing Dynasty.

Xie Dongfa has a doctorate in law from the University of Paris, and by virtue of his mixed-Chinese-French identity, he can get along very well no matter whether he is with the French or the Chinese.

In 1919, Hu Zhengzhi, a reporter from Ta Kung Pao, came to France alone to report on the Paris Peace Conference that year and hired Xie Dongfa as his assistant.

The refusal of the Chinese representative to sign the Treaty of Versailles was first announced to the people of the country by the two men.

Since then, Xie Dongfa has devoted himself to the newspaper industry, and this time he can participate in the follow-up report of the Olympic Games, which is also the name he personally found the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee to report.

Unexpectedly, after the successful registration, the Olympic Organizing Committee entrusted him with another task, which is to become the accompanying commissioner of the Chinese delegation.

This news made Xie Dongfa both surprised and delighted. Only then did he know that his motherland, which he had only met once, had actually sent athletes to participate in the Olympics.

On the list of Chinese athletes that Xie Dongfa got, apart from the British "Chen Hanchen", there are four American overseas Chinese who signed up to participate in the tennis competition of this Olympic Games.

So when Xie Dongfa sent a telegram to Chen Muwu inviting him to attend the opening ceremony, he also sent a telegram to the four overseas Chinese in the United States.

But in the end, only Chen Muwu received an affirmative reply.

Although the remaining four people also sent a telegram to Xie Dongfa from the United States, the content of the telegram was a very regrettable news: these four people will stay in the United States and fully prepare for the Davis Cup tennis match at the end of July and early August , So I gave up my plan to come to Paris to participate in the Olympic Games.

It was the first time Chen Muwu heard that there were actually Chinese people who signed up for this Olympic Games, which touched his knowledge blind spot in his previous life.

Maybe it's because they just signed up, but didn't participate in the final competition, so they didn't leave a strong mark in the history of China's Olympic Games, right?

However, Xie Dongfa asked him a question again with a look of embarrassment, that is, if these four American overseas Chinese did not come, Chen Muwu could only represent China at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

In Xie Dongfa's thinking, the current Chinese, even those who have studied abroad for several years, may show a timid pettiness when facing big scenes.

So he was very worried, if Chen Muwu was left with the big scene of the opening ceremony, would he have stage fright?

This problem seemed very serious to Xie Dongfa, but it was not a problem at all to Chen Muwu.

From Zhao Junhao, a reporter from Shenbao, in the lecture hall of the Ministry of Marine Engineering, to Fan Yuanlian at the latest British Gengzi negotiation meeting.

Countless Chinese people who have come into contact with Chen Muwu commented on him that this person has a kind of pride and self-confidence that is hard to see in Chinese people.

Chen Muwu admired Liu Changchun who traveled across the ocean alone in 1932 to participate in the Los Angeles Olympics.

Although he failed in the end, he can still see from him the kind of fearlessness of "even though thousands of people are going to go", and see "in the face of a powerful opponent, even if you know you are invincible, you must resolutely shine your sword. Become a mountain, a ridge" spirit of bright sword.

What's more, this time is different from that time, Chen Muwu now has enough confidence to win the gold medal in the competition.

So what's wrong with attending the opening ceremony of the Olympics alone?
So Chen Muwu's self-confidence was once again displayed in front of Xie Dongfa.

He reassured the latter that he just need to rest assured that he will be absolutely fine and will not make any mistakes when representing China in the opening ceremony.

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Xie Dongfa was sent away. In the next few days, Chen Muwu continued to train in the swimming pool of De Broglie's house. Best held a stopwatch, pen and paper, and provided help and advice for his training.

De Broglie, who had nothing to do, first asked someone to move a chair and watched Chen Muwu's daily training by the swimming pool.

However, like Ye Gongchao, his curiosity was quickly exhausted.

So De Broglie asked someone to set up a table by the pool, and randomly selected three lucky servants to play mahjong with him.

Two days later, the latest issue of "Annals of Physics" was finally shipped from Berlin, Germany to Paris, France.

De Broglie, who was enjoying mahjong, didn't care at first, but just threw the journal aside.

During the break after lunch, he remembered that there was such a thing, so he opened the "Annals of Physics", ready to briefly browse the contents of the opening chapter, and see if physicists had anything in the past month. New inventions and discoveries.

De Broglie is a French and German dual nobleman, and he has received a good education since he was a child, so German is not a problem for him.

He was suddenly pleasantly surprised to find that this issue of "Physics Yearbook" had Chen Muwu's name on it.

"Chen, you actually published another paper in the "Annals of Physics" secretly! Why didn't you tell me about this kind of thing in advance? What is this paper about this time?"

Chen Muwu, who had already eaten and drank enough, rested and planned to continue training in the afternoon, did not want to waste too much time on De Broglie's question.

Because he knew that once the chatterbox was opened about this thesis, it would not be able to stop for a while.

"Here, as you can see, the title clearly states that it is about quantum mechanics. As for what quantum mechanics is, you can read this article. I think it's quite interesting."

When Chen Muwu finished his afternoon training and came to land again from the water, he saw that De Broglie didn't play mahjong with his servants, but sat at the table without saying a word.

"Louis, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Muwu asked the question knowingly.

"Chen, this paper of yours is too difficult, I... I can't understand it at all! Did you submit to the wrong journal? This paper shouldn't appear in the "Annual Review of Physics" at all, you should go to those Try your luck with a dull mathematician!"

De Broglie replied with a depressed face.

(End of this chapter)