Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 145 Trinity Chief Wrangler

"Director, you don't have to thank me. The Duke of York funded the money entirely. I just truthfully introduced the current situation of our laboratory to him."

"Chen, you shouldn't be so humble, if you didn't have your achievements in physics, astronomy and the Olympics, I don't think the Duke of York would be interested in meeting you at all.

"It doesn't matter who paid the money, but in short, this opportunity was won by you. So no matter what, you are a great contributor to our Cavendish Laboratory."

Rutherford was still emotional.

Then he seemed to have thought of something again, lowered his head and said angrily: "No wonder my teacher, Sir Thomson, wanted you to be a lobbyist to persuade me to accept the foreign student from the United States. It turned out that from the very beginning, he All of this has already been calculated!"

Rutherford felt ashamed for a while before raising his head, and the radiance of confidence returned to his eyes.

"Chen, since you brought me good news, I also have good news for you.

"This summer, while you were making money for our laboratory, I also wrote many letters to others, in which I advised them to leave you with the nominations for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

"It's not because I am your teacher and you are a student of our Cavendish Laboratory, so I use my contacts to help you operate, but I really think that you have the ability to win this award.

"This matter was first brought up by Sir Bragg on the ship returning home from Belgium in May, and I thought it made sense when I heard it. After thinking about it again, I thought it was indeed what he said.

"Although you have not been in the laboratory for a long time, and you have not done many experiments, but the scattering of gamma rays, the scattering of visible light in liquids, and the experiment you did at the beginning of this year to prove the volatility of electrons, these groundbreaking I think that if you take out any experiment, you can win a Nobel Prize.

"That's why I've written to a few friends and students recommending you, plus you've recently gained some popularity around the world by winning four Olympic swimming gold medals in a row, I think, Sweden The judges of the Royal Academy of Sciences, facing the nomination letters sent from all over the world, should be seriously thinking about whether to award you the Nobel Prize in Physics this year."

It was also Old Prague who first mentioned the Nobel Prize in Physics to Chen Muwu.

So when Chen Muwu heard the news, he was already excited once.

So now that Rutherford said it again, Chen Muwu felt a little calm.

Whether you can finally win the Nobel Prize does not depend on the number of nominations this person has received.

Moreover, the qualifications for nomination for the Nobel Prize are not as difficult as the Nobel Prize.

Professors related to top universities in various countries and nobles from several European countries are eligible to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

This is like although no one in the national football team can be shortlisted for the "World Footballer of the Year" election, but the national football coaches are eligible to vote.

The teacher of Pauli and Heisenberg, Professor Sommerfeld of the University of Göttingen, has received 81 nominations for physics awards in his lifetime. Among those who have won and those who have not won, his number of nominations ranks No. 1.

But as long as the judges of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences don't nod, won't he still be unable to get his hands on the highest honor in physics?

Going with the flow, this is Chen Muwu's opinion on whether he will win the Nobel Prize this year.

"Thank you, teacher, for your kindness. I will definitely continue to work hard to achieve more results in the laboratory."

Chen Muwu's calm expression once again won Rutherford's favor.

He thought, if he heard the news that Chen Muwu was nominated for the Nobel Prize at the age of 22, would he jump up from the flat ground excitedly?
It's just that Rutherford never thought that when he was 22 years old, there seemed to be no Nobel Prize in this world.

Rutherford, who suddenly became rich, was in a good mood, and he inevitably praised Chen Muwu again.

He encouraged Chen Muwu to guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and continue to move forward, trying to explore more of the true temperament of nature through experiments.

Chen Muwu finally left Rutherford's office after smoking another three bags of second-hand smoke.

There are still two months before the start of school. Most of the people in the laboratory are still enjoying their leisurely summer vacation. Only a small number of people stay here because of the experiment.

But no matter what kinds of experiments they were doing, when everyone met Chen Muwu, the first thing they said was to congratulate him for winning four gold medals in the Olympics.

The Eagles Club in Cambridge University was specially established for athletes, and now Chen Muwu has also become a guest there.

They not only awarded Chen Muwu a scholarship specially set up for the Olympic gold medal, but also helped him register a patent for the style of swimming trunks he wore in the Olympic Games.

But Chen Muwu didn't expect this patent to make him a little money, because in the eyes of the general public, this kind of shorts are only suitable for wearing when racing in the swimming pool.

And in the hot summer, when playing in the water, they prefer to choose the one-piece swimsuit style that wraps the body tightly rather than the swimming trunks that expose the breasts.

Alas, men are still so conservative in their thinking, and the Women's Liberation Movement has a long way to go. I don't know when Chen Muwu will be able to see cool bikinis on the beach.

Oh, and whether bikinis can exist in this world is also a question.

Of course, Chen Muwu is not referring to this cool style of women's swimwear, but to the name of this swimwear, Bikini.

In the original time and space, the name of the bikini came from the fact that the designer just saw in the newspaper that the United States conducted a nuclear explosion experiment on the bikini island of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, so he named his new swimsuit bikini.

Chen Muwu suddenly thought of an evil and bold idea. Maybe in this life, this cool swimsuit style divided into upper and lower parts may be called Honshu, Kyushu or Shikoku?

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In addition to the Eagles Club, on the night of Saturday, August [-]th, Chen Muwu also attended the weekly regular secret meeting of the Cambridge Apostolic Society.

Unlike the deserted situation in the Cavendish laboratory, although the number of members of the Apostolic Society is small, [-]% to [-]% of the people who attended the party came.

Chen Muwu was very surprised. Why didn't these people enjoy the summer to the fullest, instead they all stayed in Cambridge?
After everyone applauded enthusiastically and welcomed him, the new Olympic champion who hadn't come to the party for more than a month, Chen Muwu raised his own question.

In the end, the answers he got were all the same.

The reason why these rich and powerful sons and daughters are unwilling to go home during the summer vacation is because as soon as they return home, their parents will ask them to dress up as gentlemen, follow the cumbersome etiquette, and go to various places to participate in the festival. Salons, dinners and dances, just to find them the right girlfriend.

A year ago, when he was still in China, Chen Muwu couldn't stand the old lady's nagging about forced marriage.

As a result, when he went abroad, he saw that his peers were also troubled by this troublesome problem. He couldn't help gloating in his heart. Fortunately, old Chen ran fast!
After being seated, an unfamiliar face walked up to Chen Muwu with a glass of wine, and greeted the latter proactively.

"Brother Chen, hello, I'm Frank Ramsey."

Although [-]% of the apostles of the Apostolic Society today are left-leaning atheists, they still follow the tradition of decades ago, not calling each other names, honors, titles, and Mr. Brother this kind of appellation.

Chen Muwu couldn't accept this kind of title from the beginning to the end.

Every time he heard someone calling him "Brother Chen" or "Brother Chen", Chen Muwu's first reaction was always, did he travel to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with a red turban on his head?

Chen Muwu also stood up, and touched him with a wine glass filled with water: "Brother Ramsey, you have heard of your name for a long time."

This sentence is not polite or flattering, but Chen Muwu really knows that there is such a person.

Every year, Trinity College holds a very difficult mathematics exam for the graduates, in order to select the best among these genius brains and select the most genius among them.

Graduates who achieve an excellent grade in this exam will be called "Wranglers", and the one with the highest score among the Wranglers will be called "Senior Wrangler".

It can be said that the Chief Wrangler represents the highest level among the graduates of Trinity College in that year.

Among the people Chen Muwu knew well, only Eddington, director of the Cambridge Observatory, was the chief horseman.

And like Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, the predecessor of physics, and Old Thomson, the dean of Trinity College, they can only be the second shepherds of their respective classes.

Apart from Eddington, the only chief horseman Chen Muwu knew by name was Ramsey in front of him.

Ramsay was a graduate of Trinity College in 1923. At the end of the spring semester when Chen Muwu just arrived in Cambridge, he just witnessed Ramsay receiving the honor of Chief Wrangler at the graduation ceremony.

But Chen Muwu didn't get up to greet Ramsey because he respected the chief horseman.

It was because Chen Muwu had heard the name Dean Ramsey many times from Ye Gongchao.

Arthur Stanley Ramsay, now Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, and father of the Frank Ramsay who stood before him.

What Chen Muwu thought was, if Mr. Zhao Zhongyao and Shi Ruwei came to Cambridge and failed to be admitted by Trinity College, if he had a good relationship with little Ramsey, would he be able to help them in Magda? Find another way out from the college?
Just like parents all over the world will urge their school-age children to marry, where in the world can there be no human relations?

(End of this chapter)