Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 204 152 I Have Only One Question

For ordinary physicists, being able to marry into the Prague family, er, not to mention marrying, being able to marry the youngest daughter of Old Prague, Gwendoline, is definitely a very honorable and very helpful thing for them.

After all, in the future, Gwendoline's husband's father-in-law will become the president of the Royal Society, and his uncle will become the director of the Cavendish Laboratory.

In such a family background, as long as they are not too wasteful, they can get good academic resources.

It may be difficult to win a Nobel Prize, but in the British physics community until retirement, it must be no problem.

But the problem is that Chen Muwu is not an ordinary physicist. If I don't marry a wealthy family, my brother is a wealthy family.

But how to refuse the sudden request from old Prague to meet their girl?
Chen Muwu's first reaction was to reveal the existence of Aifu.

But after thinking about it again, he felt that there was no way to say this sentence.

Oh, because I fell in love with the daughter of Madame Curie's family, I didn't even meet the daughter of Old Prague.

After saying this sentence, isn't the subtext that Old Prague is inferior to the Curies?

At this time, Chen Muwu's eyes fell on Oppenheimer, a good student who had been pretending to pack things in the laboratory, but was actually eavesdropping on his conversation with Old Prague.

"Sir Bragg, I think it's better to forget it. The age difference between me and your daughter is too big. But look at that Robert, he was born in 1904, and the age difference between me and Miss is just right."

Seeing this, Old Prague knew that it was basically useless to let his daughter go on a blind date with Chen Muwu, so he sighed and stopped mentioning it.

When Oppenheimer heard Chen Muwu suddenly mentioning himself, his body was agitated.

But seeing that Old Prague didn't make a statement, he was still a little dissatisfied.

It's true that Mr. Chen is excellent. Although he is not as good as Mr. Chen, he is not that bad, right?

Why doesn't Old Prague even say a word of politeness!

He didn't dare to complain at all, Chen Muwu pushed him out as his own shield.

After the old Prague left the laboratory, Oppenheimer began to feel sorry for Chen Muwu.

"Mr. Chen, why did you refuse the position of director of the laboratory? You are now enough to leave the Cavendish Laboratory in terms of academic level and reputation, and start a new life. What a good opportunity this is. If you say no, you can refuse it." It's over!"

"Robert, you still need to cultivate your patience. In the future, maybe you will encounter better opportunities!"

Chen Muwu didn't want to tell him the real reason at all.

Oppenheimer wanted to continue asking, but suddenly remembered another thing Mr. Chen just mentioned.

"Mr. Chen, I still want to explain that not all Americans are as stupid as those mud-legged people in Tennessee. You must not put prejudice glasses on the United States just because of that stupid 'monkey trial' .”

The beginning of the [-]th century was the golden age of the United States. The rapid improvement of the industrial level greatly promoted the development of all walks of life, but Tennessee, an agricultural state, was not among them.

Oppenheimer was a New Yorker born in New York City, New York State, and a child of a wealthy businessman's family. Naturally, he looked down on the old farmers in Tennessee.

But if all history develops according to the original track, Oppenheimer will frequently travel back and forth between Tennessee and New Mexico, the two backcountry states of the United States.

Because there are many acquaintances in the little boy and fat man, the uranium and plutonium contained in it were separated in several factories in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

And Oppenheimer was the technical director of the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.

"Robert, I didn't mean that. I just wanted to give an example. I hope Sir Bragg can be persuaded to let Peter be the director of that Mond laboratory."

Chen Muwu comforted Oppenheimer very politely, but he couldn't stop complaining in his heart.

Not to mention that religion now forbids teaching "Theory of Evolution" to students in the classroom, and 100 years later, religion will still consider abortion illegal!
Before leaving London, Chen Muwu and the Chargé d'Affaires ad interim in the UK should tell Zhu Zhaoxin, the Minister in Italy, to report to each other.

Although Zhu Zhaoxin is still staying in the UK, he will leave for Italy after the new ambassador to the UK arrives and takes over the work in the embassy.

Although Zhu Zhaoxin has the common faults of bureaucrats in the Republic of China period, he has been quite good to Chen Muwu and provided a lot of useful help in the past few years in England.

Lao Chen is not an ungrateful person who crosses rivers and demolishes bridges. He also knows that if he leaves today, unless he travels to Italy on a whim, he will never see him again.

Zhu Zhaoxin was also very grateful to Chen Muwu. He always believed that he had made such a contribution in office, which was one of the reasons why he was able to be promoted.

So it was an ordinary practical feast, and even tasted a bit sad.

Chen Muwu ate an extra bowl of rice with tears in his eyes, because he didn't know how long it would be before he could eat such authentic Chinese food after returning to Cambridge University.

Although it has been a few months, nothing has changed at Cambridge University, and nothing has changed in Cavendish's laboratory.

The first thing after returning, of course, is to report to the teacher.

When Chen Muwu entered the director's office, Rutherford was brushing something with a brush, writing something on the paper.

After seeing the person coming, he put down the pen in his hand. The first thing he did was not to say hello to Chen Muwu, but to open the drawer, pick up the pipe and tobacco pouch, fill it up, light it up, take a deep breath, and then looked at his own pen with a smile. good student.

Chen Muwu didn't realize what Rutherford's move meant.

Is it a way for teachers to express dissatisfaction with themselves?

Then he remembered that when he discovered deuterium before, he had disarmed the teacher in front of the Royal Research Institute.

What Rutherford did today was somewhat of a demonstration to him: Although you didn’t let me smoke in David Faraday’s laboratory, after you come back today, you should realize who Cavendish is. The speaker of the laboratory.

"Dr. Chen," Rutherford finally began to speak after he was addicted to smoking, "Old Henry has written me several letters, and the contents of the letters are without exception, all of which are to ask for someone from me and keep you in London. I haven't seen you for so long, I thought you really didn't plan to come back?"

Not seeing each other for a few days, Chen Muwu felt that his teacher had suddenly added a kind of arrogant attribute. He had only met before and after Chadwick's wedding, and they had been together for several days whether in London or Liverpool.

And obviously you were unwilling to study low-temperature physics in the Cavendish Laboratory at the beginning, so you pushed yourself to the hands of Old Prague in London, but now you "complain" that you don't want to come back, right?

"Teacher, don't tell me, I did have this idea."

Since I like to joke, I have to accompany the teacher to carry out this scene.

"Sir Bragg spent a lot of money to keep me, and even wanted to marry his daughter to me!"

"It's a good thing! Then why did you come back instead of staying in London?"

Chen Muwu deliberately put on an expression of deep affection between master and apprentice: "But I thought of the undiscovered electrically neutral particle in the atomic nucleus that has been bothering you, teacher, so I don't have the time to think about personal issues. This is not a Did you rush back to Cambridge after finishing the experiments in London?"

Rutherford was also very cooperative for Chen Muwu's performance, applauding perfunctorily a few times: "Dr. Chen, I can only say that your choice is very correct, but I can't tell you the specific reason why it is correct. Do you have a way to find that electrically neutral particle?"

"No, but I remember you said that you plan to bombard the heavy hydrogen nucleus with protons to see if you can bombard the new particles inside? I thought of a way to accelerate protons."

Chen Muwu always mentioned the accelerator in oblique terms.

"But now we can't even produce pure deuterium, so how can we bombard it with protons?"

What Rutherford said was the fact that evaporating liquid hydrogen in a low-temperature environment can indeed enrich the deuterium inside.

I really want to get pure deuterium, but it is very difficult to use fractional distillation.

"It's easy to handle. The batch of liquid hydrogen sold to me by Leiden University was first prepared by electrolyzing water and then liquefied.

"According to the latest paper published by Professor Aston, through calculations, the heavy hydrogen content in these liquid hydrogens is much smaller than the theoretical calculation value.

"I think the reason for this is that when electrolyzing water, hydrogen ions are more likely to obtain electrons than deuterium ions, so more are collected.

"If the hydrogen atoms in the water can be discharged through electrolysis, heavy hydrogen can be enriched in a large amount in the water.

"Based on this, by electrolyzing the deuterium water, we should be able to obtain very pure deuterium gas.

"But teacher, I don't want to try to produce deuterium, but I still want to tell you how to accelerate protons."

"Well, Dr. Chen, I was just joking with you just now, welcome back to Cambridge University. Since you said you want to build a proton accelerator in London last time, I am also very interested in this matter .I just have one question,..."

Chen Muwu felt that after a few years, he and Rutherford had a tacit understanding, so he interrupted Rutherford in the middle of speaking in a somewhat impolite way.

"Teacher, I know what you want to ask, the principle of the accelerator, I don't plan to use, uh, at least I don't plan to use the Swedish method at the moment, but..."

"No, no, no," Rutherford treated him in his own way, and also interrupted Chen Muwu's words, "It's easy to talk about the principle, and I believe you can think of more in your clever head. Good point, but your answer doesn't exactly address the question I was trying to ask.

"What I just wanted to know was not the principle of the accelerator, but your accelerator, is it expensive?"

Chen Muwu felt for the first time that not everything the ancients said was correct.

It is not easy to go from luxury to frugality, but it is not easy at all to go from frugality to luxury.

It has been a year since the Duke of York allocated the funding for the Cavendish Laboratory, but teacher Rutherford is still so stingy!

It's okay to be stingy to others, but why is Chen Muwu, the source of the extra funds, still so stingy!

"It's not expensive, it's not expensive! It's not expensive at all, and the principle of this accelerator is also very simple. Teacher, how about making a model first after I go back, and then demonstrating it to you?"

Rutherford nodded: "Then let's do this. Remember, you must control the funds. I can probably allocate [-]... [-]... [-], [-] pounds for you, no. More!"

Seeing the number that his teacher gritted his teeth, Chen Mu couldn't laugh or cry.

In the original time and space, a few years later, the Cavendish Laboratory started to prepare for the development of accelerators, and the grant Rutherford gave to this group was only [-] pounds.

Now Chen Muwu's funding has been doubled, and a quarter more, which shows that the teacher really values ​​him as a student!
After chatting briefly about other things, Chen Muwu left Rutherford's office and returned to his laboratory.

Even though the room in Cavendish's laboratory was very tight, the room he was assigned before was not taken back by Chadwick for other purposes during his absence.

Chen Muwu took out the key and was about to poke it into the keyhole, only to find that the door of the laboratory was ajar.

Pushing open the door and entering, there is not only Zhao Zhongyao as he expected in the room, but he is reading and studying at the table.

And what he didn't expect, sitting on the sofa with a little capitca, just like Rutherford, smoking a pipe.

Seeing the owner of the room come back, he didn't even have the slightest intention to stop, let alone get up to greet him.

Chen Muwu didn't understand, it was all for him to offend Rutherford because of the smoke problem in the Royal Research Institute, but where did he offend Kapitsa?
Could it be that I promised him something before, but failed to do it?

After learning the news that Chen Muwu had returned to the Cavendish Laboratory, Kapitsa came to wait for him in his laboratory, with some complaints in his heart.

He has been studying magnetism for a long time, but recently encountered some bottlenecks, so he wanted to change his thinking.

That's why Kapitsa put down the work that was not progressing, and followed Chadwick to Liverpool to help prepare for the wedding.

It just so happened that Chen Muwu discovered heavy hydrogen in hydrogen by evaporating liquid hydrogen at low temperature in London. A telegram from Rutherford called the two of them from Liverpool to London.

Could there be any connection between magnetism and low temperature?

Kapitsa also thought of Sylsby's paper, and planned to try to study the magnetic properties of superconductors.

As a result, he saw the second paper jointly published by Shi Ruwei, Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer, and the content was also consistent with his thoughts.

I just thought of an idea, but I saw other people's papers, and no one would feel good.

He came to wait for Chen Muwu this time, just to complain to him, and to see if he could get a meal from Chen Muwu to ease his mind.

But Chen Muwu didn't know what Kapiza was thinking, he saw the expression on the latter's face full of admonishment, and planned to preconceive it: "Peter, Peter, I was planning to go down to find you, but I didn't expect you to come directly to me .I have good news for you! Great news!"

(End of this chapter)