Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 211 159 Invitation to the University of California

The English name of the school supervisor is Chancellor, and a school has another position called Vice Chancellor.

When Vice is used as an adjective, it has the meaning of "deputy", so the latter position is often translated as vice-principal, or simply called vice-principal.

But in fact, Chancellor is more like an honorary position. Although he is the supervisor of the school and the chairman of the review committee, he has no actual power. He is just a mascot-like existence, like the king of England.

And Vice has another meaning, which is "agent". The actual work of Vice Chancellor is to replace the school supervisor to manage the school's leadership, academic and daily administrative affairs. He is the real power in a school. people.

As the best university in the UK and even in the world, the Chancellor of Cambridge University is an honorary title, which allows politicians like Balfour who have retired from high positions to be able to say something when they go out and introduce themselves to others capital.

In fact, Belfort would not show up at Cambridge University several times a year. If it weren't for the upcoming general meeting of the International Union of Astronomers around the world, he wouldn't be standing in the sun in the hot summer, from London The big house ran to such a poor place in the countryside.

Belfort was quite happy when he saw the schedule of the meeting.

He also knew that Chen Muwu had discovered the ninth planet in the solar system, and he also knew that the place where this planet was discovered was the observatory of Cambridge University.

The people that Belfort is accompanying today are basically the most famous and powerful astronomers in the world.

To be able to brag to them in person, how good the astronomy level of Cambridge University is, then he, the school supervisor, is also honored.

As a result, as soon as they met, before they had time to introduce, Belfort was stabbed by the soft knife in Chen Muwu's words, and the smile froze on his face.

After nearly three years, Chen Muwu has basically maintained a refined and easy-going state in dealing with people.

Even when he treated this "friend", he was also very Asahi, pointing out the research direction of future physics for them.

It seems to be the first time for Chen Muwu to make such a big face jump like today.

One is that he knows that the school supervisor is a puppet without real power, and there is no way to expel himself.

The second is because Chen Muwu has enough self-confidence. Even if Belfort uses all kinds of despicable means to push himself out of Cambridge University, as long as he leaves the school, he will be thrown by various universities or research institutes all over the world. olive branch.

The 77-year-old Belfort, who has been in the officialdom for so many years, has long since turned into an old fox with a thousand years of cultivation.

He was a little embarrassed for a few seconds, and then continued to force a smile on his face: "How could it be, Dr. Chen! You are the smartest young man in Cambridge University, and I would never do that kind of thing."

Anyway, the disgusting person's goal had been achieved, so Chen Muwu didn't continue to argue with him.

Although he has a quick tongue for a while, if he wants to be valued by others, he still needs to forge his own strength. This is exactly the direction he will work hard in the future.

Beside Belfort, another old man who looked slightly younger than him also said with a smile in a very relaxed tone: "Dr. Chen, if Lord Balfour wants to drive you out of Cambridge University, then I will personally give you a letter of appointment as soon as possible, and invite your University of California to teach."

The old American's words verified Chen Muwu's conjecture just now that someone at his level is still in demand.

Although he didn't know who this was, he still had a slight liking for this American in his heart.

Before he had time to say thanks, after the American accent ended, another British accent came out: "Mr. Campbell, your idea is very good, but I'm afraid things will not develop as you imagined. When your letter of appointment is still there When he was drifting in the Atlantic Ocean, Dr. Chen had already entered our Imperial College."

From the old British man, Chen Muwu probably guessed the identity of the old American just now.

If nothing else, he should be the president of the University of California and the director of the Lick Observatory under the University of California, William Campbell.

That's right, it was Campbell who didn't believe in the total solar eclipse observation results published by Eddington in 1919, and personally led a team to Australia to observe the total solar eclipse again in 1922, and finally proved that the gravitational redshift predicted by the general theory of relativity was accurate.

On the New Year's Day of 1923, in the auditorium of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Jiahai, someone also mentioned this matter to the visiting Einstein.

The reason why Campbell led the team all the way from the United States to Australia was because Eddington’s published results were too inaccurate, and the second was because of anti-Germany.

The Germans lost a World War I, and even Einstein's theory was questioned for several years.

Campbell's evening scene was very bleak. As an astronomer who used his eyes to detect and reveal the stars above his head, he became blind in his later years.

He couldn't take the blow, and finally, at the age of 76, threw himself from a fourth-floor window in San Francisco, California.

"Professor Campbell, I've known you for a long time. Nice to meet you. I'm Chen Muwu."

Xiao Chen quickly shook hands with this man.

Although he now knew who this was, he began to wonder about the identity of the second old British man.

Imperial College?Apart from the fact that Old Prague went to Imperial College to buy metal for him, he has no contact with Imperial College anymore?
Eddington on the one side also quickly smoothed things over. He is the host of the meeting. He was a little embarrassed by the joke just seen by the visiting guests, especially when the joke was an American who used to not believe his own observation results. .

But it's not Chen Muwu's fault, the things Belfort did were indeed not very pleasant.

If he had known that Chen Muwu didn't like the school supervisor, then he should never have allowed the two of them to meet today.

And the one that won't show up is likely to be Balfort, after all, this is a gathering of scientists, not politicians.

"Dr. Chen, let me introduce to you, Professor Alfred Fowler of Imperial College London, he is the Secretary-General of the International Union of Astronomers, and the Professor Campbell you have known just now is President of the Federation."

One president and one secretary-general, no wonder the Chancellor Belfort will personally accompany him to visit the observatory today.

When shaking hands, A. Fowler did not forget to poach people: "Dr. Chen, you must think about what I just said. Imperial College is waiting for you to teach at any time."

"There is a chance, definitely, definitely."

Even if he leaves Cambridge University, even if he wants to continue studying astronomy, Chen Muwu will definitely not go to Imperial College.

The light pollution in London is too serious, and Imperial College's telescope is not as big as that of Cambridge University. What can be studied there?

How about three sentences, let a man build a new observatory for me!

Don't get me wrong, this is not alarmist talk, but that Chen Muwu really has that ability.

At the end of last year, Prince Adolf Gustav, who listened to Chen Muwu's Nobel Prize speech in Stockholm, may have been attracted by the Chinese myth of Pangu creating the world, and was very interested in the expansion of the universe mentioned in the speech.

Although physics is difficult to understand, for ordinary people, astronomy is a subject that can be seen when looking up at night, and anyone can chat with each other.

Sweden has produced famous astronomers, not counting Tycho, the founder of modern astronomy who is controversial with neighboring Denmark. The most famous astronomer in history is Anders Celsius.

The greatest contribution of Celsius in the history of science is the first to propose a temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is zero degrees and the freezing point is one hundred degrees.

Later, this temperature scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern ecology, and it became the most common Celsius temperature scale in life - which is named after the surname of Celsius.

Sweden has good astronomers but no good observatories.

Both the Observatory of Uppsala University and the Observatory of Stockholm University were built in the mid-eighteenth century at the same time as Celsius.

However, after nearly 200 years, these two observatories have completely lost their ability to conduct scientific research.

There are basically no astronomical observation conditions in Sweden now. Otherwise, Stromgren would not have gone to the neighboring country to serve as the director of the Observatory of the University of Copenhagen, and finally chose to naturalize in Denmark.

All in all, the appearance of Chen Muwu gave the Crown Prince of Sweden the idea of ​​revitalizing Swedish astronomy.

In addition, there is indeed no observatory that can be sold in China, so he wants to build a subsidiary observatory while building the Prince Academy.

But when the Crown Prince of Sweden proposed this idea, Chen Muwu rejected it.

Although it is not expensive to build a house, it is expensive to build an optical telescope!

The crown prince runs the school himself, so the caliber of the telescope cannot be too shabby.

The larger the caliber, the more expensive the money, and Chen Muwu has no plans to continue his research in astronomy.

Having money can't be so bad, it's better to build a few more houses for the college, or save the money for the future development of radio telescopes.

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Thinking about strange things in his head, Chen Muwu followed the flow of people and entered the dome of the Cambridge University Observatory. The 92-year-old Northumberland Telescope was quietly placed on the stand.

In the eyes of visiting astronomers from all over the world, the caliber of this telescope is not the world's leading, but it is also quite satisfactory - except for the Americans.

Rich people in the United States are very enthusiastic about astronomy, and the caliber of astronomical telescopes is also rising like a competition.

Campbell was very disdainful of the nearly 40-year-old telescope in front of him. At the Lick Observatory he managed, the astronomical telescope that had been built for nearly [-] years was also a refracting telescope, but its aperture was three times that of the Northumberland Telescope.

"Dr. Chen, did you discover the Yellow Emperor Star in such an old and outdated telescope? This is really not an easy task! What I just said was not a joke, but a sincere invitation to you Come continue your astronomy studies at the Lick Observatory at the University of California!"

Campbell deliberately showed a very surprised expression, which made Eddington who was accompanying him very angry.

It's nothing more than digging other people's corners in front of the host. Why did you start to tease this meritorious telescope at the Cambridge Observatory?

Although the telescope is small, it can discover new planets.

No matter how large the aperture of your Lick Observatory's telescope is, isn't it still nothing?

Although several satellites of Jupiter have been discovered, how can the satellites be compared with the planets discovered by Dr. Chen?
Are you angry, are you angry?
Of course, Chen Muwu would not accept Campbell's invitation.

On the one hand, he didn't want to continue studying astronomy, and on the other hand, he felt a little awkward about the Solik Observatory.

The Lick Observatory was built using the estate of James Lick, the richest man in California at the time, so it was named after the rich man.

But the relationship between Lick Observatory and Lick is more than that.

There is a "Great Lick Telescope" named after Lick's surname in the observatory, and Lick's body is also buried under the base of this telescope.

Chen Muwu respects this rich man for his contributions to the development of human science, but he will never go to the Lick Observatory to do any astronomical research.

As we all know, the use of optical telescopes to observe the starry sky can basically only be carried out at night after the sun has set.

In the middle of the night, you are sitting in front of a telescope looking at the scenery, and the viewer is watching you silently under the telescope, how cautious and panicky you feel!

"Professor Campbell, thank you for your invitation, but I am living very well in Cambridge University. The teachers here are all talented and nice to speak... And for various reasons, I personally don't want to go to the United States to engage in scientific research Work……"

Campbell was disappointed, not because Chen Muwu seemed to be mocking his American accent.

He just felt that Dr. Chen had achieved so many achievements at such a young age, and his academic life span was at least four to fifty years.

If Chen Muwu can be recruited to his side, then it will definitely ensure that the University of California will be at the leading or even No.1 level in the United States in terms of physics and astronomy in the next few decades, and may now add another chemistry.

Campbell cursed in his heart those politicians and gentlemen in the United States who are full and have nothing to do.
Eddington felt very comfortable listening to it. Chen Muwu is worthy of being a person who devotes all his attention to scientific research, and he is worthy of the training of Cambridge University.

A rich Yankee may be able to poach other people with a lot of money, but he will definitely not be able to poach such a pure person!
He saw Lord Balfour, the school supervisor who had been left out in the cold, and suddenly had a plan in his mind.

Today, in front of so many people, the telescope of Cambridge University Observatory is ridiculed and ridiculed by defiant Yankee, which is a very humiliating thing.

But at the critical moment, it was Chen Muwu who stood up and deflated Campbell, who was so courteous.

Now that Dr. Chen is backing him, what if Dr. Chen leaves Cambridge University in the future?
Eddington intends to use this as an excuse to lobby the university chancellor who witnessed the whole situation today, hoping that he can raise the issue of appropriating funds for the observatory at the next review committee meeting.

Or simply donate a new telescope to the observatory in your own name.

Wasn't this Northumberland Telescope also donated by the former Chancellor, the Duke of Northumberland?
Belfort, who was pushed into a corner by the crowd of visitors, was still depressed, completely unaware that someone had already made plans for his money bag.

(End of this chapter)