Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 212 A Check for $160 million
Under the dome of the University of Cambridge Observatory, everyone has their own thoughts.

Only Chen Muwu, who was temporarily caught here as a mascot, felt that the situation in front of him was very boring.

Although the group of people gathered now, except for him and that annoying Belfort, are all the top astronomers in the world.

But Chen Muwu's mind is now full of the Kelvin particle accelerator, and the linear algebra course he is going to teach at Cambridge University, and he has no desire to go further in astronomy.

He just wanted to end this meaningless visit quickly and return to Cavendish Laboratory immediately.

There were still three students locked up in Chen Muwu's office, and he didn't know if they would be anxious if he left without saying goodbye this time.

An astronomical telescope on a shelf is really nothing to see. Almost all the workplaces or homes on the site have more than one such thing.

So Eddington also sent someone in advance to dig out the astronomical negatives of the Yellow Emperor Star taken by Chen Muwu at the beginning of last year, and arranged them around the telescope one by one.

Fortunately, the visiting time brought by these exhibits is still limited. After spending more than half an hour in the observatory, the journey of discovering the Yellow Emperor Star finally came to an end.

Before leaving, Professor Campbell, the president of the International Union of Astronomers, found Chen Muwu again, left him the address of the American delegation in Cambridgeshire, and invited him to come to the station in a few days.

Chen Muwu didn't take it seriously, he thought that after Campbell sang such a song, he must still want to invite himself to the University of California again.

Since others are already so enthusiastic, it is really not easy to refuse, but to agree.

After parting, he returned to the laboratory from the observatory again.

It was not yet six o'clock in the evening, the official closing time of the Cavendish Laboratory, so the three members of the team were still in the laboratory.

Chen Muwu held the first group meeting of his group today, originally to make a good start for the next work on the particle accelerator.

In the end, he was overwhelmed by all kinds of sudden things, and he didn't know whether this omen was good or bad.

He temporarily changed his plan for the next week and reassigned the work to the three of them.

Chen Muwu hoped that Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft could first understand and fully grasp the structure and principle of this particle accelerator, do some brainstorming, and see if they can come up with a few design drafts of the generator.

Although he had made a model of a generator before, that was just to demonstrate to his teacher Rutherford and persuade him to approve the project, and the simplest and most basic model that was hurriedly produced could not be scaled up in proportion to become the final shape of the generator.

Chen Muwu assigned Oppenheimer the task of preparing materials and lesson plans for linear algebra.

Last summer, Oppenheimer, who had no hope when he came to Cambridge, learned that his teacher was Chen Muwu, so he took a lot of linear algebra.

Because the matrix mechanics paper published by Chen Muwu before the Olympic Games was the hottest quantum theory in physics at that time.

It was just right to give this job to Oppenheimer, who had very poor hands-on ability.

As for what Chen Muwu was doing during this time?
Of course, I went to participate in the general meeting of the Federation of Astronomers that spanned a whole week!

Today, those bigwigs visited the Cambridge University Observatory, which was just a warm-up activity before the opening of the conference.

But the actual opening time of the meeting is tomorrow.

After arranging everything in the laboratory, Chen Muwu vaguely remembered that when he was just sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, Eddington had told him that the Chinese Astronomical Society also sent people to this year's meeting as observers.

He wondered if he should go to the organizing committee to find out where his Chinese compatriots live, and then go to visit him, and do his best as a landlord?
But seeing the sky getting late, and thinking that we would definitely meet again at the opening meeting tomorrow, Chen Muwu took a moment to dismiss this idea.

……

Early the next morning, Chen Muwu rushed to the auditorium of St. Peter's College.

This is the auditorium that can accommodate the largest number of audiences among all the colleges of the University of Cambridge, so whenever there is any large-scale event in the school, the venue will basically be arranged here.

In addition to those leading figures in the astronomy world that I met yesterday, many acquaintances of Chen Muwu also appeared at the meeting.

Old Thomson, as one of the most respected scientists in Cambridge University, was also invited to represent Cambridge University to attend the opening ceremony of today's meeting.

Rutherford did not come. The current director of the Cavendish Laboratory is still more interested in the solar system among the atoms.

Chen Muwu found his place in the last few rows of the venue.

On the seats marked "Observer", he saw the only Chinese sitting alone in it.

The people of yellow race in the venue were not only Chen Muwu and this man, but also a lot of short stature but unusually westernized clothes sitting in the front row.

Ben was one of the seven founding members of the International Union of Astronomers when it was established. It is said that this time there is another astronomer named Ben who will be elected as the vice president of the Union.

Chen Muwu politely said "excuse me", while passing in front of several people who were already sitting, and finally sat down beside his compatriots.

"Yuyu Chen Muwu, I don't know what to call my brother?"

"Chen, Dr. Chen, I have admired your name for a long time!"

Although he already knew that Chen Muwu was going to attend this conference as early as when he signed in yesterday, but after seeing the real person, he would still be very excited.

"Cai Ni Zhang Yun is currently studying for a doctorate in astronomy at the University of Lyon in France."

The cloud in the name makes people think of the sky immediately after hearing it, which is very consistent with his research direction of astronomy.

It turned out that he was a doctor who was studying in France, but he was in Lyon instead of Paris, so Chen Muwu had never met Zhang Yun last year.

When Chinese people declare their families, they always add their hometown before their names, and Zhang Yun naturally follows the old practice.

But if it wasn't for the strong Dongdong accent in his Mandarin, Chen Muwu would have misunderstood the place name he said.

In the east of Guangdong, there is a Kaiyi County, which is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. The hometown of Situ, who lived in Hongmen in the United States, is this Kaiyi County.

Near Jiaoshan Jiaotong University, where Chen Muwu once went to school, there is also a Kaishu.

The Kaiyu Mining Bureau, established here to exploit local coal resources, was an enterprise vigorously established during the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty.

The Tangxu Railway, known as China's first railway, was also intended to transport the coal mined by the Kaitong Mining Bureau to the port of Tianyi, and then ship it to all parts of the country by sea.

First there were coal mines, then there were railways, and finally there was the Road and Mine School serving railways and coal mines, which was the predecessor of Kuishan Jiaotong University.

He was thinking about some messy things, and Zhang Yun, who was dressed in a suit, tie and round glasses, dressed as a standard foreign student, was still in a very excited state.

Chen Muwu himself may not feel it, but among the Chinese students who are also wandering overseas, he himself is definitely a role model.

They have achieved a lot at a young age and gained a great reputation in the international academic circle, which also benefited them a lot for Chinese students studying abroad.

Zhang Yun’s personal experience is that as Chen Muwu became more and more successful and famous, he gradually began to gain the respect of teachers and classmates in the classrooms of Lyon University, and he was no longer regarded as a “yellow plague” like before, and was disgusted and despised by others.

Walking in the school, occasionally strangers would come to say hello, asking curiously which country Zhang Yun was from.

Before he answered that he was from China, most people would ridicule him, and only a few friendly people showed some disappointed expressions on their faces, and then turned and left without saying a word.

But now that he gave the same reply, most of the people's next topic was to chat with him about "do you know that Dr. Chen from Cambridge University?", and then have some more friendly exchanges.

On the contrary, those foreign students from Japan still reported their nationality with pride as usual, but they received disappointed expressions that they had never seen before.

Before the meeting started, Chen Muwu and Zhang Yun chatted a little more together.

Zhang Yun was sent by the Chinese Astronomical Society to participate in this meeting because he was the closest to the UK, and he was an international student specializing in astronomy. He was also remitted a special sum of travel expenses, which was the "Danyuan Prize" specially donated by honorary member Ke Hongnian for this meeting.

Zhang Yun said that he had written a letter to Chen Muwu last year, congratulating him on discovering the ninth planet, Huangdixing, which boosted the Chinese people's ambition.

Chen Muwu thought about it. He did receive many congratulatory letters from home and abroad because of this incident last year. At the beginning, he replied enthusiastically one by one. Later, because there were too many letters, he only picked up a few letters from important people.

Zhang Yun also said that after receiving the notice this time, he was still the first thing he thought of.

As a result, the letter he wrote fell silent again, making him think that Chen Muwu had left Cambridge University and was looking for another job elsewhere.

Xiao Chen blushed when he heard this, and quickly explained that he was basically doing experiments in London for the first half of the year, and he was really embarrassed.

During the speech, Ralph Fowler, the only theoretical professor in the Cavendish Laboratory, stepped onto the podium. He was also the host of the opening ceremony and announced the opening of the plenary meeting.

The eldest brother doesn't laugh at the second brother, there is nothing new in the conferences all over the world.

Under the auspices and guidance of R. Fowler, the Chancellor of Cambridge University, the Earl of Balfour, was the first to speak on stage.

He humbled himself first, saying that he was just a politician, far less than his predecessor Rayleigh III, who had made many achievements in scientific research.

Then Belfort began to blow rainbow farts to the International Federation of Astronomers, praising these astronomers for their many achievements in astronomical research in the past three years: the discovery of the Yellow Emperor Star, the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way, and the discovery of the expansion of the universe...

Chen Muwu felt that what he mentioned seemed familiar.

After Belfort finished his speech, Campbell, the president of the International Federation of Astronomers, stepped onto the podium again.

It's not rude to come and go, the chancellor of Cambridge University has been talking about astronomy research for a long time, and he, the president, has to give a good blow to the host Cambridge University.

Campbell's speech was obviously also prepared in advance. He said that the reason why this conference was chosen at Cambridge University was to make a pilgrimage to Sir Newton, the predecessor of physics and astronomy.

Galileo invented the refracting telescope, while the reflecting telescope was born at the University of Cambridge.

In addition to reflecting telescopes, there are beam-splitting prisms for studying spectra that were first used at the University of Cambridge.

The theoretical research on the dynamics of celestial bodies was also born in Cambridge University.

And all of the above are the achievements of Sir Newton alone.

Then Campbell changed the subject, saying that the venue for the second conference had been selected three years ago at the first conference, but during the three years during this period, Cambridge University has made many contributions to the development of astronomy...

Unsurprisingly, Chen Muwu was named and praised again. Old Thomson, who was sitting in the first row of the audience, listened to the speech, thinking that he was not the only one who connected Sir Newton and Chen Muwu, and then remembered his previous reincarnation theory.

After Campbell finished speaking, Kings, the president of the Royal Astronomical Society, took the stage again.

The two-year term of office has come to an end, and the Danish astronomer at Oxford University that Chen Muwu met at the Greenwich Observatory before has resigned from the post of president of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Sir James Kings, who succeeded him, was the one who calculated the Rayleigh-Jins formula with Rayleigh III and discovered the ultraviolet disaster. He was also a graduate of Trinity College.

After Kings finished speaking, it was the secretary-general of the federation, A. Fowler. After A. Fowler finished speaking, it was replaced by other people.

In short, at the opening ceremony on the first day, different people took turns to give speeches on stage.

Except for the stinky and long speeches of these people, there was only stinky and long speeches, which made Chen Muwu sleep soundly all day in the auditorium of St. John's College.

After the opening ceremony, Chen Muwu made up his mind to skip the report meeting for the next few days, and wait until the final election to accept new members, and then he will show up to stand for the Chinese Astronomical Society.

He took advantage of these few days to prepare a lot for the linear algebra course that he was going to teach next.

Chen Muwu also visited the hotel where the American delegation was staying at the time agreed with Campbell.

After some polite greetings, Campbell handed him a sealed envelope.

Chen Muwu thought it was because the envelope contained a letter of appointment to teach at the University of California.

But after he took it, he found that the emblem of Harvard University was printed on the envelope.

Chen Muwu looked at Campbell in bewilderment. Could it be that the president of the University of California wants to make wedding dresses for others?
The latter didn't say a word, just smiled and motioned him to open the envelope and look at the contents inside.

In the envelope, besides a piece of elegant letter paper with swashbuckling characters, there is another check.

The amount indicated on the check was as much as [-] US dollars.

(End of this chapter)