Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 214 162 Grandmaster Fishing Trainer

Before the closing ceremony, the opportunity for Chen Muwu to meet and communicate with these astronomers was limited to the one day before the opening ceremony, when Eddington took him to the University of Cambridge Observatory by bicycle.

Moreover, those who participated in the event were all giants among astronomers.

Apart from them, no one knew what Chen Muwu looked like.

Although he also participated in the opening ceremony of the first day of the conference, but in the venue of St. John's College that day, the big guys who spoke on the podium came on stage after you sang.

No one in the meeting would know that the young astronomer who has been in the limelight for the past two years was also at the opening ceremony that day, and was sitting in the last few rows of observer seats.

But it is different when it comes to the closing ceremony. The Chinese Astronomical Society has become one of the official members of the International Union of Astronomers, and there is always a process of going on stage to accept relevant certificates and then take a group photo.

What Chen Muwu meant was for Zhang Yun to take the stage. After all, he is an official member of the Chinese Astronomical Society and was appointed as an official representative to attend this plenary meeting.

But the reasons given by Zhang Yun made it impossible to refuse.

"Brother Hanchen, the successful joining of the Federation this time is all due to your face.

"In the past few days, I have seen with my own eyes that other countries, which are also observer countries, were rejected by the federation as full members because they failed to meet various indicators.

"I ask myself, the level of astronomy development in the Republic of China also did not meet the conditions set by the federation, but we were able to join as full members in the end only because of a talent like you, who won honor for the country in the international astronomical community.

"I'm a student at the University of Lyon, and I haven't even obtained a degree certificate. Taking the stage rashly will only embarrass the country. In terms of reason and reason, you should go to this stage."

Since he couldn't refuse anyway, he had no choice but to agree.

Chen Muwu followed Spain.Portugal, Norway, and Switzerland, representatives of the other four countries that joined the federation at this plenary session, stepped onto the podium in the auditorium together.

Rutherford's son-in-law, R. Fowler, has been the moderator of the meeting during the seven days, and the final closing ceremony was no exception.

When introducing other countries, he just read the name of the country according to the scriptures, as well as the name of the country's domestic astronomical organization.

But when he came to the Republic of China, the senior of Trinity College obviously talked a lot.

R. Fowler also made a report at a certain day's meeting this time. The topic of the report was about the transformation process of stars into white dwarfs.

In his report, he used a basically the latest statistical principle, Dirac-Chen statistics.

Others may not know what it is to put these two surnames together, and they may think that in this statistic, the little-known Cambridge University Ph.D. student Dirac occupies a major position in theoretical research.

However, as Dirac's mentor, R. Fowler still knew very well that Dirac would not have found out this statistical law so easily if Chen Muwu hadn't been in front of him.

Moreover, Chen Muwu is also his father-in-law Rutherford's favorite student, and he is one of the leading figures in the new generation of Cavendish Laboratory.

So R. Fowler did not hesitate to praise Chen Muwu on stage.

It felt like when I was in middle school, every Monday, after the national flag was hoisted and the speech under the national flag was finished, the principal stepped onto the stage and scolded the students who got bad grades for not living up to expectations, while praising the good students who got No. 1 in the monthly exam.

Good students have to stand motionless on the rostrum with certificates in both hands, how embarrassing it is.

Chen Muwu was neither advancing nor retreating. He thought to himself, he should not have offended Professor R. Fowler recently, right?Why is he doing this to me?
Now, Dr. Chen finally became famous in front of all the astronomers present.

Or it should be said that he has always been famous, but everyone didn't know what he looked like before, and this time he finally showed his real person.

So after the closing ceremony, Chen Muwu became the busiest person in the auditorium of St. John's College.

Every astronomer wants to have a chat with him. Chen Muwu is more popular than Campbell, who defeated Imperial College's A. Fowler in the election and was re-elected as the president of the International Union of Astronomers.

"Dr. Chen, if you excuse me, when do you plan to return to China? Professor Seiji Hirayama, the vice president of the International Federation of Astronomers and the director of the National Astronomical Observatory, although he was unable to come to the UK this time due to health reasons, he has always hoped to invite you to give lectures at Tokyo Imperial University."

"I don't have any plans to give lectures in this book for the next few years. And I don't speak Chinese..."

"It's okay, Dr. Chen, we can provide you with an interpreter then."

"Sorry, I can't understand the English you speak, just like now."

"We can provide Chinese translation, that's not a problem."

So enthusiastic.

The person who surrounds him the most is himself.

This nation has a morbid and extremely obsessive mentality. Chen Muwu is so popular, they are also proud of being of the yellow race.

"Let's talk about it when we have a chance." He could only be perfunctory.

"Dr. Chen..."

"Dr. Chen..."

While dealing with the crowd, Chen Muwu tried to squeeze out of the crowd, finally managed to get in front of Campbell.

"Principal Campbell! Principal Campbell!"

There was also a circle of people around Campbell, so Chen Muwu could only stand on the periphery of the crowd and shout loudly.

After going through a lot of ups and downs, the two finally talked: "Dr. Chen, what's the matter with you? Could it be that you changed your mind and want to go to California University with me?"

"...That's not true. I have a thank-you letter here, and I hope you can pass it on to President Lowell of Harvard University for me."

Just because he was lucky enough to fulfill the last wish of his elder brother Percival, Abbott directly paid out a bonus of [-] US dollars.

After thinking about it, Chen Muwu felt that it was a little unreasonable to ask Campbell to send a message to express his gratitude. Even this handwritten letter written overnight felt shabby.

If it was in China, Campbell would have to help bring back a few catties of tea and pieces of Suzhou embroidery.

The week-long general meeting of the federation finally came to an end. The guests left Cambridge University in batches. This academic town around London gradually returned to the calm before the meeting.

After being busy with the preparations, reception and aftermath of the meeting, Eddington finally had time to find Lord Balfour.

He told the chancellor of Cambridge University that the 92-year-old Northumberland astronomical telescope in the school's observatory was old, small in aperture, and outdated in manufacturing technology.

He also told him the allusion that the Chancellor of Cambridge University nearly 100 years ago and the third Duke of Northumberland donated the telescope with his own money.

What Eddington said inside and outside the words meant that he wanted the supervisor to either allocate funds or donate money.

In fact, Belfort, like Lord Kelvin, perfectly fits Chen Muwu's definition of being taken advantage of.

First of all, he is very rich. When he was six years old, he inherited a huge sum of 400 million pounds because of his father's death.

You know, that was 1854, and a pound at that time was worth much more than a pound today.

Chen Muwu felt that even as a time traveler, his vision was still very low, and he would still be very happy to receive a bonus of one thousand pounds.

But this money is nothing in the eyes of the rich.

In Mark Twain's satirical novel from 1893, two rich brothers give away a million-pound note in a random bet.

Second, Balfour was single and childless.

He once had a lover when he was young, but this girl died of illness when he was 27 years old because of typhoid fever.

Belfort put a ring given to him by his mother in the girl's coffin, and he has never been married since then.

With a huge amount of wealth in his name and no heirs behind him, Eddington felt that it should be easy to get a sum of money from the Chancellor to build a new telescope for the University of Cambridge Observatory. He even planned to name the new telescope the Belfort.

But he didn't think about it at all. The school supervisor didn't plan to pay for it himself, but said that he would put it in the school's review committee meeting and discuss it with the committee members.

Greedy, miserly, miser...

In his heart, Eddington used all kinds of vicious words to scold this old guy named Belfort.

The University of Cambridge's review committee meeting, held before the start of the autumn term.

In addition to Chancellor Belfort relaying Eddington's proposal to the committee members, Old Thomson, the dean of Trinity College, also brought another proposal.

He proposed the creation of a new professorship of Newtonian Theoretical Physics at Trinity College, in memory of the greatest scientist in the history of Cambridge University.

How to arrange Chen Muwu has become a heart problem for old Thomson.

The number of professorships at Cambridge University is limited, one radish and one pit.

It is impossible to appoint a new professor unless the previous professor dies or offers to retire.

Professor Lamour has been well served in the Lucas Mathematics Professorship, and Old Thomson has no reason or power to ask him to step down from this position.

In this way, if Chen Muwu wanted to find a professorship, he could only create a new one for him.

At the present University of Cambridge, there are only two ways to create new professorships.

Either there are donations from great benefactors, like William Cavendish, the seventh Duke of Devonshire, donated to build a laboratory and set up the Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics.

Either apply to the review committee and go through an extremely complicated application process, and there is a high probability that it will not be successful.

Old Thomson was rich, but not very rich.

He likes Chen Muwu, but not that much.

So old Thomson would never donate a huge sum of money to Cambridge University just to help Chen Muwu get a professorship.

Regardless of whether he could take out the money, if old Thomson really had the money, why would he make a "donation" to Chen Muwu?

Wouldn't it be better to bring his son Thomson Jr., who was dispatched to remote Aberdeen, Scotland, as a professor, back to Cambridge University to reunite the father and son?

Then we can only adopt the second method and throw the pressure on the school.

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After the review committee meeting, some people were happy while others were sad.

Although he failed to get a huge sum of money from the stingy school supervisor to build an advanced astronomical telescope, Eddington still got more funds than usual.

The money will allow him to update many equipment for the Cambridge University Observatory.

However, Old Thomson's proposal was completely rejected.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with commemorating Newton, but after the dean of Trinity College announced the nomination for the first professorship, the expression on the face of the Chancellor Belfort suddenly became not so good-looking.

Chen Muwu, who was more or less related to these two proposals, was completely unaware of what happened at the review committee meeting.

On the one hand, he had to stare at Zhao Zhongyao and Cowcroft's design proposal for the electrostatic generator, and on the other hand, he had to prepare for linear algebra courses.

Even the closer it was to leaving school, the more nervous he became.

It was the first time to teach a full course in class, and the students were all the smartest Cambridge students in the world.

If there are obvious mistakes in the lectures, will many people write them in their memoirs?
Chen Muwu specifically learned from Professor Fowler in the laboratory, and asked him if he had any experience in teaching methods.

A very magical door was installed in Fowler's office. Chen Muwu walked in frowning, and walked out happily.

"Chen, there's no need for you to be so nervous. You've said it yourself, the students you're about to face are the smartest in the UK and the world.

"Do these smart people still need to rely on the teacher's lectures to acquire new knowledge? Wrong, they rely entirely on self-study!

"As long as you distribute the handouts in advance, at least half of the students in your class can learn all the knowledge before the first class starts, do you believe it?
"As a teacher, the most important thing is to make the best use of the situation, Dr. Chen, you should cultivate their autonomy more!"

Fowler's words made Chen Muwu suddenly enlightened.

I have always been worried that I will be laughed at by smart students, but for basic knowledge like linear algebra, smart students don't need a teacher at all.

He also thought about the year when he and Dirac were roommates, and Dirac once relayed how Fowler taught in class.

The whole classroom is like a quiet study room, each student is reading and doing calculations independently.

And Fowler just glanced here and there, and if he found an obvious error in the calculation process, he would point it out to the students.

High, it is high!

If Moyu has grades, then Fowler is definitely at the master level.

(End of this chapter)