Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 219 167 The Stingy University of Paris

"The Gold Rush" can definitely be regarded as a classic Chaplin-style silent film. This film was released this summer, but almost half a year has passed, and its film schedule can still be seen in Paris cinemas.

A comedy about a poor Alaskan gold digger who finally becomes a rich man as he wishes, plus a happy ending, the theme of the movie is very suitable for watching in a family holiday like Christmas.

Chaplin is indeed the most famous comedy master in the world. The audience laughed constantly, even Chen Muwu, who came from a generation with a lot of entertainment items, was not immune. He laughed the loudest every time.

It's also fortunate that this movie is a silent movie, otherwise Chen Muwu might not be able to understand the meaning of the lines if it were dubbed in French.

Although Chen Muwu's clothes are exquisite and elegant, and his figure is tall and strong, but the combination of an East Asian man and a European woman walking on the street still attracts the attention of others.

Nine out of ten of these gazes were full of ridicule or even hostility.

Whether it is overseas Chinese doing business, overseas students studying knowledge, or those Chinese laborers who came to France after World War I and settled down after the war, they cannot escape the fate of being discriminated against by the French.

Especially after the First World War, France, as the main country participating in the war, lost a lot of young and middle-aged labor force, which made many young women of the right age lack suitable marriage partners, so many girls focused on choosing a mate. Chinese workers for money.

This made the French men very upset, saying that these inferior Chinese earn French money and marry French women. In the future, they will definitely occupy the land of the French, and France will become an East Asian country in the future.

So after the war ended, on the one hand, it was affected by the expulsion of laborers from Belfort in the UK, and on the other hand, it was also caused by this kind of nationalism. France also sent all the Chinese workers back to the country.

It can only be said that the French of this generation still have the foresight, but unfortunately they predicted the wrong target, and also predicted that the continent that France will be included in the future is not East Asia, but West Africa.

Even Cai Dongfa's Chinese-French mixed race cannot be avoided. Although his face already has a lot of European characteristics, he will occasionally be yelled at for no reason while walking on the road, telling him to go back to China.

During the Paris Olympic Games, Cai Dongfa complained to Chen Muwu more than once about this matter, saying that he can make a friend in France and sit in a car every time he travels, which is undoubtedly the most sensible and safest choice .

Aifu is now walking on the busiest street in Paris holding Chen Muwu's arm, and she herself is very beautiful.

As a result, Chen Muwu became a thorn in the side of the French people on the street at this time. Many people cursed him in their hearts or orally, and even opened AOE, splashing the attack on Ive, saying that she As a Frenchman, he has no shame, and for a few stinky money, he committed himself to the yellow-skinned monkey from China.

The reason why they can judge that it is China and not East Asia is probably because Chen Muwu is too tall, and it is absolutely impossible for him to be short and habitually nodding and bowing himself.

A Nobel Prize winner in physics, the daughter of a Nobel Prize winner in physics, was ridiculed and abused on the streets of Paris, but no one took it seriously.

Ive's mother was scolded by the French harder than she is now, but so what?It does not prevent her from becoming the greatest female scientist in France and the world.

Ave even joked with Chen Muwu: "The Charlie in the movie is dressed exactly the same as you, the only difference is that he has an extra cane than you."

"Mr. Chaplin is actually British. His attire is the standard British gentleman's attire. It's just that he deliberately looks ugly in the movie."

"Huh? He's British? That's not so strange."

The nationals of Britain and France are born with a bit of contempt for the other country.

The slight difference is that, apart from the British, the French only look down on the Germans.

The British, on the other hand, look down on people from all other countries in the world except them equally.

Ive advised Chen Muwu more than once to leave England and find a job at a university in Paris, or simply join her mother's radium research institute.

If he really entered the Radium Institute, then her mother could retire without worrying about going to the laboratory to do experiments every day, and her institute could be handed over to her family.

Chen Muwu said in his heart that this silly girl was already in one mind with him before she got married.

But, if he takes over the Radium Research Institute, what will your eldest sister and eldest brother-in-law do in the future?

In the movie theater, Ive also complained that he was deeply influenced by the British: Chen Muwu has already sat on the chair, but the hat is still on top of his head-no one in the world except the British will do this.

The customs of the British are very strange. They are the only country that likes to wear hats in the theater. It is considered impolite to take off the hat.

In England before, Chen Muwu was laughed at by the British for taking off his hat in the theater.

After staying for a few years, I finally developed the habit, and now I am in France, and I am laughed at again because I didn't put my hat in the cloakroom.

So before the movie started, Chen Muwu had no choice but to go back to the cloakroom of the movie theater in desperation, handed his hat to the waiter inside, and at the same time accepted the latter's displeased gaze.

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The time will soon come to December 12st.

Mrs. Curie has been working in the Institute of Radium Research until yesterday. Even her assistant Joliot and her eldest daughter Irena did not start to enjoy the Christmas holiday until the day before Christmas.

Irena and Jolio seized this hard-won rest time and went shopping in the streets of Paris like Ave and Chen Muwu did a few days ago.

Unable to relax, Ive went to the kitchen to help the maid sent by de Broglie to cook.

She may also be avoiding being with her mother and future husband at the same time, deliberately giving these two busy people time and space to talk to each other.

Now only Chen Muwu and Mrs. Curie were sitting face to face on the sofa in the living room chatting, or the former was walking on the ice to accept questions from his future mother-in-law.

"Chen, what have you done in the Cavendish Laboratory this year? Why haven't I seen you publish related papers?"

The first question Madam Curie asked was not about her daughter, but about her academic colleague and competitor Rutherford and his laboratory.

Although there are many physics laboratories researching radioactivity all over the world,

But the number one among them is undoubtedly the Cavendish Institute.

In second place is the Radium Institute in Vienna, Austria, and in third place is the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry in Germany.

The reason why Vienna can be ranked higher than Berlin is because there is only one uranium mining area in Europe, which is the Joachimsthal area.

It used to belong to the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Vienna as its capital, and it was divided into the hands of Czechoslovakia after the defeat of the Allies in World War I.

The top three are either national research institutes, or the country and schools provide a lot of manpower and material support behind them.

Only the Institute of Radium, although nominally attached to the University of Paris, this French university is not so supportive of the Polish woman who is at the helm of the institute.

There used to be a text in elementary school textbooks titled "Three Grams of Radium".

It is about that because Mrs. Curie gave up the patent of radium purification technology, in 1920 she couldn't even afford a gram of radium.

After this incident was exposed by American journalists, the American people raised [-] US dollars and jointly purchased one gram and donated it to her.

Ive once told Chen Muwu that she went to the United States with her sister and mother in 1921 and was warmly welcomed by the American people.

That trip to the United States was to bring that gram of radium back to France.

This text mainly wants to describe Madame Curie as a great and selfless person, but another point cannot be ignored, that is, in the research institute of the University of Paris, she can’t even afford the radium that is named after the research institute.

Why can't you afford it?

Because the stingy University of Paris does not give money!

On the way back to the UK after receiving the Nobel Prize last year, Chen Muwu visited Marie Curie once at the Radium Institute.

Although it has the name of a research institute, it is only a laboratory in a building.

Not to mention compared with the Cavendish Laboratory, which has the right to use the entire building, it is not even comparable to the David-Faraday Laboratory, which occupies an entire floor in the Royal Research Institute.

But even so, Madame Curie pushed the position of the Radium Institute in radioactive research to the fourth place in the world only by her own efforts, compared with those who can only spend money but can't do scientific research. Americans are too strong.

What an amazing great man!
Although Mrs. Curie can often see the papers published by the scholars of Cambridge University in various magazines, and learn about the latest research developments in the Cavendish Laboratory.

But it wasn't as quick as talking directly to the brightest young men on Rutherford's staff.

What makes Mrs. Curie very strange is that she only read three papers with Chen Muwu's name this year, one is about hydrogen isotopes, and the other two are about superconductivity.

This kid came back from the Netherlands last year, and he kept saying that he wanted to study low-temperature physics. Unexpectedly, he really made some tricks.

It’s just why Chen Muwu didn’t study radioactivity, microscopic atomic nuclei, or the new subject he proposed called quantum mechanics?

Moreover, the correspondence address of his three papers has also changed, not at Cambridge University, but in London.

Was the research direction of the Cavendish Laboratory changed?Or is it only Chen Muwu who changed his research direction?

Hearing Mrs. Curie's question, Chen Muwu was stunned for a while, and then thought that he really didn't produce any results in the Cavendish laboratory this year.

The only project that was completed and put into use was the unique bicycle in the world that he helped Eddington refit in his spare time.

After helping the Cambridge University Observatory to obtain a sum of money from the Chancellor by mistake, Eddington was full of praise for Chen Muwu again.

He said that he would definitely recommend the multi-speed bicycle technology given to him by Chen Muwu to various British bicycle factories, and let them buy Chen Muwu's patent.

In addition to bicycles, there are only "Kelvin-Chen generators".

It's just that this high-voltage generator is still under development. If it wants to be completed and put into testing, it must wait until next year.

But the only thing left to tell Mrs. Curie is this generator.

I can't tell her that I helped Eddington design the most labor-saving bicycle in the world. If you need it, I can give you one later.

Is this plausible, is it plausible?

Mrs. Curie is not like Eddington's kind of restless person.

"Ma'am, I am currently in charge of designing and building a particle accelerator in the Cavendish Laboratory. It is estimated that by next year, a million-volt experimental device should be built."

After hearing this answer, Mrs. Curie was finally relieved.

Sure enough, Chen Muwu didn't change his research direction, it's just that he hasn't produced any results yet.

However, 150 million volts?
This value is probably too big!

She has the same research direction as Rutherford, and she has not retired to the laboratory management position like him, so she naturally knows what it means to have an accelerator that can add charged particles to a high speed.

Basically, whoever is the first to have this big killer will be able to make more achievements in this field earlier.

According to what Chen Muwu said, this accelerator is determined to win, and it has reached a critical period of research and development.

Although she wanted this accelerator very much, and even though he was in love with his daughter, Mrs. Curie was too embarrassed to poach Chen Muwu over at such a time.

Rutherford really picked up a big treasure!

"Dr. Chen, isn't the principle behind your accelerator complicated? What about the cost? After it's completed, will the patent licensing fee be high?"

She could only ask these questions on the sidelines. If the accelerator is not too expensive, then she can raise money to build one herself.

"Madam, this accelerator is not expensive, and the principle is not complicated. It's just because of some reasons, I can't tell you what the principle behind it is. But don't worry, when the accelerator is built and successfully passed the acceptance , I will definitely send you one as soon as possible.”

Although in his heart, Chen Muwu had already referred to General Electric's vacuum pump and priced the accelerator at [-] pounds apiece.

But he certainly doesn't need to pay the price to buy the goods himself, it only costs twenty pounds.

Who can afford twenty pounds?

And he must send this accelerator, but it doesn't have to be sent to Paris.

"Doctor Chen, isn't this very good?"

"Ma'am, don't talk about my relationship with Ive, just talk about your status in the field of physics and radioactive research. Americans who have never met before can give you radium, so why can't I give you an accelerator?
"The only thing is that this accelerator has relatively high requirements for space, and it was not built in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, but an additional vacant space was found.

"Although I'm sorry to say that, I feel that in that cramped radium research institute, I definitely can't let it go.

"If the University of Paris builds a new laboratory for you, if you can put down the accelerator, I will send the accelerator to Paris.

"If they can't provide this condition," Chen Muwu changed the subject, "My good friend, the Crown Prince of Sweden, built an academy in Stockholm and invited me to study physics there. Why don't we go to Sweden to build an electric potential difference?" How about a bigger accelerator, and then please go there and continue your radioactive research?"

(End of this chapter)