Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 220 168 The Royal Society Meeting Again

Chen Muwu was embarrassed to say directly that the University of Paris would not pay for a particle accelerator for Madame Curie.

He just made insinuations that the university might not approve a new place for the Radium Research Institute. The particle accelerator needs a lot of space, and the current small laboratory absolutely cannot fit it.

But in fact, there are still many loopholes in what he thought of on the spur of the moment.

If you only count on the funding from the University of Paris, the Radium Institute will not be able to operate at all.

Mrs. Curie has a strong personality, which can be seen from the event that the American people collectively donated one gram of radium to her.

In recent years, Mrs. Curie has always chosen one or two months every year to give lectures in European countries and the United States, relying on the lecture labor fees provided by the organizers to maintain the operation of the Radium Institute.

Even Cai Yuanpei, the president of Bei University, met with Madame Curie during his last education trip in Europe and invited her to give lectures and visits to Bei University in China.

It was just that that year happened to be 1921, and soon after, Mrs. Curie was going to visit the United States to collect the donated gram of radium, so she could only regretfully decline Cai Yuanpei's invitation.

Everyone knows that the high-energy particles provided by particle accelerators play an important role in the study of atomic nuclei.

So even if the money earned from one lecture is not enough to buy it, even if there are two more lectures and writing, Madame Curie will definitely buy the accelerator.

As for the place where the accelerator is placed, that's even less of a problem.

The Crown Prince of Sweden is Chen Muwu's good friend, so isn't De Broglie his good friend?
If De Broglie knew that Chen Muwu was going to give his mother-in-law an accelerator, the little duke would definitely provide a venue for it generously.

Isn't it the land?Say it as if no one has it.

Maybe De Broglie may add something more than the land, as long as he can keep his good friend Chen Muwu in Paris to accompany him.

But Chen Muwu finally decided to tell Mrs. Curie about the fact that he built a school in Sweden.

He didn't even tell Kapitsa and Blackett.

Although these two people are two of his three best friends at Cambridge University, they are also Rutherford's right-hand men after all.

The teacher is at the peak of his spring and autumn, and the Cavendish Laboratory is also in a thriving rising stage.

In this situation, poaching Rutherford's corner is really inappropriate, besides, Chen Muwu doesn't have the guts to do so.

The third of the three best friends at Cambridge University is Dirac, and he is also the only one Chen Muwu is ready to poach without psychological burden.

Although he was born in engineering, he fell into the embrace of theoretical physics after arriving in Cambridge, and he was not considered a core member of the Cavendish Laboratory.

Even if Chen Muwu does not dig him, he will go to the University of Göttingen to find Born, Germany to find Pauli and Heisenberg after graduating with a Ph. Under his command, he became a general of the Copenhagen School.

Rather than going to Copenhagen, it would be better to go to Stockholm.

At least Chen Muwu regarded him as a friend, instead of talking some profound and incomprehensible words with a pipe in his mouth, and asking Dirac to record them word by word.

Unlike these three friends, Mrs. Curie can already be regarded as Chen Muwu's family.

After a year or two, he and Ifu got married. According to Chinese customs, Mrs. Curie is Chen Muwu's mother.

There is no need to hide between family members, and Chen Muwu still really wants to invite Mrs. Curie to Sweden.

Although Chen Muwu has won the Nobel Prize, he has made many achievements in various disciplines, and his academic status has improved, but he is still too young and his academic reputation is not enough to attract outstanding talents.

In the shadow of a famous tree, if there is a statue of Madame Curie in the Prince's Academy in Stockholm, the situation will undoubtedly improve a lot.

On the other hand, his relatives will not have a good life in France in the future.

The Second World War had a great impact on the Curie family.

Marie Curie failed to see the outbreak of war.

Before the war, because of tuberculosis, Irene was recuperating in Switzerland, a neighboring country of France, known as permanent neutrality.

After the war broke out, she brought her two children with her.

Her husband, Frederick, remained in France and took an active part in the French Resistance.

Like his teacher Langevin, he also became a member of the French Communist Party.

The problem arose in Frederick's identity as a Communist Party of France.

During the war, everyone lived in peace and worked together to resist.

But after the war ended, the French began to liquidate these communists.

Frederick was dismissed from most of his duties, and in the end only the professor of France was retained.

And Irena was affected for no reason. When she visited the United States for the third time in her life to attend the meeting of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugees Committee, because her husband was a Communist Party member, she was not only banned from entering the country, but even detained. At the immigration office at Ellis Island.

This is how the French hero and his family were treated after the war.

It would be better to invite them to Sweden directly.

With Chen Muwu and the Joliot-Curie couple, Madame Curie can retire from the front line of the experiment in advance, and maybe her physical condition can be improved and she can live longer than in the original time and space.

And the Joliot-Curie couple can also conduct experiments in a better experimental environment, and maybe they can make more results than the original time and space.

After listening to Chen Muwu's description of the future, Madam Curie captured the key point: "Chen, you mean that you plan to leave the Cavendish Laboratory some day in the future, right?"

"That's right, ma'am, that's exactly how I plan for the future."

"I don't understand. Did the Swedes give you some kind of ecstasy? Is there anything more attractive than the Cavendish Laboratory in that little-known college in Stockholm?"

Hearing that Chen Muwu was leaving Cambridge University was good news for Mrs. Curie.

What makes her happy is not the loss of a competent person in the competitor's laboratory.

But if Chen Muwu's reason that Sweden is better than the UK is not enough to convince herself, then Madame Curie will consider and persuade Chen Muwu to come to the Radium Institute in Paris.

In this way, she can not only get a good helper, but also keep her daughter by her side.

"They're rich, they're rich."

The first sentence in Chen Muwu's answer directly shattered Madam Curie's fantasy just now.

"The Crown Prince of Sweden very much hopes to develop their domestic education and technology, but cannot find a suitable leader.

"His Royal Highness and I met in Paris by chance, and met again at the award ceremony in Stockholm. Last winter, he told me about this idea and invited me to go to Stockholm to be the leader of the academy. Later, he introduced people from the Wallenberg family to me..."

Chen Muwu made an adaptation in some tiny details that were not made up randomly. The central idea is only two points:

One, the Swedes are rich.

Second, Chen Muwu went there not only to facilitate his scientific research, but also to cultivate talents for his motherland.

There are sufficient funds and national righteousness. This condition and this reason are really undeniable.

And these are precisely the two reasons that most attract Mrs. Curie.

Madame Curie has been famous for a long time, and after World War I, her long-occupied Poland gained independence to a certain extent and established the Second Polish Republic.

After regaining independence, Poland invited Marie Curie to return to her homeland several times and promised to build a radium research institute in Warsaw for her to continue her scientific research.

But Madame Curie rejected the call of her motherland and still chose to stay in France.

This does not mean that her patriotism is a manifestation of Ye Gong's love of dragons, but because the Polish government is too poor, let alone providing research funds, they can't even build a radium research institute.

And the University of Paris can at least give some money.

Madame Curie devoted her whole life to running for the establishment of the Warsaw Radium Research Institute in her motherland. It was not until 1932 that the institute was finally completed.

At that time, the American people donated another gram of radium to Mrs. Curie, which was also the last gram of radium among the three grams.

This gram of radium was transferred to the Institute of Radium Research in Warsaw by her at the opening ceremony of the institute.

Madame Curie is patriotic, and Chen Muwu is also patriotic.

Mrs. Curie is short of money, and Chen Muwu, uh, although he is not short of money, he can find a place with much more money than the Institute of Radium in Paris.

The key point is that the idea of ​​running schools in different places that Chen Muwu just mentioned also provided some inspiration for Mrs. Curie.

She has long seen Chinese students who went to France for work-study programs in France. They are practical, studious, hardworking and reliable. However, due to various reasons, this model of cooperative education has not continued.

Now I heard Chen Muwu say that the Swedes are willing to provide schools and part of the funds to help China train students.

So is it also feasible to help train some Polish students at the same time?
This is a very good idea, and it is worth thinking about it later.

Mrs. Curie did not express her position at that time, and Chen Muwu was not in a hurry.

Anyway, there is still plenty of time, and the schools in Sweden haven't been built yet.

The conversation on the day before Christmas went on for a long, long time.

In addition to these topics related to studies and work, in the end Mrs. Curie still asked one thing that could not be escaped, Xiao Chen, when will my daughter get married?Where will you live in the future?

After learning that Chen Muwu planned to get married within a year or two, and took his wife to Sweden after marriage.

Madame Curie had one more reason to go to Stockholm.

Yorio and Irena, who went out shopping, returned home before dinner, and the five people who were about to become a family had a Christmas dinner around the dining table.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, it was time for everyone to unwrap Christmas presents.

Oppenheimer had already prepared a decent gift for Chen Muwu, which made the son-in-law-to-be look good in front of his natal family.

He gave both Ive and Irena jewelry, but the former got more exquisite ones.

The gift to Mrs. Curie was a radio, which is still a relatively novel high-tech gadget nowadays.

And what he gave Jorio was a watch.

This is also a form of watch that has only recently emerged.

At least ten years ago, pocket watches with chains were still the main pocket watches for gentlemen.

Chen Muwu is an ability player, but Aifu, who just graduated, is not.

What she gave back to her sweetheart was a hand-knitted sweater. Because she was separated by mountains and seas, she couldn't measure the size herself, but this sweater fit Chen Muwu perfectly.

In comparison, the gift that Mrs. Curie received from her daughter was far inferior to that of Chen Muwu.

The clothes are also made of wool, Chen Muwu is a sweater, and Madam Curie is a pair of gloves.

And it looks like it is still woven with leftover wool from knitting sweaters.

Eve was plausible when she gave the gift: "This pair of gloves is for my mother. I think the pair you wear when riding a bicycle is very worn out, so I knitted a new pair for you."

What Madame Curie thought in her heart was that her daughter was already pretending to be a son-in-law before she got married.

And Chen Muwu heard another news from Aifu's words.

He thought Madam Curie didn't ride a bicycle yesterday, so he didn't tell her about helping Eddington improve the bicycle.

But now that I know the news, it is very simple to make a labor-saving bicycle for Mrs. Curie after returning to Cambridge University.

He is bound to be the most favorite son-in-law of the Curie family!
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After Christmas comes New Years, and after New Years, it's time to return to the UK.

Outside the train station in Paris, Kapitsa met De Broglie, who had gotten along well in the Cavendish Laboratory before, and met Marie Curie's daughter Eve for the first time.

Chen Muwu took over from Ye Gongchao the "Tragedy on the Nile" that he rushed to make during the vacation, and explained to him the subject of the next book.

Now that he has decided to return to China, he must squeeze it one last time before returning to China.

Chen Muwu even gave a reason that seemed to be for Ye Gongchao's sake: You don't want to go back to China empty-handed, instead of bringing a gift to your uncle Ye Yufu in Paris, right?
It costs money to bring a gift, what is the best way to make quick money?Writing of course!

There is no need to mention the greetings and reluctance of everyone before parting, as well as the grievance of feeling that they have been tricked again.

After getting on the train, Kapiza couldn't wait to punch Chen Muwu.

"You can do it, kid! It's fine if you trick Madame Curie's little daughter into your hands, the key is that Ive is still so beautiful!"

"How does it compare to your Anna?"

"Well...beautiful is beautiful, but it's a pity that compared with Anna, your Eve is still slightly inferior."

"cut!"

In short, after another day of bumpy trains and ships, the two good friends returned to Cambridge University again.

It is said that family is a safe haven. During this trip to Paris, Chen Muwu felt that he was fully charged in the second safe haven.

He is now motivated and ready to make a big splash at the Cavendish Laboratory.

As a result, as soon as he rolled up his arms and sleeves, Chen Muwu was notified that the Royal Society was going to hold a meeting in London and he was invited to attend.

After entering the British academic system, it is not good to have this point, every three to five meetings.

Because of the discovery of deuterium before, didn't Kapitsa also call together monks from all over the UK and go to London for a while?

Chen Muwu wondered if he should find some reason to skip the meeting.

At this time, a telegram from abroad completely dispelled his idea.

(End of this chapter)