Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 222 170 Recommendation of Yoshio Nishina

On January 1, several members of the Royal Society visited the Baird laboratory and inspected the report of the Baird TV system demonstration. Together with the photo of the TV image taken by the photographer, they were all published in the in that day's Times.

Rutherford, president of the Royal Society, praised Baird's television system in the newspaper as a great invention.

Professor Bohr, who came to the UK from Denmark as a guest, also told the reporters of The Times that Britain is a great country, from the Jenny machine to the steam engine, from the generator to the television system, the development of science and technology in the UK, It has always been in the leading position in the world, and this leading position has lasted for hundreds of years, and no one has been able to shake it so far.

Chen Muwu also became a boaster for a while, praising Baird's great invention to the reporters, saying that he also gained a lot of inspiration from the visit that day, which will be very helpful for his future scientific research.

Many Nobel Prize winners from various countries were invited to endorse it. Now that the television invented by Baird, it is hard to think that it will not cause a national sensation in the whole of the UK.

Chen Muwu didn't know whether the other members, including the above two, praised the five-frame-per-second TV so highly, whether it was from their hearts, or they deliberately said it in front of the reporter.

However, everything he said was true. Baird's TV did remind him of two very important reminders.

After returning to Cambridge University, the electron microscope can be put aside for a while, but the insulation of the surrounding environment of the motor must be implemented immediately. Human lives are at stake and there is no delay.

No matter when Zhao Zhongyao was designing the blueprints or Cockcroft was calculating the cost of building a generator, neither of them thought about insulation, so they only calculated the material price of the main part .

After all, the generator model that Chen Muwu made out of tin cans and silk belts can only provide "high voltage" of about a thousand volts, and the charge is not much.

Even if a path is formed between the generator model and the human body, the current generated is basically the same as the feeling of being electrified when taking off a sweater in winter, and it will definitely not be the tingling feeling when getting an electric shock.

But when the generator changes from a model to a real thing, the size of the spherical electrode rises to [-] centimeters, and the voltage reaches the million-volt level, it will be completely different.

Moreover, providing insulation for such a high-voltage generator must be expensive, and it is estimated that a large amount of money will be spent.

Chen Muwu doesn't feel bad about this extra expense at all, the more money is spent, correspondingly, the price of finished generators manufactured in the future will also rise accordingly.

After learning from the capitalists in General Electric, he dared to ask for [-] for the cost of [-] pounds.

If you add the cost of insulation, you can earn a fortune again.

It was also on the same day that this "Times" was published. After the meeting of the Royal Society and the TV demonstration, everyone at Cambridge University was finally returning to Cambridge from London.

Sitting on the return train, Chen Muwu was finally able to hide in the corner of the first-class carriage with peace of mind this time, being a little transparent without being noticed by others.

Whether it is Rutherford or his good student Bohr, these two are big figures who hold the absolute right to speak in their respective laboratories or research institutes. Become very chatty.

In addition, the two people who are deeply in love with each other have not seen each other for three years, and they have endless conversations with each other, and they have started talking since the moment they got in the car.

When Bohr was in the Institute of Theoretical Physics, he was majestic in front of those young talents in physics.

But when he got to Rutherford's side, his character immediately became very docile, like a little sheep.

This is enough to show how charismatic Rutherford's personality is, and it can also be seen how much Bohr respected his teacher during the years of studying in the UK, and has continued this habit until now.

It's just that Chen Muwu, who has calmed down this time, still can't escape the smog in the car.

Perhaps it was because he learned from Rutherford, or because certain ingredients in tobacco can refresh the mind and provide inspiration in physics. Bohr was also a big smoking gun.

Now Chen Muwu, who is under the eaves, can only bow his head, but he tells himself silently in his heart that after the Swedish school is completed, the first thing he will do is to put up no-smoking slogans in every corner of the campus, and put smoking away. The fine is written in the school rules and motto.

Arriving at Cambridge University in the evening, Chen Muwu politely declined Rutherford's dinner at Trinity College in order to clean up Bohr's past - anyway, the food there was not good, and the rules were very complicated.

He stepped on his bicycle and hurried to another place in Cambridgeshire that Rutherford had specially found for him to build a particle accelerator.

This bicycle was modified for Eddington before, and Chen Muwu also made one himself.

He finally got rid of his three-year [-]-way career and joined the Cambridge cycling army.

After decades of development, the layout of the Cavendish Laboratory has already been finalized.

There are conference rooms, library, lecture hall and a huge open laboratory on the first floor, and independent laboratory rooms on the second and third floors, as well as the offices of teachers and professors.

Although the conclusion obtained after calculation is that there is no need to build a giant spherical electrode with a diameter of nearly 20 meters and a height of [-] to [-] meters from the ground as Chen Muwu imagined, it can also generate a million volts of electric potential.

However, according to the design drawings given by Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft, the height of the entire generator has still reached [-] meters.

This height must have far exceeded the floor height of the old Cavendish Laboratory.

In the original time and space, in order to deal with the contradiction that the increasingly old laboratories cannot meet the needs of various newer and more sophisticated instruments, Rutherford chose to be affiliated to the Royal Society in the last year of his term as president. The Mond Foundation applied for and approved a fund, and selected a piece of land near Cambridge University to build a new Mond Laboratory as a branch of the Cavendish Laboratory.

However, due to various factors, the Mond Laboratory has been selected for construction in London many years in advance.

In the future, Kapitsa may still be able to serve as the director of the Mond Laboratory, but the office will be moved from Cambridge to London.

But whether Cavendish Laboratory can build a new branch has become unknown.

He once complained about Little Prague before, saying that it was he who changed the research direction of this long-established laboratory from radioactivity and nuclear physics to solid state physics after taking over the laboratory, which led to Cavendish Laboratory gradually It lost its status as the world's physics experiment center and eventually declined.

But that was the last resort of the British wartime and post-war economic decline. If Little Prague didn't do that, the Cavendish Laboratory might decline faster.

But now it seems that the culprit is more like himself?
No, no, how is this possible!

To put it another way, if the accelerator project makes a lot of money for the Cavendish Laboratory, it seems that the teacher doesn't need to use his power to go through the back door and get funding from the Royal Society to build the new laboratory independently, right?
That's right, I'm not the culprit, but a loyal minister!
Because it was far away from the Cavendish Laboratory, the new place prepared for the accelerator did not strictly enforce Rutherford's rule of finishing work on time at six o'clock.

When Chen Muwu arrived, the room was still brightly lit.

But after entering it, it became empty, except for a few sets of tables and chairs, and a movable blackboard, there was no sign of a motor.

Even though Cockcroft was an engineer, it would be wishful thinking for him to rub an accelerator with Zhao Zhongyao together.

Whether it's a spherical metal electrode, or a specific insulating glass pillar, neither of them can figure it out.

But there are blueprints and money, you only need to place an order with the factory that cooperates with Cavendish Laboratory, and the fool will do it himself.

Chen Muwu put forward his idea to them, taking advantage of the fact that all the customized parts were still in the factory and had not been shipped here, he wanted to immediately carry out insulation renovation on this room.

In the era when there were no various polymer materials, the mainstream insulation method today is to use pitch to bond mica sheets together.

The higher the number of layers bonded, the better the insulation.

Of course, the asphalt can also be replaced with polystyrene, which has a better insulating effect.

It was only in 1926 that polystyrene only existed in the laboratories of universities, research institutes, and chemical companies, and there was no way or ability to commercialize it—everyone was looking for it.

The BASF factory in Germany could only get the production line out in the 30s. Chen Muwu really couldn't wait.

He couldn't continue rubbing polystyrene with his hands like he used to produce plexiglass, and the time was also too late.

Moreover, the products that have just been launched must be extremely expensive. In comparison, asphalt is cheap if it has a large amount.

Among insulating materials, the price of another mica sheet is not low.

There are few mica mines in Europe, and the ones seen on the market are basically shipped from African colonies or South America.

After talking about the insulation, the other two people in the room also realized their negligence.

Fortunately, Chen Muwu had thought of this, otherwise if someone died, they would probably be the first to experience the electric shock.

Oppenheimer is still in the United States and has not returned, so the procurement can only be handed over to Cockcroft.

Purchasing a large number of these industrial supplies in the UK, his status as an engineer may be more convenient than that of a Jewish boy like Oppenheimer who spends a lot of money.

In fact, it doesn't matter if it is more expensive, anyway, with six thousand pounds in hand, Chen Muwu is not short of money at all.

After explaining all this, he "kicked out" Zhao Zhongyao and Cowcroft from the room, and asked them to go back and have a good rest. There was still a lot of work to be done in a few days.

Chen Muwu also got on his bicycle again and returned to his room in Trinity College.

His valet at Trinity College brought him the letters and telegrams that he had accumulated during the meeting in London these days.

It may be because around the winter vacation, there are very few scientific exchanges and discussions in these letters, and most of them are letters between Chinese people greeting each other on the eve of the Spring Festival.

There was also a letter from Yoshio Nishina from Leiden, the Netherlands.

In addition to the English delivery address and name, he also wrote down the four characters "Chen Hanchen 様" respectfully with a brush.

The title of Ben followed by the Chinese name is considered to respect people, but it is not completely respected.

However, didn't I abolish the lunar calendar and switch to the Gregorian calendar as early as the Meiji period in order to get out of Europe and enter Asia and integrate with the West?

Why did Yoshio Nishina send him a Spring Festival congratulatory letter?
Is my face already so big?

After opening it, Chen Muwu found that the contents of the letter were still the same:
First, he praised his various achievements in physics, such as the light of East Asia.

Then he said that he always takes him as an example, and if he doesn't try to catch up, he can't be left further behind.

At the end of the letter, Chen Muwu didn't see the Spring Festival greetings, but he saw Yoshio Nishina's real purpose hidden at the end.

This is not a congratulatory letter at all, but a recommendation letter!

No wonder he spends so much time praising himself, and also said that some East Asians want to fight against the enemy and develop together, and punish Omi ghosts and animals in the future.

In the 20s, Yoshio Nishina's rhetoric still had many supporters in China.

Many people think that in the Russian war, I defeated Russia, which is a white skin that proves that East Asians are capable of defeating Europe.

The people of the two countries "same language and same race", so they should unite to deal with Europe and the United States.

Even the former Prime Minister once had this view, but not necessarily out of his heart.

When his opponent was from the Feng family, his speeches were very fierce.

When the opponents were replaced by Cao and Wu, who were pro-British and American, they began to look forward to the United Kingdom and opposed the British and the United States together.

But this set of rhetoric can deceive others, but not Chen Muwu!
With the mentality of watching the fun, he read the letter to the end, and in the end he saw an even bigger fun.

Yoshio Nishina recommended to him that there was a graduate of Tanglin Imperial University's Department of Physics who wanted to study in Europe.

I recommended the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University to this graduate, and informed that Dr. Chen, the Light of East Asia, was also in this laboratory.

Yoshio Nishina asked Chen Muwu to open the door of convenience so that his compatriots could successfully enter Cambridge University and study superconductors with Dr. Chen.

It is human nature to recommend one's compatriots, and there is nothing ridiculous about it.

The point is, the person recommended by Nishina Yoshio is called Huang Shengwen Ce.

During World War II, Ben's development of the atomic bomb was no later than the Manhattan Project in the United States.

The most famous is the "Ren" project jointly developed by the Army and the Institute of Physics and Chemistry to develop the atomic bomb, named after the academic leader Yoshio Nishina.

In addition to Project Ren, the Navy also has their atomic bomb research team.

Starting from the Satsuma and Changzhou domains, the navy and army began to dislike each other.

It is naturally impossible to participate in the development of a secret weapon such as the atomic bomb.

The Army and the Institute of Physics and Chemistry jointly developed the Ren plan, so our navy and the Kyoto Imperial University jointly developed the "F" plan.

And the person in charge of Project F is Huang Sheng Wence recommended by Yoshio Nishina to Chen Muwu.

Without knowing it, Army Red Deer recommended Navy Red Deer to him. This was one of the biggest joys Chen Muwu had seen recently.

(End of this chapter)