Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 341 80 Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao Arrived
Although the letter was written very politely, at the beginning, Dean Cai, an old man nearly 60 years old, still called Chen Muwu Brother Hanchen according to traditional Chinese etiquette.

But Chen Muwu's first reaction to the invitation letter signed by Dean Cai and all his colleagues in the university was to reject it without even thinking about it.

You can't just say that I will go if you ask me to go. Wouldn't that mean that Lao Chen loses all his face?
Not to mention that Chen Muwu didn't want to return to China at all. Even if he couldn't think of it one day and planned to return to China, Academia Sinica was by no means his best choice.

Needless to say, in the ten years from 1927 to 1937, although the country was constantly fighting a civil war, at least in the field of higher education, some practical things were done.

However, this achievement is definitely not the fault of the National Government, because the Ministry of Education, which is supposed to manage universities according to regulations, is in a mess, and a new minister is replaced every now and then because of factional struggles.

Each new minister had his or her own ideas about education in the Republic of China, which led to the Ministry of Education's policies changing day by day rather than following the rules.

The success of higher education depends entirely on those early educators who studied abroad and then returned to China. They really wanted to cultivate talents for the country wholeheartedly.

But having a sincere heart is not enough. Everything in the world cannot develop without money.

There is no problem for teachers to bite the bullet and suffer a little bit in terms of salary, but insufficient education funding is a big problem.

Although even if education funds are allocated as expected, it may not be possible to buy a particle accelerator produced by the Cavendish Laboratory.

But if no funds are paid at all and all excuses are used to delay arrears, then no instrument, not even a test tube, can be purchased.

The future Academia Sinica will be in such a situation for a long time.

Even if Academia Sinica is crowned as the highest academic research institution in China, the research funds it receives are seriously insufficient because of insufficient funds directly under its own authority and due to layers of corruption and embezzlement by the Ministry of Education.

Without funds, we cannot conduct in-depth research. Bringing your own dry food and generating electricity for free with enthusiasm will not go far.

Therefore, for a long time in the future, Academia Sinica will only have a name that is not worthy of its name. Apart from its lofty name, it will have no tangible results at all.

In comparison, Dean Cai’s archrival, the Bei Research Institute under the command of Dean Li who lives far away in Beiping, is far behind the level of Academia Sinica in terms of academic research, especially in the three disciplines of physics, chemistry and botany. Come much higher.

This is because the Ministry of Education set up such a department specifically for Dean Li in order to appease him. It is like digging the carrot first and then digging the hole.

In order to prevent Dean Li from coming to fight again after a disagreement and causing the Ministry of Education to be in a state of unrest, at the beginning, the research funds of the Bei Research Institute were fully distributed every year.

Another point is that the establishment of these disciplines at Bei Research Institute is all based on the universities in Beijing.

After all, the Beiyang government has made Beijing the capital for so many years, so there will definitely be some bias in terms of educational resources. Beiyang University, Wuhan University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University are all traditional strong schools. After the establishment of Beiyang Institute, they can These places easily attracted a large number of professors and scholars for my use.

The most famous one among the various branches under the jurisdiction of Bei Research Institute, there should be no other choice except the Institute of Physics.

The first director of the Institute of Physics was Li Shuhua, the director of the physics department of Bei University at that time.

——When Chen Muwu went to Bei University to give lectures, he once met this professor from the Department of Physics of Bei University.

Later, several universities in Beiping and Tianli merged to form Beiping University in Beiping University District. Dean Li became the president of the university, and Li Shuhua became the vice president of the university.

Later, the Ministry of Education appeased Dean Li and asked him to establish the National Beiping Research Institute. Li Shuhua followed Dean Li and left Beiping University. He continued to serve as deputy to the director of the Beiping Research Institute, taking charge of daily tasks and sharing responsibilities. House affairs.

In addition to being the vice president of Bei Research Institute, Li Shuhua also serves as the director of the Institute of Physics.

Later, it may be that there were too many complicated facts in Bei Institute of Technology, which made him too busy. In addition, a group of talents with more advanced physics knowledge returned from abroad, so Li Shuhua started working part-time at the Institute of Physics. He resigned and gave up the position of director to Yan Jici, who had just returned from France.

Compared with the Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica, which is just in name and does nothing, under the leadership of Yan Jici, the Institute of Physics of Bei Institute of Physics can really be regarded as an outstanding achievement.

Someone once commented that the Institute of Physics of the Bei Research Institute under the leadership of Yan Jici was "an important institution for the training of physics talents and physics research in China." Before the Anti-Japanese War, if the research results of physics were measured in terms of quantity, It is number one in the whole of China.

Not to mention anything else, the Institute of Physics of Bei Research Institute took the lead in establishing the only radium research institute in China in 1932. It was much higher than the Academia Sinica in the capital!

Therefore, even if Chen Muwu had 1 thoughts, if he chose to return to China at this time, he would not choose to work in the Academia Sinica, which has no power and money in the capital city of Tongjing. He would definitely go to Beiping and work in the Beiping Academia Sinica, which has sufficient funds. Research.

However, there is one thing about the Bei Research Institute that is not suitable for Chen Muwu. That is, everyone from Dean Li to Deputy Dean Li Shuhua, and later the director of the Institute of Physics, Yan Jici, were all students studying in France. Later, Basically, the entire Beiyan Institute has become a stronghold for those studying in France, and their xenophobic ideas are a bit serious.

But this shouldn't be a problem for Chen Muwu - everything must be based on the premise that he really wants to return to China and go to Bei Research Institute.

Therefore, of course Chen Muwu had to refuse the invitation letter written by Dean Cai and others to invite him to return to China and serve as the president of Academia Sinica.

He suddenly thought of something interesting. Instead of writing a reply to Dean Cai, he ran to the telegraph office in Cambridge and took a reply to the preparatory office of the domestic university.

There are only five words on it, "Can't do it, thank you", which is a small tribute to Dr. Hu.

The telegraph fees for sending telegrams across continents to the country are much more expensive than what he usually spends when sending telegrams to London, Paris, Copenhagen and Stockholm.

Chen Muwu thought that when his teacher Rutherford came back from New Zealand and attended the Solvay Conference in October, he would discuss it with Bohr to see if he could join forces with him to persuade their teacher to give the Cavendish Laboratory real Install a telegraph transceiver.

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Sometimes, life is full of coincidences.

Just a few days after Chen Muwu returned the call to China, he received another guest at Cambridge University who was still related to this matter.

This guest is not the resident representative of the Steamed Bun Party in London, England. He came to persuade Chen Muwu to accept Dean Cai's invitation and return to the newly established new regime to serve the motherland and support domestic physics education. development of.He came across the ocean from France on the other side of the English Channel. He is about the same age as Chen Muwu, and his subjects and nationality are the same as Chen Muwu.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here. The future second director of the Institute of Physics of Bei Research Institute, Yan Jici, came to the UK from France.

In the summer of this year, Yan Jici received a doctorate in science from the University of Paris.

In the original history, this was the first time in Yan Jici's life that he went to France to study.

In his first study abroad experience, he did not have much interaction with Marie Curie at the Radium Institute of the University of Paris. He only visited her a few times as a junior in physics.

Soon after Yan Jici returned to China, he received a subsidy and once again took the money to return to France for further study.

It was during this second study abroad experience that he had more contact with Marie Curie, because this time he applied for a job at the Radium Institute and stayed there for two years. many.

However, the trajectory of history has been deviated due to the emergence of Chen Muwu.

During Yan Jici's first study abroad journey, their status as Chinese international students became particularly popular at the University of Paris.

Everyone thinks that since Cambridge University can pick up a treasure like Chen Muwu, then we can also find smarter students from Chinese students.

In addition, the Curies were about to find a Chinese son-in-law, and there was an aristocratic physicist in Paris named De Broglie who loved Chinese culture. Gradually, Yan Jici also came into contact with the Radium Institute.

Especially Frederic, who was his classmate when he was studying at the University of Paris.

Frederick became the eldest son-in-law of the Curie family, and the intersection between Yan Jici and the Radium Institute deepened.

In the year of the Paris Olympics, at the celebration dinner held by de Broglie for Chen Muwu, Chen Muwu met Yan Jici for the first time. Three years passed in a flash.

Not long ago, Curie and his wife came to England from Paris for their honeymoon, and they went to the Cavendish Laboratory to visit the particle accelerator built by their future brother-in-law.

The two of them were full of praise for this behemoth at the time, and after returning to Paris after completing their honeymoon trip, they started talking about it with everyone.

Yan Jici, who had just completed his thesis defense and obtained his doctorate, of course also heard about this news from the Department of Physics of the University of Paris.

He originally thought of returning to China directly after graduation, but changed his mind. Before leaving, he decided to come to the UK to meet Chen Muwu, a compatriot who studied the same subject as him, to see if he could get any inspiration from him.

Chen Muwu didn't expect that he had just rejected the invitation from Academia Sinica, and now people from Academia Sinica came to visit him again.

As for Yan Jici's purpose of coming, Chen Muwu believed that he was definitely not here to be a lobbyist for Bei Research Institute, and asked him to return to China to engage in physics research in Bei Jing.

This is of course because the Northern Expedition has not yet completely ended, and Beijing is still in the hands of the Feng Clan, let alone changing its name to Beiping and becoming Bei Research Institute.

Another point is that the current Academia Sinica has only held a few preparatory meetings. Dean Li may still feel that he is expected to be elected as the president of Academia Sinica, and has never thought about going to Beiping to open another Beiping institute. Academia Sinica, and Dean Cai’s Academia Sinica, competed in the arena.

"Brother Huating, what kind of wind brings you here from France?"

"Of course it's the west wind."

"Then it seems that you are riding the wind and waves this time, heading west against the west wind."

In the famous poem "Ode to the West Wind" written by Shelley, the most famous line in the poem is undoubtedly "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

It's winter again, and there's a westerly wind. It's possible that Chinese people living in a monsoon climate may mistakenly think that the westerly wind in the title refers to the westerly wind that blows in winter under the influence of the Mongolian high pressure.

However, the fact is that not only the United Kingdom, but also the entire western Europe, most of them have a temperate maritime climate and are in the westerly belt. Of course, westerly winds blow all year round.

Faced with Chen Muwu's polite question, Yan Jici chose to make a joke using this piece of geographical knowledge.

Fortunately, Chen Muwu had already "discovered" neutrons and positrons, so he dismantled all the instruments he had assembled before.

Kapitsa was the only one who accidentally saw him staying in the Cavendish Laboratory secretly conducting experiments during the summer vacation.

Without experimental equipment, Chen Muwu could openly invite Yan Jici to his office and learn more about his purpose of coming to the UK to find him this time.

Yan Jici didn't notice anyone else, and told Chen Muwu straight to the point that he was here for the particle accelerator this time.

After Frederick returned to France, he made a huge success of the machine built by Chen Muwu in Cambridge.

What worried Chen Muwu still happened. During the time when Curie and his wife visited Cambridge, he had deliberately created the idea that the particle accelerator was a waste of money and no one would use it. Neither of them could change their views.

Yan Jici could hear Frederick's praise, so wouldn't Madame Curie be able to hear it even more?
His head was full of chaotic thoughts, and he couldn't even hear Yan Jici's last few words clearly. He only felt like a series of questions.

Seeing Yan Jici's expectant expression, Chen Muwu could only apologize repeatedly: "I'm sorry, Brother Huating, what did you say last? Can you please repeat it? I was just thinking about the problem and accidentally got distracted. "

Chen Muwu's remarks did not make Yan Jici feel the slightest disrespect. On the contrary, he believed that Dr. Chen was worthy of being Dr. Chen, and he always had new ideas in his mind: "Of course, no problem, Brother Hanchen, I just want to ask, if there is a chance, , can you also take me to visit this particle accelerator? How much does it cost? If it is not expensive, can we also install one in our country? "

(End of this chapter)