Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 358 97 Chen Muwu's New Student

When the Como Conference was held in Italy in the first half of this year, Acting Director Chen arranged for Kapitsa and Eddington to live in the same sleeper box on the grounds that they were the closest in age, taking the opportunity to escape the long talk of Kapitsa. Use the skill [Chattering] to attack yourself during the journey.

Chen Muwu did not deliberately arrange this trip to Belgium, and Kapitsa simply did not choose to live with him.

This is because he, who is newly married, wants to take the opportunity to attend the Solvay Conference in Brussels to spend his honeymoon in this city with his newlywed wife Anna, who is smart and astute. The young hero Xiao Lian suddenly had an idea and extinguished the explosive fuse by peeing, thus saving the entire city of Brussels.

After the meeting was over, he could either choose to go east to Germany with the German physicists who came to the meeting, or he could choose to follow his senior brother Bohr, who was also under Rutherford, and return to the Institute of Theoretical Physics he was in charge of.

——It’s a lie to go there to study knowledge, but it’s more serious to continue honeymooning with his wife Anna in Copenhagen, the fairy tale city.

However, just because Kapitsa couldn't rush to live with Chen Muwu doesn't mean that others won't do the same.

The acting director of the Cavendish Laboratory remains a hot commodity when it comes to choosing a traveling companion for this brief journey.

Although he is more than [-] years older than Chen Muwu, Dington has not spoken on such a grand occasion for a long time, and it is such an important paper. As the opening time of the Solvay Conference approaches, he becomes more and more nervous. .

On the other hand, Chen Muwu, who continues to lead the team to attend meetings abroad this time, has a very relaxed expression on his face, and a confident self-confidence reflected in his body.

And he was always chatting and laughing with his colleagues. From Chen Muwu’s face and actions, there was no trace of nervousness at all.
Eddington wanted to take advantage of the less than two days on the road to "sharpen the battle" with Dr. Chen and go over the article that the two of them were about to read at the meeting, ensuring that the two of them could do it in front of so many physics experts. When I read the paper in person, I was able to make sure nothing went wrong and successfully gave everyone a big shock from the University of Cambridge.

In addition to Eddington, Chen Muwu was also approached by his guest Wittgenstein.

For this talented philosopher, Chen Muwu finally understood the saying "It's easy to invite gods, but it's hard to send them away".

Not long ago, the American director Fairbanks visited him at Cambridge University. Because he was interested in the subject of rural teachers, he was tricked by Chen Muwu into visiting Wittgenstein, the prototype of this rural teacher.

However, Fairbanks' wish to use him as a rural teacher failed. Instead, Wittgenstein gave him a philosophy class based on film theory. This made Director Fan, who had left school long ago and started a life in society, miserable.

Chen Muwu also had great concerns about Wittgenstein.

The last time he talked freely with the other party for several hours was at a gathering of the Cambridge Apostolic Society. While the apostles came over from time to time to harass and make jokes, Ramsey was accompanying him to mediate, so he was able to reluctantly There is a departure from the philosophical topics discussed throughout.

If he really spent the two-day and one-night trip to Belgium with Wittgenstein this time and listened to him talk endlessly about some profound or simple philosophical issues, Chen Muwu was not sure what he would become after disembarking in Antwerp. After a thorough realization, I still became increasingly top-heavy and experienced the most severe seasickness in my life.

In contrast, Chen Muwu is more inclined to go with Eddington among the two talkative people who have a lot of issues waiting to be discussed with them.

But in fact, if you broaden your horizons, you will find that it is not just the two of them who went to the Solvay Conference from Cambridge University this time, but once again dispatched a large force.

He could just do what he did last time and choose to live in the same sleeper box with Dirac, who had the most tacit understanding with him and was also the least eloquent among them all.

There is only one problem with this, and that is that Wittgenstein accepted Chen Muwu's invitation to stay at Cambridge University, and the guests who came to attend this meeting could not treat him lightly either emotionally or rationally.

So what he ended up doing was...

"Professor Eddington, I still have some work to do on the ship, please help me take care of this guest.

"Mr. Wittgenstein studied mathematics with Professor Russell at Cambridge University a few years ago. The two of you should have some common topics in mathematics.

"Mr. Wittgenstein, Mr. Eddington was the chief wrangler of Trinity College in their time, and is now the director of the Cambridge University Observatory. If you are interested in astronomy, you can take this opportunity to chat with him about what is happening above our heads. To the stars.”

Neither of these two people is what Chen Muwu "wants", but if they are simply placed in the same room, wouldn't it be possible to kill two birds with one stone and solve these two problems at the same time?
Chen Muwu felt that he was really smart.

Of course, Dr. Chen was never a reckless person who only made first-hand preparations. He also had a back-up plan.

As soon as the ship left Dover on the edge of the English Channel and sailed on relatively calm seas, he asked the waiter on the ship to order a few sets of mahjong and invited everyone to the ship's restaurant to build the Great Wall.

Everyone in the Cavendish Laboratory knew everything about Dr. Chen's poor card-playing skills.

Before half a round was played, he was "politely" asked to leave the table.

Seeing Wittgenstein gradually becoming addicted to bamboo dominoes, even frowning and counting cards silently in his mind, Chen Muwu "reluctantly" left the card table, feeling a sense of pleasure that his treacherous plot had succeeded.

He returned to his box, lay on the bed and slept soundly.

At dawn the next day, the steamer that crossed the English Channel had already docked in the Belgian port city of Antwerp.

Let alone comparing it with the vast China, even compared with the United Kingdom, where Cambridge University is located, and Belgium's land neighbors France and Germany, Belgium's land area can only be regarded as a small country.

But even for such a small country, after the end of World War I, it became very arrogant as a victor.

After losing the war and suffering an economic crisis, Germany could not afford the sky-high war reparations stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles. Belgium, together with its eldest brother France, sent [-] troops to occupy the Ruhr Industrial Zone, the most developed industrial area in Germany at the time.

This arrogance also paved the way for Germany to spend eighteen days occupying the entire territory of Belgium shortly after the start of World War II.

Antwerp on the seaside is not far from Brussels, the capital of Belgium, the destination of everyone's trip, only more than 20 miles away.

After getting off the ship at the Port of Antwerp, and going through immigration formalities at the customs, they got on the train again. In less than an hour, they arrived at Brussels Station.

Staff from the Solvay Foundation had been waiting outside the train station for a long time. They had prepared a sufficient number of cars to take physicists from all over the world attending the Solvay Conference one by one to Solvay, where the conference was held. Wei Palace.Chen Muwu finally met his teacher, Rutherford, who had been away for nearly a year, in a foreign country - of course, Britain was also a foreign country to him.

After settling in his temporary residence for the past few days, he rejected all requests from other people who wanted to meet him, and instead couldn't wait to visit Rutherford's room.

"Teacher, long time no see, I really miss you!"

The words Chen Muwu said as soon as he walked in the door were not hypocritical and polite, but came from the bottom of his heart.

Smelling the familiar smell of tobacco that he hadn't heard in a long time, and hearing a more familiar loud voice that he hadn't heard in a long time, he couldn't control his excitement.

Rutherford, sitting on the chair, saw his most proud student again. His situation was not much better.

"Chen, you seem to have lost a little weight. Is it because you are too busy working in the laboratory?"

After the master and apprentice greeted each other and answered a few questions, Chen Muwu discovered that in the corner of Rutherford's room, there was another person of the same age as himself.

"Teacher, who is this?"

"Oh, this is a student I met when the ship docked in Adelaide, South Australia.

"Because he was a physics student at the University of Adelaide, Sir Prague's alma mater, I took the time to chat with him a little more. I learned that this gentleman had received the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship provided by the British government and was about to go to the UK. Come and learn.”

In 1851, a lot happened in the world.

At the beginning of this year, the new emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who ascended the throne last year, changed his reign name to "Xianfeng".

At the end of the year, French President Louis Napoleon dissolved the National Assembly and proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III of France.

In the same year, after briefly studying the Bible and other related works, several farmers tampered with many of the theories in it and claimed that they were the Heavenly Father, the eldest son of the Heavenly Father, and the birth of the second son. Momentum rose in Jintian Village in Guangxi Province in southern China, kicking off the Tai: Ping: Tian: Kingdom movement with great vigor.

This year in the United States, the New York Times announced its founding.

This year in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, a new building with steel as the skeleton and glass as the main material was built in Hyde Park.

As the birthplace of the first industrial revolution, Queen Victoria held an International Industrial Exposition in the building that was later known as the "Crystal Palace" in order to increase the people's satisfaction with her rule, which was later recognized as the "Crystal Palace". The first World Expo.

This International Industrial Exhibition not only successfully demonstrated Britain's national strength, but also earned the exposition's organizing committee a net income of 18 pounds by selling tickets and selling goods from all over the world at the exposition (1851 This amount of money in 2023 is equivalent to more than 3000 pounds).

This net income was not a huge sum of money for the Empire, which was at its peak of national power at the time, so it was not flushed into the national treasury, but a fund was established on this basis.

The British government also established the Royal Exhibition Committee of 1851, which organized the World Industrial Exhibition, as a permanent administrative agency, allowing it to invest and operate the fund and use the profits for charitable purposes, mainly in education and art.

The Royal Exhibition Committee used the money to purchase a large piece of land in South Kensington, London. Many buildings were later built on this land, such as Imperial College London, the Natural History Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal The Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Music, among others, make it a center of educational and cultural institutions.

Not only that, the 1851 Royal Exhibition Committee also used part of the money from this fund to establish the "1851 Exhibition Scholarship", which is awarded annually to "young scientists or engineers with outstanding prospects" in the United Kingdom and overseas colonies and dominions. Three-year scholarship.

Many British people in the Cavendish Laboratory were recipients of the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, such as Rutherford's deputy Chadwick, and his right-hand man Cockrov during the construction of the particle accelerator. Especially, another example is Dirac, his roommate who slept in the same box when he came to Belgium, and so on.

Chen Muwu does not envy the benefits that the British can get. At first, it was because the money given to him by Trinity College was very generous. Later, it was because he earned money from writing books, patents, and various awards. It's a lot of money, let alone such a dispensable scholarship.

New Zealand and Australia are both isolated territories in the southern hemisphere of an empire where the sun never sets, surrounded by the sea on all sides.

People in these two countries have a feeling of sympathy for each other, and they should take care of each other if they can.

Chen Muwu was able to enroll several Chinese at Cambridge University. For Rutherford, arranging for an Australian student to enter the Cavendish Laboratory was not a problem.

When Rutherford introduced this junior fellow from Australia, his expression and tone were full of pride.

At the same time, from behind the eyes of the young man's spectacles, there was a look of confidence and pride.

Although Chen Muwu looked down on the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, after all, this scholarship only provided eight scholarships each year to the entire population of more than 4 million in the entire British Empire and its overseas territories.

To be able to receive this scholarship, not only the best among people, but also the talents who can be obtained through the selection of the best.

"He said that he was very interested in the quantum mechanics you developed, and his hands-on ability was also very good. He once completed an experiment on the properties of mercury alone in the university, so I invited him to the Cavendish Laboratory. Come, let him study and work with you. What do you think?"

Since he was chosen by Rutherford's discerning eye and received a top scholarship in the UK, there must be no problem with this person's academic and experimental skills.

After the teacher’s introduction, Chen Muwu reached out to him in a friendly manner and said hello: “Hello, sir, I am Chen Muwu, welcome to join the Cavendish Laboratory.”

"Dr. Chen, I have read various papers you published in physics journals in Australia, and I have long wanted to meet you. The reason why I chose Cambridge University is because of Sir Rutherford , and the second reason is because of your great reputation. My name is Mark Olyphant, please give me your advice in the future!"

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Why is it that the time for the real owner to come to your door is getting faster and faster?
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