Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 395 134 Chen Muwu’s true face

After reading about Griffith's experiment in the science and technology section of the newspaper, Chen Muwu thought of another thing besides wielding a small hoe to dig up people.

That is Griffith's experiment, which is the earliest study of the genetic material DNA in all mankind.

The last experimental discovery of the Cavendish Laboratory that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century happened to be related to DNA.

After Rutherford, Bragg Jr. took over the Cavendish Laboratory and became the new director of the laboratory.

Watson and Crick, two young people in the laboratory, used X-rays to diffract DNA crystals. From the diffraction photos, they analyzed that DNA should have a double helix structure.

And because of their discovery, they successfully won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The awards won by Watson and Crick cannot announce that the Cavendish Laboratory has opened a new era of crystallography, but are more like a finale performance before the end.

It announced that the glory of the Cavendish Laboratory was completely over. Since then, the center of the world's theoretical and experimental physics has completely shifted from Europe, from the United Kingdom, to the United States.

When Chen Muwu thought of this, he was not thinking about Europe's heyday, nor was he concerned about whether the world's academic research center could be transferred to the United States.

——In fact, he is looking forward to when this academic research center will be transferred to China.

Based on Griffith's experiment, Chen Muwu really thought about whether he could do something in DNA research, first pair the bases, and then use that pair to successfully conduct the electron diffraction experiment. An X-ray diffraction experiment that is not difficult for humans is accomplished, and a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine can be awarded.

He, Chen Muwu, doesn't just win awards. When he does, he has to win awards with greater influence.

Although he is not a full-time biologist, the relationship between biology and physics is not as close as chemistry and physics.

If you cross the border rashly, it is actually a bit difficult. If you want to achieve results, you need to invest a lot of energy.

Fortunately, research on biological genetic material DNA is because Griffith's experiment is just in its infancy. For Chen Muwu, he still has a lot of time.

After the Spring Festival, it was already February, and the telegram from the British factory had not yet arrived, leaving Chen Muwu still at home in London.

The old lady asked her eldest son to invite the best Chinese tailor from London's Chinatown and was busy custom-making various clothes for her younger son who was about to get married.

So when Chen Muwu was staying at home, he had another job, which was to keep busy measuring the sizes of various parts of his body, and trying on various styles of clothes.

1928 was a leap year, so February had one day longer than other years.

The whole world has been basically calm this month. The only hot news, or rather a bit of fun, comes from a relatively familiar person around Chen Muwu——

Sir Conan Doyle.

In recent years, Sir Doyle felt that his research on spiritualism had been quite in-depth and proficient because Chen Muwu had continuously provided scientific explanations - which were actually his distorted interpretation of Chen Muwu's words.

On February 2 of this year, Conan Doyle published a nineteen-page article in a magazine called "A Word of Warning" in which he suggested that people abandon Christianity and adopt a new religion based on spiritualism. to replace.

Once a person gets older, it is indeed easy for him to get confused.

Conan Doyle's remarks really made Chen Muwu dumbfounded.

Although Christianity is a feudal and superstitious religion, if spiritualism is used to replace Christianity, wouldn't it be more feudal and superstitious?

Fortunately, he made this absurd statement in the twentieth century and not in the Middle Ages when religion was above all else.

Otherwise, Chen Muwu would really be afraid that another crusade would break out on the European continent, but this time they would not march eastward, but across the sea to the west, targeting the bad old man who writes mystery novels in Britain.

Conan Doyle's words reminded Chen Muwu of the violent remarks made by a domestic scholar.

At Beijing University, where he once lectured, there was a leader of the New Culture Movement, Qian Xuantong, who once proposed the "iron house theory" in a dialogue with Lu Xun.

He once said when he was young, "Anyone who is over forty should die, and if he is not dead, he should be shot."

The deep meaning behind his words is that after a person reaches the age of forty, his or her mind will degrade unconsciously, and his ability to accept new things and ideas will become worse and worse, eventually derailing the development of the entire society and becoming a A major obstacle to social progress.

Since this is the case, there is no need for people to live after they are forty years old, but it can promote the development of society.

Of course, despite what he said, Mr. Qian Xuantong still lived peacefully to the age of forty last year, in 1927, and did not personally practice what he said when he was young. speech.

He didn't really live up to what he said, but some people remember what he once said.

Shortly after Qian Xuantong's 40th birthday, both Hu Shi and Lu Xun wrote elegy poems to him to "commemorate" or satirize this old friend who should have died at the age of 40.

Chen Muwu had known about this before, and he always felt that Qian Xuantong's statement was a bit exaggerated.

It wasn't until he was in the UK that he saw with his own eyes Conan Doyle's shocking remarks in the newspaper. He suddenly remembered Qian Xuantong's words and felt that what he said was not unreasonable.

At least when it comes to Conan Doyle, Chen Muwu thinks it's very applicable: If you don't continue to write his Sherlock Holmes series of detective novels, what's the use of studying his deceptive and deceptive greeting skills every day?

Because Conan Doyle has been proposing it again and again in his research on summoning. Behind this is Chen Muwu, a famous young physicist from Cambridge University, who is providing him with scientific theoretical support.

Therefore, after he publicly made the outrageous statement about replacing Christianity with a new religion called spiritualism, reporters from London's major newspapers and tabloids were eager to step on the threshold of Chen Muwu's family.

Every day, reporters handed over their business cards, hoping to interview him and ask him what his attitude was towards Conan Doyle's statement.

In order to prevent himself from sinking deeper into the muddy waters of spiritualism, Chen Muwu borrowed a lecture hall of the Royal Institute and held a press conference in front of reporters from various newspapers. . Chen Muwu stated at the press conference that he has always done the most rigorous scientific research and has never involved any religious or spiritual thoughts, nor has it anything to do with spiritualism.

"Although I am an atheist, I firmly support the orthodoxy of Christianity in Europe and the Western world. I also hope that Sir Doyle can conduct his research on spiritualism on the basis of respecting Christianity instead of trying to overthrow Christianity. Thus establishing a new religious system.”

Chen Muwu doesn't steal dogs, so he can't say without conscience that he is also a Christian.

He can only show his identity as an atheist. In the eyes of these believers, atheists are just ignorant people who have not yet fallen into the embrace of the Lord. They belong to the group that can be preached and educated.

Compared with pagans like Conan Doyle who tried to overthrow Christianity and establish another sect, Chen Muwu, an atheist, is undoubtedly much more lovable and pleasing to the eye.

The Holy See also publicly and fiercely criticized Conan Doyle's statement, accusing him of being absurd and unreasonable.

On the contrary, because the person involved went to the United States, which is more tolerant, to promote his new ideas of spiritualism, Conan Doyle did not immediately respond to Chen Muwu's clarification and the Holy See's accusation.

Mentioning Qian Xuantong, Chen Muwu thought of Mr. Qian's son, Qian Sanqiang.

Born in 1913, he should be fifteen years old this year.

In a few years, we will probably be able to see him at Prince's Academy in Stockholm.

Although in the original historical time and space, Qian Sanqiang's teacher was Eve's eldest sister, Irena Joliot-Curie.

But we are all relatives, and now Chen Muwu does not mind sharing some of the work intensity for Irena, and has recruited Qian Sanqiang to Sweden to teach in person.

It seems that it is time to write a letter to Beijing University to connect with each other and ask them to recommend the good students they met in the school and the talented young people among the faculty and staff to Shanghai to attend the St. Selection examination for the Prince's College in Holm.

At the University of Cambridge, Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft's doctoral thesis defense time was scheduled for early April, which is when the spring semester is about to end.

Prior to this, even if the British factory sent Chen Muwu a telegram informing him that all the previously customized parts should be processed, he would not be able to transport these parts to Stockholm alone.

He had already delayed these two people once last year, failing to allow them to complete their doctoral thesis defense on time, but delayed it until this spring.

Chen Muwu can't trouble them again this time and let them continue not to obtain a doctorate.

Therefore, until mid-April, Chen Muwu will stay at home safely, comply with the old lady's request, and concentrate on making preparations for the major event in his life - marriage.

Time entered March, and Conan Doyle, who had returned from his promotional tour in the United States, became a new target pursued by reporters.

They all wanted to hear what the creator of Sherlock Holmes had to say in response to what Chen Muwu and Rome had said.

So Conan Doyle also held a press conference. Among what he said at the conference, what shocked the reporters most was not his defense of spiritualism, but——

"Dr. Chen of Cambridge University deceived me, and he also deceived you."

"We have indeed exchanged opinions on spiritualism more than once. I have gained a lot of inspiration from his scientific research, and he has also explained to me some things that I don't understand one by one. I didn't expect that he would now To say that he has nothing to do with spiritualism."

Reporters probably know what Conan Doyle said, because Chen Muwu also said this at the press conference. He did follow scientific explanations completely, but Sir Doyle found some of them that were more beneficial. My own part is just a misinterpretation of it.

"I feel very unhappy with Dr. Chen's behavior and feel that I have been deceived."

"In this case, there is no need for me to keep secrets for him anymore."

"Gentlemen, I want to announce to you something that may sound incredible: the series of best-selling George Chen series books on the market now, everyone knows that his author Mr. Chandler York has disappeared. Wei, no one has ever known what his real name is, and no one has ever seen what he looks like.”

"What I want to say is that this Chandler is indeed a pseudonym, and behind him is Dr. Chen from Cambridge University."

"Don't call me alarmist. I have evidence for this. Why would I write a novel about Sherlock Holmes and George Chen? This is to express my gratitude to Dr. Chen for his scientific research and his outstanding contribution to the theory of spiritualism. That’s why I did him such a favor and wrote this linkage novel.”

"So Dr. Chen has deceived you all the time. It's not that he doesn't study spiritualism, but he studies it very deeply and thoroughly."

The reporters didn't pay attention to the extent to which Chen Muwu had studied spiritualism.

Because in the words of Conan Doyle, more explosive news broke out.

As he said, since Conan Doyle began to devote most of his energy to the study of spiritualism and the frequency of updates to the Sherlock Holmes series has been decreasing, the sudden rise of the George Chen series has actually become the leading form of British detective novels. The best-selling book in the world, and basically every time a new book is released, it is sure to be on the best-seller list in the UK.

Everyone is very curious about who Chandler York is behind George Chen. People generally believe that the protagonist he wrote is named Chen, and he should be based on Chen Muwu, a Chinese student from Cambridge University who has been very famous in recent years. .

But no one has ever taken this idea a step further. No one has ever thought about it. Chandler is Chen Muwu, and Chen Muwu is George Chen. He is completely writing in my hand and in my mouth, writing himself.

Chandler York, author of the "George Chan" series of books, appears in person, and turns out to be...? 》

"The prototype of George Chen is indeed him!" 》

"Sir Conan Doyle reveals the reason for the mysterious disappearance of Chandler York"

The next day, newspapers of all sizes in London were scrambling to report on the shocking news that Conan Doyle broke at the press conference.

The news spread like an explosion from London to the whole of Britain, and from Britain to the whole world.

No one cares about Conan Doyle's original intention of holding a press conference anymore, and no one cares about whether Chen Muwu has done any research on spiritualism.

(End of this chapter)