Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 399 138 Xiao Tiantian and Mrs. Niu

When Lin Huiyin was a teenager, he traveled to various European countries with his father Lin Changmin for nearly a year.

While in London, she met a landlady.

It was under the influence of this landlady who was an architect that the young Lin Huiyin planted a seed in his heart and became interested in architecture.

It was also during this time in the UK that Lin Huiyin met Xu Zhimo, a disciple of his father Lin Changmin. Of course, he also went to Cambridge University where Xu Zhimo was an auditor at the time.

But first, Lin Huiyin was not very old at that time, and second, her time in the UK was limited after all.

So although she had been to Cambridge University, her short visit was not very memorable after all.

Sitting together on the train, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin were like primary school students who were about to arrive at an outing. They were excited about their upcoming visit to the most famous and most prestigious institution of higher learning in the world.

Chen Muwu closed his eyes and rested his mind. He was traveling lightly and simply. He did not follow the advice of his elder brother Chen Muqiao to cover himself in disguise like he did last time when he went to the Thames River to watch the rowing match between Cambridge University and Oxford University. A strict one.

He felt that the white people in the UK were blind to yellow faces, or were arrogant and disdainful of remembering yellow faces. Even if he didn't dress up, he probably wouldn't be able to recognize that he was Chen Muwu.

Of course, if someone comes forward to ask, Chen Muwu can also deny it flatly, saying that his surname is not Chen at all, nor is he a doctorate from Cambridge University. He just comes here because of his reputation.

It is estimated that his answer full of loopholes can deceive most people who do not know him.

They still took the express train and arrived at Cambridgeshire Railway Station in a few hours.

Of course, Chen Muwu felt that the speed of this car was not too fast. Compared with the time when he drove the new Austin car as a gift to Kapitsa and took Cockcroft back from the United States after installing a particle accelerator, he drove from London. The trip to Cambridge takes much longer.

That little Swedish Marcus patted his chest when he promised and vowed not to worry. He would definitely send a right-hand-drive Volvo that complied with British traffic rules to the UK.

But more than three months had passed, and Chen Muwu didn't even see a tire, let alone an entire car.

Chen Muwu did not send a telegram in advance, so after getting off the train, no one drove out of the city to the train station to pick them up.

Chen Muwu took Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin to queue at the bus stop outside the train station and boarded a commuter bus between the train station outside the city and the city of Cambridgeshire.

When Chen Muwu arrived in Cambridge in early 1923, there were two ways to commute from Cambridgeshire Railway Station to Cambridge University. One was to take a bus like they do now, and the other was to hail a taxi.

As automobile technology continued to mature, the market continued to expand, and automobile share increased, the scale of Cambridgeshire's horse-drawn carriages continued to shrink, and eventually disappeared completely. They were replaced by taxis that gradually emerged and withdrew from the stage of history.

After returning to the University of Cambridge, Chen Muwu did not rush to the Cavendish Laboratory to report on the matter. Instead, he first took the newlyweds to a hotel in Cambridgeshire and opened a room as a hotel for them. temporary residence.

Then they went to the small restaurant where Chen Muwu often entertained guests and had lunch.

After eating, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, led by Chen Muwu, walked through the streets and alleys around Cambridge University to the Cavendish Laboratory located in Free School Lane.

Although I haven't been there for several months, Chen Muwu's memory has not changed at all inside and outside the laboratory.

"Dr. Chen, good afternoon."

"Long time no see, Dr. Chen."

From the moment he walked into the laboratory door, Chen Muwu received a steady stream of greetings from others.

While Chen Muwu was responding to everyone, he led the newlyweds to his office, which had been dusty for several months.

Perhaps the term "chenfen" was not used accurately, it was just that the owner of the office, Chen Muwu, had not been here for several months.

It has taken more than fifty years to build the Cavendish Laboratory of the last century.

In the development process of more than half a century, physics has undergone earth-shaking changes compared with Maxwell's era.

In that era, the laboratory was an imposing building.

But now, as the laboratory's projects involve all aspects of physics experiments, and the number of personnel engaged in experiments is also increasing, the space resources of Cavendi and the laboratory are very tight.

Only a few well-respected and elderly professors can get their own office in the laboratory.

Apart from them, the only ones with this qualification are Professor Fowler, the son-in-law of Rutherford, the director of the laboratory, and Dr. Chen Muwu, the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history.

Ever since Chen Muwu took over the key to this office from Chadwick under Rutherford's instruction, he has never had any exclusive plans or ideas.

His office has always been open to friends and students around him, so that they no longer have to travel between their respective colleges and the Cavendish Laboratory every day, but can have a room in the laboratory to conduct research in peace.

Basically, each of Chen Muwu's friends has a key to his office.

The only locked place in Chen Muwu's office was a cabinet that once contained his personal belongings.

Chen Muwu opened the door of his office without taking out the key.

After entering, he found that someone was sitting at his desk.

At first Dirac didn't take it seriously, thinking that one of Zhao Zhongyao or Cockcroft was coming to the office to make final preparations for the upcoming doctoral defense.

But he heard the voices of multiple people, who were speaking in Chinese that he couldn't quite understand, and there was even a woman among them. Dirac then raised his head curiously: "Chen, long time no see. !”

There was a bit of surprise in his voice.

"Paul, you go about your business. I'm just taking the two guests around the laboratory. There's nothing important."

Even though Chen Muwu said this, Dirac couldn't just ignore it.

He still put down the pen in his hand, stood up and walked around from behind the desk, when Chen Muwu stretched out his hand in front of the guest:

"Hello, I am Paul Dirac, now a fellow at St. John's College, University of Cambridge, and Dr. Chen's best friend in Cambridge."

"Mr. Dirac, I am very happy to meet you. My name is Liang Sicheng, and this is my wife Lin Huiyin.

"Since you are busy with something, we will not disturb you too much and leave first. In addition, I wish you success in researching the problem." Liang Sicheng shook hands with Dirac generously and responded.

Lin Huiyin, the wife beside him, seemed a little embarrassed. She felt that the arrival of herself and her husband Liang Sicheng might have disturbed the work of Chen Muwu's friend Dirac and delayed something important.

She signaled to Chen Muwu with her eyes whether they should leave here quickly.

Chen Muwu understood, briefly chatted with Dirac, who he had not seen for a long time, about the recent situation, and then left his office with the two guests, and even left the Cavendish Laboratory directly.

He asked Dirac to tell his teacher Rutherford that he had returned to Cambridge University and was currently accompanying guests on a tour of the campus.

After he has settled the guests, he will immediately go to the teacher's office to report to him and ask him not to blame himself.

After leaving the door of Cavendish Laboratory, leaving Free School Lane and walking to the Cam River, Lin Huiyin dared to speak loudly.

"Dr. Chen, this Cavendish Laboratory is indeed the most famous physics laboratory in the world, and it looks very sophisticated.

“But I always feel that the experimental equipment and management system used in your laboratory seem to have lagged behind the times.

“Although I don’t know much about physics, let alone physical experiments, I once visited the laboratory there when I was at Yale University.

"Comparing the two, I think Yale's physics laboratory at least has clear windows and clean instruments. The instruments on the experimental bench are neatly placed. Compared with the experimental benches in the hall just now, which were full of oil stains, they look more pleasing to the eye. many."

From a female perspective, Lin Huiyin pointed out the big problem of Cavendi Qu Laboratory relatively objectively.

Not to mention the newness of the experimental equipment, this issue is entirely related to the funding of the laboratory.

Americans have money, so of course their experimental equipment must be more advanced.

As for the previous Cavendish Laboratory, Rutherford could only operate it with limited funds.

After Chen Muwu, the God of Wealth, arrived, the laboratory became wealthy.

In addition to the funding problem of the laboratory, there is also what Lin Huiyin said, there are also gaps in the management system in the laboratory.

The United States deserves to be the number one capitalist power in the world today. Not only does it have a more advanced management system in factories, but it also introduces management science into laboratories and has its own set of rules and regulations.

In comparison, the Cavendish Laboratory became like a backward manual workshop.

Although there are a large number of faculty, staff and students in the Cavendish Laboratory, the basic experimental model in the laboratory is indeed like a family workshop.

Most of the experiments were applied by a faculty member or a student, approved by the laboratory director and several people in his small circle after discussion, and then started to be completed independently.

Just like when Chen Muwu first arrived at Cambridge University, he did his own gamma ray scattering experiments on single particles, and he also did his own scattering of visible light.

Even if some experiments are not done by one person, but are divided into groups and relied on everyone working together, the number of people in this experimental group is basically controlled within the range of two or three people.

There is basically no effective means of communication among the personnel in the entire Cavendish Laboratory.

If it weren't for the Kapitsa Club that Kapitsa formed a few years ago to discuss academics, the exchange of information between everyone might be even less than it is now.

In the United States, these laboratories must convene all staff every other week or half a month to hold a group meeting to study the next experimental direction.

The communication between the experimenters there is very smooth. If things go on like this, even if the World War II does not lead to the transfer of the world's science center, it will only be a matter of time before the level of experimental physics in the United States surpasses Europe, which was once the center of the world.

Of course Chen Muwu knew this, but he never made any suggestions to Rutherford.

Because the Cavendish Laboratory has been in the habit for a long time, it is undoubtedly a very difficult thing to carry out reforms based on the existing system.

Chen Muwu could only wait for the opening of Prince's College in Sweden to start over and completely change this workshop-style experimental research model.

Regarding the point raised by Lin Huiyin, Chen Muwu simply responded with a few words and did not explain or defend the Cavendish Laboratory too much.

He only revealed to two people that the school he was planning to build in Stockholm was almost ready to be completed soon. When he got to the new school, he would definitely adopt a new laboratory management model.

There is also an urgent need for a large number of teachers at the new school, especially those who teach Chinese to Swedish students.

Chen Muwu asked Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin to find suitable candidates for him after returning to China.

If you really find one, I recommend you come to Sweden. The benefits offered by the school are definitely very generous.

He definitely meant what he said. He hoped that Mrs. Lin could successfully coax Xu Zhimo to come over to him and stop thinking about taking that plane whose safety performance was very worrying.

Tour guide Chen Muwu led two people along the banks of the Cam River to the laboratory where the particle accelerator is located.

It was late spring, and there were already athletes swimming in the Cam River.

"Dr. Chen!"

"Dr. Chen!"

They also greeted Chen Muwu in the water, who won several gold medals for the Cambridge University Swimming Club in the Olympics.

A year ago, this newly built particle accelerator in Cambridgeshire was still a must-visit attraction when visiting the Cavendish Laboratory.

As the originator of the concept of particle accelerators, Chen Muwu also worked as a tour guide several times. At that time, he was as if he was introducing the apple of his eye, and he treated the guests with every detail.

But times are different. In just one year, this electrostatic particle accelerator has transformed from Xiao Tiantian to Mrs. Niu.

In Northern Europe, which is not too far away, Britney 2.0 has begun to take shape.

Although there are still many people waiting in line to use this particle accelerator, Chen Muwu's attitude is completely different from before.

He simply introduced a few words to the two guests, and then, like the irresponsible black-hearted tour guide in a low-price tour, announced that he was disbanding on the spot and moving freely, waiting for Zhao Zhongyao's doctoral defense meeting two days later. , let’s all meet again.

(End of this chapter)