Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 401 140 Irena regrets it

People are in high spirits during happy events. After completing his doctoral thesis defense, Zhao Zhongyao finally became the third Chinese to obtain a doctorate in the Cavendish Laboratory after Chen Muwu and his classmate Shi Ruwei.

Chen Muwu is the first Chinese Ph.D. in the Cavendish Laboratory, but not the first at the University of Cambridge.

The first Chinese to obtain a PhD diploma from Cambridge University was named Wu Liande.

In 1910, before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, he successfully resisted the plague that was introduced from Tsarist Russia to Harbin via the Middle East Railway, and did not let the disaster spread to all parts of the country.

A few days after Zhao Zhongyao put on his doctorate hat, another good news came.

That was a factory with pitifully low work efficiency. Finally, a telegram was sent to Chen Muwu, informing him that the order he had placed with the factory in January was now complete and he could pick up the goods by himself, or call back and let him know that ICBC would rent a truck to deliver the goods to his door.

The telegram also asked if the address was the same as last time and it could just be delivered to Cambridgeshire Railway Station.

Chen Muwu was shocked by the unnecessary thoughtfulness at the factory.

This batch of goods ordered this time must never be sent to Cambridge University.

The cyclotron they ordered was entirely funded by the Stockholm Prince's College.

The result was sent to Cambridge University and installed in the Cavendish Laboratory. So what?

Chen Muwu hurriedly called back to the factory as soon as he received the telegram, telling them to send all the ordered materials to the dock in Norwich, a port city in northeastern England.

The celebrations of Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft, who had just won the Nobel Prize in Physics and also had Ph.D.s, ended here. They were about to embark on a new journey under the arrangement of Chen Muwu.

While calling back the factory, Chen Muwu also sent a telegram to Marcus in Sweden, asking him to send a Swedish freighter to Norwich Port to help transport these cyclotron parts.

Chen Muwu was afraid that if he did not get in touch with the Swedish side, he might encounter many difficulties when encountering a British-flagged cargo ship at the Norwich port.

For example, there is not enough space and load on the ship, and you have to wait for the next one.

Or maybe the British shipping dealers were asking for exorbitant prices and deliberately making things difficult.

Also, the specific contents of their shipment may be leaked.

Based on the above possible reasons, Chen Muwu felt that it would be safer to contact Marcus in advance.

Chen Muwu’s estimate of the cyclotron’s construction period is about two months.

When the cyclotron is officially completed in Sweden, it will basically be put into use at the Prince's College in Stockholm.

Chen Muwu also had to attend the opening ceremony of Prince's College there, and it was inevitable that he would have to deal with a lot of things.

After that, another big event for Chen Muwu was getting married.

For Dr. Chen, the commemorative significance of 1928 is no worse than that of 1922, the year he just traveled through time.

He will start a career and then a family this year, completing two major events in a person's life.

Between the two major events of the start of school at Stockholm Prince's College and his marriage to Eve, there was another event.

That is to repeat the experiment that Chen Muwu completed last year and announce to the world that after years of hard work, he finally discovered another electrically neutral particle besides protons hidden in the atomic nucleus - neutrons. , which confirmed his teacher Rutherford’s ten-year suspicion.

Well, in addition to neutrons, there is another derivative of that experiment, the positron, which can also be announced to the public.

The Sovereign between him and Pauli had appreciated eight hundred times in value from ten pounds to a bet of eight thousand pounds, and it was time to finally cash it in.

Also, the discovery of neutrons and positrons has nothing to do with the cyclotron they built in Stockholm.

Physicists all over the world cannot be allowed to think that Chen Muwu defrauded investors of large sums of money, only to create a useless thing - he is not returning to China next week - Jia Yueting - the world must be allowed to See how advanced the cyclotron is compared to the electrostatic particle accelerator.

Therefore, Chen Muwu still has to conduct experiments on the cyclotron, obtain the first research results, and create the world's first artificial element - sandwiched between element 42 molybdenum and element 44 ruthenium. I came to find the element No. 43 that had not been found for hundreds of years.

Compared with the complicated naming process of a star in the astronomy community, it is much simpler and easier for the chemistry community to confirm the name of a new element.

Therefore, one of the great pleasures of chemists has always been to find new elements as much as possible, and then automatically obtain the naming rights of this new element.

Everyone is very interested in whether there are new elements behind element 92, uranium. One of the hot topics in the chemistry world today is to search for the existence of transuranic elements.

This topic is also worthy of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

In addition to transuranic elements, element 43, which has neither head nor tail, is also a hot research subject.

Every once in a while, someone will jump out and say that they have discovered element 43, and then after a while, it will be falsified by others, and then after a while, someone new will jump out.

This happens again and again, and everyone enjoys this activity endlessly, just like those who repeat reading in the QQ group or WeChat group.

Now that the cyclotron is completely built, it's finally Chen Muwu's turn to jump out and use the real Element No. 43 to interrupt this meaningless re-reading.

And he had already thought of a name for element No. 43, Zhonium or Chinium, the symbol Zh or Ch, and the Chinese character "bell".

And after the name is announced, the Swedes, the country where the cyclotron is located, especially the Swedish Crown Prince who likes credit will not be unhappy.

This is because element 67, holmium (Ho), has long been named after Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

The literal translation of the place name Stockholm should be Wood (Stock) Island (holm), so the literal translation of the name of the holmium element can also be understood as the island element.

In addition to Stockholm, there are of course elements named after Sweden.

When most people memorize the periodic table of elements, they memorize the element calcium, which is ranked 20th.

The twenty-first element after calcium is scandium (Sc), whose Latin spelling is Scandium. It was discovered and identified as a new element by a Swedish chemist in 1879. Therefore, the origin of the name of the element scandium is Scandia, which is the ancient name of Scandinavia.

The name comes from the Teutonic word Skadino, which means dark, referring to the fact that Northern Europe is close to the Arctic Circle and cannot see sunlight for a long time during the year.

In addition to scandium, element 1879 was also discovered by Swedish chemists in .

This time, they used another ancient name in Scandinavia, Thule, and named this element thulium (Thulimu, Tm).

There are far more elements related to Sweden than these three.

There is also a quarry in Sweden called Ytterby. This small place may not even be marked on European maps, but it is actually related to four rare earth elements.

Element 39: Yttrium (Y), element 65: Terbium (Tb), element 68: Erbium (Er) and element 70: Ytterbium (Yb) .

The roots of the first three elements are brought out, which are Ytt(e)r-, Terb- and Erb-, all of which are included in the name of the mining site Ytterby.

The last element, ytterbium, is named directly after the full name of Uterby.

The Swedes already have so many element names related to their country, so naturally they don't care that Chen Muwu, a Chinese, names the new elements discovered using their country's instruments on the soil of their country and China. A related element.

Even if Chen Muwu gave up the right to name this element, the Swedes probably wouldn't be able to think of a better name.

Named Sverium (Sv) after the country name of Sweden (Sverige)?

Or should we simply name it Gustium (Gt) after the Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf, just like Galileo named the Jupiter satellite he discovered Medici after the surname of his great financial backers, the Medici family?

Thinking of this, Chen Muwu felt that these two naming methods were not impossible.

Then when the second and third elements are discovered later, we can name them according to these two methods. It won't take too long anyway.

Chen Muwu mentally listed out all his upcoming schedules, and they were all fully booked in the next few months.

This also means another thing. He really can't spare time to participate in the Amsterdam Olympics, which opens on July 7.

No matter what, Chen Muwu, who won four swimming gold medals in a row at the last Paris Olympics, retreated bravely, leaving only his legend.

Maybe he can become the first Chinese athlete to enter the Swimming Hall of Fame.

Although there will be a strong man in the future who will win eight swimming gold medals in a row at the same Olympic Games, which is twice as many as the record set by Chen Muwu.

But there were so many swimming events at that time, and Chen Muwu only had a few swimming events at this time.

And even if Phelps has eight gold medals, does he have a Nobel Prize?

The factory sent Chen Muwu a call back again and agreed to ship all the parts he customized to Norwich.

Marcus Jr. also sent a call back, saying that he would arrange a cargo ship with sufficient space as soon as possible to sail to the Port of Norwich in the UK.

Chen Muwu, who had packed his luggage at home, was about to set off again.

In order to appease the old lady who has been taking her youngest son's marriage as a top priority in recent days, Chen Muwu assured her that it would only take two or three months and he would come back as soon as possible and ask the old mother to find a zodiac in September or October. On an auspicious day, he will marry Eve at that time without further delay.

On the same day that Chen Muwu took his luggage and boarded the train to Dover at Victoria Railway Station, Penguin Press launched the long-lost new work of Mr. Chandler York, "The ABC Murders".

But this time, Mr. Chandler York changed his pen name to Chen Muwu.

Many local reporters in London caught wind of this and wanted to interview this part-time detective story writer who no longer wore a vest but finally showed his new face as a physicist.

When they found Chen Mansion this time, they were no longer greeted by General Tie who guarded the door, but Chen Muwu's eldest brother Chen Muqiao.

The latter showed the stub of the train ticket to Paris that Chen Muwu bought a day ago, indicating to reporters that this time it was not that Chen Muwu was avoiding it, but that they had indeed missed the opportunity.

Chen Muqiao did this under the instruction of Chen Muwu.

After I left, it was not an option to have reporters waiting for interviews at my door every day. It was very inconvenient whether I was going out or having guests visit me.

It's better to tell them openly about his trip to Paris. Anyway, Chen Muwu's final destination will definitely not be Paris. Even if the reporters chase him, it will be strange if they can find him.

Facts have proved that Chen Muwu's strategy of escaping the golden cicada was very successful.

He took advantage of this time difference to successfully meet up with Joliot and Irena in Paris, and together they embarked on another trip to Stockholm.

They were the last to arrive, arriving in Sweden a few days earlier than Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft who followed the ship to escort the goods.

After they successfully arrived at the port of Stockholm, unloaded the precious cargo from the ship, and transported it to Prince's College in the car that little Marcus found, the manufacturing work of the cyclotron began again.

In fact, after having the most difficult parts to produce, the remaining work is to assemble them together and then start the test. If no problems are found, everything will be fine.

Perhaps even this cyclotron, which is still in the state of parts and components, did not expect that this last step of assembly, which was not a complicated one, actually involved three Nobel Prize winners in physics.

As the only two of the five people who have never touched a Nobel medal, it would be a lie to say that they are not jealous.

It's just that the object of their jealousy is not Chen Muwu, the brother-in-law-to-be, but Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft.

The British are really lucky to have found Chen Muwu, a rooster who keeps laying eggs for academic achievements.

How great would it have been if Chen Muwu had gone to France instead of the UK?

But this situation seems unlikely to happen, because the person who visited China and met Chen Muwu was Professor Einstein from Germany. He only recommended this person to his own country, Germany, and the country of his friend Professor Eddington, the United Kingdom. As a talented young man, France was not even within his scope of consideration.

Probably from the beginning to the end, Chen Muwu was unlikely to come to France, right?

wrong!

(End of this chapter)