Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 402 141 Accelerator is about to be completed

Little Madame Curie suddenly recalled a past event seven years ago that had been buried for a long time.

In 1921, the French mathematician Ban Lewei, who had served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Third French Republic, led a delegation to visit China, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Beijing University, introduced her to her mother, Marie Curie. There was a Chinese named Cai, who was said to be the president of a university in Beijing.

Mr. Cai invited his mother to visit China that summer, but her mother refused on the grounds that she was going to the United States for a summer visit and that her summer vacation was not enough and she could not spare time to go to China.

Mr. Cai also invited Madame Curie to visit China if she had time the next year, that is, in 1922, but this invitation failed to materialize in the end.

Irena, who was in her early twenties at the time, also felt that it was better to go to the United States, where there was more money, than to go to China.

But now she finally understands how naive her thoughts were at that time.

The United States is indeed better than China, but there is no Brother-in-law Chen in that United States.

If his mother had gone to China before Einstein and brought Brother-in-law Chen to Paris, then those honors should not belong to the Cavendish Laboratory, but to their Radium Institute.

Maybe it was not Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft who won the Nobel Prize in Physics last December, but her and her husband, Joliot!

Why didn't I persuade my mother properly at that time?

Rather than complaining, what Irena was thinking about was more like venting a regret.

After all, she couldn't invent a time travel machine, so she couldn't go back to 1921 and stop her mother, Marie Curie, from traveling.

And even if we go back to 1921, Marie Curie still wants to go to the United States.

That time she went to the United States not to earn scholarship fees, but she agreed to hold a lecture tour in the United States.

In fact, Marie Curie's trip to the United States had another cause and effect.

That is, in 1920, the previous year, she had been interviewed by an American reporter, Mrs. McLone, who came all the way from the United States to France to conduct an interview with Marie Curie, the director of the Institute of Lei Studies at the University of Paris at the time. .

When Marie Curie was asked what she wanted to buy, her answer was one gram of radium, because although she discovered radium, she also announced the method of extracting radium to the world, and did not do this. Apply for a patent and charge a large amount of patent fees.

This led to the fact that although Madame Curie was the discoverer of radium, she could not afford one gram of radium worth US$1920 in .

After this interview was reported by American reporters, it caused an uproar in the United States.

In the end, the American people collectively raised $100,000 and purchased one gram of radium from an American radioactive company.

Madame Curie took her two children, Irena and Ive, across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States in 1921. That time, she wanted to receive a gram of gold from the Americans as a gift to her. radium.

For this reason, even if Irena did invent a time machine and go back to 1921 seven years ago, she would have no way to stop her mother, Marie Curie, from giving up going to the United States and instead heading to China in the East.

After all, at that time, for Marie Curie, the temptation of one gram of radium was much greater than that of an unknown young man from the East.

Irena could only comfort herself that it didn't matter. At least now, she and her husband were doing scientific research together with Chen Muwu.

Moreover, in the future, Dr. Chen will become their family, and the opportunities for them to meet and engage in academic exchanges will only increase, not decrease.

Furthermore, the academic life of Brother-in-law Chen, a genius in physics, did not end abruptly in 1928, but continued to shine and heat like the sun above his head.

As long as she follows him to do physics research, sooner or later she and her husband Frederick will achieve research results.

And after arriving in Stockholm again, Irena made new discoveries.

She feels that although Sweden is located in Northern Europe, its overall development level is not as good as that of her motherland, France.

But at least the various facilities at the Prince's College in the suburbs of Stockholm are very complete, not even inferior to those of the University of Paris.

The only thing that the latter has over the Prince's College may be that the University of Paris has a long history.

Moreover, in the physics experimental building specially built for Chen Muwu by Prince's College, both the instruments and equipment and the room space are much better than those at the Radium Institute in Paris.

Excluding the emotional factor that the Radium Institute was founded by her mother and was the place where she grew up, Irena felt that if she had to choose between the two, she would definitely choose the prince in Stockholm without hesitation. Do research in college.

Irena has decided one thing. After he and Frederic finish their research with Chen Muwu and return to France from Sweden, they must go home and persuade their mother to take Eve with her. , together with the two of them, they gave up the Radium Research Institute, which had insufficient funds every year and relied on the whole family to run the business, and transferred to the Prince's College in Stockholm.

Because we have already had experience in assembling a 15 cm cyclotron model before, so for this standard version of the cyclotron, all we have to do this time is just to assemble them according to the previous method of assembling the model. Just come together.

The only difference is that you only need to do it yourself with the fifteen centimeter cyclotron model.

But this time, after expanding the radius of the cyclotron to 60 centimeters, the five people from Prince College used a simple crane.

Because they had already had a lot of experience in assembling electrostatic particle accelerators before, and the theory of cyclotrons was already well established, and they had built a model for testing before, they basically encountered no difficulties this time.

The only thing is the electric field added between the two parallel plates of the D-box, because the direction of this electric field is constantly changing, and the frequency of change is related to the speed of the particles moving in a half circle around the D-box.

Therefore, they cannot directly use the alternating current with a frequency of 50 Hz from the local power plant in Stockholm. They need to manually develop a frequency conversion device.

Three cobblers can defeat Zhuge Liang. When those three Nobel Prize winners in physics come together, and two of them have undergraduate degrees in engineering, it is simply a piece of cake to do this.

While everyone was studying cyclotrons at Prince's College in Stockholm, earth-shaking changes were also taking place in China in the eastern part of the Eurasian continent. Chen Muwu's good friend, Marshal Zhang, who had warmly entertained him when he returned home by train through the Northeast, this once high-spirited nobleman, suffered the first major blow in his life.

Seeing the victories of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Marshal Zhang's father, Marshal Zhang, could no longer sit still in Beijing. He could only flee in a hurry by train on June 6. After leaving Shanhaiguan on June 3, he On a section of railway track that was about to reach Fengtian, he was blown to pieces by explosives that had been buried here, and he eventually died.

After Marshal Zhang died, his successor was naturally Marshal Zhang, whom he had high hopes for and carefully trained.

From a playboy to suddenly becoming a warlord with hundreds of thousands of troops under his command and ruling across several provinces, Marshal Zhang was obviously not able to adapt to such a big change in his own identity.

In particular, the situation he is facing right now is not optimistic. There is a new government in the south that is eyeing the place he rules, and there is someone in the east who has no good intentions for the entire three eastern provinces, and has become the person who killed his father.

Marshal Zhang was caught between these two enemies and was in a dilemma.

Moreover, his two enemies never gave up on wooing Marshal Zhang.

Anyway, Chen Muwu should have known the final result a few months before anyone else in the world. The Northeast flag was changed, and the five-color flag no longer appeared in the entire Republic of China. It was replaced by a new flag with three colors of red, blue and white. .

After several years of war, the whole of China finally regained legal unity.

But what is the actual situation? How many factions are divided among those who are flying the same banner and how many different thoughts they have? Only God knows.

To say whether the big explosion that happened in the summer and all the subsequent events had any impact on Chen Muwu, it can be said to be minimal.

Dr. Chen only cares about two things. One is whether he can still pay an annual fee every year when he enters the National Government era for the two badges he got from the Beiyang Government. Although this money is from the Beiyang Government, I haven't sent it a few times, and I have always used various reasons to deal with the default.

The second is whether the Tengjing government with its new government and new atmosphere can pay him back the money he lent to the Swedish embassy.

Chen Muwu wanted to break his scalp, but the only two things he could think of were these two points.

The rest is "What does the imperial power mean to me?"

In short, Chen Muwu's attitude towards the new government is that if everyone knows that there is someone like the other party, then that's fine.

I don't want to care about you either. You'd better not rush to cause trouble for me.

The best way to get the best of both worlds is for everyone to live in peace and harmony.

As for wanting Dr. Chen to support Baldy and improve his international reputation?

I advise you not to think so.

During this period of unrest at home, there was peace and prosperity abroad.

Although the official opening date of the ninth Olympic Games held in Amsterdam is July 7, the competitions belonging to this Olympic Games started as early as May.

The Uruguay national football team first drew with Argentina one to one in the final, and then defeated their opponents again in the subsequent replay, embroidering a second star on their uniforms.

Of the five people in the physics lab at Prince's College, basically no one is interested in Olympic football.

Except for Chen Muwu, who was once invited by Prince Albert, Duke of York, to watch an English FA Cup match at Wembley Stadium, only Frederick liked to watch it occasionally when he was free. Watch French football.

One of his favorite football teams is the local Red Star Football Club in Paris. It seems that they just defeated the Paris Serclair team in the same city this spring and won the French Cup.

The Red Star team should be regarded as a relatively strong club in French football during this period. The French Cup championship every year either goes to Red Star or Marseille.

One of the founders of Red Star Club is named Jules Rimet.

He later became president of the French Football Federation and was also elected as the third president of FIFA.

During his tenure, FIFA began organizing the World Cup, and the participating countries grew from 21 member countries before he took office to 85 member countries.

In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of FIFA, before the Hercules Cup, the first World Cup championship trophy was named the "Jules Rimit Cup" - of course, this trophy was also engraved by him. It was cast by a professional and has been permanently retained in Brazil, which has won three World Cup championships.

It is a pity that this trophy was stolen by a gentleman in Brazil, and its final whereabouts remain a mystery decades later.

The reason why Chen Muwu knew the name of the Paris Red Star team, besides Remit, he also remembered another thing, that is, the Chinese football champion later named Li Huitang, after participating in the Olympic Games in Europe, I once received an invitation from the Red Star team.

Thinking of Li Huitang, Chen Muwu continued to have wild thoughts.

Otherwise, he would also start a team in England and invite the domestic football champions?

Let everyone prepare for training in England while looking for opportunities to participate in the Olympics or the World Cup?

Today's domestic universities in China have a high degree of enthusiasm and participation in football, and their level is excellent enough.

Not to mention winning the Olympics or the World Cup, at least it was easy to reach the finals.

However, this is just an idea that came to Chen Muwu's head. It is quite difficult to implement it in practice.

The key is that he now wishes he could grow three heads and six arms like Nezha, otherwise he will be too busy at all, and how can he have time to start a football club?

The Englishman Cockcroft was not too interested in the football discussion between Chen Muwu and Frederick. As a traditional Englishman, he preferred cricket and golf.

As time goes by, Prince College's cyclotron construction progress has entered the final stage.

At the same time, the first phase of the campus project is also in progress, and it is about time to announce its completion and put it into use.

(End of this chapter)