Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 410 149 Churchill has trouble speaking

Because "Nature" is a weekly magazine, its publication frequency is similar to that of major newspapers published every day.

A few days later, physicists from all over the world read about Chen Muwu's plan to establish a new book at Prince's College in Stockholm from the "Nature" weekly or the news advertisements reprinted in local newspapers. This news comes from the scientific journal "Journal of Prince's College".

At Leiden University in Leiden, the Netherlands, Japanese student Yoshio Nishina plans to end his study abroad journey in Europe this summer, return to his hometown, and establish a low-temperature physics laboratory at Tokyo Imperial University.

For this reason, he has been at the low-temperature physics laboratory factory in Leiden these days, ordering cooling machines needed for studying low-temperature physics.

As for those medicines obtained at low temperatures, the loss when shipped from Leiden, the Netherlands, to various parts of Europe is very small.

For example, Dr. Chen Muwu of China recently ordered a batch of liquid deuterium from a university factory and sent it to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

However, if he carries cryogenic medicines from the western bridgehead of the Eurasian continent, whether by train or boat, to Ben, the easternmost part of the Eurasian continent, Yoshio Nishina cannot guarantee that the medicines he carries will still be left after he arrives in Ben. How much.

Therefore, he could only choose to purchase the corresponding instruments, build a low-temperature physics laboratory on his own after returning to Japan, and then produce the corresponding low-temperature gases.

Before he left, he read Chen Muwu's advertisement in Nature.

Nishina Yoshio felt that it was Chen Muwu who was like a guiding light, guiding him to give up studying the illusory quantum theory and devote himself to the more practical embrace of superconductivity.

If we can overcome the problem of too low superconducting critical temperature as soon as possible, our domestic energy use will enter a very rich stage in the future, and we will no longer cause excessive losses on transmission lines, and we can use every piece of coal to generate electricity. Every kilowatt hour of electricity that comes out is used on the blade.

Yoshio Nishina felt that only Chen Muwu, a Chinese with black hair, dark eyes and yellow skin, would be 100% kind to him without reservation.

He not only pointed out the research direction for himself, but also used his personal connections to introduce him to Leiden University in the Netherlands, the world's center for low-temperature physics research, where he studied low-temperature physics with Professor Onnes, who has passed away. Research.

A great kindness will never be forgotten.

Those Omi monsters who are not my race must have different opinions, not to mention how good they are in academic research. Yoshio Nishina always feels that whenever these people look at him, their eyes are often filled with a kind of condescending arrogance. A kind of contempt that looks down on people.

Now that Dr. Chen is planning to start an academic journal, Yoshio Nishina feels from the bottom of his heart that he must help.

He thought about writing a paper on low-temperature superconductivity research and sending it to Chen Muwu while waiting for the low-temperature factory of Leiden University to produce the batch of machines he ordered.

Yoshio Nishina feels that when a new academic journal is born, many people will have doubts about it at the beginning, so everyone's submissions will definitely not be so active.

He thought that no matter whether his writing was good or not, it would be a kind of support for Chen Muwu.

Even if he treats his paper as a manuscript to fill the page, it will be a help to Chen Muwu.

There is a poem in the Chinese Book of Songs. How does it say it?

"Give me a peach, and give me a peach in return. If a bandit repays you, he will always think it's good."

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In Chicago, the capital of Illinois, USA, Oppenheimer, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, was sitting on a bench in the school enjoying his lunch.

More than a year has passed since he obtained a doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge and returned to the United States to work as a professor at the University of Chicago.

The United States is the number one capitalist power in the world today. Although Chicago is not as prosperous as New York, the largest city, it is still much stronger than London, the capital of the United Kingdom.

Compared with the UK, the only disadvantage is that on the surface, the official law clearly prohibits drinking.

But for Oppenheimer, a noble professor at the University of Chicago and a wealthy son of a wealthy family, this was nothing at all.

But for some reason, when Oppenheimer returned to the United States, he always felt empty inside, and a prosperous life could not fill the void.

He was thinking of going to England again during this year's Christmas vacation to visit some of the old friends he made while studying abroad.

Oppenheimer returned to the United States and came to Chicago, where he also met many new colleagues and friends.

For example, Professor Compton, a colleague from the physics department, walked towards him with a roll of newspapers under his arm and lunch in his hand, and finally sat on the bench next to him.

In my hometown of New York, there is also a relatively good Columbia University, and in New Jersey near New York, there is even Harvard University, one of the best in the United States.

It was not difficult for Oppenheimer, who holds a doctorate from Cambridge University, to obtain a professorship at either school.

But in the end, he chose the distant place and came to Chicago on the edge of the Great Lakes. First, because the physics research level of the University of Chicago is the best in the entire United States.

Second, it was also because Teacher Chen Muwu, who was strategizing at Cambridge University, helped him contact Professor Compton and secured him a professorship here.

"Good afternoon, Professor Compton!"

"Robert, good afternoon! How many times have I told you, don't shout so loudly, just call me Arthur."

"That's not good. You are my senior both in physics and at the University of Chicago. And you are good friends with my teacher, Dr. Chen Muwu, and you also recommended me to enter the University of Chicago and become a professor.

"According to Chinese traditional culture, calling a senior like you by his first name is a sign of disrespect in itself."

Oppenheimer's words were clear and logical, and Compton couldn't laugh or cry.

"Speaking of your teacher, Dr. Chen, this is not in today's Chicago Tribune. There happened to be a news about him."

"What? Let me see?"

To say that Oppenheimer took the newspaper from Compton—"take" is a really inappropriate verb.

His rude actions were completely inconsistent with his identity, and the word snatch should be used instead.

After Oppenheimer got the newspaper, he quickly rummaged through it.

Compton, who was sitting aside, kindly reminded: "Science and technology section, science and technology section!" At the same time, Oppenheimer also found in the newspaper the invitation notice that Chen Muwu had published for the "Journal of Prince's College".

In fact, he himself did not advertise in the "Chicago Tribune", and the "Chicago Tribune" only reprinted the news from the "New York Times".

Chen Muwu will advertise in the New York Times, which is news in itself.

Oppenheimer quickly finished reading the news in the newspaper. Compton saw this and asked: "Dr. Chen's journal is now in its infancy, and it will definitely be very short of manuscripts. Robert, do you think we also have it?" Write a paper and send it to Stockholm?"

Oppenheimer nodded: "Professor Compton, I think we can indeed do this. Then you write an article and I write an article, including our respective recent research results, and then send them to Teacher Chen as soon as possible. There."

Oppenheimer agreed to Compton's invitation, but he was thinking about something else.

Teacher Chen had already told him about setting up a school, and when he returned to China with him in 1926, the two of them even attended a meeting in front of the Crown Prince of Sweden at the Swedish Embassy in China. press conference to announce the opening of that school.

Teacher Chen once told himself that letting him return to the United States to serve as a professor of physics at the University of Chicago was just a temporary compromise and a last resort.

He also said that if he was willing to work as a teacher at the Prince's College in Stockholm when it was built, he would definitely welcome him with open arms.

Looking at this news in the newspaper, it seems that Teacher Chen has left Cambridge University and gone to his own school in Sweden.

So is it now time for you to leave?

Although the University of Chicago is very good, and Professor Compton and other teachers in the school treat him well, Oppenheimer always feels that without Chen Muwu around, doing research is not that interesting.

Oppenheimer was already thinking whether he should send a telegram to inquire first, or whether he should leave directly and go to New York to board a ship to Stockholm.

More than a year has passed since the brave pilot Mr. Lindbergh flew his plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

The aviation industry has been in business for many years. When will the airlines from the United States to Europe be launched?

Oppenheimer resented that the adventurers had defrauded so much money and had flown across the Atlantic several times, but they had never started a commercial passenger route.

He also hated that he couldn't grow wings when tired and fly to Stockholm immediately to Chen Muwu.

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In addition to the Netherlands, in the United States, and in other places in the world, more and more people have seen advertisements in journals and newspapers, and in the news reprinted in newspapers around the world, they have seen Chen Muwu's invitation to publish for the "Journal of Prince's College" .

At the University of Cambridge, neither Kapitsa, Blackett, or Dirac, nor Russell, Ramsey, or others expected that their good friends would do such a big thing quietly.

Rutherford had a sad look on his face. At the beginning, Chen Muwu said that he went to Sweden only to agree to the invitation of the Swedish Crown Prince to help their country become an honorary professor.

Unexpectedly, Chen Muwu has already set up a journal in Stockholm. Does this mean that the day when he will completely leave the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University is getting closer?

Some people are sad while others are happy. Lord Balfour, the Chancellor of Cambridge University, was very happy to read this news in the newspaper. He finally had the opportunity to kick Chen Muwu out of Cambridge University.

After all these Chinese, Chinese, East Asians, Indians, and Asians are kicked out of the campus, the entire University of Cambridge will become purer.

Another Englishman, Churchill, who did not get along very well with Chen Muwu, directly started to curse in The Times.

He scolded the people at Cambridge University for using the precious education funds allocated to them by the state to cultivate a foreigner like Chen Muwu who often went against national policies.

From the time Chen Muwu supported the strike in 1925, Churchill deeply hated him.

Now Chen Muwu is leaving Cambridge University again and bringing all the advanced knowledge he learned from Britain to Stockholm, Sweden. This has become Churchill's new reason for attack.

He accused the University of Cambridge of spending so much money to train a top student like Chen Muwu, only to find that the university did not serve the UK as a student and wasted British teachers and education funds.

Faced with Churchill's accusations, before Cambridge University had time to respond, Trinity College was the first to issue a public response under the instruction of its dean, Sir Thomson Sr.

In the statement, Trinity College pointed out that its college's funding for running the college comes entirely from the profits of the industries owned and managed by the college itself, as well as donations to the college from alumni after graduation.

Trinity College has not received a penny from the British government for many years, and in order to support the educational development of the entire school, the college also allocates a sum of money to the school every year as a grant for those who cannot raise sufficient funds. Small college subsidies.

Because Trinity College did not receive any money from the British government, they could not accept Churchill's accusations.

Trinity College believed that what Churchill did was a kind of revenge on his part. Because he failed to get into Cambridge University, he criticized this most famous institution of higher learning in the UK.

A Chinese proverb says that if you hit a snake, it will hit you seven inches.

A Chinese proverb goes on to say that killing someone can only be done with a nod of the head.

Trinity College's statement completely hit Churchill's weakness. Failure to go to Cambridge and Oxford universities was a lifelong pain for Churchill.

Everyone was careful to avoid mentioning academic qualifications in front of him, but they didn't expect Trinity College's statement to be so brave.

Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, felt extremely cowardly this time, but he did not dare to retaliate against Trinity College.

Not to mention the entire University of Cambridge, as Trinity College said in its statement, they have many well-known alumni in the UK and around the world, many of whom Churchill cannot mess with.

Of course, in the eyes of Churchill, the Duke of York, the second British prince who graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University, was not afraid of anything.

Anyway, he can't be a king - in England, kings are mascots -, and a Duke of York has no influence.

What Churchill was really afraid of was his immediate boss. After all, Prime Minister Baldwin was also a Trinity College graduate.

All his resentment could only be directed at Chen Muwu:

You said it was not good where you went, so why did you choose to go to Trinity College?

(End of this chapter)