Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 411: Poor quality before and after 150 reaction

In addition to the Netherlands, the United States and the United Kingdom, I saw the news published in academic journals and newspapers about Chen Muwu's intention to establish the "Journal of Prince's College" at Prince's College in Stockholm, in many, many other places around the world.

In Paris, France, de Broglie suddenly cheered up and started preparing to write a new paper to help his good friend Chen Muwu.

Also in Paris, France, Eve, who was about to get married this year, also began to tease her mother. She hoped that Madame Curie could also contribute to the "Journal of Prince's College" and help her fiancé establish it. The magazine created a reputation.

In Germany, there was a professor of physics at the University of Berlin who had just watched the latest American Hollywood movie in the cinema and dismissed the news.

The fact that Chen Muwu wants to start an academic journal is simply the funniest joke he has ever heard in his life.

Just him?

It's really a mantis trying to act like a chariot, not overestimating his own abilities.

After laughing, Pauli thought carefully and carefully corrected his mistake.

This is probably not the funniest joke, but the second funniest.

The funniest academic research joke he had ever heard in his life happened to Dr. Chen Muwu.

That stupid young man from China actually said that there are positively charged electrons in the world?

Hahahaha...

What’s the use of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics?

He felt that within a few years, the Nobel Prize jury would realize what a stupid mistake they had made by awarding the physics prize to such an academic lunatic.

Wolfgang Pauli was already thinking about how he should spend the huge sum of eight thousand pounds he won from Chen Muwu after his bet with Chen Muwu finally won.

Also in Berlin, Germany, Einstein, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics, suddenly became very interested after seeing Chen Muwu's call for papers in a newspaper. He planned to submit a paper to Chen Muwu in accordance with the above requirements.

Since the call for papers states that papers on mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and other scientific disciplines can be published in the Journal of Prince's College after the editorial department asks professionals to review and confirm that they are correct papers.

So, if I continue to write a paper against quantum mechanics, make sure that all the contents of the paper are correct, and then send it to Chen Muwu in Stockholm, will Dr. Chen publish the paper in his journal as promised? Woolen cloth?

Einstein was curious.

Planck, who is still in Berlin, Germany, has retired at home. His only position now is the editor-in-chief of the "Annals of Physics".

However, the "Annals of Physics" has been on a downward slope recently, being overtaken by the "Journal of Physics" created by a few young people.

A physics journal that Planck had devoted his whole life to was now in such a situation, he must be unwilling to do so.

However, I am old and weak, and I want to revitalize the "Annals of Physics" but I have no choice.

Planck's original plan was to rely on his relationship with Chen Muwu to let him contribute more articles to the "Annals of Physics" and use Chen Muwu's academic reputation to slightly slow down the decline of the "Annals".

Now it seems that Chen Muwu himself has founded a magazine in Stockholm, and his wishful thinking is now completely impossible.

Chen Muwu's call for papers also passed through the telegraph line spanning the entire Eurasian continent, converted into electrical signals and then translated into text, and was published in Chinese and English newspapers in China.

Ye Qisun, dean of the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, Rao Yutai, dean of the Department of Physics at Nankai University, and other physicists who taught and studied physics in China at this time all saw the news in the newspaper.

What interests them most is that Chen Muwu wrote in this call for papers that all contributors can submit papers written in Chinese, English and Swedish.

At this time in China, professional academic journals were very rare. Even in Beijing University's "Beijing University Journal", although papers could be published, they mostly contained decrees on school administration. , not pure at all.

The few journals that focus on academic research are basically from non-governmental organizations like the Chinese Science Society.

Their influence is not great, so the number of journals they founded is also very limited.

Now I suddenly saw that there was an academic journal in the foreign news, and it could accept submissions of Chinese manuscripts. Whether it was Ye Qisun or Rao Yutai, the feelings in their hearts were very complicated, and they didn't know what to say.

Perhaps it should have been the most correct choice for them to entrust the talented students to Chen Muwu.

Although he is far abroad, he never forgets to help the education industry in China.

Should I submit a manuscript to Chen Muwu? What kind of paper should I write based on the submitted manuscript? These matters are all put aside for the time being.

Ye Qisun from Tsinghua University and Rao Yutai from Nankai University both did the same thing.

That is to immediately write a letter to Stockholm Prince's College and ask the editorial board of this journal, which has not yet begun to publish to the outside world, how to subscribe to the Chinese version of the journal.

Since Chen Muwu has taken the lead in making such a righteous act, his own support work cannot be spared.

Although it may not be possible to publish papers with high quality, it should not be a problem to subscribe to a few more "Journal of Prince's College" to support Chen Muwu's work.

It was not just a few domestic universities who wrote to Chen Muwu.

The British Eddington, the American Hubble, and the German Wegener all wrote letters to Chen Muwu in Stockholm, "blaming" him for not advertising the collection of astronomy and geology papers.

……

Because Chen Muwu’s advertisements were either found in the world’s top academic journals or placed in European and American newspapers.

Therefore, in Stockholm, the few people closest to him learned that Chen Muwu had accomplished something big again through the news that exports were switching to domestic sales.

Among them, Biermann was especially surprised.

I just said that Chen Muwu's method of discovering new elements would probably not be recognized by the mainstream chemistry community, and no professional chemistry journal would be willing to publish it.

Unexpectedly, Chen Muwu's mobility was so high. In order to publish a paper, he actually started an academic journal by himself. However, Bierman then thought about it and realized that he was probably being overly sentimental.

Perhaps Chen Muwu had already had the idea of ​​starting an academic journal, but he just happened to mention it, so he took this opportunity to put the academic journal on the table.

Zhao Zhongyao has another task, which is to translate the papers written by several people into Chinese.

In fact, running a Chinese-language academic journal in Europe is the most thankless task.

Because there are no printers skilled in movable type typesetting here, even if they hire a few from China at a high price and transport a set of movable type tools, those printers who are used to typesetting newspapers and books will have a lot of formulas when doing typesetting. It is not easy to write academic papers about symbols.

Therefore, Chen Muwu’s final decision was to use standard type printing methods for the English and Swedish versions of the Journal of Prince’s College. After confirming the selection of papers, he could cooperate with a local newspaper in Stockholm and ask them to do the typesetting and printing.

For the Chinese version of the journal, Chen Muwu decided to use a handwritten mimeograph method, which is like the ancient way of printing papers, using a steel needle to cut on wax paper, and then transferring ink to white paper.

Anyway, the circulation quantity of the Chinese version of "Journal of Prince's College" will not be too large, and its symbolic significance is far greater than its actual significance.

Chen Muwu felt that unless one day in the future he could achieve the same status as Mount Tai and Beidou in physics, and then announced that from now on he would no longer write papers in other languages ​​except Chinese, he might be able to inspire the younger generation of physicists to start writing papers. learning Chinese.

If this is not the case, then you still need to honestly use another language such as English or German in addition to Chinese.

Anyway, the four people in Stockholm now have one more person, Professor Biermann from the University of Copenhagen. Perhaps it should be said that there are five people. Except for Zhao Zhongyao, who did not show that much surprise about this matter, several other people are more or less. At least I felt that Chen Muwu took a slightly bigger step this time.

Chen Muwu, who was at the center of the storm, was unfazed by this. He began to modify the cyclotron that had already completed an experiment of bombarding bismuth metal with alpha particles.

The natural radioactive source that can release alpha particles installed in the center of the cyclotron was removed, and the particle source that he and Zhao Zhongyao made manually in Stockholm before this year was installed.

Chen Muwu's series of actions naturally cannot escape the eyes of others.

Irena saw the Dewar bottle brought back by Chen Muwu and asked what was in it.

"Liquid deuterium gas, I ordered it from the cryogenic factory of Leiden University in the Netherlands not long ago. It was just delivered to Stockholm today, and I drove it back from the port."

"Chen, what are you planning to do now?"

"Another experiment, I see that you are all busy writing papers, and the cyclotron is also idle. Professor Bierman, the chairman of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, is also there, and I was wondering if I could use it before way, and then discover several new elements.”

Hearing Chen Muwu mention new elements, Bierman, who had just seen how powerful Chen Muwu was from the magazine, was attracted by this phrase again.

"Dr. Chen, what new element do you want to discover? Could it be the transuranic element after No. 92?"

Although the iodine-like element No. 85 discovered by Chen Muwu this time is also an element that chemists want to focus on discovering.

But if you ask chemists which element they most hope to discover, the number one element will definitely be the transuranic elements after uranium.

Chen Muwu shook his head: "I'm sorry, Professor Bierman, at the moment I have no plans to study transuranic elements, but I want to see if I can find element 43 behind molybdenum, which is manganese-like."

Professor Bierman finally understood that Chen Muwu had a soft spot for the elements predicted by Mendeleev more than the transuranic elements ranked after No. 92.

He first found iodine-like substances at a cyclotron and then called himself from Copenhagen to Stockholm.

Now he is preparing to discover manganese. It seems that he is bound to fill in the empty elements at the front of the periodic table.

Bierman continued to ask him: "What method do you want to use? Continue to use the cyclotron for bombardment?"

"Well," Chen Muwu nodded, "that's why I bought these liquid deuterium gas from the Netherlands."

"Then why didn't you use alpha particles this time?"

"I felt that the alpha particles were too massive and the expected reaction might not occur. So I made some preparations. I not only prepared liquid deuterium gas, but also considered trying to use hydrogen gas for bombardment."

Bierman was not a professional physicist. Using nuclear reactions to produce new elements was something he only saw after coming to Stockholm.

Therefore, after hearing Chen Muwu's explanation, he did not have any doubts.

As for the rest of the people, it is even less likely to doubt Chen Muwu.

Even Cockcroft believed that Chen Muwu's discovery of element 43 was a certainty.

"You are busy, you are busy, and writing the paper as soon as possible is the main business. I was just idle and bored, so I tried it myself to see if I could discover a new element."

Seeing that everyone did not write papers, but gathered here, Chen Muwu was unable to make his next move.

So he quickly blasted everyone away and continued to install his particle source at the center of the cyclotron.

However, the experiment planned by Chen Muwu still failed to proceed smoothly.

This is because Chen Muwu installed the particle source at the center of the cyclotron, and Frederick came to him again and asked him a very profound question.

"Chen, in my paper, I calculated the relative atomic mass changes before and after the nuclear reaction.

“After the metal bismuth with a relative atomic mass of 209 was bombarded by alpha particles with a relative atomic mass of 4, a new element like iodine with a relative atomic mass of 211 was produced.

"209+4-211=2, then where did the remaining two relative atomic masses go?"

Good question!

Very good question!

It's just a pity that even if you are my soon-to-be brother-in-law, even if you participate in the entire experiment, even if you have discovered the key to the problem.

But now I can't tell you what the answer to this question is.

(End of this chapter)