Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 42 42 The Sigh of Lake Michigan

Hu Shi was able to agree to be interviewed so readily because he would not let go of any chance to become famous.

As for Chen Muwu, it was because he still had something to ask for from Zhang Henshui.

He gave Hu Shi the first opportunity to be interviewed because he respects the old, loves the young, and respects teachers.

But Chen Muwu's respect is not Dr. Hu, but someone else.

He saw Yan Renguang, the dean of the Physics Department of Bei University, and Xia Yuanzhen, the professor, who were waiting at the side. They seemed to have something to say to him.

After getting along for more than half a month, he respected these senior physicists very much, and he was too embarrassed to make them wait for him for too long.

Seeing Chen Muwu approaching, Yan and Xia first expressed their gratitude to him for donating all the remuneration for his lectures to the Physics Department of Bei University.

Chen Muwu smiled and waved his hands and said, "A few trivial things are not worth mentioning. Director Yan, Professor Xia, what do you two want to teach the younger generation?"

Yan Renguang smiled and said, "Han Chen, nothing can escape your eyes! I don't dare to advise you, but I do need you.

He looked at Xia Yuanzhen beside him, and the latter nodded to him, "Then let me tell you straight, does Minister Schulman want to invite you to study at Cornell University? Let me tell you, this Cornell, Hanchen can never go there.

"Although it's not kind to talk about my alma mater behind my back, I have to say that neither the physics teaching level nor the hardware facilities of Cornell University are worthy of your talent, and your brilliance should not be in the It was flooded there.

"Hanchen, if you want to study abroad, I can write a letter to my dean at the University of Chicago, Michael Sun, and my teacher, Professor Milligan, recommending you to study at the University of Chicago or Caltech. These two schools physics department, any one of them is much better than Cornell University."

Xia Yuanzhen also echoed from the side: "Hanchen, if you want to go to Europe instead of the United States, then I can also write to my teacher Max Planck and recommend you to Humboldt University in Berlin."

Hearing the sincere advice from the two seniors, Chen Muwu was very moved.

Although he is not a student of Bei University, the two professors are still a spring breeze. I hope that he, a rising star in physics in his own country, can go abroad to receive a better education so that he can better give back to the academic community and serve the community after he completes his studies. motherland.

Chen Muwu told the two professors that he did not intend to study at Cornell University, and also thanked them for their kindness.

However, when Professor Xia Yuanzhen mentioned that he would write a letter to Planck and recommend him to study at Humboldt University in Berlin, Chen Muwu suddenly remembered that a little old man named Einstein did the same thing a month ago. told him?
Why doesn't the old man give himself any news?Did you forget about him?

Has the first paper on the "Chen effect" that I sent last year been published in any of the two journals?

Has the second paper on "Chen Yuyu" and "Chen Jie" already arrived in Europe, or is it still drifting in the sea?

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Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

Just when Chen Muwu was frantically "writing" novels to earn manuscript fees, his first paper also caused a bloodbath in the European and American physics circles.

The "Annual Review of Physics" published on January [-], as scheduled, published this paper by Chen Muwu, "Another Effect Between Light and Electrons: A Quantum Physics of the Property Change of Monochromatic Gamma Rays Scattered by Matter Science Explanation".

At the end of the paper, there is a postscript written by Planck himself. He said that Chen Muwu’s paper was recommended to him by Einstein. He invited experimental physicists all over the world who can read this paper, if they are interested, Experiments can be designed to verify the theoretical explanation proposed in the paper.

In addition, Planck also wrote at the end of the postscript: "If the theory in the paper is indeed verified by experiments, it can be considered that the energy and momentum of light are also like 'energy quanta', one by one. However, I do not agree with the hypothesis stated in the paper, that light exists in the form of 'photons'. We cannot and should not overthrow Huygens' wave theory, and go back to the old road of Newton's particle theory. "

Although the "Journal of Physics" has risen in recent years, it has challenged the dominance of the "Annals of Physics" as a German physics journal.

But a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the "Annals of Physics" still has a large number of subscribers, distributed among universities and research institutes around the world.

The first issue of "Physical Yearbook" in 1923 will be delivered to subscribers through the postal system of the UPU within a few days, ten days or dozens of days.

More than a week later, the journal traveled across the ocean and arrived in Illinois, USA on the other side of the ocean.

One month ago, Arthur Compton, who had just resigned from his position as the dean of the physics department at Washington University in St. Louis[1] and transferred to the physics department of the University of Chicago, was sitting in a depressed mood outside the University of Chicago campus, in Lakeside Park on Lake Michigan. On a bench.

At the end of December last year, he submitted a report on X-ray scattering to the top physics journal in the United States, the "Physical Review" sponsored by the American Physical Society.

"Physical Review" delays the publication of academic papers for too long, just to ensure academic quality.

Therefore, each paper is sent to a committee of the Physical Sciences Division of the American Research Council for discussion before it is confirmed for inclusion in a journal.

Compton himself is a member of this committee. "There are people in the court who are good at being officials." It stands to reason that his thesis should be easy to pass the review, and the discussion is nothing more than a simple formality.

However, the chairman of this committee, William Duane, a professor of physics at Harvard University, strongly opposed the inclusion of Compton's work, believing that the experimental results were unreliable.

Because Duane's lab was doing the same experiment and not getting the same results.

The two had already quarreled to the point of tit-for-tat over Compton's thesis. Duane even personally designed a series of falsification experiments to prove that the paper submitted by Compton was wrong!

The thesis was detained for more than a month and could not be published. Compton, who was originally a modest gentleman, almost went crazy when he got angry.

He even wanted to go to the Canal Street train station near Madison Avenue, take the earliest train, arrive in Boston on the west coast, pull Duane out of the Harvard University laboratory by his collar, and throw him first Browning, and then slammed a white glove on his face, like a cowboy in the west, relying on the gun in his hand to tell who is right and who is wrong, life and death.

While Compton was sitting by the lake complaining and sighing, a Chinese student suddenly ran out from the gate of the University of Chicago in a panic, and he seemed to be holding something in his hand.

"Professor! Professor Compton! The latest issue of "Annals of Physics" has been delivered!"

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[1] Note from the author: Washington University in St. Louis is not located in Washington, DC, but in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. It is called Washington University.

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