Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 426 165 Oppenheimer wants to immigrate

Chen Muwu felt that although Professor Hilbert was empty-handed, he gave him a very good wedding gift.

Chen Muwu was worried about the problem of teachers at Prince's College. Professor Hilbert directly sent him the teacher allocation for the entire subject of mathematics.

Although those people were all newcomers who had just stepped out of campus, after all, they came from the University of Göttingen, the center of mathematics in the world.

There may be problems with their teaching level, but at least their knowledge and ability are completely sufficient.

It happened that the car assigned to the two people by the organizing committee of this International Congress of Mathematicians arrived nearby, so they got into the car with their luggage. On the way from the University of Bologna to the Bologna train station, they were still chatting about the trip from Göttingen. The university sent teachers to Prince's College in Stockholm.

Fortunately, Chen Muwu, who is relatively wealthy now, bought a train ticket to Paris in advance for a private compartment, so Hilbert no longer had to go to the train station to buy a train ticket for the same day as Chen Muwu.

He only needed to pay a head fee after getting on the bus, and he could sit in Chen Muwu's box all the way to Paris.

As the train started to move, Chen Muwu and Hilbert discussed sending graduates from the University of Göttingen to Prince's College in Stockholm. After discussions between Chen Muwu and Hilbert, they finally confirmed their intention.

For things like the two of them talking about, there is no need to sign a contract in advance, and there is no way to sign a contract in advance.

In short, Chen Muwu felt that Hilbert was doing him a favor, and Hilbert felt that Chen Muwu was doing him a favor.

Both sides got what they wanted and thought it would be great to meet each other.

After chatting about work issues, Chen Muwu took out the paper and pen from his luggage, struck on the table in the box while the iron was hot, and completely wrote down on paper the speech he gave at the history of mathematics branch venue the day before the closing ceremony.

He rarely wrote documents by hand. This time it was because he was on a business trip to Italy and couldn't put a bulky typewriter in his luggage.

Hilbert did not bother Chen Muwu, who was writing furiously at his desk. This was not his first trip to England, nor was it his first trip to Paris. He simply lay down on his bunk and closed his eyes to meditate.

Before the train stopped in Paris, Chen Muwu had finished organizing his speech.

After handing these pieces of paper to Hilbert, he asked the other party to review them and make sure they were correct.

Hilbert also wrote a letter of recommendation on paper, with a postscript written by himself.

As soon as the two people got off the train at the Paris train station, they put the speeches and letters of recommendation in envelopes into the mailbox on the platform.

If nothing else, this letter will appear on the desk of the editorial office of the Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Berlin, Germany, in a few days.

France is a big country in mathematics, so letters from Paris will definitely be taken seriously by the editorial department.

And when they opened the letter, they found that the person who wrote it was Chen Muwu, and the person who wrote the recommendation letter and postscript was Hilbert. They would definitely take the content of this manuscript very seriously.

If nothing else happens, it should be a certainty that Chen Muwu’s speech will be published in the next issue of the journal.

The two of them did not leave the Paris train station. They just drank a cup of coffee and had a simple meal inside the station.

They seized the time to transfer to the train from Paris to Calais, then crossed the English Channel across the sea, and then went from Dover to Chen Muwu's home in London, the capital of the United Kingdom.

It was true that Hilbert was a guest attending Chen Muwu's wedding, but he failed to move into Chen Muwu's home.

It was really because there were too many people coming from all over the world to attend Chen Muwu's wedding, so these guests could only be invited to stay in a relatively high-end hotel near Chen Muwu's home.

Chen Muwu, who had just returned to his home from Italy, first accepted a scolding from Mrs. Chen, complaining that he was about to get married to a man who was not honest and stable at all and was running around the world all day long until the wedding. I just returned home in the last few days.

Mrs. Chen also knew that Chen Muwu was doing this for his own work, so in the end she felt sorry for her younger son, saying that if he worked so hard now, he might not be able to bear it in the future.

After Chen Muwu was scolded, he devoted himself to familiarizing himself with the wedding process.

Although the wedding took place in London, England, the bride is also an out-and-out European.

However, Chen Muwu's family did not believe in these British religions at all, and the Curies were not devout believers.

——When Madame Curie’s eldest daughter Irena and Frederic got married, the two of them just went to the city hall near their home, did a simple notarization, and received the marriage certificate. There was no wedding ceremony at all. When I went to a religious place like a church, there was no priest or priest.

So this time when it was Chen Muwu and Ai Fu's turn, they had already reached an agreement and agreed not to go to a church for a wedding with a strong religious meaning.

Eve was also curious about what a Chinese wedding should be like. She had already told Chen Muwu that she wanted to be a bride from China.

Chen Muwu has already explained this to his family. Anyway, the Chen family itself is not short of money, and Chen Muwu has made so much money in the UK.

So Mrs. Chen sent Chen Muqiao to spend a lot of money to transport all kinds of things needed for the wedding from China in advance.

Chen Muwu also named him in advance and said that he did not want the improved Xiuhe clothes, but the more traditional phoenix crowns, harems, etc.

I listened to my eldest brother and mother explain the wedding process at home, and after listening for a while.

Chen Muwu simply ate some noodles to fill his stomach, and then hurried to the hotel near his home to meet those who had come from afar and had not seen each other for a long time before the wedding.

If we say that during the duration of the Solvay Conference, the Solvay Palace in Leopold Park in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, gathered the best physics brains in the world;

During the duration of the International Congress of Mathematicians, the best mathematical brains in the world were also gathered in the corresponding venues.

So at this moment, the brains gathered in this hotel near Chen Muwu's home may be better than the two meetings above.

He only knew that his family had reserved the second and third floors of the hotel, but he didn't know exactly who lived in each room, so he could only knock on the door from room to room.

In the first room, Oppenheimer and Hubble lived all the way from the United States.

The two of them actually came to England from the United States on the same ship.

It's just that thanks to Oppenheimer and Hubble, the two men had never met before.

But they would not tell each other and strangers about their movements to England.

So during that eight-day ship voyage, the two of them were unaware of each other's existence.

It wasn't until the two people found the Chen family's address in London based on the address Chen Muqiao provided them on the telegram that they were arranged to enter the first room of the hotel one after another.

Now that they have checked into the hotel, everyone finally knows that this person, whom they have met many times on the ship from the United States to the United Kingdom, came here for the purpose of attending Chen Muwu's wedding. Hearing a knock on the door, he opened it and found Chen Muwu standing outside.

Before the latter could say hello to them, Oppenheimer became excited.

The United States today is far less open than it will be after the Beat generations.

Generally speaking, the courtesy when people meet is just to shake hands.

Only people with too close relationships would do what Oppenheimer did when he saw Chen Muwu, running up to him and hugging Chen Muwu tightly.

"Teacher Chen, it's been almost two years since we last met, right? You really miss me."

Chen Muwu thought that Oppenheimer would be very enthusiastic, but he did not expect that he would be so enthusiastic.

After the hug ended, he smiled and asked how Oppenheimer's situation in the United States had been over the past two years.

"Robert, I heard that you went to the University of Chicago and became a professor. How was your life there?"

Oppenheimer nodded, then shook his head: "The United States is certainly good, but the United Kingdom is even better.

"I remember that Mr. T. S. Eliot, who wrote The Waste Land, had immigrated to England from the United States.

"I'm wondering if I can follow his example and learn what procedures I should go through to immigrate to the UK, and then buy a house near your home and be my neighbor, Mr. Chen."

This.

Chen Muwu knew what Ben Haimo was thinking, but he couldn't comment on this approach.

No matter how chaotic the world is in the future, the United States has not suffered a serious war crisis.

If I had changed this period of history, I would have allowed Oppenheimer to immigrate to the United Kingdom from the United States and buy a house in London.

If he was unlucky enough to catch up with the British air war in the 1940s, and died like Griffins under the constant bombing of London by German planes, Chen Muwu would really not know what to say.

"Robert, I advise you to be more cautious about this matter. After all, my house was not bought with money, but rented to me by a friend named Mr. Montague - he is also a student at Cambridge University. I don't know. Have you seen it then?

"I don't know when I may leave the UK. There is no need for you to move your family here."

After listening to Chen Muwu's explanation, Oppenheimer said thoughtfully: "Teacher Chen, how about I see if I can immigrate to China? I still remember the time when I visited China with you, and I was very fond of your motherland. The look and feel is very beautiful.”

Uh.

If he stayed in London, England, he might be blown up by German artillery shells. If Oppenheimer went to China, he would more likely escape death.

Especially after the Taiping War breaks out, he, an American with obvious appearance, will probably be imprisoned in a concentration camp by himself immediately. Whether he can persist there until the end of the war is a big unknown.

Moreover, your kid is the one who wants to make an atomic bomb to blow himself up in the future. How can you do such a stupid thing as "humiliating yourself at the hands of slaves"?

Chen Muwu had no choice but to use another thing to attract Oppenheimer's attention.

He shook his head, the expression on his face was full of disapproval of this matter: "Let's talk about immigration later. Robert, I have another thing to tell you.

“That’s my school in Stockholm, which is almost complete.

“I think in less than a year, once enough students have been recruited, classes can officially start.

"That's when I really need you. If you are willing, you can come to Stockholm and be my physics teacher for a few years.

"Let me tell you in advance that the money you make in Stockholm will probably be less than the money you make as a professor at this university."

"Of course, of course it's no problem! Teacher Chen, don't tell me that the salary is lower than in the United States. Even if you don't pay a penny, I have no problem."

Oppenheimer thought it was great.

On the one hand, he came to the UK this time to attend Chen Muwu's wedding, and on the other hand, he had some intention of launching an army to prosecute.

It seems that before leaving the UK, Oppenheimer already knew about Chen Muwu's establishment of a school in Stockholm.

At that time, before he got his doctorate from Cambridge University and reluctantly left the UK to return to the United States, Chen Muwu promised him that after the school was completed, he would be invited back to work as a teacher in the school in Stockholm.

But it turned out that Oppenheimer had seen news about Stockholm Prince's College again and again in American newspapers, but Chen Muwu had never responded to his previous promise.

When Oppenheimer came to England this time, he also wanted to ask Chen Muwu if he had given up on himself.

Unexpectedly, Teacher Chen, whom he had a crush on, brought up this matter as soon as they met.

It seemed that Chen Muwu was still thinking of him, and Oppenheimer felt much happier.

After dealing with Oppenheimer, Chen Muwu turned to look at Hubble, who had been standing aside and saying little.

"Dr. Chen, I wish you a happy wedding in advance!"

"Thank you, Professor Hubble, for coming to London from the United States to attend my wedding. By the way, I just left Prince's College in Stockholm more than half a month ago. The construction there is very good.

“It’s just that the observatory is in the second phase of the project, and the polishing and installation of the astronomical telescope will take a while, so it has not been completed yet.

"What are your plans during this time, are you going to continue working at Mount Wilson Observatory, or are you?"

Hubble shook his head: "I have completed the resignation procedures from Mount Wilson Observatory, and I no longer intend to deal with those stubborn and stubborn American astronomers."

"That's fine. After the wedding is over, I will introduce you to Professor Eddington, the director of the Cambridge University Observatory.

"As long as you don't dislike the instruments and equipment of the Cambridge University Observatory, I think he would be very willing to let you stay at Cambridge University and do research together."

Hubble laughed loudly after hearing this: "So what if the instruments are the most advanced in the world? But the person who discovered the new planet is not an American, but you, Dr. Chen."

(End of this chapter)