Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 46 Chapter 46
Switzerland, Zurich.

In 1914, when Einstein was invited by Planck and Nernst to leave his alma mater, the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, to teach at the Humboldt University of Berlin, he served as a professor of theoretical physics, also appointed by Peter Debye took over.

Debye is a student of Sommerfeld, and he stayed in this position for ten years.

Last month, he received the "Physical Yearbook" in January, and he had already noticed Chen Muwu's paper.

Debye found this theory very interesting, and then he started with the quantum theory of radiation proposed by his predecessor Einstein in his paper "The Quantum Theory of Radiation" in 1917, and deduced the same theory as Chen Muwu in another way. Scatter formula.

Debye took the thesis and his own derivation, found an experimental physicist at the school, and asked him to design an experiment for verification.

But within a few days, Debye received the February issue of "Proceedings of Natural Science", which not only reappeared Chen Muwu's paper, but also the experimental verification results of the Cavendish laboratory.

This scattering formula was confirmed by experiments!
So Debye wrote a paper slowly, and also sent it to the editorial office of Berlin's "Annual Review of Physics", on the desk of Professor Planck.

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Of course, not everyone will start to change Chen Muwu's scattering theory after reading the preliminary experimental results published by Rutherford, and then try to accept it.

After 200 years of experimental verification, the theory of fluctuations has been deeply rooted in the minds of physicists. Huygens, Fresnel and other physics pioneers still have a large number of loyal followers.

When the "Proceedings of Natural Science" in February was delivered to an office in the University of Copenhagen along with the mail ship docked at the pier of the Baltic Sea, who would have thought that the new Nobel Prize winner in physics at the end of last year, Niels Bohr, after reading the experimental bulletin published by his teacher, he would shoot the case?

In 1911, Niels Bohr traveled across the ocean to England after obtaining a doctorate from the University of Copenhagen.

He first went to the Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory chaired by J. J. Thomson. A few months later, he transferred to Manchester and entered Rutherford's laboratory chaired at the University of Manchester.

From 1911 to 1916, Bohr spent a total of five years in Manchester.

During these five years, Rutherford became Bohr's most respected person.

Although he was only 14 years older than him, Bohr not only regarded Rutherford as his mentor, but also regarded him as a loving father.

Rutherford's laboratory in Manchester has also become the most admired holy place in Bohr's heart, because in this laboratory, there will always be a group of energetic young people who come and go.

Among them are George Darwin (the second son of Charles Darwin, the author of "The Origin of Species") who came from a prominent scholar's family, there are traditional aristocrats, and there are also blue-collar children from the bottom of life...

These young people come from different countries and cultural backgrounds, with different wealth and status gaps.

But in that laboratory, amidst Rutherford's high-pitched voice and hearty laughter, there was no difference or barrier between them. Everyone lived in harmony and worked together to delve into the mysteries of science and seek the next breakthrough.

It was this atmosphere in Rutherford's laboratory at the University of Manchester that deeply infected Bohr.

He felt that although his own country, Denmark, was in Europe, if Britain and Germany, the world's academic centers, were compared to polite gentlemen, then Denmark's scientific level was basically equivalent to a savage in a foreign land.

In order to improve the academic level of his country and promote the development of science and technology in the country, he must follow the example of his teacher Rutherford, modeled on the laboratory in Manchester, and build a similar scientific paradise on the land of Denmark , Cultivate batch after batch of fresh blood for the country's scientific research.

After returning from Manchester, Bohr entered his alma mater, the University of Copenhagen, and took the position of professor of theoretical physics.

But he was never satisfied with the university professorship he held, because Bohr always had a bigger dream in his heart.

A few years ago, Sommerfeld's paper successfully demonstrated the value of Bohr's atomic model, which raised the international reputation of Bohr, a Dane who had just become famous in the academic circle, to a higher level.

With this strong east wind, Bohr successfully obtained the approval of the school, and he then persuaded the city government to provide the site and won a large amount of funding from the Carlsberg Foundation.

That's right, the Carlsberg that sells beer.

Carlsberg became a rich man in Denmark by selling beer. Before his death, he handed over part of his estate to the Danish government and asked that the money be given to Danish scholars to fund their academic research.

After getting the land and funding, Bohr was finally able to realize his dream and build a "Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen".

For this dream institute, he worked hard and even worked tirelessly to design the building of the institute himself.

But this also caused a little trouble, because Bohr often changed his mind and changed his drafts just like the process of dictating papers, so that the construction project was delayed for more than a year, and the entire building was not officially put into use until the beginning of the previous year.

After the house was built, enrollment became an urgent problem to be solved.

Not to mention attracting foreign students, even domestic students have some doubts about Copenhagen's ability.

The children of wealthy Danish families prefer to go to Germany and the British Isles on the European continent to receive the most advanced science education than to study in the capital.

But at this moment, Bohr's timing changed again.Because at the end of last year, he won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Today's Bohr can be said to have gained both fame and fortune, with unlimited scenery.

This morning, as usual, he walked out of the house after breakfast and came to his office in the institute.

The secretary who went to work early put the February issue of the Journal of Natural Sciences on Bohr's desk.

Bohr took out the pipe he carried with him, filled it with new shredded tobacco, struck a match and lit it, took a deep breath, and then picked up the pipe that the secretary put on his desk early this morning. In February, "Journal of Natural Sciences", I casually flipped through it.

In the catalogue, he saw the name of his mentor Rutherford.

But above the teacher's name, he saw the Chinese again, Chen.

In last month's "Physical Yearbook", Bohr had already read Chen Muwu's paper.

Bohr scoffed at the idea of ​​light quantum proposed in it.

Quantum of light?Another photon?
What I hit is the quantum of light!
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