Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 90 Chapter 38
As soon as it was six o'clock in the evening, the supervisors of various departments in the Cavendish Laboratory began to announce that six o'clock had arrived in their responsible laboratories and asked everyone to stop working.

This rule of getting off work at the right time also originated from Rutherford, the current director of the Cavendish Laboratory.

He once said that whoever fails to complete the work that must be completed before six o'clock, there is no need to procrastinate any longer. Instead, he hopes that everyone will go home immediately, think about the work done today, and then think about the work to be done tomorrow.

If someone is unbelieving and stays in Cavendish for experiments after six o'clock, he will probably be caught by Rutherford who occasionally wanders around the laboratory after dinner on a whim, and then he will be trained again. A bloody head.

After work was over, Kapitza took Blackett to the conference room to look for Chen Muwu, with a gloating expression on his face: "Chen, this is the first time you have been taught a lesson by a crocodile, how do you feel?"

Chen Muwu wasn't too depressed, because Rutherford's words were a kind of slap in the face and woke him up: "It's okay, although the director's voice is a little louder and his tone is a little bit harsher, but I know he doesn't care. It's for my own good."

"Tut tsk tsk..." Hearing this answer, Capita couldn't help but twitched his tongue, "Speaking of which, why did he catch you and yell at you just after he returned to the laboratory today?"

"Because the director went to the conference room and asked me what I was doing recently, I told him that I think electrons are also a kind of wave."

Kapitsa, who had been chattering all the time, and Blackett, who had been silent all the time, coincided with each other in staring wide-eyed after hearing what Chen Muwu said.

Kapitsa was the first to exclaim, and his voice was even a little louder than Rutherford: "What are you talking about, electrons are a kind of wave?"

"Yes, I have such a feeling in the dark, but I'm not sure, so I brought it up to the director. I wanted to do an experiment to verify it, but I was ruthlessly rejected." Chen Muwu smiled wryly. speak.

"Chen, to be honest, although you are indeed a genius compared to us, I always feel that this time, you seem to be a bit out of the ordinary."

"Let's go, eat, eat, George should have been waiting for us for a long time." Blackett smoothed things over by the side.

The trio now regards Ye Gongchao's place as a place to satisfy their cravings, and they have to go to Magdalen Academy every now and then to have a rubbing meal.

In Magdalen, Chen Muwu heard another piece of news from East Asia from Ye Gongchao, which made him very happy.

On September [-]st, a major earthquake with a magnitude of [-] occurred in the Kanto region of a certain country, including the two major cities of Tokyo and Yokohama.

Although it's really wrong to make fun of natural disasters and may be scolded as inhumane, Chen Muwu couldn't help but want to laugh.

According to the post-disaster statistics of the government of a certain country, more than 14 people were killed and missing in the earthquake, and more than 4 of them died of being baked or suffocated in the fire in Tokyo after the earthquake.

After learning the specific number, Chen Muwu even thought up a hellish joke.

To say that the immunity of the people of this certain country is really bad, they have collectively been immunized against the fire so many years ago, why have they still not been able to escape General Li Mei’s barbecue after 22 years?

If you do too much unrighteousness, you will kill yourself, you really deserve it!

Seeing that Chen Muwu was holding back his smile, Kapiza couldn't help asking curiously: "Chen, why are you so happy all of a sudden?"

"I suddenly remembered a happy thing. My wife, uh, no, a letter from home said that my second brother's wife had just given birth."

Fortunately, none of the people present had seen the peak moment of acting in this article, so Chen Muwu was able to get away with it.

Coming out of Magdalen College, a certain countryman from a certain country’s alumni association at Cambridge University has already set up a table on campus to call for donations for the disaster area. Chen Muwu even wanted to pretend to be a quarrelsome person, and brought along a few people who usually have a good relationship. The British "ghost animals" protested their genocidal massacre of suspects after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Damn, if you have this kind of spare money to save devils, you might as well buy me a vacuum pump!
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In a short period of time, the electron diffraction experiment could not be done, but Chen Muwu could not write a letter to David Sun, an engineer in the experiment department of the Western Electronics Company in the United States, to persuade him to do this experiment instead.

Maybe now, the name of Xidian Experimental Department is not big yet.

However, when this experimental department was acquired by AT&T in 1925 with 50.00% of the shares, it became independent from Western Electric and became the famous Bell Telephone Laboratory.

The experiments conducted by this experimental department are basically related to business, so the confidentiality is very high.

Calculating the time, Davidson should have just started to do related experiments on electron bombardment of metal surfaces, and has not published a paper recording the experimental results in the corresponding journals.

If Chen Muwu wrote to David Sun at this time, asking him to make a little improvement on the basis of the current experiment, then what he would get would not be a letter of thanks, but would stir up Xidian to find out the business that leaked the company's secrets. There is no peace for spies.

Although the experiment can't be done, Chen Muwu feels that the theory of matter waves cannot be left to dust in the brain.

So he could only write a short paper on the view that electrons are a kind of wave, instead of de Broglie's doctoral thesis version with more than 70 pages, and sent it to the German "Physical Yearbook" again.

Including this paper, he has already published five papers in the journal this year, one more than Einstein published in 1905 (his fifth paper was published in 1906).

At the same time as the dissertation, a letter of inquiry was sent to the United States, and a personal letter was sent to Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.

In the previous reprimand, Rutherford had inadvertently revealed that General Electric had recently developed a high-vacuum vacuum pump.

Chen Muwu keenly captured this information at the time, but Rutherford did not disclose the price to him.

That's why he thought of sending a letter to General Electric to ask how much the vacuum pump was quoted for.

What Chen Muwu thought in his heart was that when he was about to leave Ghaihai, his second elder brother gave him a huge sum of £2000.

Because domestic and foreign scholarships can't be spent together, the money has been stored in his own bank account until now.

If General Electric's asking price is reasonable, even a little bit higher, as long as it is around [-] to [-] pounds, can he also bite the bullet and buy a vacuum pump, and then do experiments by himself?

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More than a week later, Chen Muwu received a reply from General Electric.

It may be because of this vacuum pump that General Electric has no plans to mass-produce it at all, so they didn't even print an advertising brochure.

General Electric did not build such a high-precision vacuum pump to use it to pump incandescent light bulbs.

As early as a few decades ago, the practice of evacuating the bulb to reduce the oxidation of the filament has been replaced by injecting gases such as argon and nitrogen, which are chemically very inactive.

They want to make a vacuum tube with a higher vacuum, and then make a lot of money on it.

I just sent a black and white photo of the appearance of the pump body and a piece of paper with specific parameters.

The clarity of the photo is not high now, and General Electric is afraid that others will copy it according to the shape, so it intentionally took the photo very blurred.

On the contrary, it was written in black and white on the parameter paper that in the limit state, this pump can make the vacuum degree reach a high vacuum state of 10Pa.

But the words in the advertisement should not be trusted. Chen Muwu estimated that the actual effect of this vacuum pump may not be as high as written, but as long as the vacuum can reach seven decimal places of Pascal, it is enough to meet the needs of his electron diffraction experiment.

Because it has mastered the core technology, General Electric is also a lion's mouth when it comes to the price of this high-precision equipment.

In the price column of this piece of paper, a high price of [-] U.S. dollars was specially marked in bold, which is almost [-] pounds in conversion.

In 1923, what was the concept of eight thousand dollars.

A Rolls-Royce Silver Charm is about the same price.

If you switch to a Ford Model T, you should be able to buy a dozen of them!

As for the replacement of the Deutsche Mark, it can almost reach the order of trillions.

In this regard, Chen Muwu said that although General Electric could grab it directly, it still sent a letter to tell you the price.

He really, I cried to death.

This reply letter from General Electric completely cut off Chen Muwu's idea of ​​buying a vacuum pump out of his own pocket.

It seems that Davidson can only play by ear when he publishes the experimental results in American journals.

When he was a child, Chen Muwu had read many short stories about famous people in the history of science, and he knew that many scientists were able to focus on scientific research without thinking about trivial matters in life because they had the support of big benefactors behind them.

For example, King Frederick II of Denmark not only sent an island, but also took out more than a ton of gold to build an observatory for Tycho, and after the death of the King of Denmark, he built another observatory for him in Prague. Rudolf II.

Another example is the Tuscan Grand Duke Ferdinando II de Medici, who gave Galileo enough support to let Galileo specifically name the four satellites of Jupiter he discovered as "Medici Stars". strange.

In addition, there is also "My Fathers and Me" co-starred by the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg behind Gauss, Boyle, Lavoisier, Darwin, Cavendish and other great scientists.

When Chen Muwu was reading the story at the beginning, he just regarded these as small episodes of celebrity anecdotes, and didn't take it to heart at all.

But now, he is extremely eager to have such a big benefactor behind him, if there is no such a big benefactor, a small benefactor is also fine.

At the very least, he should be able to settle the bill for the vacuum pump first, so that he can do this electron diffraction experiment with peace of mind.

(End of this chapter)