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Chapter 87 Key Figures (Second update, please collect)

In February in Washington, there was ice and snow everywhere.

Although the weather was freezing, it could not stop Yuan Jialiu and his wife. They had been separated for a year. After meeting in New York before the Lantern Festival, they drove along the East Coast and enjoyed the trip. .

After gathering with old friends in Washington, the two drove back to New York. Although it was already February, the cold wave in the north brought another heavy snowfall. There was a lot of snow on the road, so Yuan Jialiu seemed to be very careful when driving.

Looking at his cautious husband, Wu Jianxiong said.

"So Li Yian has made great achievements in physics."

"Yes, when we get to New York, if we have time, we can discuss some physics issues together. Some of his ideas are very novel and even quite groundbreaking."

Afterwards, Yuan Jialiu talked about some of the topics he had talked with Li Yian that time, and soon the couple were discussing some of Li Yian's assumptions about the quantum field in the car. As scholars, the two people quickly became addicted to it and even forgot that they were in the car.

"...If his hypothesis is confirmed, it will definitely cause a sensation in the entire academic world."

When he finished speaking, Wu Jianxiong noticed that the speed of the car had increased at some point.

"Jialiu, the road outside is slippery, slow down and be careful..."

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt the car spin violently.

"Jialiu..."

Wu Jianxiong screamed in horror and grabbed Yuan Jialiu's arm. Before he could say anything, he heard the sound of tires skidding, and then something happened. The BMW sports car they were driving rushed off the road and rolled down the hillside. …

A few hours later, Yuan Jialiu, who was in the hospital, stared blankly at the flashing red light in the operating room, filled with annoyance in his mind.

How could this happen? How could I be so careless?
  It happened so suddenly that he was completely caught off guard. After the car ran off the road more than ten feet, it was blocked by a big tree. It did not roll over, burn or explode. This was all a great blessing.

Later, a car drove by and saw that his companion had an accident, so he helped lift the two of them out of the car. Yuan Jialiu was very lucky. In addition to abrasions, his ribs hit the steering wheel and injured his ribs, while Wu Jianxiong did not have such injuries. Lucky for you.

The impact of the fall left her with multiple rib fractures and a broken arm. She is still undergoing rescue.

It wasn't until the next morning that the doctor came out of the operating room. As soon as he saw the doctor, Yuan Jialiu ran over and asked.

"Doctor, how is my wife? How is she doing?"

"Sir, the operation was successful, but due to multiple fractures, it will take about four months to recover."

It was only then that Yuan Jialiu breathed a sigh of relief and murmured.

"That's fine, that's fine, as long as people are fine,"

……

Li Yian also felt the same when he received a call from Yuan Jialiu. Just hope everything is fine!

If something happened to someone else, then he would be guilty. His act of borrowing the car actually caused such an accident, and he was frightened for a while. What was he afraid of? The Chinese physics community is missing a big star!

"I will never borrow a car again. This is too scary, unless I borrow the driver as well." After thinking about it, Li Yian added.

"Send someone to pick them up later. It will take a hundred days to break their muscles and bones. Otherwise, let them recuperate in the Hamptons first."

Like many wealthy people in New York, Li Yi'an also has a villa in South Hampton. This is an investment. The beachfront villa now only costs more than ten thousand dollars, but in later generations it cost tens of millions of dollars, and it is still Hard to buy.

Thinking of this, Li Yian picked up the phone and gave instructions to his secretary. Soon, Ding En sent someone to drive to pick up Yuan Jialiu and his wife.

A week later, at the door of Yuan Jialiu's apartment in New York, two Americans wearing coats and hats knocked on the door again, but there was still no response.

"Didn't the school say that after the lady was discharged from the hospital, she lived with her husband in New York?"

Colonel Nichols frowned and said with some confusion.

"We've been here three times and no one is home."

The other person was flipping through the letter in his hand and said.

"Colonel, take a look at the bills. These are the utility bills from last month. This means they have not returned to New York, at least not to this apartment."

"We can't keep waiting like this."

Looking at the closed door, Colonel Nichols said. "I think there is no need to wait any longer. We have been waiting for a week. I think Mr. Oppenheimer will understand."

A few hours later, Oppenheimer received a long-distance call from New York. After learning that Wu Jianxiong had been injured in a traffic accident, he quickly inquired about her injuries. He breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that she was safe.

"It's okay, it's okay. As long as she is fine, it doesn't matter. She should be recuperating somewhere now. We will contact her again after a while."

Although it was a bit unlucky, Oppenheimer had no other choice. After hanging up the phone, he once again looked at Fermi's report.

"...the chain reaction of a nuclear explosion can never be sustained. The neutrons produced by the impact will disappear inexplicably, thus losing the power to maintain the sustainability of the chain reaction,"

The sudden disappearance of neutrons made Oppenheimer, Fermi and other scientists feel extremely troubled, and the development of atomic bombs faced a major crisis of stalling.

"...Xenon-135, one of the products of nuclear fission, is most likely the culprit causing this failure. We believe that xenon-135 is a "neutron poison." But we are not yet sure enough about how to solve it. .”

Looking through the report, Oppenheimer frowned. If this problem could not be solved, the atomic bomb would not be built - without the power to sustain the chain reaction, naturally there would be no atomic bomb.

Who can solve this problem?
  In Oppenheimer's view, only Wu Jianxiong, who was also his former student, could solve this problem. As early as 39, she had completed an experiment to "explore the fission products of uranium nuclei" by herself, and discovered in her experiment that uranium During the process of nuclear fission, a large amount of the radioactive isotope xenon-135 is produced, and it is proposed that this isotope has a certain ability to absorb neutrons.

It was precisely because her research results in this area were at the forefront of the world that Oppenheimer sent people to find her and even went to Washington in person to resolve her confidentiality authorization issue.

However, by some mistake, she had a traffic accident.

There was no other way. Oppenheimer, who had lost his key figure, could only sigh helplessly.

"Hey, okay, let's wait a few months until she recovers..."

(End of this chapter)