When I am reborn, I just want to be a top student

Chapter 235 A despicable and shameless nation
In January 2014, a big event happened in the academic circle.

The authoritative journal "Nature" published a groundbreaking stem cell research paper, which immediately caused a shock in the academic circle.

How awesome is this paper?

When seeing this paper, relevant industry insiders promoted the author of this paper, Obokata Haruko, as the 'island Marie Curie' who is expected to win the Nobel Prize.

This evaluation is not low, and it can also reflect the power of this paper from the side.

In the island nation, Haruko Obokata is known as the goddess of academics.

Obokata Haruko, who was born in 1983, first studied at Awaida University, and then spent time in the laboratory of Professor Charles Vacanti at the Harvard Medical School, where she was engaged in research on pluripotent cells (ips cells).

Because of her beautiful face, Obokata Haruko's development has been extremely smooth.

In 2010, he brought the Japanese stem cell scientist Kobayashi Hiko and the Japanese scientist Yama Teruki who first cloned mice into his research project team.

In March 2013, although Obokata Haruko was only 3 years old, she became the director of the Comprehensive Research Center for Genetic and Regenerative Sciences at the RIKEN Institute of Science and Technology.

Bow forever, apologize forever, but don’t change!
From the bones, from the depths of the blood, despicable genes flow.

In mid-February, the RIKEN Institute of Science and Technology and Nature respectively conducted relevant investigations into the academic misconduct accusations against Haruko Obokata.

"Professor Watanabe, who do you think this year's Fields Medal winner will be? Will it be Wang Donglai?"

At this point, RIKEN announced on April 4 that Obokata Haruko had committed academic misconduct such as fabrication and tampering in her research.

The purpose is to divert attention, move away from Obokata Haruko, and reduce the heat.

After being reminded by Phoenix, Wang Donglai didn't know that the interview with Professor Watanabe on the island country's TV station was actually intentional.

Although the academic fraud has been confirmed, as long as the heat is lower, these people and their units will lose less face.

Soon, more people questioned Obokata's research, and it was revealed that Obokata's previous papers were suspected of falsifying experimental data and tampering with pictures. Many top researchers said they could not replicate Obokata's experimental results.

What happens next becomes very simple.

After all, Wang Donglai holds the Wolf Prize in Mathematics and the Abel Prize at this time, and at the upcoming Global Mathematicians Conference, Wang Donglai is a strong contender for the Fields Medal.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that there is something wrong with Obokata Haruko’s paper and the content is false.

"Professor Watanabe, do you think Wang Donglai's paper was not written by him?"

As long as clear evidence is found, this matter can be nailed down!
Wang Donglai sorted out this matter from beginning to end, and became more and more disgusted with this nation.

Many reporters have been waiting outside the gate of Capital University, wanting to interview Taro Watanabe.

Once the paper was published, all major mainstream media around the world reported on this breakthrough research, especially the media in island countries.

After being interviewed once, Taro Watanabe became a celebrity.

He turned his head, looked in the direction of the island country, and said softly: "I will keep you happy for two more days. After a while, I hope you can still laugh."

At this point, RIKEN is still being tough and defending Obokata Haruko, claiming that although Obokata Haruko's paper is unnatural, it does not involve misconduct in the category of tampering, and it cannot be judged whether it was intentional or not, so it cannot be judged as academic misconduct. end.

Although some people questioned the content of the paper, the media in the island country turned a blind eye and continued to publicize it. In addition to reporting the revolutionary significance of this research, it also created an inspirational story about a beautiful scientist.

Obokata Haruko's academic fraud involved scientists such as Amidada University, RIKEN, Hiko Kobayashi and Teruki Yamada, as well as the media of the island nation.

As soon as Taro Watanabe came out, he was surrounded by many reporters asking various questions.

Although Obokata Haruko's reputation is good, she is still far behind Wang Donglai.

As a professor at the university, Taro Watanabe actually did not have any outstanding papers or discoveries. He was just an ordinary person who studied hard and seized opportunities.

Taro Watanabe looked at the microphones surrounding him, feeling extremely satisfied and his vanity was greatly satisfied.

The next year, Obokata Haruko submitted two papers and published them in the journal Nature.

After thinking about this, Wang Donglai had an idea in his mind.

If you want to cover up a news, just create a more sensational one.

The setting issues are also not well-intentioned.

"Professor Watanabe, what do you think about Professor Wang Donglai proving the ABC conjecture, Hodge conjecture and Zhou conjecture?"

On April 4, Obokata Haruko appeared and held a press conference to apologize for causing trouble to the institute and her colleagues. However, she refused to admit that the paper was false, did not accept the institute's investigation report, and did not agree to withdraw the paper.

On March 5, RIKEN released more detailed information about the STAP cell preparation process to the outside world, and stated that other experimental methods in Obokata Haruko's research will be published on the website of the journal Nature. The spokesperson claimed that this introduction would help other researchers increase the chance of success in replicating Obokata's experiments. However, this experimental protocol is inconsistent with the published content.

Then, it was revealed that the paper published by Obokata Haruko reused two pictures from her doctoral thesis and modified them.

These questions all have one thing in common, that is, they don't like Wang Donglai very much, but have a touch of malice in their words.

Soon, Obokata Haruko's groundbreaking stem cell research came under scrutiny.

……

Therefore, I focused my attention on Wang Donglai.

Island country.

Coupled with the relationship between the island country and China, it seems logical to choose Wang Donglai as a partner to do such a thing.

The reason is very simple.

At the same time, Obokata Haruko’s doctoral thesis was also exposed as suspected of plagiarism.

"If you want to use me to divert attention, then don't blame me!"

He didn't have much status in the school. He seemed to be called a professor, but it didn't bring much change to his life.

Seeing others succeed and become famous, Taro Watanabe felt envious and jealous.

Now, a chance opportunity fell in front of Taro Nishi Watanabe. He didn't think too much at all and agreed immediately.

So, the interview happened.

Now, surrounded by many reporters, Watanabe Taro seemed to be radiating new vitality, and his whole person became extremely energetic. He didn't want to miss such a good opportunity!
There was an exaggerated look of doubt on his face, and he said: "The first question is whether Wang Donglai's paper was written by me. Because I am not the party involved, I cannot answer this. I can only say that the writing is sophisticated and the logic is strict. , it is difficult for ordinary young people to write such an excellent paper.”

"Second question, I have several guesses about the Fields Medal winner, such as Professor Martin Hare, who made special contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations and created the theory for the regularity structure of such equations. Another example is Mariam Mirzakhani, who made outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their simulated spaces, or who developed powerful new methods in the field of number geometry and used these methods to calculate small-rank Manuel Barzahar on ring numbers and estimating bounds on the mean rank of elliptic curves.”

"These professors are all people who I think are very likely to win the award. Their achievements are also extremely outstanding. I think they have a high possibility of winning the award."

"As for the third question, I think many people have overlooked a situation, that is, over the years since the emergence of mathematical problems, countless mathematicians have tried to prove them. Although they have not proved successful, their actions have regarded the mathematical problems as The proof has advanced a lot, and at least many wrong answers have been eliminated, so later people can successfully crack the proof, and part of the factors are attributed to this. "

Regardless of Taro Watanabe's character, his basic academic qualities and abilities are still there.

When asked by reporters, his answers were impeccable.

However, it showed that he doubted Wang Donglai without any obvious evidence.

Hearing Taro Watanabe's answer, the reporters surrounding him suddenly became excited.

"Professor Watanabe, do you think Wang Donglai will not win the Fields Medal this year?"

"Professor Watanabe, may I interpret your words to mean that you are not optimistic about Wang Donglai's mathematical achievements and do not think he can win the prize?"

"Professor Watanabe, will you participate in this global conference of mathematicians?"

“If you met Professor Wang Donglai while attending the conference, what would you say?”

Question after question was asked by these reporters.

Some questions cannot be answered, and some questions can be answered.

Taro Watanabe made the distinction very clearly, so he picked two questions that he could answer and answered them.

"I will also attend this global conference of mathematicians!"

"If I see Wang Donglai at the conference, I will definitely have a discussion with him. I hope he won't disappoint me!"

After answering these two questions, Taro Watanabe stopped answering questions and walked towards the outside of the crowd.

The reporters didn't chase after him, and getting this little material was enough for them to make a deal.

Taro Watanabe didn't go far when he was chased by a middle-aged man.

"Hello, Professor Watanabe, I am the executive director of Capital Television. We are going to launch an academic program and we need a university professor to be a guest commentator. Is Professor Watanabe willing?"

After the middle-aged man caught up, he first handed Taro Watanabe a business card and then introduced his purpose of finding Taro Watanabe.

After hearing the middle-aged man's words and looking down at the business card, Watanabe felt excited.

The middle-aged man thought that Taro Watanabe was unwilling, so he continued: "Professor Watanabe, as long as you are willing to participate in our program, we will provide you with a reward of 300,000 island dollars for each episode."

"If you feel that this remuneration is a bit low, you can discuss it again!"

Upon hearing the reward of 300,000 island dollars, Watanabe Taro couldn't bear it anymore, his face was calm, he nodded calmly and said: "Since you have found me, I won't let you down, so I will agree to it. "

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Taro Watanabe acted very calmly.

There was a hint of joy on the middle-aged man's face, and he bowed quickly and said, "Hi, thank you Professor Watanabe!"

……

As time goes by.

Wang Donglai has also made great progress in proving Goldbach's conjecture.

The analysis of academic scholars is indeed correct. If you want to solve Goldbach's conjecture, you must develop a new mathematical method.

Currently known mathematical methods cannot solve Goldbach's conjecture at all.

At the same time, after Wang Donglai actually got started, he discovered that the difficulty of this mathematical problem may have exceeded the estimates of the academic community.

Because Wang Donglai, who has skills such as [Brain Overclocking] and [Photographic Memory], took several months. It is conceivable that if it were other scholars, the time needed would probably be in years. It must be based on the premise of being a peerless genius.

The opening of the Global Mathematicians Conference is approaching.

Many domestic scholars will attend this grand gathering of mathematics.

Generally, those who can receive invitations are professors from well-known domestic universities.

If it were in the past, although no one would pay attention to it, it would indeed not have much momentum.

But this year is different.

Anyone who knows something about mathematics is looking forward to one thing.

That is to hope that Wang Donglai will win this year's Fields Medal.

While Wang Donglai has already won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics and the Abel Prize, only the Fields Medal, the top international award, is left.

Naturally, people are looking forward to it more and more.

Again, the Fields Medal has been established for so many years and awarded so many times, but no pure Chinese has ever won it.

Qiu Chengtong got it, Tao Zhexuan got it.

Although these two people are Chinese, they do not have Chinese nationality, nor did they receive education in China since childhood, so they cannot represent China at all.

Now, Wang Donglai has reached this point with his talent, which has given the Chinese mathematics community the hope of winning the Fields Medal, and naturally everyone wants to witness this historical moment.

Once Wang Donglai wins the award, the meaning it represents is extremely important. It proves that domestic education is fruitful, proves that the level of mathematical research of Chinese people is leading in the world, and proves that China’s mathematical research is also first-rate in the world. .

Therefore, this global conference of mathematicians held at home has attracted the attention of many domestic professors and scholars, and many people are preparing to attend.

The professors from Tangdu Jiaotong University who participated in the Global Mathematicians Conference with Wang Donglai this time were Han Hua and Yang Wanpeng.

However, before Wang Donglai could set out, he received good news and bad news.

(End of this chapter)