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Chapter 1141 Pasteur's appeal (first update, please subscribe)
"I, Emperor Shengde of the Ming Empire, hereby announce after serious consideration that the following are the requirements for establishing the Emperor Shengde Foundation:
Here I ask the executor of the foundation to dispose of the 2000 million Mingyuan cash I donated in the following ways: make safe and reliable investments in the above cash; establish a foundation with this fund, and award the interest generated by the fund to the Those who have made outstanding contributions to humanity in the previous year.Divide this interest into five equal parts and distribute as follows:

An award is given to the person who has made the most significant discovery or invention in physics;

An award is given to the person who has made the most significant discovery or improvement in chemistry;

An award is given to the person who has made the most significant discoveries in the fields of medicine and physiology;
One prize for the most significant breakthrough or remarkable discovery in mathematics;

An award is given to the person who has created the best work with ideal inclinations in the literary world;
The prizes for physics and chemistry are selected by the Imperial Academy of Sciences; the prizes for medicine and physiology are selected by the Faculty of Medicine, University of South China; the awards for literature are selected by the Faculty of Arts, Yingtian University; the prizes for mathematics are selected by the Imperial Mathematical Society.

No consideration will be given to the nationality of the award-winning candidate, that is to say, regardless of whether he or she has the nationality of the Ming Empire, whoever is most qualified should receive the bonus. I hereby declare that it is my urgent wish to grant the bonus in this way... ..."

One stone hits a thousand waves. At the end of 1882, such a scientific award caused an unprecedented sensation in the world. After all, there has never been any award in the scientific community in the world that can compare with it.

"Based on the 5.01% deposit interest rate of the Daming Imperial Bank this year, the total amount of bonuses this year will not be less than 100 million Ming Yuan, and each bonus will not be less than 20 Ming Yuan. In 1882, although there were 185 millionaires in the United States people, but it is certain that even the wealthiest millionaires have less than $20 in cash..."

Whether it is in the United States or in the United Kingdom, not to mention ordinary people, even many rich people are also shocked by this huge sum of money. While they are amazed at how rich the royal family of the Ming Empire is, almost everyone has paid attention to it. Who will get the huge prize money.

From the end of 1882 to the beginning of 1883, almost all European and American newspapers discussed this topic there. After all, in this era of money supremacy, people also highly respect science.

Now science can even bring huge fortunes.

How can this not make people excited.

In the past, the scientists discussed were often from their own countries, and foreign scientists were never discussed, but now, the public opinion circles of various countries will discuss it openly in newspapers, and scientists from all over the world are also concerned about the attribution of this award.

The huge return of wealth has caused everyone to devote great enthusiasm. This is not only the glory of the scientist itself, but also the glory of the country.Under the publicity of the public opinion, almost the whole world is paying attention to this award.

in France, in Paris,
Almost as soon as the news of the establishment of the Sidley Emperor Award came out, the public opinion and scientific circles in Paris said with one voice that the French scientist Louis Pasteur would receive the Medicine Prize.Not to mention the French, even the British, who are always against the law, do not doubt it. After all, it is well known that he is not only the founder of microbiology, but also opened up the field of microbiology and created a set of unique basic research methods of microbiology. In 1881, he improved the method of reducing the virulence of pathogenic microorganisms, and successfully developed a variety of vaccines such as chicken cholera vaccine and anthrax vaccine. His theory and immunization method caused major changes in medical practice.

These two groundbreaking researches have earned Pasteur an unprecedented reputation. His work on microbiology has also successfully saved the beleaguered wine industry, sericulture and animal husbandry in France, and made the whole world more famous. The world benefits from it.

As the most outstanding scientist in France in this era, he naturally has the highest call for awards, so that there are always journalists crowded outside his laboratory, and those reporters always hope to get some news from him, such as whether he has won the prize. Nomination news, such as the impression of winning.

In short, all French people believed that Pasteur was bound to win this award, and no one doubted it.

Once again, after finishing his day's work, Pasteur was surrounded by a group of reporters as soon as he stepped out of the laboratory.

"Dear Mr. Pasteur, may I ask if you have received the notice of candidates for the "Emperor Sidley Award" today, stating that the selection committee has drawn up candidates..."

"Mr. Pasteur, how would you feel if you were awarded the prize?"

… Facing the reporters surrounding him, Pasteur, who had already been tired of it, thought for a while, and then said.

"Gentlemen, perhaps I need to make a claim."

Fame!

Monsieur Pasteur is about to make a statement!
The reporters who had been waiting for a few days suddenly felt as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they all became excited. They all excitedly took out their pens and prepared to record the big news.

"Gentlemen, first of all, we need to thank His Majesty the Emperor Shengde of the Ming Empire for his generosity. This award he established to encourage the progress of human science is bound to bring new impetus to the progress of human science, but gentlemen, please pay attention-this The first award is given to "people who have made outstanding contributions to mankind. "And it's not just me."

Pasteur, standing on the steps of the laboratory, looked at the surrounding reporters and asked.

"Those of you who have had surgery, please raise your hand!"

Soon a dozen people raised their hands.

"Then who has ever had a blood transfusion?"

After asking these two questions one after another, Pasteur said.

"As early as 1862, Emperor Shengde made a lot of improvements to surgical operations. The aseptic technique and concept of asepsis pioneered by His Majesty the Emperor were promoted in Nanhua, and methods such as steam sterilization of surgical equipment were ridiculed by the outside world. But in Before the application of aseptic surgery, postoperative infection was considered normal almost until the middle of the 19th century, and after the application, the incidence rate dropped from 21% to 0.5%. Almost at the same time, he found that blood between different people When mixing, sometimes blood cells will coagulate. Thus, the concept of blood type was proposed, and the cross-matching test was proposed, which changed blood transfusion from a life-and-death gamble into a safe treatment. This epoch-making discovery, for Safe blood transfusions provide an important guarantee in the future, gentlemen."

Looking around at the reporters, Pasteur took off his hat and said.

"Maybe he has the imperial crown on his head, but in fact, as early as 20 years ago, he had won the crown of great progress in human medicine. In the past 20 years, all mankind has benefited from his discoveries. His discoveries Countless lives have been saved, and I think that the Medical and Physiological Prize should be awarded to His Majesty the Emperor Shengde in recognition of his outstanding contribution to mankind! His Majesty the Emperor deserves this award!"

It was only at this time that the reporters realized that the person who set up this award was himself a scientist, and a very outstanding scientist, and almost everyone ignored this.Just his contribution to medicine is enough for him to win this award.

"Allow me here to appeal to the selection committee - to award this award to the greatest and most unassuming scholar of this century, who deserves it..."

Why did Pasteur make this appeal?

It was because as a scientist, he knew that His Majesty the emperor's achievements in the field of medicine and his help to the world were definitely not inferior to him.

If he can win this award, then His Majesty the Emperor deserves it too.For Pasteur, perhaps he longed for honor, but this honor must be fair.

If the winner does not have the emperor, then there is no doubt that the award is unfair.Of course, it will also bring a blow to his honor...

(End of this chapter)