Rise of Australia

Chapter 332 Royal Academy of Sciences

When Arthur saw the technical experts from various European countries, a smile appeared on his face from time to time.

All the European powers together provided Australasia with thousands of technical experts.

These technical experts cover almost many fields, including talents in military industry, warship, chemical industry, medical treatment, and even physics and chemistry.

After this transaction, Australasia's high-level talent pool has become more abundant, and it has also brought Australasia's background closer to the European powers.

There are so many talents that the Royal Society for Physical Research can no longer manage them.After discussing with Einstein, Stella and others, at the end of October 1912, the Royal Australasian Academy of Sciences was formally established.

The Royal Academy of Sciences, as the name suggests, will attract all the top talents in Australasia.Regardless of which aspect, as long as you have outstanding contributions and achievements in your field, you can join the Royal Australasian Academy of Sciences and become an academician of the Academy of Sciences.

According to the grade division of the Royal Academy of Sciences, starting from the lowest first-level academician, to second-level academician, third-level academician, honorary associate, associate, honorary dean, and dean.

The academician rank is theoretically equivalent to the status of the mayor, the vice president rank is theoretically equivalent to the status of the governor, and the dean rank is theoretically equivalent to the status of the cabinet minister.

Of course, these are only theoretical administrative levels. Although academicians of the Academy of Sciences have such administrative status, they certainly do not have the actual power of the mayor, governor, or even that minister.

The reason why Arthur gave these experts a higher administrative status is actually to improve the status of all scientific researchers among the people, so that scientific researchers can become the goal that everyone in Australasia wants to be.

Science and education can rejuvenate the country. If you want to keep Australasia's status as a great power, and even launch an impact on the status and strength of the top powers, then Australasia's top talent reserves, as well as the country and the government and even all Australasians The attention of scientific research workers and technology has become a very important foundation.

In the current Australasia, there are almost three ways to successfully obtain a knighthood.

The first is to join the army, and make a vital role and contribution in wars that are related to the country's major interests and even the country's life and death. Such credit can be granted the title of honor.

In addition, the second method is to join the army of scientific researchers.As long as a technology that can change a certain industry in Australasia can be researched, or the technology researched has important strategic significance for Australasia, it is also possible to obtain medals and titles.

In addition, the third way is suitable for all non-military and scientific workers.As long as you have made significant contributions to the royal family and the national government, when medals are not enough to make up for and reward, the title you get is a matter of course.

In addition to these three ways, there is another way to obtain the title, and that is to have a good pregnancy and become Arthur's child.

As Arthur's children, William and Anna will definitely be awarded titles, but because the two little guys are still very young, Arthur has no plans to grant them titles for the time being.

Of the three ways that ordinary people can obtain knighthoods, the one with the greatest risk factor must be the first one.

In any case, the army of this era is definitely not less dangerous in war.

Whether it is the heavy machine guns of World War I, artillery bombing or tanks and planes of World War II, they are all powerful weapons that can easily harvest the lives of soldiers.

In order to obtain a knighthood by virtue of military exploits, in addition to extraordinary abilities, one must also have relatively strong luck, not only to avoid artillery and machine gun fire on the battlefield, but also to avoid stray bullets that fly by from time to time during the war.

The remaining two are very difficult, but the difficulty of becoming a scientific researcher is slightly lower.

Of course, this does not mean that it is easy to develop a technology that can change Australasia.

In fact, the real reason is that it is difficult for ordinary people in Australasia to get in touch with Arthur, and there is no way or means to make a major contribution to the royal family and the government.

In comparison, as long as one successfully graduates from a university and becomes a scientific research worker, one can devote himself to scientific research and development in related industries.

As long as the ability is sufficient, perhaps it is not impossible to develop powerful technology.

In addition to their due status, all academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences will also receive extremely generous benefits.

In theory, academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences can work part-time in various universities, and can also have their own independent research projects.

In addition to this, the salary of the Royal Academy of Sciences is also very high.After the expansion of the original Royal Institute of Physical and Chemical Research into the Royal Academy of Sciences, the salaries of the academicians of the Academy of Sciences have also increased.

The basic salary alone is A$1200 for a first-level academician, A$1800 for a second-level academician, A$2800 for a third-level academician, A$3800 for an honorary vice president, A$4000 for an associate dean, A$5500 for an honorary dean, and A$6000 for a dean.

From the perspective of the basic income of scientific researchers, the income of academicians of the Royal Australasian Academy of Sciences is not much worse than that of experts from European countries.

If the income of various research and part-time jobs is included, the academicians of the Royal Australasian Academy of Sciences may not necessarily earn less than famous European experts.

Among the 1607 technicians dispatched by Europe, more than 100 are research talents engaged in various scientific research work.

These talents are scattered in many fields such as physics, chemistry, medicine, technology, etc., but they are all talents that Arthur and Australasia urgently need.

These more than 100 talents were unsurprisingly drawn into the Royal Academy of Sciences by Arthur, which also made the size of the Royal Academy of Sciences exceed 200 people, 221 people to be precise.

Among them, there are 155 first-level academicians, 58 second-level academicians, 6 third-level academicians, 1 vice president, and 1 dean.

The president of the Royal Academy of Sciences is naturally Einstein, the former president of the Royal Society for Physical and Chemical Research, and Tesla is the vice president of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

It is mainly because among the 221 talents of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Arthur is more familiar with and the most famous are Einstein and Tesla.

Although other people also have certain popularity, they are still much inferior to Einstein and Tesla.

Of course, there are still many promotion channels for the Royal Academy of Sciences. In addition to producing scientific research results that are recognized by people, the contributions to the Academy of Sciences and the royal family, and the profits that the research results bring to the Academy of Sciences and the royal family can all make academicians go further. .

It's just that after the Royal Society for Physical and Chemical Research was upgraded to the Royal Academy of Sciences, the number of people has tripled, which also means that the annual research funding of the Royal Academy of Sciences will also increase a lot.

Theoretically speaking, although the number of people has tripled, because most of them are first-level academicians, it can also be calculated based on the previous [-] Australian dollars per capita research funding of the Physical Chemistry Research Association.

Calculated in this way, the annual research funding of the Royal Academy of Sciences is about 600 million to 700 million Australian dollars, which can be regarded as a big expense.

Although Arthur's royal consortium can afford this expense, it cannot allow these technical experts to obtain these scientific research budgets without restraint.

In response to the upcoming skyrocketing research budget of the Royal Academy of Sciences, after discussing with Einstein and Tesla, Arthur decided to implement a policy in the Royal Academy of Sciences.

First of all, the research budget of academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences is divided according to the current academician rank.

According to the grades of academicians, first-level academicians can apply for a research fund of no more than [-] Australian dollars per year, second-level academicians can apply for [-] Australian dollars, third-level academicians can apply for [-] Australian dollars, honorary vice presidents and vice presidents can apply Fifty thousand Australian dollars.

As for the highest-level honorary dean and associate dean, they can apply for research funds not exceeding [-] Australian dollars at most.

Of course, academicians can also apply for research funds according to the research projects.According to the estimated research time required for each research project, you can apply for research funds of one month to two years.

This also means that if a first-level academician applies for research funding according to the project, he can apply for a maximum of [-] Australian dollars.

Although in theory, academicians will basically not be rejected when applying for research funds.However, if the research of the previous year or the previous project fails, the research funding for the next year or the next project will be cut in half until the research of the project is successful.

This can also ensure that the research funds of the Royal Academy of Sciences are used in the right way. Technical experts who are not very sure about the research projects should also consider whether their research funds for the next year or the next project will be blocked because of their reckless behavior. to cut down.

Arthur is not afraid of these experts spending money, but Arthur also does not want to make these experts feel slack and even affect the progress of scientific research because it is too easy to obtain a scientific research budget.

Although the research budget will be cut to a certain extent, for truly capable talents such as Einstein and Tesla, the research budget will not be affected.

The most affected ones should be the first-level academicians with the largest number of people in the Academy of Sciences, that is, ordinary European scientific research experts.

However, even for the most ordinary first-level academician, the annual research budget of [-] Australian dollars is equivalent to [-] pounds and [-] US dollars, which is actually not a small sum.

It's just that Arthur's family has a big business, so in Arthur's view, the ten thousand Australian dollars is nothing.

Looking at the whole of Australasia, there are absolutely no more than 1000 people with an annual income of more than [-] Australian dollars.

Even if the royal family is not counted, it is estimated that the annual income exceeds [-] Australian dollars, except for the top government officials, only the top capitalists in Australasia.

But it is a pity that in Australasia, whether it is the top officials or top capitalists, the number of these people is very small, and definitely not more than 200.

In such a comparison, first-level academicians can get a research budget of [-] Australian dollars per year, which is definitely not a small sum.

The money they consume every year is even a huge sum of money that the average Australasian family can earn back in 50 years.

If you count the food, clothing, housing, transportation and various expenses of a family, I am afraid that the [-] Australian dollars will allow a family to earn hundreds of years.

Of course, although the research budget of ordinary scientific researchers has been reduced to a certain extent, for middle and upper-level scientific researchers, this reduced budget is actually not important.

After all, most of the projects that these academicians study alone are just small projects.In theory, the cost of these projects is not too large, and it is no problem to save one province with [-] Australian dollars.

For those large-scale projects involving dozens of academicians, Arthur has also set up special large-scale project research funds.

Theoretically, a second-level academician can apply to join other first- and second-level academicians to study a medium-sized scientific research project.

The research budget of a medium-sized scientific research project is generally around [-] Australian dollars. If there are special circumstances, it can also be increased appropriately.

Starting from the third-level academician, you can apply to cooperate with other academicians to conduct research on large-scale projects.

A large-scale project of a third-level academician can apply for a research fund of up to 20 Australian dollars, and a large-scale project of the deputy dean level can apply for a research fund of up to 50 Australian dollars.As for the dean level, you can apply for research funding of [-] Australian dollars.

Of course, these research funds are only theoretical values.The actual situation is different, and the theoretical research funding will also be increased to a certain extent, but at most it will not be doubled.

In addition to the above, after successful project research, academicians will also receive different amounts of rewards according to the grade of the Royal Academy of Sciences' project review.

If it is an ordinary project, the reward generally ranges from one thousand to several thousand Australian dollars.If the project is more important to Australasia, the award funds are generally around [-] to [-] Australian dollars.

As for those projects with extremely important strategic value that can change a certain industry in Australasia, the reward funds for these projects do not have a theoretical valuation, it depends on Arthur's mood at the time.

But in any case, once such an extremely important project is successfully researched, the rewards will definitely not be less than other projects, and even various medals and knighthood awards are not impossible.

Because of these various incentive policies, the salary of academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences is much higher than the basic salary.

This is also a gift prepared by Arthur for scientific researchers. As long as they work for Australasia, they are important talents in Arthur's heart, and naturally they must be rewarded.

Of course, in addition to the above various funds and policies, all academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences will receive a villa near the Royal Academy of Sciences and a Benz One produced by the Benz Automobile Factory.

If the academicians cannot drive, the employees of the automobile factory can come to the door to train them in person, or they can ask the Royal Academy of Sciences to hire a driver for them.

Anyway, the salary of a driver is only [-] Australian dollars. For the Royal Academy of Sciences, allowing an academician to quickly travel between his residence and the Royal Academy of Sciences, so that he can devote himself to work better, is much more important than these tens of Australian dollars. .

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