Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 172 Chapter 120

What should come will always come.

After receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics, various honors followed.

Because of the discovery of the ninth planet, Chen Muwu has long been a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS).

A few years later, as a Chinese, Chen Muwu could only become a foreign member of the Royal Society even if his academic achievements were recognized by the Royal Society.

But now there is no such thing as a foreign member. Becoming a member of the Royal Society is basically the highest honor that Chen Muwu can obtain in the British academic circle.

If he is a British, or a national of other colonies, dominions, etc. Lord) and the like.

Such as old Thomson, such as his teacher Rutherford, these two men are now Jazz
In the future, Rutherford even surpassed his teacher and became Baron Rutherford of Nelson.

Rutherford is also proud recently, not only because his apprentice Chen Muwu won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

He has received notice in advance that King George V of England will award Rutherford the Order of Merit on January [-] next year.

The Medal of Honor does not have a knighthood, but it can be identified by adding OM after the name like a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Moreover, the Medal of Honor is the only medal directly determined by the British King to reward those who have made remarkable achievements in military, science, art, literature or promotion of culture.

The limit of this medal is only 25, and only after someone dies or returns the medal voluntarily, new members can be replaced.

In other words, a person who can receive the Medal of Honor is basically equivalent to being one of the 24 people closest to the reigning monarch (the monarch himself also has a Medal of Honor quota).

In addition to receiving this Medal of Honor, Rutherford has another happy event of double happiness.

The current president of the Royal Society, Charles Sherrington, is about to step down as president in 1925.

If nothing else, at the plenary session of the Royal Society next year, Rutherford will be nominated as the new president of the society.

There are people in the court who are good officials. Chen Muwu was accepted by the Royal Society this time and became the youngest fellow. His teacher Rutherford also contributed a lot behind the scenes.

Rutherford not only won the fellowship for his beloved disciple, but also got Chen Muwu a Hughes Medal from the Royal Society.

The Hughes Medal was established in honor of British-American inventor David Edward Hughes.

He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society and is known for his research and improvements on the telegraph and the microphone.

After Hughes' death, the Royal Society specially established the "Hughes Medal" to recognize original discoveries in the field of physical sciences, especially electricity and magnetism or their related applications.

Chen Muwu won this medal not because of his sophistication, but because of his real talent and knowledge. After all, he has made quite a few original discoveries in physics recently, especially in electricity.

Of course electrons belong to electricity too, right?

The Copley Medal is also awarded by the Royal Society.

Unlike the Hughes Medal, which focuses only on physics, the Copley Medal is awarded for sustained outstanding achievement in any scientific field.

The medal, first awarded in 1731, is not only the oldest medal in the Royal Society, but also the oldest in the world.

The Copley Medal can be regarded as the highest award that the UK can award in terms of scientific achievements, and the recipients are not limited to British nationality, or foreigners engaged in scientific research in the UK, but have been extended to the world.

Some people say that before the Nobel Prize, the winners of the Copley Medal represented the highest level of scientific research in the world at that time.

Rutherford has popularized so much knowledge about the Royal Society and medals to Chen Muwu, but it has not been announced for a long time, which old acquaintance of Chen Muwu will be the winner of the Copley Medal next year.

But now, Chen Muwu had a vague guess in his heart, and the more he listened to Rutherford's description, the more he felt that the recipient of the medal was someone he had been unwilling to meet all along.

"Teacher, is the person you are talking about Dr. Einstein?"

Hearing the answer given by Chen Muwu, Rutherford laughed heartily again.

"Chen, you are indeed a genius who can win the Nobel Prize in Physics, and you guessed the correct answer all at once.

"Originally, this medal is not like the Nobel Prize, which requires the winner to go to the Royal Society in London to collect it in person.

"However, after Dr. Einstein learned that he had won the award, he immediately replied a telegram to the society, indicating that he would come to London to accept the award in person.

"I think it may be because after the war, Germany has been isolated from the whole of Europe for so long that no German physicists even attended the Solvay Conference.

"Dr. Einstein probably wants to use this opportunity to have a good exchange with our colleagues."

Chen Muwu said in his heart, teacher, you are more accurate than me in guessing. If there is no accident, he is indeed here to communicate.

He suddenly felt that Yuanjia Road was narrow, if you didn't go to the mountain, the mountain came directly to you?

Now that Einstein has chased after him to England, Chen Muwu, who has no choice but to fight.

He didn't have confidence in convincing Einstein, a stubborn old man, and he only hoped that he wouldn't lose his temper when they first met.

Fortunately, there is still more than a month before leaving London to receive the award, so Chen Muwu can still prepare better.

But he did not spend this winter very leisurely.

During the more than two months of leaving the UK, Cambridge University has accumulated a lot of things.

After learning that he had returned to school, all kinds of familiar and unfamiliar people also came to congratulate him on winning the Nobel Prize.

The Legation of the Republic of China in London, like last year, sent someone to send an invitation letter, inviting Chen Muwu to the legation to attend the double celebrations on the founding day and New Year's Day.

He participated with Ye Gongchao once last year. At that time, he only achieved a little success in physics, and a bunch of dude international students took turns to greet him, and some people wanted to invite him.

This year, Chen Muwu has been upgraded to become a young talent with "both academic and sports blossoms" and a combination of virtue and art.

He thought that if he went to this smoky event again, more people would come to say hello, and their invitation would be stronger.

Chen Muwu didn't want to have anything to do with these people, so he refused the invitation from the embassy on the pretext that he had just returned to Cambridge and was exhausted.

On the contrary, Chen Muqiao always felt that the officials in the embassies of the Republic of China stationed in various countries were the parents and officials of these wanderers who were away from home.

So when he just came to Cambridge, after receiving a notice sent to Chen Muwu by someone else and persuading his younger brother to go with him but was rejected, he went back to London again without hesitation.

Chen Muqiao left Qihai in October this year. After going abroad from Harbin, most of the people he met along the way were foreigners.

This time I saw so many compatriots at the London Legation all at once, and heard all kinds of compliments on him.

No matter how well-bred Chen Muqiao was, he couldn't hide the smile on his face when he returned to Cambridge.

"Little brother, after a long talk with Zhu's charge d'affaires at the Chinese legation in the UK, I finally realized how much influence you have won the Nobel Prize in the domestic academic circle.

"Apart from the controversy you brought up about Pangu's creation of the world, most scholars in our country still praise you a lot.

"Charge d'Affaires Zhu also revealed to me that the rank of your two medals has been promoted to another level, and he has also received many telegrams from people in China asking about your specific situation. Although those telegrams did not expressly say , but basically inquired about our family and your marital status.

"Guess who else did I meet? The young owner of Haihai Yong'an Company! That Young Master Guo claimed to be an old acquaintance with you, and asked why you didn't go to London this year.

He said that under your guidance, he recently started a mahjong business while traveling between the UK and China.

"According to my observation, whether it is in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, or in the current Cambridge University, it seems that these foreigners, especially your scientist friends, seem to like playing mahjong very much? Is this due to you?"

Chen Muwu nodded dumbfoundingly.

And their mahjong level is higher than yours, do you think they are irritating or not?
However, Guo Linshuang was quite smart. She thought that mahjong was not worth it, but he turned it into a flourishing business.

"Master Guo also asked me when you will return to the sea. He has a younger sister who is waiting in his boudoir and wants to introduce you. Brother, it seems that many people are eyeing you as a son-in-law. Otherwise, you After staying in the UK for a few more years, why don’t you go back to China?”

Dare I treat you as a friend, you want me to be your brother-in-law, right?
Chen Muwu was speechless.

Once you have made some achievements and become a young talent in other people's mouth, it is easy to be rushed to introduce someone.

When he was still in the Jiahai Railway Administration the year before last, because he was invited to give lectures at Bei University, he was harassed once by many colleagues in the railway bureau like this.

After arriving in Denmark, the reason why Bohr asked his wife Margaret to hold a ball was also to keep himself with a beauty trick.

I didn't expect that even though I had already fled to the UK, I still couldn't escape this "happiness trouble", at least in the eyes of others.

"Brother, you're making fun of me again," Chen Muwu deliberately ignored Chen Muqiao's mention of returning to China, "How did you talk with Ive's mother, Madame Curie, in France before? I don't know how much dowry their family wants ?”

Chen Muwu turned against the guest and directly shut up Chen Muqiao who wanted to see his jokes.

Although Ye Gongchao hated Chen Muwu's endless exploitation in writing his book, he still truthfully reported to him about the meeting between Chen Muqiao and Mrs. Curie.

After all, his eldest brother doesn't know French, so Ye Gongchao, who has only learned French for more than half a year, can only be used as an interpreter.

Chen Muqiao still followed the old tradition. He always felt that when a young man and woman got married, they had to satisfy "the order of their parents and the words of the matchmaker", such as marriage proposal, bride price, engagement and marriage, and other messy rules.

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Curie was not interested in what he raised at all. She believed that young people fall in love freely and no one has the right to interfere.

She only made one request to Chen Muqiao, that is, if the two of them really got married, could Chen Muwu come to Paris from England to continue scientific research in the Radium Institute.

Mr. Pierre Curie left early, and Mrs. Curie took care of the two daughters alone. She didn't want the younger daughter to be too far away from herself.

During this conversation, Chen Muqiao, who felt the deep cultural difference, felt that he had punched cotton. He was very unwilling to hear Chen Muwu mentioning the fact that he met Mrs. Curie, so he tactfully Bring it up again.

Now that his younger brother has identified this foreign daughter-in-law, Chen Muqiao began to think about how to convince his mother for his younger brother after he returned to China.

……

As for Trinity College, the welcome to Chen Muwu who returned with honor was very warm.

After the Gregorian New Year, the college specially held a luxurious university dinner for Chen Muwu in the banquet hall.

The dinner, full of greasy food, foul-smelling cigars, and cumbersome formalities, was not to celebrate Chen Muwu's Nobel Prize in Physics, but to celebrate his promotion from Fellow of the Academy to Fellow of Trinity College.

All the people attending the meeting were dressed in the traditional costumes of Trinity College, and the Dean, Old Thomson, presided over the dinner himself.

Old Thomson owed Chen Mu a favor for arranging Oppenheimer to enter the Cavendish Laboratory.

So in his speech, Chen Muwu was once again blown to the sky.

After being the youngest Nobel laureate in history and the youngest member of the Royal Society in history, Chen Muwu is now the youngest academician of Cambridge University in history.

Academicians are basically equivalent to senior members of Trinity College and enjoy a high status in the college.

Now, Chen Muwu has obtained a position exclusively for him in the college, where he can freely go in and out. A personal servant who serves him anytime, anywhere, day and night.

In theory, from now on, he doesn't have to make the bed by himself before going to bed every day, and he doesn't have to worry about making the quilt after waking up. Someone will help clean the clothes and shoes, and the servant can also help organize letters and telegrams, so that Chen Muwu can be more comfortable. Dedicated to academics without distraction.

Of course, Chen Muwu's servant could not be a noble Englishman, but an Anglicized third brother.

It suddenly became a "ruling class", and Chen Muwu was not used to it for a while.

Kapitsa, who entered Trinity College before him and became a researcher, has not yet become an academician, so he cannot enjoy this noble VIP service.

So after meeting again from Sweden, Kapitsa began to tease his good friend again: "The smartest person in the world, your Nobel Prize is really worth it."

Although Kapitsa has always liked to exaggerate, when he met him for the first time at Mrs. Brown's house two years ago, he called Chen Muwu a "Chinese genius".

But Chen Muwu felt that Kapiza's title today was a little too much.

How did he become the smartest man in the world?
You give Yuwen Chengdu a gold medal engraved with "the world's most brave and invincible", what if Li Yuanba suddenly appears on the way?
"Peter, stop making trouble, I really can't bear this title."

Kapitsa still insisted: "Chen, this is not a nickname I gave you, but a nickname given to you by British newspapers.

"Prior to this, this title has been exclusive to Dr. Einstein."

"In addition to the popular science book on quantum mechanics written by Professor Eddington, the sales volume was not bad after publication.

"Eddington declared in the book that the uncertainty principle you proposed is as important in physics as the principle of relativity proposed by Einstein back then.

"But didn't you point out a mistake made by Dr. Einstein at the Nobel Prize award ceremony?

"He who can point out the mistakes of the wisest man in the world must be wiser than the former.

"So in these British newspapers, this title has been transferred to you."

After listening to Kapiza's ins and outs, Chen Muwu felt that the British newspapers, like Daiying, were all shit-stirring sticks who were afraid of chaos.

They proposed this title, which would naturally attract attention and increase the sales of the newspaper.

But at the same time, he also set himself out as a target.

These uncrowned kings of Fleet Street are fucked!

Chen Muwu suddenly remembered that he seemed to have a debt that he had not settled with Kapi.

"Peter, why did Director Rutherford know about Ive? Did you tell him?"

"The crocodile asked why you didn't come back with us after receiving the award in Sweden.

"I can't deceive the old man, so I can only tell the truth!
"Chen, your vision is really good, such a beautiful Ive, and such a handsome you are really a match made in heaven.

"When you get married, I will come to be your best man.

"After giving birth to a child, I will be Xiao Chen's godfather."

Why is this Russian more anxious than anyone else?
Others just ask when they will get married, but in his mind, even the child has already been born.

And the key buddy doesn't believe in any religion, there is no such thing as the godfather.

But it's okay to be a godfather, as long as you pay the New Year's money every year.

……

Because of the title of "the smartest person in the world", Kapitsa was not the only one who came to him.

After learning that Chen Muwu had returned to Cambridge, the people from Penguin Publishing came to him again.

The previous two George Chen series of detective novels have become bestsellers in the British book market.

Readers discovered that detective novels can still be written like this, either everyone is a murderer or everyone is a victim.

Penguin Publishing House is impatient to release the third book in this series. Fortunately, Chen Muwu came prepared and handed over Ye Gongchao's third manuscript.

In addition to achievements in novel publishing, the magazine, which operates on the model of "Reader's Digest", has gradually opened up the market.

According to readers' feedback, the magic square and crossword puzzles published in the magazine are the most popular. The publisher intends to make these two games into separate volumes and sell them separately outside the magazine.

They also took a fancy to Chen Muwu's title of "the smartest man in the world" awarded by British newspapers, and planned to ask him to write a recommendation for this puzzle-solving game book to further increase the sales volume of the booklet.

Of course, Chen Muwu couldn't agree to this condition, and it was absolutely impossible for him to admit this title.

However, he thought of Einstein who was about to come to the UK, so he promised this person from the publishing house to help him match Einstein when the time came.

……

Not everyone at Cambridge University welcomes Chen Muwu.

When he was flattered by batch after batch of visitors, someone came to Trinity College to question Mr. Chen Muwu Xing.

Seeing Eddington walking into the room with a serious face, Chen Muwu was startled.

This is Einstein's close comrade-in-arms, and he is also full of martial arts. Could it be that this time he also came to teach himself for his old friend?

But according to Kapitsa, didn’t Eddington boast about the uncertainty principle in that popular science book?

He should have been with him, standing on the opposite side of his old friend!

"Mr. Eddington, I should be visiting you at the observatory. How can you ask me to visit you?"

Chen Muwu had long forgotten about Eddington, he just said a polite word.

"Come on, you, when you have nothing to ask, you will never go to the observatory to find me." Eddington really saw through Chen Muwu's perfunctory, "Congratulations on your new achievement in astronomy!"

The second half of his sentence was very ambiguous, and what he said reminded Chen Muwu that besides being a friend of Einstein, Eddington in front of him was also a world-renowned astronomer.

Could it be that he came to the door today not because he fought for Einstein, but because he disagreed with the expansion of the universe and the big bang he proposed, bah, the Pangu process?
"Mistakes, blunders, blunders.

"Mr. Eddington, you also know that I have always been interested in the Andromeda Nebula and I have talked to you a few times before.

"So as soon as I learned that Dr. Hubble of the United States had made a breakthrough in nebula ranging, I asked him for specific data.

"This is not my credit, I just happened to link the research of two predecessors together.

"Didn't you think the universe was expanding? But now facts and figures are like the elephant in the room and cannot be ignored."

"I didn't say that the expansion of the universe is wrong. On the contrary, I still recognize your scientific mind. You can find out the relationship between the distance and velocity of galaxies in such a short time. You deserve the Nobel Prize, if If there is a Nobel Prize in Astronomy, I will definitely be the first to nominate you."

Since Eddington also agrees that the universe is expanding, why does he still look angry?Chen Muwu couldn't figure it out.

Eddington changed the subject: "It's just that your behavior made me a little angry. I carefully read your acceptance speech published in full in the newspaper. You said in it:

"Slieve published the receding velocities of 25 galaxies, and Hubble gave the distances of [-] galaxies, of which [-] coincided with the galaxies published by Slieve, while the remaining three were Their specific regression speeds were not found.

"There is nothing wrong with what you said. Sliever's paper was published in 1917, and there are indeed only 25 data in it.

"So I'm sure, you must have never read the "Mathematical Principles of Relativity" that I gave you just after it was published last year.

"In order to write this book, I specifically asked Siriver for the latest data he observed in February 1922, and published the full text in the book. After another five years of observation, Siriver has measured a full 2 The receding speed of the galaxies, and the three galaxies you didn't find are also clearly written in the book."

After finishing speaking, Eddington walked to Chen Muwu's bookshelf, took out the book he wrote, and slapped it heavily on the table.

(End of this chapter)