Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 203 Chapter 151

When Old Bragg came to the David-Faraday Laboratory, Chen Muwu was packing up his things and preparing to leave.

Although those machines and liquid gas were all escorted back from the Netherlands by Overnheimer, they were all spent on the funds of this laboratory.

Even though this fund was earned by Chen Muwu, on paper, this refrigeration machine is still a fixed asset of the Royal Research Institute.

Moreover, Chen Muwu's research in the field of low-temperature physics has come to an end, so there is absolutely no need for him to pack all these things back to the Cavendish Laboratory.

However, if the instrument is really brought back, it is estimated that the teacher Rutherford will burst into laughter, and maybe Chadwick will quickly ask Chadwick to vacate a room for these things.

However, it seems that he was the one who said that the Cavendish Laboratory did not want to study low-temperature physics, but only wanted to pay attention to things in the nucleus?

"Dr. Chen, Dr. Chen! I found you a good job recently!"

Old Prague had a smile on his face.

"Sir Bragg, but I'm going back to Cambridge soon."

"Don't worry, I just got the news just now, and this position is only for you!"

"You mean the person in charge of the Mond Laboratory?"

"How do you know this?"

How do you know?Guess.

The news that he was leaving had just spread, and Old Prague couldn't wait to come to see him.

Chen Muwu knew that his purpose of coming this time must not be to practice for himself, but to keep himself behind.

After all, Old Prague himself is a crystallographer who mainly studies solid-state physics. It is okay to ask him to manage the laboratory, but it is not very good to entrust him with a laboratory specializing in low-temperature physics.

However, this Mond laboratory is not attractive enough for Chen Muwu.

Not to mention that this is a specialized laboratory, but being the director of the laboratory is equivalent to taking up a management position. In the future, he will have to worry about all the big and small things that happen in the laboratory.

How can it be as comfortable as hiding in the Cavendish laboratory to do experiments and research?
No matter what happened, his teacher Rutherford was responsible for it, and the big housekeeper Chadwick made overall arrangements for life and work matters, and at Trinity College, there was also his master, Old Thomson. .

In addition, Chen Muwu is backed by two organizations, the Eagles Club and the Cambridge Apostles.

The former is made up of Cambridge's most prestigious athletes, while the latter is made up of some of the brightest and most powerful students at the school.

Looking at it this way, Chen Muwu is simply a small office of Cambridge University, who can run rampant on the campus without any scruples, bully the market, and rob civilian women...

Of course, the above three idioms are just a joke. The most important point is that Chen Muwu is still waiting to go back to Cambridge University to build accelerators.

Staying in a place like Mond Laboratory, which specializes in the study of low-temperature physics, to study accelerators, is really not justified.

"I'm sorry, Sir, you should hire someone else. It's been a pleasure working with you for more than half a year, but I really have other work to do at Cambridge University."

Chen Muwu has decided to go.

"This... but Dr. Chen, you should be the most authoritative researcher in low-temperature physics in the UK now. And I have already negotiated a cooperation with the British Oxygen Company, and they will be responsible for supplying the laboratory in the future. All kinds of liquid gases. Now that everything is ready, if you just leave, who will entrust the soon-to-be-built Mond Laboratory?"

"Sir, your son, where is Mr. Bragg working now? Why not invite him to London to manage this newly built laboratory?"

After working with Old Prague for so long, Chen Muwu has never seen his son Little Prague.

Until recently, he met little Prague for the first time, but the meeting place was not in London, but in Liverpool, at Chadwick's wedding.

Little Prague was born in 1890, and in terms of age, he is only one year older than Chadwick, who was born in 1891.

But in fact, according to the relationship between teachers and students, he is indeed Chadwick's teacher.

In 1909, after returning to England with his father from Adelaide, Australia, Bragg Jr. entered his father's alma mater, Trinity College, Cambridge University, and studied with his father's classmate Old Thomson.

In 1914, after graduating from Prague, he successfully became a researcher and lecturer at Trinity College.

At this time, Chadwick was still living his miserable career as a prisoner of war in Germany. After returning to England after the war, he followed Rutherford from Manchester to Cambridge, and established a short relationship with Little Prague. The friendship between teachers and students.

If it is said that Chen Muwu's success is the benefit of the traveler, then little Prague is a pure physics genius.

It's just that his research direction is not in the microscopic world, but following his father's footsteps, he has been engaged in crystallographic research in solid state physics.

"You mean Lawrence? He is now at Victoria University in Manchester. Since your teacher Rutherford left Manchester, Lawrence has succeeded him as Langworthy Professor of Physics."

Little Prague is in Manchester, which is why Chen Muwu was able to meet him in Liverpool, not far from Manchester.

The first half of Little Prague's life can be regarded as crossing the river by groping Rutherford.

As soon as Rutherford left Manchester in 1919, Bragg Jr. took over his position and laboratory at Victoria University, where he stayed for 18 years.

In 1937, after Rutherford died of illness, Bragg Jr. once again took over the post of director of the Cavendish Laboratory.

It was also after he entered the Cavendish Laboratory that he gave up the laboratory's long-term research on nuclear physics, but vigorously supported his old profession, solid-state physics.

Germany forced a bunch of outstanding Jewish physicists to the United States because of racial issues.

The change of Cavendish Laboratory after Little Prague also caused a large number of nuclear physicists who are British and engaged in nuclear physics research in the UK to lose their research centers in the UK and turn to more Rich Americans.

In 1943, Chadwick led a group of British scientists to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, and participated in the development of the atomic bomb.

It cannot be said that Little Prague’s decision was wrong. After the Cavendish Laboratory changed its research direction, the laboratory has also achieved a lot of achievements.

For example, Watson and Crick, who discovered the double helix structure of DNA, were both students of Little Prague, and the X-ray diffraction they used was exactly the research method that Little Prague had been using all along.

However, he sent a large number of nuclear physicists from the United Kingdom to the United States for nothing. It is really hard to say whether this matter was right or wrong.

Chen Muwu felt that it would be better not to let Little Bragg harm the Cavendish Laboratory, but to let him follow his father and become the director of the Mond Laboratory.

But what Old Prague said next showed that he had no intention of taking his son by his side at all: "Besides, Lawrence, like me, has been studying crystals all the time, let him be the supervisor of the low-temperature physics laboratory, It is also unprofessional.

"Dr. Chen, although the project of this Mond Laboratory has been approved and the site has been selected, it will take some time until it is actually built. Why don't you go back to Cambridge University first, and then come back to London after you finish your work. How about being the director?"

Old Prague still didn't give up and still wanted to keep him.

But what Chen Muwu thought in his heart was, when I am in Cambridge University, I really like the electrostatic accelerator. It is true that your Mond laboratory is completed, but the school I am in Sweden can basically be completed as well.

How could I have stayed in London, England, waiting for the bombing?By then, I must have gone to Northern Europe long ago!

"Sir, it's a pity that little Mr. Bragg can't come to London, and you father and son can't share the family happiness.

"Otherwise, shall I recommend another person to you?"

"Who?" Old Prague was eager for talent.

"A good friend of mine, like me, is also your junior at Trinity College, and is now working in the Cavendish Laboratory. Before I entered the Cavendish Laboratory, I took the experiment every year He has always been the recipient of the Chamber's Most Outstanding Student Scholarship."

Since the old Prague is unwilling to work with his son, Chen Muwu thought, then he can only let this Mond laboratory, which appeared earlier than the original time and space, return to its original owner in advance.

"Peter Kapitsa, you must have heard of that name."

"Oh, oh, I know him. Before you came to England, Ernest always mentioned that man every time I saw him. It's just that this Mr. Kapitsa, if I remember correctly, seems to be a Sulian people?"

The expression on Old Prague's face was a bit complicated, and it was a change of expression that is very common among British people nowadays.

Last year, because the vote of no confidence against the Labor Macdonald government was passed, on October 10 of that year, the UK will hold a new general election.

Four days before election day, the British penny newspaper "Daily Mail" published a letter purportedly from the leader of the Communist International, Zinoviev, to the Communist Party of Great Britain.

In this instruction letter, Zinoviev ordered the latter to engage in sedition and rebellion in the UK.

Because the Labor Party formed a cabinet in the UK for the first time, and Prime Minister Macdonald restored diplomatic relations with Su Lian during his tenure, many people believed that the Labor Party also had close ties with the Communist International.

This incident, which was later called "Zinoviev's letter", was considered to be true at the time, although later studies believed that the letter was forged by the "Daily Mail", which was biased towards the Conservative Party. Not only did British voters boycott the Labor Party and the Conservative Party won an overwhelming victory in this general election, it also made the British people a little more afraid of the mysterious red country in the far east.

Hearing that Chen Muwu wanted to recommend a person from Su Lian to be the director of Mond Lab, Old Bragg felt more or less apprehensive.

"Sir, you should not deny that even though the current David Faraday Laboratory is the most famous laboratory in the UK, the Cavendish Laboratory is still the most powerful physics experiment in the UK. room."

Old Prague nodded.

"And Kapitsa is a very high-level student and staff member in the Cavendish Laboratory. Sir, you should know how stingy my teacher, Sir Rutherford, is for his praise.

"Such a person is enough to be the director of Mond Lab, and you shouldn't have any scruples about Kapitsa just because he is from Sulian.

"If it is really because of nationality that the Maunder Lab misses an outstanding talent, then this approach is against those absurd Americans, because it is contrary to the "God created the world" in the Bible, What difference does it make to make it illegal to teach Evolution in schools?"

The example Chen Muwu cited was a piece of news that was extremely sensational in the newspapers recently.

Although this news happened in the United States on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, it caused a stir all over the world.

As he said, Darwin's "Origin of Species" has been published for 65 years, but in Tennessee, the United States, a law called the "Battelle Act" was passed at the end of last year, which prohibits schools from The teacher taught the students the knowledge of "The Theory of Evolution".

After the promulgation of this bill, all kinds of forces want to come out and take a look at this hot spot just because you sing and I come on stage.

Some people want to take the opportunity to get familiar with each other and run for president.

Some people are worried that their own business is not easy to do. He happened to be in a small town in Tennessee, so he wondered if he could use this bill to make a fuss and plan a big trial of religion and science. If the town attracts popularity, can it also drive his business?
What was originally absurd and inconspicuous, became the first nationally broadcast live trial in the history of the American legal profession.

The court debated the issue of "whether the Bible allows man to be transformed from a monkey", which was broadcast to all parts of the United States through radio waves, and even gave this trial a resounding nickname, "Monkey Trial".

The judge of the monkey trial was a devout Christian, and of course he ruled against the teacher who taught the theory of evolution in class.

This is equivalent to legally acknowledging that the "Bible" is higher than science, so this trial caused a huge reaction not only in the United States, but also in the entire Christian world.

Perhaps devout people will object to the fact that "humans are transformed from monkeys", but as a scientist, Old Prague is correct in supporting the theory of evolution.

He also understood why Chen Muwu cited this example. This person was telling him that science is science and has nothing to do with religion, nor does it have anything to do with nationality.

It's just the prejudice in my heart, how can it be so easy to be persuaded, Old Prague sighed helplessly: "Oh, let me think again about the candidate for the director of the laboratory?

"But Dr. Chen, is there really no room for improvement?"

"I'm sorry, sir, but I really can't stay in London any longer."

"Well, I respect your choice, but——Dr. Chen, how old are you this year?"

Although he didn't know why Old Prague asked him this, he still answered truthfully: "I am 23 years old."

"Then you were born in 1902?"

Chen Muwu nodded.

"That's right, Lawrence also has a younger sister named Gwendoline. She was born in 1907 and is almost four years younger than you. How about I introduce the two of you to meet each other before you leave London?"

This……

Chen Muwu originally thought that old Prague had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was upright, so why did he end up like Bohr in the end?

(End of this chapter)