As soon as Li Yu mentioned the Nobel Prize to Mendeleev, he met someone from the Swedish Academy of Sciences when he went to visit Pavlov.
Later generations of Nobel Prize selections require nominees to be kept secret for 50 years, so it is impossible to know who is nominated.
Don't believe many rumors. If you want to know, you can only wait for the decryption in fifty years. However, the system at the beginning of the twentieth century was not so sound.
Nominations for the Nobel Prize usually begin in the second half of the year before the selection, and you cannot nominate yourself for the Nobel Prize. Then the selection and review of candidates will begin around February or March, and the winners will be announced in October.
The selection process involves voting by a selection committee of about ten people, who decide the winners. When Li Yu was walking at St. Petersburg University, he was stopped by a person: "Are you Mr. Li Yu? I didn't expect to meet you here." The other person was a young man. Li Yu didn't recognize him, so he asked doubtfully: "Your Excellency is ?”
"My name is Katz. You probably don't know me, but I met you in Sweden. When you were awarded the mathematics prize by the king, I was also present. But I am just an ordinary worker of the Academy of Sciences, so I am not in the corner. It's too easy to see." Li Yu was really not impressed and apologized: "I'm sorry, I really didn't notice." Kaz didn't take it seriously: "It's normal for a great scholar like you not to see me." Li Yu asked: "What is Mr. Katz doing here?" Katz said: "On behalf of the Academy of Sciences, I am here to send formal applications for nomination to several Russian professors and scholars. It happened that Professor Mendeleev and Professor Pavlov both In this university.”
"Nobel Prize?" Li Yu asked. Katz said: "Yes, the two professors are authorities in chemistry and physiology respectively, and they deserve to be nominated." Mendeleev has been nominated several times, but he has never been truly awarded the title of chemist. It's a pity he didn't live a few more years, otherwise he would have definitely gotten it.
Pavlov will receive the Nobel Prize next year and will be the first Russian Nobel Prize winner. Li Yu said: "You can't just write a letter directly, you have to come in person." Katz said: "The status of the two professors is too high and they are so close, so it is better to come here in person." Stockholm and St. Petersburg are indeed very far apart. Very close, just across the Baltic Sea.
Li Yu said: "I also want to meet Professor Pavlov, let's go together." As soon as they arrived outside Pavlov's laboratory, they heard a loud quarrel inside.
Pavlov's angry voice came out: "You are really worse than a dirty dog!"
"I'm definitely not a dirty dog. You should at least use caviar as a test product!" Another voice was not to be outdone.
"Caviar?" Pavlov also raised his voice and said,
"I'm a scientist, not a rich man. I can't afford caviar myself. Why would I use this thing as a test subject?"
"Then you are not worthy of letting me cooperate with the experiment!" Another voice continued to argue loudly. Li Yu and Kaz looked at each other, wondering whether they should go in or not.
A student outside the door recognized Li Yu: "It's Professor Li Yu!" Li Yu turned around and remembered that they were the two college students who were with Pavlov when they first came to St. Petersburg University.
"Hello," Li Yu said,
"Besides, I'm not a professor." The student said, "Your level is more than enough to be a professor." Li Yu asked, "What happened inside?" The student laughed and said, "Professor Pavlov's brother Nikolai must come to teach. But he didn’t understand anything, so he said he could be an experimental subject." Li Yu said in surprise: "Experimental subject?" The student said: "It is the subject of the conditioned reflex test, which Professor Pavlov used before. They are all dogs, but his brother Nicholas said why not use humans to test it." Li Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and there were actually people vying to be human subjects.
From the student's subsequent narration, Li Yu finally figured out what was going on. Although Pavlov was talented, this younger brother was really useless and had been unemployed at home.
Now that Pavlov has become famous and is in charge of a laboratory, his younger brother wants to work in Pavlov's laboratory.
But he obviously didn't understand science at all and couldn't do anything, so Pavlov refused. Who knew that Pavlov's mother doted on this younger brother a little bit and said to him: "You might as well find your younger brother to go with you when you study with those bastards. Your younger brother is the most greedy, and no one salivates as much as him." Pavlov conducted a conditioned reflex test by giving food to dogs and then salivating.
But although they knew the process of answering questions in the test, they obviously could not understand the original intention of the test. Pavlov found it difficult to accept this ridiculous proposal: "Please don't know me, I know how to work." But his mother insisted: "But your decision will allow your unemployed brother to continue to be idle at home, while Give jobs to dirty dogs you don't even know!" Well, she thought those dogs were working too... Pavlov was very helpless and had to accept this so-called
Ridiculous suggestion of “human trials”. But when it came to the experiment, his brother obviously didn’t want to eat dog food and asked for caviar, a high-end ingredient.
Pavlov didn't want to get used to his bad habits, so he said: "It's still toast today, you have no choice!" His younger brother said: "Then you'd better bake it better!" Pavlov said: "You don't have to Say a few words, the experiment is about to begin." Pavlov then shook the bell in his hand.
The younger brother was indifferent. Pavlov shook it again, and the younger brother wondered: "Where are my toasts?" Pavlov said: "Open your mouth." The younger brother said: "No, I want to see the bread!"
"Open your mouth first, and I will record the saliva secretion." Pavlov said. But when he came over with a pen and paper, his younger brother punched him angrily: "Fuck your experiment, you want the results of the experiment without giving me bread?" Pavlov covered his nose: "How dare you do it? ." The younger brother said loudly: "I'm not a dog. Of course I'm going to hit someone when I'm angry!" Li Yu and the others saw this posture and rushed in. After all, Li Yu had practiced Kung Fu a few times, and he was still a disciple of Huang. Feihong, a top martial arts master, cannot deal with the ronin who practices martial arts, but he is still somewhat confident in dealing with ordinary people like this.
Li Yu grabbed Pavlov's brother's hand and twisted it behind his back. He squatted down in pain. The students gathered around and asked: "Professor, how are you?" Pavlov said angrily: "Kick him out and never allow him to enter my laboratory again!" Li Yu pushed him out of the door: "Did you hear that? The younger brother rubbed his arms and snorted coldly: "If you don't come, I won't come." After that, he turned around and left.
Li Yu turned around and asked, "Are you okay, Professor?" When Pavlov saw Li Yu, he was surprised and said, "It's you." Half of his anger was gone.
"Why are you here again?" Li Yu said with a smile: "I came to visit the professor's experiment. Suddenly I found that some people are really worse than dogs." Pavlov was amused: "You are so right, it's really Even worse than a dog." Pavlov was also quite helpless. The family did not understand science, and they still insisted on arranging scientific work for his younger brother. This was not nonsense.
Later, Pavlov's mother defended his brother: "What kind of bullshit experiment are you doing? You rang the bell but didn't give Nikolay anything to eat. You know your brother acts like a madman when he's hungry." Although this younger brother did not stay in the laboratory for a few days, he was still treated as an experimental subject for a few days, but he went around bragging that Pavlov's achievements were actually his credit.
"He's just my clerk," he even said nonsense to reporters,
"I am the director of the entire experiment. When I was drooling carefully, he would be ringing the bell silly." It was quite funny.
Katz took out a letter and got down to business: "On behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Karolinska Institute, I am here to send you a formal nomination for next year's Nobel Prize." Pavlov took the letter: "Nobel Well, thank you, sir." Katz said: "It's my honor." Pavlov suddenly thought: "Has the Li Yu in front of me been nominated?" Katz said: "I don't know, the statistics of the Far East It’s not my responsibility. Besides, it’s too slow to deliver news now, and scholars at the Academy of Sciences don’t know much about Eastern academic achievements.” Pavlov said: “I think he is very qualified.” Katz said: “Li Mr. Yu has already won the mathematics prize awarded by the king himself, I think it is about the same." Li Yu was not anxious about this at all. He estimated that he would get it in a short time. He smiled and said: "At least the prize money is the same." Pavlov said : "I really hope to see Mr. Li Yu win the award again one day, and let those arrogant people know the power of the East." The student suddenly pointed to his nose and said, "Professor, your nosebleed can't be stopped." Flov felt the bridge of his nose extremely painful when he touched it lightly.
"Oops, maybe there's a fracture! Damn Nikolai, he hit his brother so hard." Several people hurriedly said: "Go to the hospital quickly!" Pavlov said: "It's funny, let's do it another day See you again." Several students immediately accompanied him to the hospital.
After Pavlov left, Katz looked through the letters in his hand: "I also want to send a letter to Mr. Tolstoy." Li Yu said: "Are you going to Moscow?" Katz said: "Why are you going to Moscow? ?”
"Don't Mr. Tolstoy live in Moscow?" Li Yu said.
"That's true," Katz said.
"But he is currently in St. Petersburg, and it's very close to the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts."
"Academy of Fine Arts?" Li Yu asked doubtfully,
"What are you doing there, Mr. Tolstoy, learning to paint?"
"That's not the case," Katz explained.
"It's Mr. Repin who wants to paint another portrait of Mr. Tolstoy." Well, it turns out that's the case, and we can actually see Repin, the famous painter of critical reality.
Kaz asked again: "Do you want to go and have a look too?" Before Li Yu could reply, Lu Bicheng, who had been silent behind him, said first: "Of course I want to go." She didn't know Mendeleev or Bav very well. Love and other great scientists, but Tolstoy's name has long been heard.
Katz said: "Madam said this, I think Mr. Li Yu will agree." Lu Bicheng could only continue to explain: "We are just traveling together." Katz was not very young, so he smiled and said: "I understand, I understand. Then let's go Well, it's not far anyway." Li Yu also wanted to see the true face of this Russian literary figure; and Repin, who wrote the well-known "Trackers on the Volga".
Tolstoy himself is also a critical realist writer, and Russia is really very accomplished in this field.
But during the Cold War, the struggle between Lao America and the Soviet Union was not limited to armaments. In order to suppress the Russian cultural field and target the realist school, Lao America crazily promoted Surrealism.
All kinds of paintings that ordinary people can't understand are sold at sky-high prices. Even in today's art field, it seems that those who cannot understand Surrealism are artistically illiterate.
Alas, Li Yu doesn't understand art either, so he can only lament whether his aesthetic knowledge is really too low. It's true that some things can't be understood as being so artistic.
He could only think this in private, otherwise he would definitely be criticized as artistically illiterate. He didn't understand whether the more abstract he was, the more art he understood.
In his opinion, art is diverse and not just European and American surrealism. Russian critical realism is about digging deeper connotations in reality, which ordinary people can at least understand.
Lu Bicheng was very excited: "I have read reports that Mr. Tolstoy is the first-class literary giant today." Li Yu said with a smile: "This evaluation is not exaggerated at all." China began to appreciate Tolstoy almost a few years ago. Tai's works have begun to be translated, but due to limitations in translation skills, several of Toweng's masterpieces have not yet been translated into China.
But after Xinhai, and
During the "May 4th Movement", translation reached its peak. At that time, the elders in the domestic literary world, such as Lu Xun and Mao Dun, advocated reading Russian works, which led to the translation and study of famous Russian writers in the literary world.
By the end of the 1940s, almost all of Toweng's works had been translated into China. Due to its great influence, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Towen's three classic works "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina" and "Resurrection" were re-translated and republished on a large scale.
From then on, everyone in the country knew Tuoweng's name. Lu Bicheng said: "It's a pity that all I read were fragments and I couldn't see the whole picture." Li Yu said: "This is easy to do. I'll just buy more English versions when the time comes." Now they are in St. Petersburg, and they can buy basically everything. It is the original Russian version.
Lu Bicheng was very interested: "It's a pity that I can't read the original Russian version." Li Yu smiled and said: "Forget it, it's really difficult to learn Russian clearly." Lu Bicheng said: "After I brought it back to China, I You must ask Professor Lin Shu from the Translation Center of the Capital University to translate." When Li Yu heard this, he said: "There is no rush." He thought that it would be better to wait and translate directly into the vernacular, but he still had the same slightly helpless idea: Relying on foreigners and self-respect.
Only by letting everyone know that foreigners also use vernacular can we slowly accept it. Moreover, the translation of Russian works is indeed not an easy task. The key point is that there are too few people in China who understand foreign languages. The only ones that are available are basically required by diplomats, and there are not many at all.
"Idle people". Moreover, translation is not an easy task in the first place, and it does not only require knowing Russian.
