The reason why Hu Shi readily agreed to be interviewed was because he would not let go of any opportunity to become famous.
As for Chen Muwu, it was because he still wanted something from Zhang Henshui.
He gave up the opportunity to be interviewed first to Hu Shi because he respects the old, loves the young, and respects teachers.
However, Chen Muwuzun was not Dr. Hu, but someone else.
He saw Yan Renguang, dean of the physics department of Beida University, and Xia Yuanzhen, professor, waiting aside. They seemed to have something to say to him.
After getting along with each other for more than half a month, he respected these physics seniors very much and was embarrassed to make them wait for him for too long.
Seeing Chen Muwu coming over, Yan and Xia first expressed their gratitude to him for donating all the royalties from his lectures to the Department of Physics of Beida University.
Chen Muwu smiled and waved his hand and said, "It's just a trivial matter. Director Yan, Professor Xia, do you two have anything to teach the juniors?"
Yan Renguang smiled and said: "Hanchen, as expected, nothing can escape your eyes! I don't take advice seriously, but I do have something to ask you for.
He looked at Xia Yuanzhen beside him, who nodded to him, "Then I'll be honest, does Minister Shulman want to invite you to study at Cornell University? Let me tell you, this Cornell... Hanchen, you must never go.
"Although it's a bit unkind to talk about my alma mater behind my back, I have to say that whether it is Cornell University's physics teaching level or hardware facilities, I think they are not worthy of your talents. Your brilliance should not be in It was flooded there.
"Hanchen, if you want to study abroad, I can write a letter to my department chair at the University of Chicago, Michael Sun, and my teacher, Professor Millikan, recommending that you study at the University of Chicago or the California Institute of Technology. The physics department at any of them is much better than Cornell.”
Xia Yuanwei also echoed: "Hanchen, if you want to go to Europe instead of the United States, then I can also write to my teacher Max Planck and recommend you to the Humboldt University of Berlin."
Chen Muwu was deeply moved after hearing the sincere advice from the two seniors.
Although he is not a student of Bei University, the two professors are still very kind to him. They hope that he, a rising star in physics in his own country, can go abroad to receive a better education so that he can better contribute to the academic community after completing his studies. motherland.
Chen Muwu told the two professors that he did not plan to study abroad at Cornell University, and also thanked them for their kindness.
But as soon as he heard Professor Xia Yuanwei talking about writing a letter to Planck recommending that he study abroad at Humboldt University in Berlin, Chen Muwu suddenly remembered that a month ago, there was a little old man named Einstein who did the same thing. What did you tell him?
Why didn't Lao Putou give me any news? Have you forgotten about him?
Was the first paper on the "Chen effect" that I sent last year published in either of the two journals?
The second paper about "Chen Yuyu" and "Chen Jie" has now arrived in Europe, or is it still wandering on the sea?
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Two flowers bloom, one on each side.
Just when Chen Muwu was working hard to "write" novels to earn royalties, his first paper also caused a bloody storm in the European and American physics circles.
The "Annals of Physics" published on January 20 published Chen Muwu's paper as scheduled, "Another effect between light and electrons: A quantum physics study on the change in properties of monochromatic gamma rays after scattering by matter." Learn to explain”.
At the end of the paper, there is a postscript written by Planck himself. He said that Chen Muwu's paper was recommended to him by Einstein. He invited experimental physicists all over the world who can read this paper, if they are interested, to Experiments can be designed to verify the theoretical explanation proposed in the paper.
In addition, Planck also wrote at the end of the postscript: "If the theory in the paper is indeed verified by experiments, it can be considered that the energy and momentum of light, like 'energy quanta', can be measured one by one It is transmitted through the ground. But I do not agree with the hypothesis mentioned in the paper that light exists in the form of 'photons'. We cannot and should not overthrow Huygens' wave theory and go back to the old path of Newton's particle theory. "
Although the "Journal of Physics" has become popular in recent years, it has challenged the dominance of the "Annals of Physics" in the German physics journals.
But a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. "Annals of Physics" still has a large number of subscribers, distributed in various universities and research institutes around the world.
The first issue of the "Yearbook of Physics" in 1923 will be delivered to all subscribers through the postal system of the Universal Postal Union within a few, ten or dozens of days.
More than a week later, this journal traveled across the ocean and arrived in Illinois, the United States.
Arthur Compton, who had just resigned from the position of chairman of the physics department at Washington University in St. Louis [1] a month ago and transferred to the physics department of the University of Chicago as a professor, was sitting in a depressed mood outside the University of Chicago campus in Lake Michigan Lakeside Park. On a bench.
At the end of December last year, he submitted a report on X-ray scattering to the top physics journal in the United States, the Physical Review journal sponsored by the American Physical Society.
"Physical Review" delays the publication of academic papers for too long in order to ensure academic quality.
Therefore, before each paper is confirmed for inclusion in a journal, it must first be sent to a committee of the Physical Sciences Division of the American Research Council for discussion.
Compton himself is a member of this committee. "There are people in the government who like to be officials." It stands to reason that his paper should easily pass the review, and the discussion is just a formality.
However, the chairman of this committee, William Duane, a professor of physics at Harvard University, strongly opposed the inclusion of Compton's work, believing that the experimental results were unreliable.
Because Duane's laboratory was doing the same experiment, but couldn't get the same results.
The two had quarreled over Compton's paper to the point of tit-for-tat. Duane even personally designed a series of falsification experiments to prove that Compton's paper was wrong!
The paper was withheld for more than a month and could not be published. The anxiety made Compton, a modest gentleman, almost crazy.
He even wanted to go to the Canal Street train station near Madison Avenue, take the earliest train, arrive in Boston on the West Coast, pull Duane out of the Harvard University laboratory by the collar, and throw him a Browning then slammed a white glove into his face, like a Western cowboy, relying on the gun in his hand to tell who was right and who was wrong, you and me.
Just as Compton was sitting by the lake complaining about everything and sighing, a Chinese student suddenly ran out of the gate of the University of Chicago in a panic. He seemed to be holding something in his hand.
"Professor! Professor Compton! The latest issue of "Annals of Physics" has been delivered!"
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[1] Author's note: Washington University in St. Louis is not in Washington, D.C., but in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. It is called Washington University.
