"Director, you don't need to thank me. This money was entirely funded by the Duke of York personally. I just truthfully introduced him to the current situation of our laboratory."
"Chen, you shouldn't be so humble. Without your achievements in physics, astronomy and the Olympics, I don't think the Duke of York would be interested in meeting you at all.
"No matter who paid the money, in short, you fought for this opportunity. So no matter what, you are a great contributor to our Cavendish Laboratory."
Rutherford was still very emotional.
Then he seemed to suddenly think of something, lowered his head and said with some annoyance: "No wonder my teacher Sir Thomson asked you to be a lobbyist to convince me to accept the international student from the United States. It turns out that from the very beginning, he I have already planned all this!"
Rutherford felt ashamed for a while before he raised his head, and the confident light returned to his eyes.
"Chen, since you brought me good news, then I also have good news to bring you.
“This summer, while you were making money for our laboratory, I also wrote many letters to others, in which I advised them to leave the nominations they hold for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to you.
"This is not because I am your teacher and you are a student in our Cavendish Laboratory, so I use my connections to help you operate, but I truly believe that you have the ability to win this award.
“This matter was first brought up to me by Lord Bragg on the ship returning from Belgium in May. I thought it made sense when I heard it. After thinking about it again when I came back, I thought it was indeed what he said.
"Although you have not been in the laboratory for a long time and have not done many experiments, gamma ray scattering, visible light scattering in liquids, and the experiment you did at the beginning of this year to prove the wave nature of electrons are groundbreaking. If you take out any experiment, I think it will win the Nobel Prize.
"That's why I wrote to several friends and students to recommend you to them. In addition, you have recently won four Olympic swimming gold medals in a row and gained a certain degree of popularity around the world. I think Sweden The judges of the Royal Academy of Sciences, facing the nomination letters sent from all over the world, should be thinking very seriously now whether to award this year's Nobel Prize in Physics to you."
The first person to mention the Nobel Prize in Physics to Chen Muwu was also Old Prague.
So when he heard the news, Chen Muwu was already excited.
So now that he heard Rutherford say it again, Chen Muwu felt a little calm.
Whether you can finally win the Nobel Prize does not depend on the number of nominations this person has received.
And the qualifications for Nobel Prize nomination are not as difficult as winning the Nobel Prize.
Professors from top universities in various countries and nobles from several European countries are eligible to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
This is just like although no one in the national football team can be shortlisted for the "World Footballer" election, the national football coach is eligible to vote.
The teacher of Pauli and Heisenberg, Professor Sommerfeld of the University of Göttingen, was nominated for eighty-one physics prizes in his lifetime. Among those who won and did not win, he ranked first in the number of nominations. name.
But as long as the judges of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences don't nod, won't he still be unable to get the highest honor in physics for the rest of his life?
Let nature take its course, this is what Chen Muwu thinks about whether he will win the Nobel Prize this year.
"Thank you for your support, teacher. I will definitely continue to work hard and strive to achieve more results in the laboratory."
Chen Muwu's calm expression once again won Rutherford's favor.
He thought, if he heard the news that Chen Muwu was nominated for the Nobel Prize at the age of twenty-two, would he jump up from the ground with excitement?
But Rutherford never thought that when he was twenty-two years old, there seemed to be no Nobel Prize in the world.
Rutherford, who suddenly became rich, was in a good mood, and he couldn't help but praise Chen Muwu again.
He encouraged Chen Muwu to guard against arrogance and impetuosity, to continue moving forward, and to use experiments to explore more of the true nature of nature.
After smoking three full bags of second-hand smoke, Chen Muwu finally left Rutherford's office.
There are still two months until the start of school. Most of the people in the laboratory are still enjoying their leisurely summer vacation. Only a few people stay here because of experiments.
But no matter what different types of experiments they were doing, the first thing everyone said when they met Chen Muwu was to congratulate him on winning four gold medals in the Olympics.
Chen Muwu is now a guest of the Eagle Club, which is specially established for athletes at Cambridge University.
They not only awarded Chen Muwu a scholarship specially designed for Olympic gold medals, but also helped him register a patent for the style of swimming trunks he wore in the Olympics.
But Chen Muwu doesn't expect this patent to make him much money, because in the eyes of the general public, these shorts are only suitable for wearing when racing in the swimming pool.
And in the hot summer, when playing in the water, they would rather choose the one-piece swimsuit style that tightly wraps the body than the swimming trunks that expose the breasts.
Alas, men are still so conservative in their thinking, and the women's liberation movement still has a long way to go. I don't know when Chen Muwu will be able to see a cool bikini on the beach.
Oh, whether bikinis can exist in this world is also a question.
Of course, Chen Muwu is not referring to this cool style of women's swimwear, but to the name of this type of swimsuit, Bikini.
In the original time and space, the name bikini came from the fact that the designer happened to read in the newspaper that the United States conducted a nuclear explosion experiment on Bikini Island in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, so he named the new swimsuit he designed bikini.
Chen Muwu suddenly thought of an evil and bold idea. Maybe in this life, this cool swimsuit style that is divided into upper and lower parts may be called Honshu, Kyushu or Shikoku?
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In addition to the Eagle Club, on the night of Saturday, August 9th, Chen Muwu also attended the regular weekly secret gathering of the Cambridge Apostolic Society.
Different from the deserted situation in the Cavendish Laboratory, although the Apostolic Society has a small number of members, 70% to 80% of the people attending the party came.
Chen Muwu was surprised. Why didn't these people go to enjoy the summer, but instead stayed in a small place like Cambridge?
After everyone warmly applauded and welcomed him, the new Olympic champion who had not come to the party for more than a month, Chen Muwu raised his own question.
As a result, the answers he got were all similar.
The reason why these rich and powerful young men are unwilling to go home during the summer vacation is because as soon as they return home, their parents will ask them to dress up like gentlemen, follow complicated etiquette, and go to various events. Salons, dinners and dances are all for them to find the right girlfriend.
A year ago, when he was still in China, Chen Muwu couldn't stand the old lady's nagging about forcing her to get married.
As a result, when he went abroad and saw that his peers were also troubled by this troublesome problem, he couldn't help but gloat in his heart. Fortunately, our old Chen ran fast!
After sitting down, a stranger walked up to Chen Muwu with a wine glass and took the initiative to say hello to the latter.
"Brother Chen, hello, I am Frank Ramsey."
Although 100% of the apostles of the Apostolic Society today are atheists with left-leaning ideas, they still follow the tradition of decades ago. They do not call each other by name, honor, position, or husband. They only use the addition after the last name. The title of brother.
Chen Muwu could not accept this title from beginning to end.
Every time he hears someone calling him "Brother Chen" or "Brother Chen," Chen Muwu's first reaction is always, has he traveled to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with a red scarf on his head?
Chen Muwu also stood up and clinked the wine glass filled with water with him: "Brother Ramsey, I have long admired your name."
This sentence is not polite or complimentary, but Chen Muwu really knows that there is such a person.
Every year, Trinity College holds an extremely difficult mathematics test for graduates in order to select the best among these genius brains and select the most genius among them.
Graduates who achieve excellent grades in this exam will be called "Wranglers", and the one with the highest score among the Wranglers will be called "Senior Wrangler."
It can be said that the Chief Wrangler represents the highest level among the graduates of Trinity College in their generation.
Among the people Chen Muwu knew well, only Eddington, director of the Cambridge Observatory, was the chief wrangler.
Physics seniors like Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and now the dean of Trinity College, Thomson Sr., were only the second wranglers of their respective classes.
Apart from Eddington, the only chief wrangler whose name Chen Muwu knew was Ramsey in front of him.
Ramsey was a graduate of Trinity College in 1923. At the end of the spring semester when Chen Muwu first arrived in Cambridge, he happened to witness Ramsey receiving the honor of Chief Wrangler at the graduation ceremony.
But it was not because of respect for the chief wrangler that Chen Muwu stood up and greeted Ramsey.
It was because Chen Muwu had heard the title Dean Ramsey from Ye Gongchao many times.
Arthur Stanley Ramsay is now the Dean of Magdalen College, Cambridge University, and the father of Frank Ramsay standing in front of him.
What Chen Muwu was thinking was that if Mr. Zhao Zhongyao and Shi Ruwei came to Cambridge and failed to be admitted to Trinity College, if he had a good relationship with little Ramsey, would he be able to help them in Magda? Are you even looking for a way out from the academy?
Just like parents all over the world urge their children of school age to get married, where can there be no human exchanges around the world?
(End of chapter)
