What is coming will always come.
After winning 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 no foreign fellow has said this yet. Becoming a fellow of the Royal Society is basically the highest honor that Chen Muwu can achieve in the British academic world.
If he is a British person, or a national of other colonies, autonomous territories, etc. under the British Commonwealth, then if he achieves some academic achievements in the future, Chen Muwu may go one step further and accept the canonization of the royal family and become a knight (Sir) or a lord ( Lord) and other nobles.
For example, old Thomson, such as his teacher Rutherford, both of whom are now knights
In the future, Rutherford even surpassed his teacher and became Baron Rutherford of Nelson.
Rutherford has also been very proud of himself recently, not least because his disciple Chen Muwu won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
He has received notice in advance that King George V of the United Kingdom will award Rutherford the Order of Merit on January 1 next year.
The Medal of Honor does not have a title, 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 decided by the British King. It is used to commend people who have made significant achievements in military, science, art, literature or promotion of culture.
The limit for this medal is only twenty-five, and new members can only be awarded after someone dies or voluntarily returns the medal.
In other words, a person who can receive the Medal of Honor is basically equivalent to being one of the twenty-four closest people to the reigning monarch (the monarch himself also has a quota for the Medal of Honor).
In addition to receiving this Medal of Honor, Rutherford also had another double blessing.
The current president of the Royal Society, Charles Sherrington, will step down as president in 1925.
If nothing else happens, Rutherford will be nominated as the new president of the Royal Society at the plenary meeting of the Royal Society next year.
There are people in the court who like to be officials. Chen Muwu was admitted to the Royal Society this time and became the youngest fellow. His teacher Rutherford also made a lot of efforts behind the scenes.
Rutherford not only helped his beloved disciple obtain a membership, but also got Chen Muwu a Hughes Medal awarded by the Royal Society.
The Hughes Medal was established in memory of the British-American inventor David Edward Hughes.
He was also a fellow of the Royal Society and was famous for his research and improvements on telegraphs and microphones.
After Hughes's 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 was able to win this medal not because of his worldliness, but mainly because of his true talent and practical knowledge. After all, he has recently made quite a few original discoveries in physics, especially in electricity.
Of course electrons also belong to electricity, right?
As for the Copley Medal, it is also awarded by the Royal Society.
Unlike the Hughes Medal, which focuses solely on physics, the Copley Medal is awarded for sustained outstanding achievement in any field of science.
This 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 can be awarded in the UK for scientific achievements, and the recipients are not limited to British nationals or foreigners engaged in scientific research in the UK, but have been extended to the world.
Some people say that before the Nobel Prize appeared, the recipients of the Copley Medal represented the highest level of scientific research in the world at that time.
Rutherford taught Chen Muwu so much about the Royal Society and medals, but he still has not revealed which old acquaintance of Chen Muwu will be the winner of next year's Copley Medal.
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 medal winner was the person he had never wanted to see.
"Teacher, is this person you are talking about Dr. Einstein?"
Hearing the answer given by Chen Muwu, Rutherford laughed heartily again.
"Chen, you are worthy of being a genius who won the Nobel Prize in Physics. You guessed the correct answer right away.
“Originally, this medal is not like the Nobel Prize, which requires the winner to go to the Royal Society in London to receive it in person.
"But after Dr. Einstein learned that he had won the award, he immediately responded with a telegram to the society, indicating that he would come to London to receive the award in person.
“I think it may be because after the war, Germany has been isolated from the whole of Europe for too long, and even the Solvay Conference did not include German physicists.
"Dr. Einstein probably wants to take this opportunity to have a good exchange with our colleagues."
Chen Muwu said in his heart, Teacher, you can guess more accurately than I can. If nothing else happens, he is indeed here to communicate.
He suddenly felt that the road between enemies was narrow. If you didn't walk towards the mountain, the mountain would come directly towards you?
Since Einstein had already chased him to England, Chen Muwu had no choice but to fight.
He had no confidence in convincing Einstein, the stubborn old man, and just hoped that he would not get angry when they first met.
Fortunately, there is still more than a month before he goes to London to receive the award, so Chen Muwu can be more prepared.
But he was not able to spend this winter very leisurely.
In the more than two months since I left the UK, many things have accumulated at the University of Cambridge.
After learning that he had returned to school, all kinds of familiar and unfamiliar people came one after another in the name of congratulating him on winning the Nobel Prize.
The Republic of China's Embassy in London sent an invitation letter to Chen Muwu just like last year, inviting Chen Muwu to attend the dual celebrations of the founding anniversary and New Year's Day at the embassy.
He participated once last year with Ye Gongchao. At that time, he had only made some achievements in physics, but a bunch of dandy international students took turns to come up to him and say hello, and some people wanted to invite him.
This year, Chen Muwu has been upgraded to a young talent who is "blooming in both academics and sports" and is both morally and artistically talented.
He thought that if he went to this smoky event again, more people would come to say hello, and their invitations would be stronger.
Chen Muwu didn't want to have anything to do with these people, so he refused the embassy's invitation on the excuse that he had just returned to Cambridge and was tired from his trip.
On the contrary, Chen Muqiao always felt that the officials in the Republic of China's embassies in various countries were the parents of the wanderers like them.
So when he just arrived in Cambridge, after receiving the notice sent to Chen Muwu and persuading his younger brother to go with him but being rejected, he took the trouble to return to London again.
Chen Muqiao left Jihai in October this year. After leaving the country from Harbin, most of the people he saw along the way were foreigners.
This time I met so many compatriots at the London Legation and heard all kinds of compliments about him.
No matter how well-educated Chen Muqiao is, he can't hide the smile on his face when he returns to Cambridge.
"Brother, after having a long conversation all night with Charge d'Affaires Zhu of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, I realized just how much influence you have on the domestic academic community by winning this Nobel Prize.
"Except for the controversy you raised about the creation of Pangu, most scholars in our country still praise you a lot.
"Charge d'Affaires Zhu also revealed to me that the ranks of your two medals have been promoted to one level, and he has also received many telegrams from people in China asking for your specific situation. Although there is no explicit statement in those telegrams, , but basically they inquired about our family and your marriage situation in a roundabout way.
"Guess who else I met? The young boss of Sihai Yong'an Company! That young master Guo claimed to be an old acquaintance of you, and asked you 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 now at the University of Cambridge, it seems that these foreigners, especially your scientist friends, all like playing mahjong? Is this due to you?"
Chen Muwu nodded dumbfounded.
Moreover, their mahjong skills are higher than mine. Do you think they are irritating or not?
However, Guo Linshuang still has a good head. She thought that there was nothing to gain in mahjong, but he turned it into a prosperous business.
"Young Master Guo also asked me when you will return to Jihai. He has a sister who is waiting to be married, and he wants to introduce it to you. Little brother, it seems that many people are eyeing you as a quick son-in-law. Otherwise, you After staying in the UK for a few more years, why don’t you go back to China?”
I bet you are my friend, but you want me to be your brother-in-law, right?
Chen Muwu was speechless.
Once you achieve something and become a young talent in the eyes of others, it is very easy for someone to introduce you to someone.
The year before last, when he was still at the Qinghai-Hai Railway Management Bureau, he had already been harassed like this by many colleagues in the Railway Bureau because he was invited to give lectures at Bei University.
After arriving in Denmark, the reason why Bohr asked his wife Margaret to hold a dance was also to use a beauty trap to keep him.
Unexpectedly, even though I have moved to the UK, I still cannot escape this "happy trouble", at least in the eyes of others.
"Brother, you are making fun of me again," Chen Muwu deliberately ignored Chen Muqiao's mention of returning to China. "How was your discussion with Eve's mother, Marie Curie, in France? I don't know how much dowry their family requires. ?”
Chen Muwu turned his back on the guest and shut up Chen Muqiao who wanted to see his joke.
Although Ye Gongchao hated Chen Muwu for his endless exploitation in writing books, he still truthfully reported to him the meeting between Chen Muqiao and Madame Curie.
After all, his eldest brother didn't know French, so he had to let Ye Gongchao, who had only learned French for more than half a year, do the translation.
Chen Muqiao still follows the old tradition. He always feels that when a young man and woman get married, they must meet the "parents' orders, the matchmaker's words", the bride price, engagement and marriage, and other messy rules.
Unexpectedly, Madame Curie was completely uninterested in what he proposed. She believed that young people have free love and no one has the right to interfere.
She only made one request to Chen Muqiao, that is, if they really get married, can Chen Muwu be allowed to come to Paris from the UK and continue to engage in scientific research at the Radium Institute.
Mr. Pierre Curie passed away early, and Mrs. Curie took care of the two daughters from childhood alone. She did not want her younger daughter to be too far away from her.
During this conversation, Chen Muqiao, who felt the profound cultural differences, felt that he had been punched in the cotton wool. He was very unwilling to hear Chen Muwu mention the matter of his meeting with Madame Curie, so he was dissatisfied. Mention this again.
Now that his younger brother has identified this foreign wife, Chen Muqiao began to think about how he could convince his mother for his younger brother after he returned to China.
…
Trinity College gave a very warm welcome to Chen Muwu, who returned with great honors.
After the Gregorian New Year, the college held a luxurious university dinner for Chen Muwu in the banquet hall.
This dinner, filled with greasy food, smelly cigars and complicated etiquette, was not to celebrate Chen Muwu's winning of the Nobel Prize in Physics, but to celebrate his promotion from a researcher at the college to an academician of Trinity College.
Everyone attending the meeting was wearing the traditional costumes of Trinity College, and Dean Thomson personally hosted the dinner.
Old Thomson owed Chen Mu a favor for arranging for Oppenheimer to enter the Cavendish Laboratory.
So in his speech, Chen Muwu was once again praised to the sky.
After being the youngest Nobel Prize winner and the youngest member of the Royal Society in history, Chen Muwu has now become the youngest academician of the University of Cambridge in history.
Academicians are basically equivalent to senior members of Trinity College and enjoy a high status in the college.
Now, Chen Muwu has a place that is exclusive to him in the college, and he can go in and out freely, which he could not enter when he was a student before. Moreover, according to the tradition of Trinity College, he now has a place in the college, no matter what. A personal servant who is at his service day and night, anytime and anywhere.
In theory, from now on, he doesn't have to make his own bed before going to bed every day, and he doesn't have to worry about folding the quilt after waking up. Someone will help clean clothes and shoes, and the valet can also help sort out letters and telegrams, allowing Chen Muwu to be more able Dedicate yourself to academics without any distractions.
Of course, Chen Muwu's manservant will not be a noble British man, but a third brother who has become British.
Suddenly becoming the "ruling class", 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 in Sweden, Kapitsa began to tease his good friend again: "You are the smartest person in the world, and you really deserve the Nobel Prize."
Although Kapitsa has always liked to exaggerate, when he first met him at Mrs. Brown's house two years ago, he called Chen Muwu "Chinese genius."
But Chen Muwu felt that Kapitsa's title today was a bit too much.
How did he become the smartest man in the world?
If you give Yuwen Chengdu a gold medal with the words "The most brave and invincible in the world" right now, what will you do if Li Yuanba suddenly shows up in the middle of the road?
"Peter, stop making trouble, I really can't afford this title."
Kapitsa still refused: "Chen, this is not the nickname I gave you, but the name you were called in the British newspapers.
"Before this, this title had been exclusively reserved for Dr. Einstein."
“In addition, the popular science book on quantum mechanics written by Professor Eddington has sold well since its publication.
"Eddington claimed in the book that the uncertainty principle you proposed is as important in physics as the relativity principle proposed by Einstein.
"But didn't you point out a mistake of Dr. Einstein at the Nobel Prize ceremony?
“The person who can point out the mistakes of the smartest person in the world must be smarter than the former.
"So in these British newspapers, the title has been transferred to you."
After listening to Kapitsa's explanation of the whole story, Chen Muwu felt that the British newspapers, like Dai Ying, were all troublemakers who were worried about the world being in chaos.
They came up with this title, which will naturally attract attention and increase the sales of the newspaper.
But at the same time, he also regarded himself as a target.
What a fuck these uncrowned kings of Fleet Street are!
Chen Muwu suddenly remembered that he seemed to have an account that he had not yet settled with Kapi.
"Peter, why did Director Rutherford know the news about Eve? Did you tell him?"
"The crocodile asked why you didn't come back with us after receiving the award in Sweden.
"I can't lie to him, so I can only tell the truth!
"Chen, you have really good taste. Such a beautiful Eve and such a handsome you are really a match made in heaven.
"When you get married, I will be your best man.
"After giving birth to the child, I will be Xiao Chen's godfather."
Why is this Russian so anxious than anyone else?
Others just asked when they would get married, but in his mind, the child had already been born.
And the key point is that my brother doesn't believe in any religion, and there is no godfather who says so.
But being a godfather is okay, as long as you pay the new year's money every year.
…
Because of the title "the smartest man in the world", Kapitsa was not the only one to come to his door.
After learning that Chen Muwu had returned to Cambridge, people from Penguin Press came to visit him again.
The previous two detective books in the George Chen series have become bestsellers in the British book market.
Readers discovered that detectives can still write like this: either everyone is a murderer or everyone is a victim.
Penguin Press is now eager to release the third book in this series. Fortunately, Chen Muwu came prepared and handed over Ye Gongchao's third manuscript.
In addition to its achievements in publishing, the magazine, which was modeled after the "Reader's Digest" model, also gradually opened up the market.
According to feedback from readers, the magic square and crossword puzzles published in the magazine are the most popular. The publisher plans to make these two games into separate volumes and sell them separately from the magazine.
They also took a fancy to Chen Muwu, who was dubbed the "smartest man in the world" by a British newspaper, and planned to ask him to write a recommendation for this puzzle game book to further increase the sales of the single book.
Of course Chen Muwu could not agree to this condition, and there was no way he would admit this title.
However, he thought of Einstein who was about to come to the UK, so he promised the person from the publishing house to help him connect with Einstein when the time came.
…
Not everyone at Cambridge University welcomes Chen Muwu.
When he was flattered by the successive visitors, someone came to Trinity College and asked Chen Muwu to accuse him.
Chen Muwu was startled when he saw Eddington walking into the room with a straight face.
This was Einstein's close comrade-in-arms, and he was also full of martial virtue. Could it be that this time he was here to teach him a lesson for his old friend?
But according to Kapitsa, didn’t Eddington boast about the uncertainty principle in that popular science book?
He should have stood with himself on the opposite side of his old friend!
"Mr. Eddington, I should be visiting you at the Observatory. How can you ask you to come to me specifically?"
Chen Muwu had forgotten Eddington a long time ago. He just said a kind word.
"Come on, you will never go to the observatory to find me if you have nothing to ask for." Eddington saw through Chen Muwu's perfunctory, "Congratulations on your new achievement in astronomy!"
The second half of what he said was very strange, and the content reminded Chen Muwu that in addition to being a friend of Einstein, the Eddington in front of him also had the identity of a world-famous astronomer.
Could it be that the reason why he came to the door today was not to fight for Einstein, but because he disagreed with the expansion of the universe and the big bang, phew, the Pangu process that he proposed?
“It was just a hit by mistake, a hit by mistake.
"Mr. Eddington, you also know that I have always been interested in the nebulae in the Andromeda Nebula, and I have talked to you several times before.
"So as soon as I learned that Dr. Hubble in 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 connect the research of two predecessors.
"Don't you think the universe is expanding? But now the facts and data 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 admire your scientific mind for being able to find out the relationship between the distance and speed 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 your behavior that makes me angry. I carefully read the full text of your acceptance speech published in the newspaper. You said in it:
"Srieff published the receding speeds of twenty-five galaxies, and Hubble gave the distances of seventeen galaxies from us. Fourteen of them coincided with the galaxies published by Srieff, and the remaining three However, their specific regression speed was not found.
"What you said is not wrong at all. Sriver's paper was published in 1917, and it did only contain twenty-five data.
"So I am sure that you must not have 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 Sriver for the latest data he observed in February 1922, and the full text was published in the book. After another five years of observation, Sriver had measured four full The receding speeds of the eleven galaxies, and the three galaxies you did not find, are also clearly written in the book."
After finishing speaking, Eddington walked to Chen Muwu's bookshelf, pulled out the book he wrote, and slapped it heavily on the table.
(End of chapter)
