When Old Bragg came to David Faraday's laboratory, Chen Muwu was packing his things and preparing to leave.
Although those machines and liquid gases were transported back from the Netherlands with Ovenheimer's hard work, all they spent were the funds of this laboratory.
Even though this funding was also earned by Chen Muwu, from a book perspective, 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, and there is no need for him to pack all these things back to the Cavendish Laboratory.
However, if the instruments were really brought back, teacher Rutherford would probably smile and maybe even ask Chadwick to set aside a room to store these things.
However, it seems that he was also the one who said that the Cavendish Laboratory did not want to study low-temperature physics, but only wanted to focus on things in the nucleus?
"Dr. Chen, Dr. Chen! I recently found a good job for you!"
Old Bragg's face was full of smiles.
"Sir Bragg, but I am going back to Cambridge University soon."
"Don't worry, I just got the news, and this position must be yours!"
"You mean the head of Mond's Laboratory, right?"
"How did 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 the purpose of his coming this time was not to practice for himself, but to keep himself.
After all, Old Bragg himself is a crystallographer who mainly studies solid state physics. It is okay to let him do the management of the laboratory, but it is not very good to entrust him with a laboratory specializing in low-temperature physics.
However, this Monds laboratory was not attractive enough to Chen Muwu.
Not to mention that this is a professional laboratory, but being the director of the laboratory is equivalent to stepping into a management position. From now on, he will have to worry about all the big and small things that happen in the laboratory.
How can this be as comfortable as hiding in the Cavendish Laboratory, conducting experiments and conducting research in peace of mind?
No matter what happened, his teacher Rutherford was responsible for it, and his butler Chadwick took care of the arrangements for life and work. And at Trinity College, he also had his senior master, Old Thomson. .
In addition, behind Chen Muwu there are two organizations supporting the Eagle Club and the Cambridge Apostolic Society.
The former is composed of the most prestigious athletes in Cambridge University, while the members of the latter are the smartest and most powerful students in the school.
Looking at it this way, Chen Muwu is simply a small government official of Cambridge University. He can run rampant on campus without any scruples, bully the market, and rob civilian girls...
Of course, the three idioms above are jokes. The most important point is that Chen Muwu is still waiting to go back to Cambridge University to build an accelerator.
Staying in a place like the Mond Laboratory that specializes in low-temperature physics and researching accelerators is really unfair.
"Sorry, Sir, you'd better 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 leave.
"This... but Dr. Chen, you should now be the most authoritative researcher in low-temperature physics in the UK. And I have already negotiated cooperation with the British Oxygen Company, and they will be responsible for supplying it to the laboratory in the future. All kinds of liquid gases. Everything is ready now. If you leave like this, who will the Monds laboratory that is about to be built be entrusted to?"
"Sir, your lord, where is young Mr. Bragg's position now? Why not invite him to London to manage this newly built laboratory?"
After working with Old Bragg for so long, Chen Muwu has never seen his son Little Bragg once.
It was not until recently that he met Little Prague for the first time, but the meeting place was not in London, but in Liverpool, at Chadwick's wedding.
Young Bragg was born in 1890. In terms of age, he is only one year older than Chadwick, who was born in 1891.
But in fact, according to the teacher-teacher relationship, he is indeed Chadwick's teacher.
In 1909, after young Bragg returned to the UK from Adelaide, Australia, with his father, he entered his father's alma mater, Trinity College, Cambridge University, and studied with his father's classmate Thomson Sr.
In 1914, after graduating, Bragg became a researcher and lecturer at Trinity College.
At this time, Chadwick was still living his miserable life as a prisoner of war in Germany. It was not until the end of the war that he returned to England, and he followed Rutherford from Manchester to Cambridge, and then established a brief relationship with Little Prague. The friendship between teachers and students.
If Chen Muwu's success is a benefit for time travellers, then Bragg Jr. 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 crystallography 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 the Langworthy Professor of Physics."
Little Bragg is in Manchester, which is why Chen Muwu can meet him in Liverpool, not far from Manchester.
The first half of little Bragg's life can be regarded as crossing the river by following Rutherford.
In 1919, as soon as Rutherford left Manchester, Bragg Jr. took over his position and laboratory at the University of Victoria and stayed here for eighteen years.
In 1937, after Rutherford died of illness, Bragg once again took over as director of the Cavendish Laboratory.
It was after he took over the Cavendish Laboratory that he gave up the laboratory's long-standing research on nuclear physics, and instead vigorously supported his old field of study, solid-state physics.
Germany forced a bunch of outstanding Jewish physicists to the United States because of racial issues.
The incident after Little Prague caused the Cavendish Laboratory to change its course, which also caused a large number of British nationals and nuclear physicists 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, to participate in the development of the atomic bomb.
It cannot be said that Bragg Jr.’s decision was wrong. After the Cavendish Laboratory changed its research direction, the laboratory also achieved a lot.
For example, Watson and Crick, who discovered the double helix structure of DNA, were both students of Bragg Jr., and the X-ray diffraction they used was the same research method that Bragg Jr. had been using.
But he sent a large number of nuclear physicists from the UK to the United States for nothing. It is hard to say whether he was right or wrong.
Chen Muwu felt that it was better not to let little Bragg harm the Cavendish Laboratory, but to let him follow his father and become the director of the Monds Laboratory.
But what Old Bragg said next showed that he had no intention of bringing his son to his side: "Besides, Lawrence, like me, has been studying crystals, so let him be the director of the low-temperature physics laboratory. It's also a professional mismatch.
"Dr. Chen, although the project for this Monds Laboratory has been approved and the site has been selected, it will take some time before it is actually built. Why don't you go back to Cambridge University first, finish your work, and then return to London? How about being the director?"
Old Prague still didn't give up and still wanted to keep him.
But what Chen Muwu was thinking in his heart was that when I get a good electrostatic accelerator at Cambridge University, your Monds Laboratory will be completed, but my school in Sweden will basically be completed as well.
How could I still stay in London, England, waiting for the bombing? By then, I will definitely have traveled to Northern Europe!
"Sir, it would be a pity that little Mr. Bragg can't come to London, and that you two, father and son, can't share the joy of family life.
"Otherwise, shall I recommend another person to you?"
"Who?" Old Prague was eager for talents.
"A good friend of mine, like me, is also your junior at Trinity College, and now he is also working in the Cavendish Laboratory. Before I entered the Cavendish Laboratory, I took experiments every year He has always been the recipient of the scholarship for the best student in the room.”
Since Old Bragg was unwilling to work with his son, Chen Muwu thought, he could only return the Mondstadt Laboratory, which appeared earlier than the original time and space, to its original owner in advance.
"Peter Kapitsa, you should have heard of this name."
"Oh, oh, I know him. Before you came to England, every time I met Ernest, he would always mention that person. But if I remember correctly, this Mr. Kapitsa seems to be a Sulian people?”
The expression on Old Bragg's face was a bit complicated, and it was the change of Tansu color that is very common among British people nowadays.
Last year, because the vote of no-confidence against the Labor Party Macdonald government was passed, the UK will hold a new general election on October 29 of that year.
Four days before the 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 letter of instruction, Zinoviev ordered the latter to engage in sedition and rebellion in Britain.
Because the Labor Party formed a government in the UK for the first time, and Prime Minister Macdonald restored diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union during his term, many people believe that the Labor Party also has close ties with the Communist International.
This incident was later called the "Zinoviev Letter". Although subsequent research believed that the letter was forged by the conservative-leaning Daily Mail, it was considered to be genuine at the time and could no longer be true. A letter not only caused British voters to boycott the Labor Party, allowing the Conservative Party to win an overwhelming victory in this election, but also made the British people a little more wary of the mysterious red country in the far east.
Hearing that Chen Muwu wanted to recommend a Sulian to be the director of the Mondstadt Laboratory, Old Bragg always had some concerns in his heart.
"Sir, you will not deny that even though the David Faraday Laboratory is now the most famous laboratory in the UK, the Cavendish Laboratory is still the most powerful physics experiment in the UK. room."
Old Bragg 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 in praising him.
"Such a person is enough to serve as the director of the Mondstadt Laboratory. You should not have any scruples about Kapitsa just because of his Sulian identity.
"If it is really because of nationality that the Mond Laboratory misses out on an outstanding talent, then this approach goes against those ridiculous Americans because it goes against the 'God created the world' in the Bible. Just make it illegal to teach the Theory of Evolution in schools, what’s the difference?”
The example cited by Chen Muwu is a piece of news that has been extremely sensational in newspapers recently.
Although this news happened across the Atlantic in the United States, it caused an uproar around the world.
Just like what he said, Darwin's "Origin of Species" has been published for 65 years, but in the United States, Tennessee passed a law called the "Bartelle Act" at the end of last year, which prohibited schools from The teacher teaches the students about the Theory of Evolution.
After the promulgation of this bill, various forces came out to take advantage of this hot spot.
Some people want to take this opportunity to become familiar with each other and then run for president.
Some people were worried that their business would not be successful. He happened to be in a small town in Tennessee, and he was wondering if he could use this bill to make some articles and plan a big trial on religion and science. Can attracting popularity also boost his business?
What was originally a very absurd and inconspicuous matter has become the first trial broadcast live to the nation in the history of the American legal profession.
The court debate on "whether the Bible allows humans to be transformed from monkeys" was spread across the United States via radio waves, and even gave the 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 evolution in class.
This is equivalent to legally recognizing that the Bible is superior to 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 "human beings evolved from monkeys", but as a scientific worker, Old Bragg is correct in supporting the theory of evolution.
He also understood why Chen Muwu gave 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 the heart that can't be persuaded so easily. Old Bragg sighed helplessly: "Hey, let me think about the candidate for the director of the laboratory again, right?
"But Dr. Chen, is there really no room for change?"
"Sorry, Sir, I really can't stay in London any longer."
"Okay, I respect your choice, but - Dr. Chen, how old are you?"
Although he didn't know why Old Prague asked himself this, he still answered truthfully: "I am twenty-three years old."
"Then you were born in 1902?"
Chen Muwu nodded.
"That's right, Lawrence also has a sister named Gwendolyn. She was born in 1907 and is almost four years younger than you. How about I introduce you two to each other and find an opportunity to meet before you leave London?"
this……
Chen Muwu originally thought that old Prague had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and an upright attitude. How could he end up like Bohr and do this?
(End of chapter)
