Chen Muwu was embarrassed to say directly that the University of Paris would not spend money to buy a particle accelerator for Marie Curie.
He just said in passing that the university might not approve a new place for the Radium Research Institute. The particle accelerator requires a lot of space, and the current small laboratory cannot fit it.
But in fact, there are still many loopholes in what he suddenly realized.
If we only relied on funding from the University of Paris, the Institute of Radium Science would not be able to operate at all.
Marie Curie had a strong personality, which can be seen from the incident when the American people collectively donated one gram of radium to her.
In recent years, Marie Curie always spends one or two months every year to give lectures in European countries and the United States. She relies on the lecture fees provided by the organizer to maintain the operation of the Radium Institute.
Even Cai Yuanpei, the president of Bei University, met Madame Curie during his last education trip to Europe and invited her to go to China to give lectures and visit Bei University.
It’s just that the year happened to be 1921. Soon after, Marie Curie was going to visit the United States to receive the donated gram of radium, so she could only regretfully refuse Cai Yuanpei’s invitation.
Everyone knows that the high-energy particles provided by particle accelerators play an important role in the study of atomic nuclei.
So even if the money earned from one lecture is not enough to buy it, even if she lectures and writes twice more, Marie Curie will definitely buy the accelerator.
As for the place where the accelerator is placed, that is not a problem.
The Crown Prince of Sweden is Chen Muwu’s good friend, so isn’t De Broglie his good friend?
If de Broglie knew that Chen Muwu was going to give his mother-in-law an accelerator, the young Duke would definitely generously provide a venue for it.
Isn't it the land? It's as if no one has it.
Maybe de Broglie might add something more besides land, as long as he can keep his good friend Chen Muwu with him in Paris.
But Chen Muwu finally decided to tell Marie Curie that he had built a school in Sweden.
He didn't even tell Kapitsa and Blackett.
Although these two people were two of his three best friends at Cambridge University, they were also Rutherford's right-hand men after all.
The teacher is in his prime years, and the Cavendish Laboratory is also in a prosperous upward stage.
Under the current circumstances, it was really inappropriate to poach Rutherford, and besides, Chen Muwu didn't have the courage.
The third of the three best friends at Cambridge University was Dirac, and he was also the only one Chen Muwu was prepared to poach without any psychological burden.
Although he came from an engineering background, he fell into the embrace of theoretical physics after arriving at Cambridge and was not considered a core member of the Cavendish Laboratory.
Even if Chen Muwu doesn't poach him, he will first go to the University of Göttingen to find Born, Pauli and Heisenberg in Germany after graduating with his PhD next year, and then move to Denmark and join Bohr at the Institute of Theoretical Physics. Under his command, he became a general among the Copenhagen School.
Instead of going to Copenhagen, why not go to Stockholm.
At least Chen Muwu regarded him as a friend instead of holding a pipe and crossing his legs, saying some profound and incomprehensible words for Dirac to record word for word.
Unlike these three friends, Madame Curie can already be regarded as Chen Muwu's family.
After a year or two, he and Eve got married. According to Chinese custom, Madame Curie would be Chen Muwu's mother.
There is no need to hide things between family members, and Chen Muwu still really wants to invite Madame Curie to Sweden.
Although Chen Muwu won the Nobel Prize and made many achievements in various disciplines, and his academic status improved, he was still too young and did not have enough academic reputation to attract outstanding talents.
The shadow of a famous human tree. If there could be a statue of Marie Curie sitting in the Prince's College in Stockholm, then the situation would undoubtedly be improved a lot.
On the other hand, his relatives will not live a very good life in France in the future.
The Second World War had a great impact on the Curie family.
Marie Curie did not see the outbreak of war.
Before the war, Irene was recovering from tuberculosis in France's neighboring country, Switzerland, which claims to be permanently neutral.
After the war broke out, she brought two more children with her.
Her husband, Frederic, remained in France and actively participated in the French Resistance.
Like his teacher Langevin, he also became a member of the French Communist Party.
The problem arises in Frederick's identity as a Communist Party of France.
During the war, everyone lived in peace and worked together to resist.
But after the war, the French began to liquidate these Communists.
Frederick was dismissed from most of his posts, and in the end only the position of Professor of France remained.
And Irena was even more unjustly affected. When she visited the United States for the third time in her life to attend a meeting of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, because her husband was a Communist, she was not only prohibited from entering the country, but was even detained. At the immigration office on Ellis Island.
The French hero and his family were treated like this after the war.
It would be better to just invite them to Sweden.
With Chen Muwu and Joliot-Curie, Mrs. Curie could retire from the experimental frontline in advance. Maybe her physical condition could be improved and she could live longer than in her original time and space.
The Joliot-Curie couple can also conduct experiments in a better experimental environment, and they may be able to achieve more results than in the original time and space.
After listening to Chen Muwu's description of the future, the key point captured by Marie Curie was: "Chen, you mean that you plan to leave the Cavendish Laboratory one day in the future, right?"
"Yes, madam, this is indeed my plan for the future."
"I don't understand. Did the Swedes give you some kind of ecstasy? What is more attractive about that little-known college in Stockholm than the Cavendish Laboratory?"
Hearing that Chen Muwu was leaving Cambridge University was good news for Marie Curie.
What makes her happy is not that a capable person is missing from the competitor's laboratory.
But if the reasons given by Chen Muwu that Sweden is better than Britain are not enough to convince him, then Marie Curie will consider persuading Chen Muwu to come to the Radium Institute in Paris.
In this way, she can not only get a good helper, but also keep her daughter by her side.
"They have money, they have money."
The first sentence of Chen Muwu's answer directly shattered Madame Curie's fantasy just now.
“The Crown Prince of Sweden very much hopes to develop their country’s education and technological level, but is struggling to find a suitable leader.
“His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and I met by chance in Paris and reunited at an awards ceremony in Stockholm. Last winter, he told me about this idea and invited me to Stockholm to be the leader of this academy. Later, he introduced people from the Wallenberg family to me..."
Chen Muwu made an adaptation in some small details that is not random. The central idea is only two points:
One, Swedes are very rich.
Second, Chen Muwu went there not only to make scientific research more convenient for himself, but also to cultivate talents for his motherland.
There are sufficient funds and national justice. This condition and this reason are really unacceptable.
And these are precisely the two reasons that most attracted Madame Curie.
Marie Curie has been famous for a long time. After World War I, her long-occupied Poland gained independence to a certain extent and established the Second Polish Republic.
After regaining independence, Poland invited Marie Curie to return to her homeland several times and promised to establish a radium research institute in Warsaw for her to continue her scientific research.
But Madame Curie rejected the call of her motherland and still chose to stay in France.
This does not mean that her patriotism is a manifestation of Mr. Ye's love for dragons, but because the Polish government is too poor. Let alone providing research funds, they can't even build a radium research institute.
And the University of Paris can at least give you some money.
Marie Curie devoted her life to the establishment of the Radium Institute in Warsaw in her motherland. It was not until 1932 that this institute was finally built.
At that time, the American people donated another gram of radium to Marie Curie, which was also the last gram of the three grams of radium.
This gram of radium was transferred to the Radium Institute in Warsaw by her at the opening ceremony of the institute.
Madame Curie was patriotic, and so was Chen Muwu.
Marie Curie was short of money, and Chen Muwu, uh, although he was not short of money, he could find a place with much more money than the Institute of Radium Science in Paris.
The key is that the idea of running a school in another place that Chen Muwu just mentioned also provided some inspiration for Marie Curie.
She had long seen the Chinese students who went to France for work-study studies in France. They were down-to-earth, studious, hard-working and reliable. However, due to various reasons, this cooperative education model did not continue.
Now I heard Chen Muwu say that the Swedes are willing to provide schools and part of the funds to help China train students.
So is it also feasible to help train some Polish students at the same time?
This is a very good idea and worth considering in the future.
Madame Curie did not express her position at the time, and Chen Muwu was not in a hurry.
Anyway, there is still plenty of time, and the school in Sweden has not been built yet.
The conversation on the day before Christmas lasted for a long time.
In addition to these topics about studies and work, in the end Marie Curie still asked one thing that she couldn't escape: Xiao Chen, when will my daughter get married? Where will you live in the future?
After learning that Chen Muwu planned to get married within a year or two, and would take his wife to Sweden with him after the marriage.
Marie Curie had one more reason to go to Stockholm.
Joliot and Irena, who had gone shopping, returned home before dinner, and the five people who were about to become a family gathered around the dining table for a Christmas dinner.
There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning it was time for everyone to open Christmas presents.
Oppenheimer had already prepared a decent gift for Chen Muwu, which made the prospective son-in-law look good in front of his family.
What he gave to Eve and Irena were all jewelry, but what the former received was more exquisite.
What she gave to Madame Curie was a radio, which is still a relatively novel high-tech gadget nowadays.
What he gave to Yorio was a watch.
This is also a new form of clocks that has only recently emerged.
At least ten years ago, gentlemen's portable timepieces were mainly pocket watches with chains.
Chen Muwu is a money player, but Eve, who just graduated, is not.
What she gave back to her sweetheart was a sweater knitted by herself. Because she was across the mountains and across the sea, she couldn't measure the size in person, but the sweater fit Chen Muwu just right.
In comparison, the gifts that Madame Curie received from her daughter were far inferior to those of Chen Muwu.
The same clothes are made of wool. Chen Muwu is a sweater and Marie Curie is a pair of gloves.
And it looks like it is made from leftover wool from knitting sweaters.
Eve was still plausible when giving the gift: "This pair of gloves is for mom. I see that the pair you wear when riding your bicycle is very worn out, so I knitted a new pair for you."
What Madame Curie was thinking was that her daughter was not married yet, but she was already pretending to be her son-in-law.
Chen Muwu heard another news from Ai Fu's words.
Yesterday, he thought that Madame Curie didn't ride a bicycle, so he didn't tell her about helping Eddington improve the bicycle.
But now that I know the news, after returning to Cambridge University, it is very simple to make a labor-saving bicycle for Marie Curie.
He is bound to be the most popular uncle in the Curie family and his mother-in-law likes him the most!
…
After Christmas comes New Year, and after New Year it’s time to return to the UK.
Outside the train station in Paris, Kapitsa met De Broglie, who had gotten along well with him at the Cavendish Laboratory, and also met Madame Curie's daughter Eve for the first time.
Chen Muwu took over "Tragedy on the Nile" from Ye Gongchao, which he had written during his vacation, and told him the subject of the next book.
Now that he has decided to return to the country, he must squeeze one last time before returning.
Chen Muwu even gave a reason that seemed to be for Ye Gongchao's sake: You don't want to return home empty-handed without bringing a gift to your uncle Ye Yufu in Paris, right?
Bringing gifts costs money. What is the best way to make quick money? Of course it’s writing!
There is no need to mention the greetings and reluctance that everyone had before parting, as well as the grievance of feeling that they had been tricked again.
After getting on the train, Kapitsa couldn't wait to punch Chen Muwu.
"You kid can do it! It's okay to trick Madame Curie's little daughter into your hands. The key is that Eve is so beautiful!"
"How does it compare to your Anna?"
"Well...it's beautiful, but it's a pity that compared to Anna, your Eve is still a little inferior."
"cut!"
In short, after another whole day of bumpy trains and ships, the two good friends returned to Cambridge University again.
It is said that family is a safe haven. During this trip to Paris, Chen Muwu felt that he was fully charged in his second safe haven.
He was now full of motivation and ready to do something big in the Cavendish Laboratory.
As a result, as soon as he rolled up his arms and sleeves, Chen Muwu received a notice that the Royal Society was going to hold a meeting in London and invited him to attend.
After entering the British academic system, there was this problem. I had to meet every now and then.
Because of the discovery of heavy hydrogen before, didn't Kapitsa also summon fellows from all over the UK to visit London?
Chen Muwu thought to himself whether he should find some reason to skip this meeting.
At this time, a telegram from abroad completely dispelled his idea.
(End of chapter)
