Of course, what Rutherford said about achieving new results in life as soon as possible did not refer to other things, but to let Chen Muwu train the next generation as soon as possible.
For someone to say something like this on an occasion like a wedding, no one would think he was inappropriate, let alone offensive.
After all, whether in the East or the West, marriage is always linked to reproduction.
We are all just ordinary people, not the kind of big landowners or nobles who can have many illegitimate children without getting married. We are not the so-called Virgin Mary who gives birth to a baby out of thin air in a manger without getting married and has never met a man.
Especially the old lady of the Chen family, after listening to her eldest son Chen Muqiao translate Rutherford's wedding speech into English word for word, she was so happy that she couldn't help but clapped her hands.
As for the people sitting in the audience watching the ceremony, their performances were also very different.
Einstein, on the other hand, let out a long sigh: "I didn't expect that Chen Muwu would enter the grave of marriage so early."
Bohr, who was sitting next to Einstein, had different opinions on his statement: "Professor Einstein, if I remember correctly, it seems that you got married earlier than Dr. Chen. It seems that you just graduated from university. Before I even had time to bring up the theory of relativity, I was already married."
Einstein nodded and agreed with Bohr's statement: "That's why I couldn't hold on to that marriage to the end and ended up breaking up early. That's why I just said something with emotion, thinking Chen, it’s too early for him to get married.”
Einstein and Bohr not only held different views on whether quantum mechanics was correct, but their marital status and views were also very different.
Bohr, who had a happy marriage and a happy family, strongly disagreed with Einstein's pessimistic predictions about Chen Muwu's marriage.
Especially since today was a happy day for his junior brother, he would never allow Einstein to say such pessimistic and depressing words on such an occasion.
"Professor Einstein, I think they are two talented and beautiful people, and one is a top student in the Cavendish Laboratory, and the other is also the youngest daughter of the great physicist Madame Curie. No matter how you look at it, they are a perfect match." , the marriage of the two people has connected the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University and the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, and maybe they can achieve more new results in the future."
"I hope so! In fact, I hope more than anyone else that Dr. Chen can make new discoveries one after another like this year. It would be best to spend a few years so that he can thoroughly study everything about the nucleus, or Let him completely lose interest in those things in the microscopic world, and then devote all his time to the study of cosmology. While I still have some energy, we can completely decipher the mysteries of the universe together."
Hearing Einstein's unrealistic spring and autumn dream, Bohr responded with a smile: "Professor Einstein, you are still thoughtful."
Throughout 1928, the wedding that attracted the most worldwide attention came to a successful conclusion.
With the help of relatives, friends and royal staff, Chen Muwu held the wedding perfectly without any mistakes.
A night of silence.
The next day, these scientists and other personnel who came to London from all over the world to attend the wedding did not choose to return and leave the UK because the wedding was over.
Because the vast majority of them are engaged in research in science-related undertakings, it is not easy for them to get together with their peers, especially the top players in the industry.
Taking advantage of Chen Muwu's marriage, everyone came to London, England from all over the world. It was just a chance to discuss some academic issues with each other.
For example, Einstein and Bohr, because they lived in the same room in a hotel, they had already discussed whether quantum mechanics was correct or incorrect before Chen Muwu's wedding.
The younger generation such as Oppenheimer, Heisenberg, Dirac and von Neumann began to gather together when they served as Chen Muwu's best man.
After the wedding, de Broglie and Kapitsa were added to their group.
In addition to these people in the physics circle, Russell and Ramsey, who were unable to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians at the University of Bologna in Italy today, also took the opportunity to attend Chen Muwu's wedding to meet Hilbert, the king of mathematics.
After greeting each other, Hilbert half-jokingly joked at Russell: "You, the most powerful mathematician at Cambridge University, are really incompetent. You obviously have a peerless genius like Chen Muwu around you, but you want to kill him." Let him go and study physics."
Hubble familiarly approached Eddington, the director of the Cambridge Observatory, and Jeans, the president of the Royal Astronomical Society, to discuss the matter of borrowing their telescopes for astronomical research in the recent period.
Chen Muwu, who just got married, still has a lot of things to do.
So his teacher Rutherford stood up naturally. He simply asked Chadwick to organize a tour of the Cavendish Laboratory to bring together all the scientists from any discipline who came to attend Chen Muwu's wedding. Organized and all were welcomed from London to Cambridge University.
Others only hold corresponding commemorative activities when it is the anniversary of the birth or death of a certain great scientist, or the completion of a certain famous scientific event.
Moreover, the relevant personnel participating in the meeting should also be practitioners in this discipline.
For example, last spring, Chen Muwu attended the Como Conference in Como, near Milan, Italy, to commemorate the centenary of Volta's death. All the participants were physicists.
Looking at all the academic conferences in the world, it seems that this is the only one that was held temporarily at Cambridge University. It was not to commemorate a certain person or event, but to celebrate Chen Muwu's successful marriage.
Rutherford was very satisfied with his impromptu arrangement, except for one thing, which was the world's number one particle accelerator in the Cavendish Laboratory. It had only been a year since it was replaced by Chen Muwu this year. The cyclotron created in Stockholm surpassed the past.
If there hadn't been that disgusting cyclotron, then by bringing so many physicists to visit Cambridge University this time, maybe we could have sold a few more units and added some funding to the Cavendish Laboratory. .
After Chen Muwu finished his wedding-related matters, he followed closely to the Cavendish Laboratory.
Chen Muwu returned to Cambridge University, on the one hand, to express his gratitude to the guests who came from all over the world to attend his wedding, and on the other hand, to recruit talents and preach to everyone the relevant policies of Stockholm Prince's College.
Even if he exaggerates Prince College's salary package, he still won't be able to attract those who are older and have stable jobs.
Bohr was the director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in his hometown of Copenhagen, and Einstein was also the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics. These people all lived peacefully in their respective countries, even though they had a good relationship with Chen Muwu , but he will definitely not make the move to leave his hometown and go to a new place.
Of course, the main target group of Chen Muwu's preaching is not them.
The main reason for saying this in front of everyone was to plant a seed in their hearts, especially those Jewish scientists from Germany.
If one day they have to leave their country due to certain things, perhaps the seed buried in their hearts will take root and sprout. Compared to going to the United States, there is a closer Sweden for them to settle down.
The main target of Chen Muwu's lecture this time is those who are about to graduate or have already graduated and have mixed qualifications in well-known universities or research institutes, such as Heisenberg and von Neumann.
As an old German with the tricolor flag, the former is likely to choose to teach at a university in Germany. Even if his academic level is not among the top in Germany, as long as he is in his hometown, he will be fine.
But for von Neumann, he was not a German but a Hungarian. Moreover, he went to university in Zurich and received a doctorate from the University of Budapest in Hungary.
It can be said that if he had not studied mathematics with Professor Hilbert at the University of Göttingen after obtaining his doctorate, von Neumann would not necessarily have stayed in Germany.
Without Chen Muwu, von Neumann's life trajectory would have been to leave Germany for the United States in the 1930s, and then happened to escape several campaigns against Jews in Germany, and he would have stayed there for the rest of his life.
Now that Chen Muwu is there, von Neumann has naturally become his main target.
To what America? Why not go to Sweden with yourself!
Just relying on your own words, even if you blow up Stockholm Prince's College, the number of people you can attract is still very limited.
If you want to make what you say more convincing, you must give specific examples.
Chen Muwu successively developed cyclotrons at Prince's College within half a year, and discovered neutrons and positrons, as well as the 85th iodine-like element and the 43rd manganese-like element, which are convincing examples.
In addition, he also invited important guests.
Chen Muwu did not come to Cambridge University from London alone. He was followed by the Curie family of three, who have finally become a family, and Chen Aifu.
This was the first time for Marie Curie to visit the Cavendish Laboratory, and she also saw the particle accelerator that had fascinated her at first.
But "this time, that time", because compared to the world's first particle accelerator in front of me, I already have another one that is better.
Yes, Marie Curie came to the Cavendish Laboratory not just to attend the impromptu academic conference convened by Rutherford at Cambridge University.
Her new uncle invited her here just to help Prince Academy stand up.
At this meeting, Marie Curie announced a ground-breaking news to everyone. She announced that she would transfer the center of her research from the Radium Institute in Paris, France, to the Prince's College in Stockholm, Sweden.
Marie Curie made this decision after careful consideration.
Because since last year, her eldest daughter and son-in-law have gone to Stockholm and made so many achievements at Prince's College with Chen Muwu.
In addition, both of them unanimously praised Prince's College for not only having bright and clean windows, but also for having a much better research atmosphere than the Radium Institute in Paris.
Chen Muwu's research results are there, Irena and Frederic gave strong testimonies, and Mrs. Curie was unwilling to be too far away from her two children.
——After Ive gets married, she will definitely live with Chen Muwu, and Irena and Frederick have also made it clear that they will also go to Prince College for research in the future.
So after thinking about it, after Chen Muwu and Eve's wedding, Madame Curie expressed to her new son-in-law that she also wanted to go to Sweden together. Chen Muwu was naturally very excited after hearing this.
But he also invited his mother-in-law to do him a favor at Cambridge University.
So at today's meeting, Madame Curie announced her decision.
All the scientists present knew that Chen Muwu had not only produced so many new results at Prince's College, but had also invited Marie Curie, a Beidou-level figure in the field of radioactive physics, to Stockholm.
This news will soon spread from Cambridge University to every corner of the world.
Although they are related to each other, being able to allow Marie Curie to leave Paris, where she had lived for many years, and go to Stockholm, an extremely cold place in Northern Europe, in itself shows a kind of recognition of the predecessors of physics to the younger generations.
Rutherford, who was sitting in the audience, was filled with regret:
He regretted why he had not given birth to another daughter, otherwise his favorite Dr. Chen would not be the son-in-law of his "old enemy" the Curies, but his own son-in-law;
He regretted that he should have been more generous to Chen Muwu and not choke him with funds.
But regretting it now has no effect. Rutherford can only wish his good student a bright future.
This impromptu academic conference held at the University of Cambridge had no fixed topics and the duration of the conference was not long.
After the conference, guests from all over the world either returned to where they came from, or used the UK as a springboard to continue visiting other places.
Marie Curie also returned to Paris with Irena and Frederic, and began planning to move to Stockholm.
After returning home for a short rest and adjustment, Chen Muwu took his new wife Eve and left London for Stockholm.
In the next period of time, he will take a break from academic research and devote all his body and mind to the construction of Prince College.
(End of chapter)
