Chapter 14 His name is Chi Ming
After entering the store, after Wu Wanting expressed her intentions, two male clerks, one left and one right, followed her diligently and helped her choose clothes. The clerk was in his early twenties, handsome, and wore a uniform uniformβa white shirt and black bib pants, with very wide legs, similar to a women's hakama.
The shop is nearly 100 square meters. The pale yellow wooden floor, lotus lotus color European display shelves, and warm lighting give people a fashionable and elegant atmosphere. There was also a sweet smell of perfume wafting through the air, the smell of lilies mixed with citrus.
Ivy walked around the store, and the feminine dresses, suits and skirts for office girls, and a variety of lace shirts and knitted outerwear were all not her style of dressing. She sat bored on the sofa and enjoyed Wu Wanting's fitting show.
Wu Wanting saw that Ai Wei was not in high spirits, so she walked over and whispered in her ear: "This brand is bold and generous, and the amount of sponsorship given is very high, and I can't use it up alone, so you can pick a few sets." β
"You pick yours, I'm a little tired, rest for a while. Ivy leaned back on the couch and said with a blank face.
"Don't be so boring. Wu Wanting then turned around, picked out two dresses, held them to her chest and asked, "How about these two? β
"I don't feel it. Ivy shook her head.
"What about the light green suit I just tried?"
"I don't feel it. β
"Who, I don't care about you. Wu Wanting rolled her eyes angrily at her, so she had to continue to choose clothes by herself.
Ivy glanced at the coffee table in front of her, where several fashion magazines were spread, and a copy of the British magazine Nature was sandwiched between them.
Nature is one of the most authoritative scientific journals in the world, and many cutting-edge scientific research results will be published in the journal Nature in the form of papers. For researchers in various fields around the world, it is a great honor to publish articles on it.
It's amazing how there is such a world-class academic journal in a trendy women's clothing store. Nature, despite its prominent position in the scientific and technological world, is an obscure academic journal for the general public, and it is all in English. Not many people know, let alone subscribe. The reason why Ivy is familiar with it is because of her father, Ai Bingqing.
Ai Bingqing is a well-known biologist in China, and is currently the chief scientist of Huamei Genetics, with his own independent laboratory.
When Ivy was in elementary school, one of Ai's papers was published in the journal Nature, and she still remembers her father's ecstatic expression.
With nothing to do, Ivy reached out and picked up the magazine and flipped through it casually. The magazine's cover was a little old, and the corners were starting to roll up. She looked at the issue date, it was an issue from the end of last year. On the cover is a striking English title β Top 10 Scientific People of 2018.
Being selected for the Person of the Year list of Nature magazine is the ideal of countless scientists, even her father, Ivy pondered in her heart.
The magazine featured photographs of each of the figures, of all ages and skin tones, all of whom had made outstanding contributions to their fields over the past year and played a key role in the progress of science.
The first is an astronomer from the United States, who wears large black-rimmed glasses, a bit like a middle-aged Harry Potter, and then an Iranian female mathematician wrapped in a black turban.
When Ivy turned to the introduction of the third character, her eyes lit up, she was Chinese, 26 years old, and her name was in Hanyu Pinyin - Chi Ming.
As can be seen from the brief biography, he is a biological scientist who works on the study of genes that prevent infection and replication of viruses. He is the youngest foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology, and currently works at the WHO Institute of Life Sciences in New York.
The reason for the selection said: "Chi Ming is a Chinese biological scientist. In the past two years, he has led the first genetic sequencing study of the Ebola virus and has successfully developed therapeutics and antiviral vaccines. At great risk, he led a team to Sierra Leone in West Africa, an area with a high incidence of the Ebola virus, to treat and follow up on infected people and study the incidence of the Ebola virus. β
Ivy recalls a news report she read last year that Ebola is a difficult virus to deal with, easily infected through air and contact, and has a fatality rate of nearly 90 percent. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed thousands of people, including many health care workers and international volunteers.
That's amazing!, Ivy sighed to herself. She half-understood and half-guessed, reading the character introductions and the reasons for her selection. Her English is pretty good, but she doesn't know most of the terms of biology and medicine that are mixed in it.
The magazine devoted four full pages to the young genius scientist. She regretted that the man's photo did not appear in the magazine.
At the end of the article, the editor humorously explained: "Due to his lack of confidence in his own image, Chi Ming politely declined to publish his photo, after all, he is still an unmarried man." β
This guy is funny, Ivy thought with a smile.