"I didn't mean to, isn't it that Nina won't let me say it!"

Evan looked innocent, "Okay, let's get angry, don't you know now, so I'll leave the job to you." ”

Virginia was angry, but helpless, and it was clear that in Nina's opinion, Evan was more reliable than her.

Obviously I am my sister.

"No, you can pick it up, but you have to promise me one thing. ”

Evan said, "What, you say?"

Virginia's eyes rolled, and she thought of a temporary request: "You are not allowed to say anything about me and him in advance." ”

Evan thought for a moment and agreed, "Yes, but your own exposure doesn't count." ”

After taking care of his personal affairs and the business of the company and the laboratory, Evan left for Boston.

Boston is the capital of Massachusetts and a major population center on the East Coast of the United States. The Boston-Cambridge-Quincy metropolitan area is one of the top 10 metropolitan areas in the United States.

Boston is known as the "steering wheel of science and technology" because many well-known American universities, including Harvard University and MIT, are located on the periphery of Boston.

Because there are so many universities here, the annual meeting of the American Physical Society is often held in Boston.

On March 5, Evan and his entourage arrived in Boston and checked into a hotel provided by the conference organizers.

Caltech is not the only one who has arrived, but several other professors who are studying other fields, such as Professor David Anderson, who studies nuclear physics.

The venue of the annual meeting is a professional conference center, located in the downtown area of Boston, so even though Harvard University and MIT are close to each other, their people stay in hotels during the conference.

On March 6, the four-day annual meeting officially began.

Although it is said to be an annual meeting, unlike the company's annual meeting, which focuses on eating, drinking, and relaxing, the annual meeting of the Physics Society naturally focuses on academic meetings. Therefore, at the beginning of the annual meeting, a variety of academic conferences and presentations on different topics began. Researchers who submit their papers in advance will speak on stage in order of topic and arrangement.

Evan was also one of the researchers invited to give a presentation, which was scheduled for the third day.

The meeting lasted from the morning to half past five in the afternoon, and there were special speeches by academic experts in the middle.

Although it was his first time attending the annual meeting, Evan did not show the same excitement or enthusiasm, because he had attended many similar meetings before.

He was not so interested in such meetings as he was more interested in who was there.

"Is Dr. Albert Einstein here?"

"Nope!"

"That's a shame. ”

"Where's Dr. Compton?"

"Neither!"

"Alas......"

"What about Dr. Percy Bridgeman?"

At breakfast, Layton, who was impatiently asked, stopped answering, looked at Evan and said, "Why are you patronizing and asking them?"

Evan replied as a matter of course: "They won the Nobel Prize." ”

Layton said: "You know, few Nobel Prize winners are still young, unless they are close, who will come out for a meeting." ”

Evan nodded: "That's right." ”

Evan understands, but is still disappointed.

If people aren't there, they can't take a group photo.

Evan, who couldn't "chase stars", could only restrain his mind and pick a meeting that he was interested in for a long time.

At seven o'clock in the evening, there was one of the highlights of the annual meeting, the awards dinner, which Evin did not plan to attend because he did not win the award. However, on second thought, it would be better to get to know more people, and finally Evan showed up at the venue.

The venue was a typical Western-style buffet dinner, and Evan had a full meal before he began his plan to increase his acquaintance list.

Of course, because he didn't know many people, Evan needed an introducer, so he cheekily approached Professor David Anderson.

There was no way, Professor Watson from his own laboratory didn't come, and neither did Leiden himself, so he had to find someone else.

Although Professor Anderson wanted to accept Evan as a student, but he refused, Evan did not have a bad relationship with him, and Anderson was still willing to help him.

"This is Professor Edward Purcell of Harvard University......"

"Hello!" Professor David Anderson is a Nobel laureate, knows a lot of people, and surprises Evan as soon as he comes up.

"His name is Evan Warren, and his field of study is solid state physics......"

"I have admired the name for a long time. ”

"He's working on MRI, and if you're interested, you can go and listen to his presentation tomorrow. ”

"Interested...... interested"

Here, Evan changed his previous appearance of being clumsy and could talk to everyone, and it didn't take long for him to get a bunch of people's business cards. Of course, he also gave away a stack of his business cards accordingly.

Evan's night wasn't all smooth sailing, with a little fun with someone in between.

The other party is from the famous Bell Labs.

His name is Shockley, and as rumored, he has a short temper.

Because of the overlapping research fields, the two sides have never met before, but they are familiar with each other.

Shockley was not convinced that Evan had preemptively published his research on transistors more than once at a young age, so he couldn't help but question Evan after an unexpected meeting at the venue. Evan slammed back, of course.

Although he himself knew that he had indeed robbed others of their achievements, he would never back down in this situation.

If he quits, he won't have to stay in academia.

However, the conflict between the two sides is limited to words, and Shockley is much bigger than Evan after all, and no matter how bad his temper is, it will not break out on such an occasion.

That would only lose his own face.

The next day, the meeting continued, and Evan listened to the academic reports of many friends he met at the dinner yesterday as agreed, and asked many in-depth questions, which led to discussions one after another in the venue.

Among them was the report of Professor Edward Purcell, who studied nuclear magnetic resonance.

"Maybe MRI can be applied to medicine, it's a genius idea. ”

On the third day, Evan took to the podium, and the content of the report was an extension of the paper on the principle of PN junctions published last year, but the content and experimental data were more detailed, and some prospects for the future applications of transistors. It's not that Evan is lazy, but after discussing it with Professor Watson and others, they all think that this article is the most suitable.

The response to Evan's report was good, especially the part about looking forward to the future, which attracted a lot of questions. However, Evan was not stumped and gave beautiful answers one by one.

Shockley, a fellow researcher on transistors, came to power after Evan gave his presentation. With Evan's report in front of him, Shockley's results became much inferior. 8)