Professor Leo is a professor who grew up according to American stereotypes of professors. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

His hair is unkempt, like Einstein, the most familiar scholar in the United States, but God is pitiful, except for Einstein, there are very few professors whose hair is unkempt.

In addition to being raunchy, Professor Leo's body shape also grew according to the American requirements for scholars, he was slender, not particularly tall, but very thin, and his voice was also slender, not sharp, but inevitably neurotic.

In addition, Professor Leo is very bad at making eye contact with others, even the sincere eyes of salespeople, and he will deliberately avoid the eyes of others, or simply lower his head and talk without looking at them.

Every time he saw Professor Leo, Colbert didn't believe that he was a famously mean professor, but in the middle of each conversation, Colbert did.

However, compared with other well-known professors, this tenured professor at the University of Chicago has a quality that ordinary people do not have, and at the same time, it is also one of the qualities that people remember, he has a high level of productivity.

The same unpublished book, handed to other professors at the University of Chicago, may take ten days and a half to read, but given to Professor Leo, he will give an evaluation in two days at most.

Of course, the evaluation he gave was so miserable that the publisher didn't want to see it.

What is unfortunate is that Professor Leo's evaluation can often be recognized by the academic community, and in some cases, Professor Leo will even publish papers based on it, and the academic monographs that are fortunate to be valued by Professor Leo often sell very well, and can be selected by universities across the country almost instantly, and it is not difficult to sell more than 10,000 people.

Despite this benefit, under normal circumstances, Colbert would not want to try his luck with the poisonous professor.

Now this is an extraordinary situation.

Cowbert nervously handed the white book printed with "Genomics" to Professor Leo, and said, "This is the biology book that our publishing house is about to publish recently, and the author is ......."

"Isn't there a name on the cover? I don't need you to say any more, I see, you're Norton, aren't you? Just come back to me in two days. Leo lowered his head, as if looking at his toes shyly, but he was not at all polite.

"My contact information is written on the cover inside, and you can contact me if you have any questions. Colbert bent over and couldn't see Professor Leo's eyes.

"Got it, let's go. Leo still looked down at his toes.

"Okay, then I'll come to your office the day after tomorrow......"

"Hurry up, walk quickly. Leo's attitude was definitely unfriendly, and his expressions and movements were shy.

What else did Colbert want to say, but was forcibly pulled away by Colwin.

Colbert looked back at Leo as he shifted from shyness to holding his head high until he was stopped by one of the students.

"Don't kill the students. Colwin said: "If I study here, I must be hiding from him, if this guy is a truck driver, he must be a serial killer, he is now a biology professor, he can't make a big one, a cult leader or something." ”

"How can he be a cult leader like this? As soon as Colbert finished speaking, he saw the students in front of Leo cheering.

Several students surrounded Professor Leo, cheering loudly, attracting more students, one by one smiling happily, including several young and beautiful blondes, as for Professor Leo himself, he still bowed his head shyly and looked at his toes.

"This guy...... What's going on in the minds of college students these days? What are you cheering around this guy? "Colbert couldn't understand it.

"We're not going to kiss his ass yet. Colwin shrugged and said, "Let's visit a few more professors while it's still early." ”

As he spoke, he selected a few professors' addresses from the list that had not been successfully visited before.

The University of Chicago is huge, the professors are heavily loaded, and there will always be tenured professors you can't get to see in the busy.

Compared to the Ivy League universities, the University of Chicago, which is also a private university, is not well-known in China, but its strength is undeniable, with 91 Nobel laureates studying or working at the university, including four Chinese-American Nobel Prize winners. Yang Zhenning, Lee Tsung-dao, and Cui Qi all got Ph.D. in physics at the University of Chicago, and Li Yuanzhe, a Taiwan~Bay native, completed his career promotion from assistant professor to professor at the University of Chicago, and later went to the University of California, Berkeley, became a U.S. citizen, and then after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he gave up his U.S. citizenship and became the president of Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

At the same time, the University of Chicago Press is also one of the three largest university presses in the United States, so Colwin and Cowbert are very cautious in choosing professors to visit, and they also deliberately look for professors who are not closely related to the University of Chicago Press.

Still, as had happened to them before, few professors were willing to take the time to read a new book.

After a busy day, Colwin and Cowbett sat down in a fast-food restaurant with nothing.

"Tomorrow it's better to have a day off, the salad here is unpalatable. Colwin chewed like a cow.

"Do you want to wait for Professor Leo's conclusion?" said Coubert, munching on the burger, glancing at Colwin's salad with disgust.

"Of course. Many people like to read Professor Leo's evaluation, and we are now looking for other professors to read the book, and by the time they finish reading, Leo's evaluation has already come out, so it is better to wait for Leo's evaluation and give it to others together. ”

"What if Leo's assessment is terrible. ”

"No matter how bad the evaluation is, there is something to look at, if there is none, it is Daniel's problem. Colwin said indifferently: "Leo is a celebrity at the University of Chicago, and the professors trust his judgment, so, if something goes wrong, it's Daniel's fault, not ours." ”

"Okay, take a day off, and wait until we get Leo's evaluation. Hopefully not too ugly...... Waiter, I want a burger, a little more cheese, and a new cup of coffee. Coubert patted his stomach, tested the capacity, and changed the requirements: "Two burgers, more tomato sauce, I'm going to eat some vegetables, healthy eating ......"

"Add two more burgers and more tomato sauce. The waiter repeated.

"And cheese, put more cheese. ”

"Do you want more cheese or ketchup?"

"More cheese and more ketchup, oh, more peanut butter, I love peanut butter. Colbert emphasized.

The waiter pouted: "Sir, that's a hamburger, not a truck." ”

"Okay, put more cheese. Cowbert was disappointed and said, "It's time for us to change stores." ”

"You say that every time. Colwin ignored Coubert.

The waiter brought the burger a moment and asked, "Which of you is Cowbett?" ”

"Professor Leo of the University of Chicago?" Cowbert couldn't care about Burger.

"I don't know, he left a message, do you want to listen?" the waiter looked at him blankly.

"Of course. ”

"Come to my office now. The waiter finished and left.

Cobotra stopped her: "That's it?"

"That's all. ”

"How did he know we were here?"

The waiter shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't care," and then flicked his tail and left.

"Colbert, put down your burger, we're going to hurry over. Colwin wiped his mouth and stood up, urging: "Leo must know that we are here through someone from the University of Chicago Press, because all the people from the publishing house eat here, and Leo is looking for us, and the people from the University of Chicago Press must want to know why." ”

"Why?" said Cowbert, still hesitating between the two burgers.

Colwin said angrily, "Why do you say?"

"Chinese books?"

"Nonsense. Colwin dropped a few green bills and dragged Colbert away.

……

In Professor Leo's office, Leo sits on a globe, spinning in crazy circles.

When he's excited, when he's depressed, when he's busy, he likes to sit on a globe, and the University of Chicago has made him a sturdy and huge globe for this, enough to support a sturdy professor holding a petite professor around it.

Although he never used the globe to its fullest potential, Professor Leo loved it and spent 18 hours a day in school because of it.

At this time, Professor Leo held the thick white copy, and as he read it, he kept nodding: "That's it, it's the same as I thought, that's it......"

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