062 Mr. Thomas (2)
Thomas is a taciturn and uninteresting young Englishman, and because of his childhood experience, he has some strange understanding of China.
After experiencing the excitement of the failure of his job as a dental assistant, he went beyond the norm and said a lot of real and false comments about China.
Then I was accepted into a well-known law firm.
Began his career as a paralegal intern.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with the expansion of British colonies and the maturity of overseas markets, the demand for goods increased, and the production of handicraft workshops could no longer meet the needs.
In order to encourage invention and creativity, the United Kingdom enacted the world's first Patents Act.
This qiē led to a national enthusiasm for invention, production, and trade in Britain.
When Newton discovered the laws of the universe, the spirit of science permeated British society.
When Watt finally solved the core power problem with the universal steam engine, British industrialization began to be in full swing at an astonishing rate.
When Adam Smith pointed out the law of free competition in The Wealth of Nations, the British began to promote free trade and expand the global market, supported by their country's strong industrial capabilities.
Thanks to various synergies, Britain became the first industrialized country in the world. During this period, Britain defeated its powerful neighbor France and became the world's largest colonial empire.
(Baidu Encyclopedia, documentary, The Rise of Great Powers.) )
The people of Britain, and even the whole of Europe and the United States, have a crazy admiration for scientists.
As long as a scientist demonstrates his wisdom and value, no matter how strange and strange he is in other aspects, he will win the respect of the people and society.
Mr. Shandong registered a patent for penicillin under the Patent Law.
Mr. Shandong published papers in the Science Journal "Production and Application of Penicillin", "Characteristics and Applications of Radioactive Elements", and "Characteristics and Applications of Insulin".
The law firm he entrusted began to give him meticulous cooperation from all aspects, and the law firm's lawyers recruited assistant interns, all of whom chose people who had a certain knowledge and understanding of China, because Mr. Shandong was Chinese.
After Mr. Thomas started working, he gradually got to know Mr. Shandong, and it turned out that the scientific community in Europe and the United States had admired this Chinese to the extreme, and he really blushed for what he said on the day of the interview.
Pauli, a lawyer, and Robert, a doctor of medicine, hurried back from the far East to bring with them the "Agreement for the Transfer of the Right to Use Penicillin" signed by Mr. Shandong, which was only valid for three years.
At that time, there were more than a dozen most powerful pharmaceutical manufacturers in Europe and the United States, including Pfizer, Glaxo Wellcome, Smith Klebe, Sanofi Aventis, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Wyeth. Frequent visits to law firms.
A few are still melancholy, and the time for this power of attorney is too short and needs to be negotiated in detail. But momentary hesitation has become a hatred for the ages.
Glaxo Wellcome and Smith Kbe have written a check to pay a huge amount of royalties and preemptively signed the agreement, and since then these two companies have become the world's top pharmaceutical companies in the four major medical fields of anti-infection, central nervous system, respiratory, gastrointestinal tract and metabolism, and are also industry giants in the field of vaccines and anti-tumor drugs.
Because Mr. Shandong's patent term was only three years, and after three years, he had the right of first refusal to sign the contract under the same conditions, so the two companies had to choose to merge in order to resist the joint pressure of more than a dozen other companies.
The new company name is GlaxoSmithKline. Such a simple and clear company name, the European and American public can't remember, they only remember a very awkward name "Shandong" Mr. brand.
At the beginning of 1923, a large number of mass-produced penicillin were put on the market.
As far away as New York, North America, there are frequent deaths of patients due to the misuse of penicillin.
There were irrational patients who began to sue Mr. Shandong.
Mr. Pauli traveled to the North American continent to defend Mr. Shandong in a court in New York.
A large number of scientists and eminent doctors attended the courtroom. Thomas was accompanied as one of Pauli's personal assistants.
When Mr. Pauli roared in court:
"Is Mr. Shandong guilty?"
"Is science guilty?"
"You want to convict Mr. Shandong?"
"You're going to convict science?"
"Mr. Judge, every gentleman of the jury, gentlemen and ladies who are here to hear the guilt of science, let us join us and become the greatest joke in the history of mankind!"
The audience applauded thunderously, and even the old-fashioned and boring Mr. Thomas slapped his palms until they turned red.
It was originally a must-win lawsuit, but it made Mr. Shandong's reputation in the European and American scientific circles even higher.
Lawyer Pauli is very busy and has to socialize all kinds of things. Mr. Shandong's status as a lawyer is enough for him to be honored for a lifetime.
Thomas was mainly responsible for collating the information, and some scientists would write to Mr. Shandong to exchange information about the scientific community, and Thomas would send a telegram to Mr. Shandong almost every day. Every week, a large box of materials was mailed to Mr. Shandong, who lived in distant China.
Robert, Ph.D., often came to him, hoping to get the latest information from Mr. Shandong.
Occasionally, I would help him sort out the information and chat with him about some anecdotes in the scientific community.
Mr. Shandong's English grammar is even better than Thomas's, which always makes him worry that his job will be replaced by some new college student.
Fortunately, a year later, this situation still did not happen, and his weekly salary rose to fifty pounds.
For the first time, humans transmitted a picture across the Atlantic Ocean via guò radio waves. Mr. Shandong sent a telegram expressing his warm congratulations.
The German scientist Broglie proposed the concept of matter waves. Mr. Shandong sent a telegram expressing his warm congratulations.
The realization of the artificial transmutation of the atomic nucleus, Mr. Shandong sent a telegram to express his warm celebration and the article "The Wide Application of Atomic Energy".
The establishment of the international business machine qì company, Mr. Shandong sent a telegram to purchase instruments.
Electrocardiogram was widely used, and Mr. Shandong sent a telegram to express his warm celebration and the article "The Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease"
The World Campaign for the Prohibition of DU was held in London, England, and was attended by representatives from 16 countries around the world.
Mr. Thomas, who was twenty years old, got married, and Thomas was very anxious and very much looking forward to mentioning this in a letter to Mr. Shandong.
Two weeks later, he received a wedding gift from Mr. Shandong.
It was a small box of red openwork pieces of paper, which he carefully spread out, and it was simply breathtakingly beautiful. In the letter, Mr. Shandong said that this is a Chinese art, called paper-cutting, which is used for festive weddings and wishes him a happy marriage.
Mr. Thomas was so happy.
However, there are also many unhappy people in Europe and the Americas......