Chapter XXVII
"Hehe, it seems that there is probably a lot of movement this time."
Looking at the telegram in his hand and smiling bitterly, in his spacious and comfortable office, John once again recalled the three major discoveries of physics at the end of the 19th century.
The X-ray was proposed by him and achieved by Professor Roentgen, and it caused a huge sensation the year before. If it is just a general physics discovery, no matter how much physicists attach importance to it, it will not spread to ordinary people, but X-rays are obviously an accident. The technology of being able to take photographs of human bones has made everyone very curious, and not only have major newspapers around the world reported on it, but Professor Röntgen's laboratory has also welcomed waves of visitors. Of course, this is a good thing for him, on the one hand, he has a great reputation, and on the other hand, he has a lot of money for university approval and social funding for research.
Equally famous, and of course our John? Mr. Huntelaar.
It's just that he can keep a low profile, and most people think that he is just lucky, after all, no one who sees the relevant reports will think that a doctor plays a greater role than a physics professor. In the end, however, John was satisfied, and Roentgen became famous, and he was able to afford it – all the patents for the post-X-ray period went to Heinz Medical Devices.
Only this time, John couldn't keep a low profile.
The introduction of the concept of natural radioactivity and electrons can be imagined for the vibration of physics. Not to mention the fact that the person who proposed these two theories turned out to be not a pure physicist, but a physician, how could this not cause an uproar?
The first response John received came from Professor Roentgen, whom he had worked with.
As soon as the two papers were completed, John had already sent a letter to Roentgen, which was a copy of the two papers, and the physics professor who was of great character certainly took it seriously, and immediately found a few colleagues and students to start experimenting. John's letter to Professor Röntgen was not a simple paper. It contains a detailed account of the design, process, and results of the two experiments, which were copied directly from memory anyway, and did not require much work. When the results came out, Röntgen could not even wait to write a letter, but sent him a telegram of more than 1,000 words without any expense - John was slightly taken aback when he received this telegram.
"It's a pity. There are too many questions and too many complexities! ”
After thinking about it for a while, John casually threw the telegram on his desk. Professor Röntgen's telegram was of course full of questions of all kinds, full of doubts and doubts. If he had been a physicist in his previous life, even if he was just a physics student, John would have written a letter to reply to these questions, but he only knew a little bit about it, and it would have been fine to write down the common sense that later generations of high school students would know, but it would be too difficult to explain it systematically......
"Gotcha! Get! ”
Just as John pondered how to reply to Roentgen's letter, there was a knock on his office door.
"Good afternoon. Mr. Huntelaar. ”
"Good afternoon, Professor Sloane."
John stood up with some surprise and greeted with a smile: "Why do you have time to come to me today, is there something going on?" ”
Although the connection between Heinz General Hospital and Columbia College Surgery is very close, and even Thomas's personal relationship with the Sloan professor is quite close, John and his words are very ordinary. First, the age gap between the two is a bit large, about twenty years old is quite a big gap, and second, John's current academic status and so on. There's no need to care about a professor of surgery at Columbia College, there isn't much in common between the two. So I saw Professor Sloan come to visit me. John was a little puzzled.
"Haha, I'll introduce you to a friend."
After a little embarrassment, Professor Sloan immediately introduced John to another middle-aged gentleman who was following him: "This is Mr. Higgs, a physics professor at our school, and he is very eager to visit you......"
Physics professor?
After listening to Professor Sloane's introduction, John's brow furrowed. Don't think about it, just see if it's Professor Sloan. John had already guessed what the other party meant. A physics professor visited him at the hospital, no doubt because the professor of surgery had seen the two papers—the surgeons in Columbia, who are now Heinz General Hospital's closest partners, almost always had a copy of the New Medical Journal.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Higgs."
"Good afternoon, Mr. Huntelaar."
The middle-aged white man in his forties shook John's right hand hard. He said in a somewhat high-pitched tone: "It's an honor to meet the inventor of X-ray...... I always thought that the name in Professor Röntgen's paper was European, but I didn't expect you to be an American, and you were in New York! God, if I had known, I would have come to visit you a long time ago! ”
"Huh."
John didn't know what to say other than laughing.
In order to initiate the reform of diagnostics in advance, John actually worked hard, first taking out the most important achievements of Professor Roentgen's life in advance, and then desperately asking the other party to keep a low profile. And now, in order not to make his "invented" X-ray a killer for decades, he had to throw out two other physics theories in advance......
"Well, what's going on!"
Facing a real physics professor, John is very weak-hearted.
In the final analysis, even if it comes from more than a hundred years later, the most cutting-edge knowledge of physics in this era is only at the level of high school in John's eyes, but he is not a real physicist after all. With his time at the University of Berlin, Johann was fine talking about theories, writing papers, and even designing one or two classical experiments, but when it came to specific physics, he was far worse than the real physicists!
And......
After all, human energy is limited, and John has to lead a medical school and hospital, and take care of his own growing industry, how can he have time to spend time on physics? If it weren't for the evidence to illustrate the dangers of X-rays, he wouldn't have made the three major discoveries of physics at the end of the 19th century......
Thinking wildly, John invited the two of them to sit down on the couch.
After the pleasantries, the physics professor explained his intentions, and sure enough, as John had guessed, he had come for the two papers. It's just that although this Professor Higgs may have been the first physicist to see these two papers in addition to Roentgen, it was much later in time, and unlike Professor Roentgen, who was far away in Europe, this person who had not conducted experiments or anything came directly to the door.
In any case, the impact of these two papers on a physicist is too great!
"So, what do you mean by coming today......"
John, who was a little impatient in his heart, raised his eyebrows and asked lightly.
"Can you take a tour of your lab?"
Swallowing a mouthful of spit, Professor Higgs asked eagerly, "It would be great if you could repeat the two experiments, and then we at Columbia College would prove it ...... at once."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Higgs."
Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, John frowned and refused: "I'm very busy with work, I'm afraid I don't have time to repeat the experiments that have been done before!" And I think my paper is already clear, Columbia College doesn't even have the conditions to repeat the test, right? ”
"Huh? Do you know the importance of these two experiments? ”
Upon hearing John's answer, Mr. Higgs was stunned. He felt that the performance of Mr. Huntelaar in front of him was too strange, and if the contents of the two papers were true, then the impact on physics and even chemistry was undoubtedly very great, and what work could be more important than proving them?
John wasn't interested in guessing what Higgs was surprised about, he threw out these two theories and was already very entangled, he didn't want to think about it at all, so he simply shook his head and said: "I'm sorry Mr. Higgs, I'm a physician, to be precise, a surgeon, physics experiments are just a hobby after work, if these two experiments are really that important, I think there must be a lot of people who are willing to repeat them......"
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The more you break it, the more you can't write it. (To be continued.) )