Chapter 117: High Society
With that, Li Kangping put on a blazer, put on a hard cap, and left the president's office.
"[ ] You said last week that scones, muffins, and apple pies were delicious...... "Jennifer disposed of the hot scones left by the president, which she found sweet and delicious.
After the massage, Li Kangping went to the Woodgate Laboratory of Columbia University.
In Li Kangping's memory, Arthur Compton was able to win academic disputes and win the Nobel Prize in his early thirties, mainly because Arthur Compton did well in experiments.
Wu Youxun has made a great contribution to the experiments of the Compton effect, and Brother Youxun should be doing related experiments at Zhida University.
After receiving a PhD from Columbia University, Li Kangping never did academic research experiments again.
As for academic research experiments, Li Kangping can also get the experimental equipment that can be obtained in the Woodgate laboratory, and the hardware is OK.
In terms of applications, Zeus Labs can recruit a number of application engineers.
In the field of pure academic research, the current Zeus Laboratory cannot recruit scholar-type high-end research talents for the time being.
Woodgate, Allen, and Mark are very hands-on skills.
In terms of high-energy electron diffraction experiments, Li Kangping gave these three people some directional hints, and then these three people carried out high-energy electron diffraction experiments in full swing in an efficient way.
"Lee, you mentioned sputtering technology and magnetic field adjustment last time, and we did that, as you can see, we measured the intensity of the halo ring with a photometer, and there was a peak on the intensity-distance curve, and the voltage was increased to 13,000 volts, and we were pleasantly surprised to find two rings, and then, we were even more pleasantly surprised to find the fourth ring. Unfortunately, no matter how hard we tried, we were never able to find the third ring. Professor Woodgate presented their process data without reservation.
"The equipment is fine." Li Kangping concentrated on observing this set of high-energy electron diffraction experimental equipment.
After checking the process data, Li Kangping thought for a moment, and then said: "The reason why I can't find the third ring is that I think the intensity is too weak for the photometer to observe the ring." ”
"That's it?" Professor Woodgate was surprised.
"It's that simple?" Alan was puzzled.
"Gentlemen, try it, maybe you can." Li Kangping insisted on his point of view.
"Lee, go out and take a walk." Professor Woodgate took out a cigarette box, took out a cigarette and lit it, and then paced outside with Li Kangping.
As far as the eye can see, several tents have been set up dozens of yards away, and several poor students who cannot afford to pay for accommodation or rent a house live in tents. They sit on the floor? Nibbling on hard bread while reading a book.
Are "tent students" not uncommon on U.S. campuses? Are they not good enough to get a good scholarship? So you can only live in tents.
"Poor boy." Li Kangping expressed sympathy for the "tent students".
"A lot of students have a part-time job outside while studying? Five dollars a week, eight dollars? Up to a dozen dollars. I hope they don't have to work so hard, but it can't be helped. We all know that? The children from the aristocratic public school will always be nobles? Children from ordinary middle schools have to worry about life. The professor said with emotion, and he added: "Whether it is the descendants of nobles or the sons of commoners, they are the wealth and hope of the United States. Lee, you too. ”
"The United States is a good country." Li Kangping said.
"Lee? You know? No one can become a physics professor in the United States at the age of 23, and the teaching assistant at Columbia University is indeed a little wronged by you, but we all came here like this, step by step, to get a professorship? Become a professor. ”
"Professor, I really don't have time to work as a teaching assistant at Columbia University right now."
After Dr. Li Kangping graduated? Successively received offers from several universities in the United States, Columbia? State University of New York, New York University? Wait a minute.
As Professor Woodgate put it? No one can become a physics professor in the United States at the age of 23.
Therefore, Li Kangping should start as a teaching assistant or assistant researcher.
Emeritus Professor? It's also acceptable for a visiting professor to hang out at a university and occasionally show up to do something.
However, this is the treatment of the big guy, and Li Kangping can't enjoy this kind of treatment for the time being.
How is it possible for President Li to become a full-time teaching assistant?
Therefore, Li Kangping politely turned down offers from those universities and devoted himself to running his company and developing his laboratory.
"Columbia hopes, and I hope, that the first Asian-American physics professor in the United States will be a professor at Columbia." Professor Woodgate extinguished his cigarette and said, "As far as I know, the Columbia University Graduate School recently invited Mr. Nagaoka to come to the institute as a professor, and Mr. Nagaoka himself had the same intention, but for some reason, Mr. Nagaoka could not make the trip. ”
Hantaro Nagaoka proposed the "Saturn model" twenty years ago, which predates Rutherford's model.
At that time, Prague put Hantaro Nagaoka's paper in front of Rutherford and asked Rutherford to read it.
Rutherford dismissed it as a "little Japan" job.
Of course, the Rutherford model is more complete than the Nagaoka model, so it was Rutherford who won the Nobel Prize. Eventually, Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and under the wise leadership of chemist Rutherford, the Cambridge Cavendish Physics Laboratory became the world's leading physics laboratory.
"Professor, I'd love to serve Columbia, but I can't really dedicate at least eight hours a day to teaching assistant work these days. If my company is in a state of stable operation, and I only need to spend an hour a week looking at the company's financial reports, then I am willing to start as a teaching assistant and strive to become a professor. If I could, I would like to become the dean of the graduate school at Columbia University. ”
Li Kangping once again politely declined the offer of his alma mater, Columbia.
In general, Li Kangping's visit to the Woodgate laboratory was very rewarding.
If nothing else, the Woodgate Laboratory will be able to complete the high-energy electron diffraction experiment within this year and obtain conclusive experimental evidence.
On Saturday, Li Kangping put on a banquet suit, sat in the back of the car, and set off from Queens, driven by the driver He Yaohui to Wudao Street.
Arriving at the destination, Li Kangping got out of the car and waited.
In an instant, Sophie went downstairs, wearing a black gown, and her bare arms looked very soft and glowing like milk. Her thick blond hair was piled up high in a noble dynamic wave, her lip gloss was a deep carmine, and her blue eyes were slightly greenish like fragile porcelain, and she was a flawless and delicate beauty by any angle.
Sophie came to Li Kangping, who held Sophie's arms and kissed Sophie's cheek.
"Sophie, you're dazzling today."
"Dr. Li, you look handsome too."
"Honey, get in the car."
Li Kangping and Sophie entered the car, and He Yaohui drove the car away from Fifty Streets and headed for Long Island.
"Honey, don't you have any scenes to shoot lately?" Li Kangping asked.
"Honey, I really haven't received a play lately." Sophie's annoyance, which quickly vanished, was replaced by a cheerful and charming smile.
"The prom organized by the RCA, the party organized by the Rockefeller Foundation, it seems that you are very popular in the social circles of high society." Sophie said curiously.
"Sophie, do you know that there is really only one reason why these upper-class people invite me---- technology."
"TV technology?"
"Yes and no."
The car drove to a mansion on Long Island, a more imposing mansion than the Strauss mansion.
Under the guidance of the servants of the mansion, He Yaohui parked the car in the designated place, surrounded by all kinds of luxury cars.
Sophie affectionately held Li Kangping's arm, and Li Kangping handed the invitation to the person dressed as a housekeeper.
The mansion was built by the sea, and Li Kangping and Sophie walked along the coastline. Sophie was always admiring, admiring the dark outline of the majestic castle set against the blue sky, and as she walked, she admired the huge garden, the strong fragrance of roses, the fragrance of hawthorn flowers, and the faint fragrance of pale gold erotic flowers.
The lawn between the garden and the sea is the main venue for the party, with round and long tables in front of the stage, on which various drinks and cold cuts are rested, and servants politely and humbly serve the glamorous male and female guests of high society.
"Ma'am, Dr. Lee, please sit here." The housekeeper arranged for Li Kangping and Sophie to sit at a round table and poured champagne for the two.
"Actually, I've always wanted to ask, my dear, who exactly did you invite?" Sophie asked.
"Mr. Rogge Kingston, he invited me." Li Kangping said, "Looking at the surname, it doesn't seem to be a member of the Rockefeller family." ”
Sophie's lips immediately pressed to Li Kangping's ear, and she whispered: "Mr. Rogge Kingston, he married a woman from the Rockefeller family, this is not news, everyone in the New York social circle knows it." ”
"Oh, really?"
Li Kangping looked around, he didn't know anyone else, he only knew Mr. Rogge Kingston and the fat man expert and the thin man expert, but these three people did not appear in Li Kangping's field of vision.
The Rockefeller Foundation is not a Sicilian mafia, they don't engage in the kind of inheritance where blood is above all else.
The members of the Rockefeller Foundation Board of Directors are not all members of the Rockefeller family, but people who have Rockefeller blood, or who have developed a relationship with someone who has Rockefeller blood, will certainly occupy several seats on the Rockefeller Foundation Board of Directors.
In an instant, he arrived, and Roger Kingston appeared at the party.
Along with Roger Kingston was a noble lady and a beautiful boy about ten years old.
This time, there is no need for Sophie to break the news, Li Kangping can also visually detect that the noble wife and cute boy are Kingston's wife and children.
Kingston took their seats at the round table closest to the stage, and Kingston gave a few words to the butler, and then greeted the guests at the other tables.
"Dr. Lee." Kingston walked over to Li Kangping's table.
"Mr. Kingston." Li Kangping shakes hands with Kingston.
"Roger Kingston."
"Miss Sophie Buffalo."
"Miss Buffalo, Dr. Lee, have fun."
Kingston made the most basic of etiquette to the young man and woman, and then left.
"Honey, I don't think you two know each other very well, do you?" Sophie's sexy lips approached Li Kangping's ears again. Sophie Buffalo is her stage name and she is a Buffalo native.
"One side." Li Kangping explained.