Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Thriving Garden
In the winter of 1922, Planck and other scientists arrived in Regensburg, and the Regensburg Institute was formally established, headquartered at the University of Regensburg.
With Hitler's full investment, the Regensburg Institute had some of the best research facilities in the world, spent a lot of money on many sophisticated and advanced instruments, and built the most advanced astronomical telescopes in Europe in Norway and the Alps.
Of course, whether it is a sophisticated instrument, a safe environment, or the best astronomical telescope, it can only barely attract the interest of scientists. But the emergence of a few things could not stop the pace of scientists: Hitler, under the guidance of Planck and other physical scientists, spent a lot of money to build large instruments such as the Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator, and the electromagnetic test site.
When physicists in Europe and even the whole world heard that Regensburg was building a hadron collider and a particle accelerator, they did not believe it at first, but after confirming it, they flocked to see it, and the governments of the world could not stop it. The reason for the madness of scientists is that at this time, advanced physics is often in the stage of talking on paper, especially the study of the microscopic world, there are only theories, and some experiments cannot be carried out at all, but with the Hadron Collider and the particle accelerator, these two instruments are important tools to explore the properties, internal structure and interaction of atomic nuclei and particles, with these two instruments, many theories can be confirmed, and many theories in the bottleneck will be broken through. Nature caused the madness of the world's physicists.
Although these large instruments have not yet been built, many scientists have already come to Regensburg to supervise the construction.
On the British side, Rutherford, the leader of the Cavendish Laboratory (who produced 12 Nobel laureates in chemistry), Henry Bragg (professor at the University of London, 1915 Physics Prize), and Charles Glover Bacla (Cambridge professor in 1917 in physics).
In France, there is Marie Curie, President of the French Academy of Sciences Lippmann.
In the United States, there are Compton, a physics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Milligan, chairman of the physics department at the University of Chicago, and Nikola Tesla, a genius.
Even in Russia, which was in the midst of civil strife, several figures at the center of its physics community, such as Tamm, Jofy, Focker, and Frenkel, came to Germany.
As for the celebrities who came to Regensburg in Germany, there were Hilbert (the banner of mathematics, the uncrowned emperor of mathematics, the genius of geniuses), Klein (the top 30 figures in the history of mathematics), Noether (the queen of mathematics), von Neumann (Hilbert's assistant, lecturer at the University of Berlin, the future father of computing and the father of game theory), and Ratmacher (head of the mathematics department at the University of Berlin).
In the German physics community, there are theoretical pioneer Albert Einstein, the central figure Planck (at this time, Planck and Einstein were equally famous, but because of Planck's selfless sharing achievements and upright character, his prestige was unparalleled), Arnold Sommerfeld (the founder of quantum mechanics and atomic physics, and he was also an outstanding teacher, teaching and training many excellent theoretical physicists, and teaching the most Nobel Prize winners in physics, six Nobel Prize winners in physics were his disciples), Born (one of the founders of quantum mechanics, Heisenberg, Fermi, Oppenheimer and other teachers), Schrödinger (one of the founders of quantum mechanics, put forward the famous Schrödinger's cat theory), Otto Hahn (the person who built the atomic bomb in Germany in World War II in the future), Frank and other hundreds of authoritative scientists.
In addition to these, more than a dozen German laureates since the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics have also come to Regensburg, such as the world's first person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics: Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen (who discovered X-rays).
The rest of the world's physics centers or the Nobel Prize in Physics have been to Regensburg to a greater or lesser extent.
Some of these scientists saw that the conditions of the Regensburg Institute of Science were relatively good, and Hitler strongly sponsored them, and the construction of the particle accelerator also needed the guidance of scientists, so many of them stayed in Regensburg for the time being to conduct scientific research.
The arrival of these scientists made Hitler so excited that he couldn't sleep, and he was full of energy all day, sometimes going to the construction site market, and sometimes chatting and drinking coffee with the scientists.
Einstein, Planck, Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, Bohr are big names even ordinary people who don't care about physics, and with the arrival of these scientists, their disciples also came to Germany, such as Heisenberg, Fermi, Oppenheimer, Sommerfeld's six disciples, scientists around Planck, it should be mentioned here that Planck has a disciple named Carmen, and later became an American citizen. He was the greatest aerospace engineer of the 20th century, pioneered the application of mathematics and basic science in aerospace and other technical fields, and was known as the "scientific genius of the aerospace age".
With the arrival of these scientists and the influx of Chinese students, the whole of Regensburg is full of academic learning and is like a thriving garden.
"The scenery here is good, and we need to build a few villa areas for scientists to live in." Hitler instructed the officials of the city government that under the construction of the people, Regensburg has undergone earth-shaking changes, the original urban area can only be walked in half an hour, and now Regensburg is built along the Danube, divided into the old town, the commercial area, the accommodation area, the dock area, the university area, and the industrial park, each district is clean and tidy, among which the university town has a beautiful scenery and is planted with peach blossoms and willow trees all over the mountain.
"Hitler, particle accelerators are an important tool for studying fundamental physics, but we also need to make sound other physics research equipment, you look at the list that needs to be built and purchased."
Einstein, who had a white-haired explosive head, found Hitler and handed him a long list of optical cryostats and molecular beam epitaxy systems written on the list, all of which Hitler couldn't understand, and waved his hand and said: "Buy, buy, buy, buy everything for me, and we will make it ourselves if we can't buy it." ”
After sending Einstein away, Planck approached Hitler again: "Studying physics is a lonely and poor road, students are busy studying physics all day, have no time to work, and can only live on bonuses and subsidies, but bonuses are not available to every student, so I hope that for poor students you can sponsor them." ”
"Agree to the grant, Mr. Planck, please be the president of the Hillame Education Association, and let you personally distribute the grant to the students." Hitler directly wrote a document and handed it to Planck, for the study of physics students, Hitler deeply sympathized, the study of physics does not make money, or even lose money, which has caused many talented but poor families to have to stop their studies, and even some physics students do not get a decent job after graduation, these situations are guided by the state and society.