Chapter 301 Concurrent Engineering

However, when they first learned the news, the first reaction of the two winners was to refuse to accept the award, they both thought that if Hu Weidong had not assigned them a topic and done crucial "preliminary work", they would not have been able to have such results, and even scientists with less talent than them could still achieve the same results with the help of Hu Weidong, at most it would only take a little time. Therefore, the two immediately planned to explain the matter to the Nobel Foundation, either to let Hu Weidong share the Nobel Prize with them, or to refuse to accept it altogether

Naturally, Hu Weidong did not agree with them in doing so, and this incident also reminded Hu Weidong that there was an unwritten rule in China's scientific and technological circles -- leading cadres are not allowed to accept any personal awards, whether domestic or foreign. If someone snatches the achievements of the following scientists in pursuit of fame and profit, scientists who have no power or power can often only swallow their anger, and if this phenomenon occurs in large numbers, it is bound to seriously dampen the enthusiasm of the vast number of scientific and technological workers, and Hu Weidong has no choice but to guard against it. With China's weak foundation, if we want to catch up with the great powers in science and technology as soon as possible, we must concentrate on tackling key projects, but doing so is also easy to breed academic corruption. Of course, there are some grievances for them personally, but because the collective award must be received by the leader on behalf of the project team, and the power itself is extremely attractive, it does not make scientists reluctant to be leaders

In fact, Hu Weidong does not attach much importance to the Nobel Prize in his heart, because this award seems fair, but in fact it has strong political overtones, and the vision of those judges is also very problematic (for example, Einstein's most important theory of relativity did not win the prize, but won the Nobel Prize for the much less secondary photoelectric effect). However, whether it is the War of Resistance or industrialization, China is now in urgent need of outside help, so it is still very beneficial to use this award to improve the image of Chinese in the West. In fact, it was also after the awarding of the Nobel Prize that it was much easier for China to bring in Western scientific and technological talent, if not to mention that the average cost of bringing in talent alone was reduced by half, saving at least one billion dollars in the following years, and many of those talents could not have been hired in the first place

Having said that, although those two scientists have achieved epoch-making scientific and technological achievements that cannot be avoided in the West because of Hu Weidong's help, even with their contributions in history, becoming Nobel Prize winners is well deserved, especially Wu Xian, with his invention of blood glucose measurement, and the discovery of protein denaturation and renaturation and its laws, these two outstanding achievements, won two Nobel Prizes are fully qualified, so in Hu Weidong's view, the Nobel Prize in this time and space is equivalent to reissuance

Although he was persuaded by Hu Weidong, Huang Minglong's scientific research task was very heavy, and he finally did not go to accept the award, but asked Wu Xian to receive it on his behalf, Wu Xian's theoretical research will not help the people of the country much in the short term, so it is okay to take some time to go to the country.

In addition to the false name of the Nobel Prize, the scientific and technological workers in the border area have also made a lot of substantial achievements in this short period of time, especially in the purification process, which has made rapid progress and successfully industrialized the production of high-purity graphite materials with more than the purity, making it possible to manufacture graphite reactors; Although the cost is frighteningly high, Hu Weidong was so excited that he didn't sleep all night after learning about it, because with the purity of more than "6 9" monocrystalline silicon, the research and development of integrated circuits is possible, and when the integrated circuit is successfully developed, high-purity monocrystalline silicon should have been able to be industrially produced, which means that integrated circuits can be mass-produced as soon as they appear, so the time saved is not only one year or two years?

In fact, this is a typical case of concurrent engineering, which can speed up the overall progress of a science and technology project team by 50-400 (Note 1), and the larger the project and the more topics covered, the more obvious the effect. The only drawback is that the investment required in the short term has also increased correspondingly, and China is still very weak, so it can only be used for nuclear engineering and other key project groups for the time being, but even so, the overall progress of scientific research in the border areas has been accelerated by three to five percent, and the key projects can completely close to or even exceed the speed of scientific research of the major powers. Hu Weidong couldn't help but sigh to himself, "If we had engaged in the 'two bombs and one satellite,' we would have summed up this knowledge and applied it extensively, perhaps in the early 21 st century, our scientific and technological level would have been able to catch up with the United States, but unfortunately, it was the West, which came up with similar ideas 20 years later than us, that first summed it up and applied it widely, and as a result, the gap between us and the West in science and technology has widened again, and we have to spend several more decades trying to catch up." But in this life, I will never let such a tragedy happen again."

If we analyze the tragedy of parallel engineering in depth, the fundamental reason is that China's science and technology at that time neglected theoretical research (Note 2), but this was also a helpless thing, and with China's limited financial resources at that time, it was simply not enough to take into account both theoretical science and applied science and technology research. In fact, the situation in China is the same now, but fortunately, Hu Weidong is still young, and he has time to wait until the conditions are ripe, and with his prestige, he will correct the scientific research idea of "emphasizing application and ignoring theory" back on the right track

Note 1: In reality, it is not so big, because once the research direction is wrong, waste and loss will increase significantly, which is a major weakness of concurrent engineering. However, in this time and space, Hu Weidong, the prophetic vision of the traverser, has made Chinese scientific research rarely choose the wrong direction for a long time, and this weakness almost does not exist, so the effect naturally increases significantly.

Note 2: At that time, it was true that scientific research was divorced from reality, but before entering the 21st century, China's scientific and technological research was indeed application-oriented, but for a long time, the application of those projects were all thought up by officials patting their heads, rather than based on market needs, which caused a very embarrassing situation, obviously the proportion of our applied research is larger, but there are not many scientific research results that can be applied to production and life, that is, those projects that involve national strategic needs and have little to do with the market are in a better situation

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