When a theory has been articulated sufficiently, when a presentation has won such a large amount of applause, the questioning session is a bit redundant.

Of course, there are still many people who stand up and ask questions during the question session.

And for these questions, Lu Zhou also answered them in detail one by one.

This is certainly an exciting step forward compared to an MRS meeting where there was no hand raised.

At the very least, this shows that the audience in the audience is genuine, listening to his theories, and not just trying to cover up their ignorance with applause.

After the lecture ended, several PhDs from Humboldt University ran to the podium and excitedly asked Lu Zhou for an autograph, saying that it was to commemorate this moment that may be recorded in the history of chemistry.

Although he didn't think that history would record such trivial matters, Lu Zhou complied with their request and scribbled his name in their textbooks.

From the front of the stage to the backstage, Professor Ettel walked over to Lu Zhou and said in a serious voice.

"Whether the Nobel Committee agrees with the merit of your theory or not, I will recommend your name to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences."

Lu Zhou was slightly stunned, and then smiled.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome," Professor Ettel smiled with relief, looking at Lu Zhou, "It's time to say thank you, thank you for bringing this report to Berlin, I haven't heard such an excellent report for a long time." Although I can't guarantee that you will win the Nobel Prize, I feel that at least the honor of being nominated for the Nobel Prize belongs to you. ”

According to the rules for the selection of the Nobel Prize, former Nobel laureates are eligible to recommend candidates.

But there's nothing to be excited about, after all, there are usually 1,000 to 2,000 candidates selected each year, and after two rounds of screening, only one will win the Nobel Prize.

In principle, the referee cannot be disclosed, and the nomination information will be kept strictly confidential for 50 years.

However, in the initial recommendation process, this rule was not strictly followed.

According to one Nobel laureate's acceptance speech, at least in Nobel Physiology and Medicine, there are jokes like "Hey, I recommended you to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences", and the ridiculed person usually reads the longest year of his life in fidgeting until the final results are revealed in October.

Of course, the Peace Prize and the Literary Prize need not be mentioned.

Even bookmakers can "guess" the list of nominees in advance and open before the list is revealed, and these two prizes have long been broken.

Lu Zhou joked: "You shouldn't tell me, so there won't be any surprises for me." ”

Ettel smiled: "It's just a nomination, don't get too excited." When you're my age, it's nice to take home a Nobel medal. ”

Lu Zhou made a helpless expression.

"This is also ...... It's too devastating. ”

It is indeed unrealistic to win the Nobel Prize with a novel theory, and many things need time to be tested.

But he felt that even so, he probably wouldn't have to wait that long......

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Lu Zhou was not in a hurry about the Nobel Prize, nor did he feel any anxiety because of Professor Eiter's recommendation.

For him, he felt that the medal was a recognition of his research results, but it was not a motivation for him to pursue a particular research.

He is still young, and there is still a long way to go.

Feel free to do your own research, and when fate comes, it should be his stuff, and sooner or later it will be there.

No matter what Lu Zhou thinks of his theory and the medal hanging over his head, almost after the end of the presentation, the entire theoretical chemistry community was shocked by it.

The sensation was far stronger than when Lu Zhou's paper was first published in JACS.

As with the millennial puzzle in mathematics, there are also problems in chemistry that need to be solved.

However, these questions are not summarized in simple language like mathematical conjectures, and even the question of "who is more important" is controversial in various schools of thought.

However, despite the controversy, there is a consensus in the international theoretical chemistry community in some places.

For example, as the first of the four major problems in chemistry in the 21st century, how to establish a precise, effective and universally applicable time-sensitive many-body quantum theory and statistical theory of chemical reactions is one of them.

This may seem a bit awkward to read, but in layman's terms, how do you accurately calculate the rate of a chemical reaction? How to determine the pathway of a chemical reaction? How do you determine which catalyst you need?

and, how to stand at the height of theory and answer all such questions.

The theoretical model of the electrochemical structural interface corresponds to a certain type of problem in the proposition.

To use an inappropriate but vivid analogy, the establishment of this theoretical model is probably equivalent to the Hardy-Littlewood theorem to the Riemann conjecture for the "Four Century Problems in Chemistry".

The "Hardy-Littlewood theorem" determines that "the number of nontrivial zeros of the Riemann function in a certain interval is not less than KT", while the "theoretical model of electrochemical interface structure" determines "the theory of microscopic chemical reactions of a certain type of chemical reaction".

Just after Lu Zhou's presentation, an interdisciplinary research group established by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science in Germany on "Theoretical Models of Electrochemical Structural Interfaces" announced its support for the theory.

Interestingly, just after Max Planck took his position, Professor Martin Capras, who had previously published a scientific review in Nature and was optimistic about the theory, almost immediately followed with a paper published in JACS, the top journal in the chemical community.

In the paper, Professor Capras cites Lu Zhou's previous paper published in JACS to give a clear explanation of the zero-charge potential of polycrystalline metal electrodes from a theoretical point of view.

Previously, this was regarded as a classic problem in the field of electrochemistry and theoretical chemistry.

Although there is no doubt about the existence of "zero charge potential of polycrystalline metal electrodes", there has been no conclusive conclusion about the formation mechanism and chemical essence under microscopic conditions.

However, within the framework of the "theoretical model of electrochemical interface structure", it seems that solving this problem is not a difficult task. At the very least, it's much easier to look at the problem than from a "first-principles calculation" perspective.

Obviously, the Nobel Prize boss had already seen that this theory could finally succeed two months ago, so he "bet" on it early. That's why this paper can be sent out in such a timely manner.

Now it seems that he clearly made the right bet.

Martin Caprat was not alone in being interested in this new theory.

With the end of the symposium, more and more colleagues in the field of theoretical chemistry and even researchers in the field of application have shown strong interest in this set of theories.

Compared with the "Kohn-Sham method" and "density functional theory", which are quite different from the actual calculation results, this theoretical model of electrochemical interface structure is simply tailor-made for the study of the electrochemical quality of the surface of materials, and has a strong guidance for the research in the field of polymers.

Especially for PhDs in computational chemistry and computational materials science, the emergence of this new theory is undoubtedly a boon for them.

At the very least, their boss now has one more reason to keep them on the research team.

While the outside world is speculating whether the landing boat will become the youngest Nobel laureate because of this theory, the German Chemical Society has already made a decision in silence.

In recognition of the outstanding contribution of this theoretical model to chemistry, the German Chemical Society decided to award the founder of this theory a significant medal after discussion......