Perhaps because of his age, Lu Zhou always felt that the distance between him and the students was very small, especially Qin Yue and Hardy were one year older than him, and there was no gap in age at all.

Maybe it's the same in the eyes of his students, and he is also a respectable "boss" who doesn't have much majesty.

In order to convince Lu Zhou, Hardy even came up with the absurd statement that "this is a Princeton tradition". Lu Zhou has lived here for so long, and this is the first time he has heard that Princeton has a tradition of having a party to celebrate when he wins an award.

Obviously, this is made up by Hadihu.

However, seeing that he was so enthusiastic and the other students were also very interested, Lu Zhou was left to him.

The venue of the party was naturally at Lu Zhou's hut, and as for the number of participants, it was tentatively set at six.

However, in the end, the scale of this party was still beyond Lu Zhou's expectations.

Originally, he was just going to celebrate with his students, but I don't know who spread the news of his award, and then there were more than one or two people who came to celebrate.

First of all, Senior Brother Luo and his current girlfriend said that they were back, and later Senior Brother Luo's mentor Edward Witten heard the news and also came.

Then there was Deligne, the old Belgian man who didn't like to go to crowded places, but he came to the party with a bottle of whiskey.

Then there are the friends Lu Zhou met in the Ivy League Club, as well as the professors and researchers who have a good relationship with him in the general high school institute......

Fortunately, Lu Zhou prepared a lot of champagne and food in advance, otherwise he might not have been able to cope with it.

On the day of the party, the lawn in front of the cottage was filled with the smell of barbecue and beer.

Standing next to the long table, Lu Zhou and his former mentor were chatting about calculating materials.

Contrary to Lu Zhou's view, Deligne did not see it as a very meaningful job, believing that he was wasting his time.

“…… Mathematics is pure, more of an art than a tool. The mathematician should be thinking about how to build the edifice, and how to apply it to other fields is the business of the physicist or the chemist. ”

Taking a sip of whiskey, the bright-headed old man's eyes were as sharp as ever.

"My dear Professor Deligne, I can't agree with you," said Witten, who was a quarter bald, and suddenly interjected into the topic, "mathematics is a great tool, but the study of mathematics alone cannot reflect its greatness at all, and it can only be used when it is applied to more practical fields, so that it can give full play to its greatest value...... For example, physics. ”

"I don't see the slightest relevance of your M theory," Deligne snapped his mouth shut up, then looked at Lu Zhou, was silent for a moment, and raised his goblet.

"Anyway, it's an honor that matches you, congratulations."

Lu Zhou touched his mentor and said happily, "Thank you." ”

"And me, congratulations too." Witten grinned, also touched his glass with Lu Zhou, and said in a relaxed tone, "Maybe the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton should open a computational material-"

Deligne said with a straight face: "Impossible. ”

Witten shrugged: "Well, I'm just kidding, when I didn't say it." ”

The original intention of the establishment of Pugao was to establish a platonic academy of pure theoretical research. The seven full-time researchers at the Academy of Natural Sciences, with the exception of one professor of biophysics, are all engaged in theoretical physics and astrophysics.

As for the Institute of Mathematics, there are many research directions, but all of them are pure mathematics.

After all, there are enough people studying applied science, and there must be a group of noble people who continue to explore in the field of theory.

As for what's the use of this?

Before the advent of semiconductor technology, no one could figure out what the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics were.

……

Everyone at the party had a lot of fun, and Lu Zhou was also quite enjoyable.

For him, the Adams Prize in Chemistry was an unexpected surprise.

He originally thought that his first interdisciplinary medal would be born in the field of theoretical physics, but he didn't expect that chemistry would bring him this surprise.

A $10,000 prize is not expensive, and in fact, almost all of the winners don't care about this meager prize money.

Compared to scholars who study mathematics and theoretical physics, scholars who study chemistry are relatively wealthy. With a little emphasis on intellectual property rights, financial freedom can be easily achieved.

As is customary, in addition to receiving the award, Lu Zhou will also give a speech at the Organic Chemistry Symposium in San Francisco in April this year.

The presentation can be academic or non-academic, and it's all up to the individual.

However, although there is no need to submit in advance, Lu Zhou still plans to prepare carefully.

Coincidentally, on the third day of his return to Princeton, Professor Sarot had a video call with him to report on the progress of his research during this period.

“…… According to your request, we have done 200 sets of experiments, and the relevant experimental data has been sent to your mailbox. But I have to tell you the unfortunate news that we haven't been able to observe the kind of cage-like molecules you predicted in the reaction chamber. IMHO, modifying fullerene materials with carbon nanotubes, although it sounds interesting, is not a good research idea. ”

When he said this, Sarot looked tired.

In the past month, he has been busy with this matter, controlling the reaction temperature and reaction time, and doing a lot of experiments. Unfortunately, however, there were no surprises to be found other than a pile of complex and useless soot.

Sitting on the office chair, Lu Zhou, spinning a ballpoint pen, had a thoughtful look on his face.

"Nothing?"

"Not really," Sarot shrugged, "I didn't get what you wanted, but based on the experiments you designed, we got a lot of samples that we had never seen before...... Although I don't know what to do. ”

Lu Zhou's heart moved slightly, and said, "You can send some of those by-products." ”

Sarot: "Okay, send it directly to your office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton?" ”

Lu Zhou thought for a while and said, "Send it to the Frick Chemistry Laboratory, just write my name." I'm not sure if the mailroom at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton will receive packages labeled with chemical information. ”

After hanging up the phone, Lu Zhou turned on the computer and flipped out the email that Sarot had sent to him.

In the email, product information, quality analysis and inspection results are listed.

After reading the experiment report seriously, Lu Zhou let out a sigh of relief, leaned back on the office chair, and fell into thought.

Judging from the macroscopic data, the carbon nanotubes and fullerene materials that opened the π bonds did not recombine as he expected under the thermal reaction conditions.

While this is theoretically possible, in reality, there are countless side effects that make it impossible to do so.

But he still didn't expect that not even a microgram of sample was collected.

"Looks like we're going to have to redesign the experiment!"

The ballpoint pen lightly lit on the desk, and Lu Zhou thought in his heart.

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