Since 1995, Roger? The Adams Prize is awarded every two years by the American Chemical Society to a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to the field of organic chemistry.

As one of the highest awards in the field of organic synthesis, many world-class mechanists and Nobel laureates have won the Adams Award.

A very simple figure is enough to reflect the gold content of this award.

Of the 29 laureates who won the Roger Adams Prize last time, 11 were Nobel laureates in chemistry.

Although the Adams Prize in Chemistry is only for the field of organic synthesis and does not represent the entire chemical community, it is still regarded by many people as the vane of the Nobel Prize.

After receiving this letter, Lu Zhou's first reaction was "It's good to check the email."

As for the second reaction......

Hold the grass, don't you really send me a Nobel Prize?!

Just when Lu Zhou was a little difficult to calm down by this sudden accident, the office door suddenly opened, and Hardy, who had finally become a principal, walked in with Jericho and Wei Wen.

Glancing at the letter in Lu Zhou's hand, and then at Lu Zhou's expression, Hardy was stunned for a moment, and then shouted.

"Oh my God, Professor, you've got a love letter?"

Lu Zhou, who was still immersed in the joy of the jackpot falling from the sky, almost didn't fall off the letter paper in his hand.

Hold the grass, what the hell?!

Vera, who walked to the door with a sandwich, happened to hear Hardy's voice, and suddenly her heart tightened, and she walked to the door nervously.

However, it seems to be just a false alarm......

Lu Zhou glared at Hardy fiercely and said unceremoniously: "If you joke about my personal feelings again, I guarantee that you will spend the entire spring break busy." ”

As soon as he heard this threat, Hardy's face suddenly showed an uncomfortable expression.

"Oh, please don't do that, I've already planned and my-"

Qin Yue coughed heavily and pulled his arm, interrupting this guy's speech.

Because it always feels like something not so rosy will happen if he continues to talk.

Not only did Hardy plan it, but he also planned to travel to the Great Rift Valley with his girlfriend this spring break to enjoy the customs of the Great West.

Hearing that it wasn't a love letter, Vera was in a much better mood, looked at the letter, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Professor, what is that?" ”

Lu Zhou: "It's nothing, it was sent by the American Chemical Society." ”

Hardy muttered in a low voice, "God, what age is this, and there are still people who use paper letters?" ”

Wei Wen's focus was a little different, and he was slightly stunned and said, "Chemical Society? ”

Stuffing the envelope back into the drawer, Lu Zhou said casually: "Well, didn't I post a paper in Nature some time ago, and they plan to award me the Adams Prize in Chemistry." ”

There was a sudden silence in the office.

Everyone stood there silently, looking at Lu Zhou with a pair of stunned eyes.

Especially Wei Wen, his mouth was open and he didn't close it for a while.

For Lu Zhou, apart from the three awards, there is no higher honor in the mathematics community to praise his contributions, even if he goes back and wins an award like the Ramanujan Award, it is just icing on the cake.

The Adams Prize in Chemistry, however, is a recognition from another field other than mathematics.

Wei Wen didn't know much about chemistry, and he didn't know much about what lithium dendrites were, but now he clearly realized that not only in the field of pure mathematics, but also in applied mathematics, Lu Zhou was also terrifying.

I don't know why, his mentor is obviously a thing to be happy about, but he has some indescribable feelings in his heart.

Jericho swallowed and said, "Professor, that computational material, are you going to give a course on this?" I mean, can I choose this direction? ”

Applied mathematics is one of MIT's strong majors, and Jericho has a degree in organic chemistry after completing his major in applied mathematics.

The reason why he reported Lu Zhou's functional analysis was that he was interested in this direction on the one hand, and on the other hand, because he wanted to follow Lu Zhou to study computational materials.

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "If you conscientiously complete the study task I assigned to you, I will tell you about this content, but now I haven't perfected the theory of calculation materials, and my help may be quite limited." ”

In the entire field of materials science, no one can understand his theory for the time being, and in the field of mathematics, there are not many people who are interested in this direction.

He would certainly be happy if someone could understand his theory.

But with Jericho's current level, researching these things is a pure waste of time.

Jericho said helplessly: "Professor, you are too modest, if you feel that your theory is not perfect, I am afraid that no one dares to claim to know computational materials." ”

"It's not modesty, it's scientific rigor," Lu Zhou corrected, "The mathematical model of modified PDMS materials is just an isolated case, and this set of theories does not have the extensionality to other fields." The real computational materials science should be able to use a unified set of mathematical tools to perform mathematical calculations on all the materials we need. ”

"A theory that cannot be generalized, whether it is strong or not, is imperfect."

This is not only the ultimate goal of computational materials, but also the ultimate goal of computational chemistry.

Valid mathematical approximations are used to calculate the properties of molecules, such as total energy, dipole moment, quadrupole moment, vibrational frequency, reactivity, etc., and use them to explain specific chemical problems.

If such a test system is built, the impact on the entire industry will be at the level of nuclear weapons. Experimenters only need to set the properties of the desired material, and the molecular structure can be deduced through complex calculations, even if it is just a hundred possibilities, or a general direction, which will save millions of research dollars.

This may sound fanciful, but at the speed of today's computers, it's not impossible.

Perhaps in the near future, supercomputing will become the standard configuration of every large-scale materials science laboratory, and the purchase of computing services from supercomputing centers will appear on the budget list of large, medium and small research institutes.

After hearing this, Jericho was shocked.

What Lu Zhou depicts seems to have pushed a door open in his heart, leading to a new world that has never been seen before.

If he were to succeed, he would undoubtedly change the face of chemistry as a discipline.

Jericho is now more and more glad that he chose Lu Zhou as his mentor.

Wei Wen, who was standing next to him, had a complicated expression on his face.

He has been studying applied mathematics, but he has never thought about generalizing the theory into the field of application, and he has not cared about anything other than mathematics.

Perhaps, I should make some changes.

"A theory that cannot be generalized, whether it is strong or not, is imperfect." Vera whispered silently as she whispered this, her blue pupils faintly flashing with excitement.

I don't know if I found inspiration from Lu Zhou's words, or if I have a new sense of mission for the work I am doing, in short, the little girl seems to have become more motivated than before.

With their own thoughts, the students in the office fell silent.

And in the end, it was Hardy who broke the silence.

I saw that he looked serious and came to a conclusion.

"A mathematician has won a chemistry prize, and there is no doubt that it was a great moment."

"I think we need a party to celebrate!"

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