Western's fingers swiped, and the article was just a few hundred words, recounting the story that happened more than a hundred years ago.

Scientists, outstanding representatives of mankind, explorers of unknown territories.

The discovery of new elements was an important field of study in the scientific community at the congenset of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, equivalent to the Great Voyages of the sixteenth century.

Great Voyage!

Explore new routes!

It was a magnificent era of geographical discovery.

When the Emperor of China forbade the sea, when countless treasure ships were slowly rotting at the docks, when the charts drawn from the seven voyages were burned, European navigators loaded wooden ships with compasses and bacon and set off.

All adventurers are willing to risk their lives to set sail and sail fearlessly towards the rough seas for the sake of distant strange continents and endless riches - spices, gold, silver, and slaves!

The Portuguese, the Spaniards, marched towards the Americas, killed countless natives with muskets and disease, and brought back countless gold and silver. The British expedition to the Pacific discovered the Hawaiian Islands of Australia, New Zealand. The Dutch planted the flag in the Pacific Ocean. The French marched through the Great Lakes region of North America and declared it their territory.

Tiny Western Europe became the protagonist of the Great Voyage.

Countless resources provide abundant blood for the development of the capitalist colonial economy in Europe!

By the end of the nineteenth century, the glory of the Great Voyage was still deeply imprinted in the bones of Europeans, but by this time geographical discoveries had come to an end.

What arose was the great scientific discoveries.

But this is still a game for Europeans.

Before that, Mendeleev had already drawn the periodic table, a logical but blank table of elements that was the guiding light of the natural sciences of that era!

Since then, countless scientists have been working hard to fill this form.

And every blank you fill in means a Nobel Prize in physics.

They're not playing a crossword puzzle because no one needs to fill it in.

The tables are arranged in increasing numbers of protons, a delicate and wonderful logical illustration of the most basic and simple laws that make up our complex world.

They're not playing a guessing game either, because every space means a unique existence in nature, and all scientists have to do is find out about it, find out its physical and chemical properties, and give it a name by the way, and the important thing is the experimental process, you have to do the experiment instead of making a report.

The whole process of filling the table of elements is always to find an element and fill it in a certain empty space in the table, and there is never a situation where you look at the empty space on the table and then look for such an element.

Radioactivity was a concept that was not in the scientific community at the time, and the periodic table did not indicate which elements would be radioactive, and Mendeleev himself did not know what the elements on the spaces behind would be like.

Becquerel discovered the existence of radioactivity, and Marie Curie was the first to delve into this phenomenon.

Radium was the first radioactive element to be found.

Processes are common accidents in scientific discovery.

The same phenomenon, someone makes a correct explanation, someone makes a mistake.

The former has been praised by history, and the latter can only serve as a sad backdrop.

At that time, Marie Curie discovered that uranium and thorium ore can emit invisible rays, without the help of external force, can naturally shine and heat, containing a lot of energy, she named the first element polonium with the letters of the motherland, with the Latin word "radioactive" to order radium, and pulled her husband into the study together.

Goal, Nobel Prize.

In order to prove that this thing is a new element, it has to be refined and its atomic weight measured.

In a simple shack, the Curies used the most primitive method to boil thousands of kilograms of bituminous uranium ore residue in pots, and they had to use sticks to stir them in the pot. To move a large distillation flask, pour the piping hot solution in and out.

The process is not more complicated than making tofu, the pressure is not much higher, and the food is not edible, but the rewards are terrible.

In this way, after nearly four years of perseverance, they obtained a tenth of a gram of radium salt, and then preliminarily determined the atomic weight of radium.

The Curies won their first Nobel Prize, the Physics Prize, their first small achievement, but unfortunately gave Becquerel a third of the score.

The next goal is the second Nobel Prize.

Marie Curie knew that she had only stepped on one foot on this great table, that it was only fifty percent of the crossword puzzle, and that only by refining the single element radium, this space was truly their achievement.

After eight years of work, Curie collapsed, but with the help of a bunch of anonymous assistants, Marie Curie succeeded in isolating radium, analyzing the various properties of radium, accurately determining its atomic weight, and writing the book "On Radioactivity", and then won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Not to mention making tofu for eight years, even if you make tofu for eight thousand years, you can't get a Nobel Prize, the so-called scientific research is sometimes not understood because it can't answer a simple question: can you eat this thing with so much effort and so much money?

Thankfully, the Nobel Prize's checks for hundreds of thousands of Swedish kronor helped relieve this embarrassment, otherwise scientists would have been ashamed to death because they all looked like they were wasting money.

Unfortunately, the Nobel Prize is awarded once a year, and at most a dozen people are awarded at one time.

There are billions of people on this planet who are starving to death.

Fortunately, scientists don't have to juggle the business of politicians, and the Nobel Prize is never awarded based on the number of people who can be fed.

…...

"I really want to win a Nobel Prize." Western touched his chin and spoke unconsciously.

Times are different, a century ago, you could get a Nobel Prize for just discovering a new element, but now the periodic table is filled, and there is not much point in expanding it.

No matter how cute the microcosm is, there is no magic of life.

In today's scientific community, the field of discovery has shifted to the life sciences,... With a species like Shaun, just discovering him could make a peace prize, let alone research something out of it.

"If he can cooperate, we can support the Nobel Prize for 30 years!" Baker also sighed with emotion.

Western glanced at him, who is with you is us!

Back then, Becquerel just discovered radioactivity, and he didn't die of leukemia because of this and got a Nobel Prize, he really hugged the thighs of the Curies, there are often such people in the history of the Nobel Prize, not because of hard work, but because of luck, is this particularly fair?!

The thought of scoring half of this guy's prize money in the future with more than a million prizes, Western had an urge to kill.

A wall is ten meters apart, and the corner of Xiao Shiping's mouth is smiling.

He also quickly scanned a lot of information, including the story of the Curie.

Baker's brain circuits are wonderful, and it's no surprise that Western is so keen on the Nobel Prize.

With the thinking of ordinary human beings, this is a name left in history, and in terms of the thinking of cultivating truth, this is equivalent to leaving a mark in the way of heaven.

Although Xiao Shiping lamented that the scientists in this world also have such a kind of cultivation strength, the focus of attention is actually on the asphalt mine that can have aura.

Not all bitumen mines are radioactive.

But if there is aura there, Xiao Shiping can build a spirit gathering array on the lake to extract the aura.

He opened the electronic map and looked for the asphalt lake.

Although Shaun knew that the lake was in the center of the city, he had never been to it once, and since he came to this country, he was constantly in all kinds of troubles, and finally he was forced to live and had no time to play.

It's clear on the map, right in Hancock Park.

On the side of the map there are comments from tourists emphasizing that there is no radioactive danger here, just be careful not to step into the asphalt pits.

It's not radioactive, what does Baker say this does?

Nothing to be courteous can only be a sign of loyalty.

Bored!

"Xiaoxue, come in for a moment." Sean shouted.