Chapter 296: Travels in America (2)
"Old Chen, I will return to China in a month, and I will go to the West Coast of the United States first, and we will see you at the University of California then!" Inside the airport, Jun Xin held Chen Lao's hand and said. And before, he had just sent Professor Yau Chengtong and others from Harvard University away.
"Haha, I'm waiting for you in California, don't miss the appointment!" Chen Lao said with a smile.
"Naturally!" Junxin nodded.
"Have you chosen where to go at your first stop?" Elder Chen asked.
"It's not decided yet, but the last stop will definitely be Berkeley, after all, Professor Thor from Berkeley has invited me to visit them several times. I just happened to go to meet Professor Qian Yongjian, and I would like to ask him some academic questions! Junxin said with a slightly wry smile. Or maybe it's because his experiments are too advanced, although he has achieved a lot of results, but for Junxin, he still hasn't met the requirements he wants, and Professor Qian Yongjian of the University of California, Berkeley is the only person Junxin can think of who can turn to at the moment.
Junxin doesn't know much about the scientific community outside of mathematics and physics, although Junxin has read a lot of articles on biology to a greater or lesser extent, and he is not blind to cutting-edge issues. But after all, there is a generation gap in the profession, so if you don't know much about biology, you don't know much about the people in the biology community.
However, even if Junxin does not know enough about the biology community, it does not mean that he does not know Professor Qian Yongjian. This Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine is also a relative of Mr. Qian Xuesen.
Professor Chin is a born scientist, and his research path is ideal for all scholars who are interested in researching science. He was born into a family of scientific researchers, his father Qian Xueyu was the cousin of Qian Xuesen, the father of Chinese missiles, an excellent aerodynamics expert, with many patents for aviation technology and a former engineer at Boeing in the United States. Qian Xueyu graduated from the National Chiao Tung University in SH, China, and later went to the United States with Qian Xuesen to study with a scholarship paid by Gengzi indemnity. In 1944, Qian Xueyu took his wife and eldest son Qian Yongyou to the United States to settle down. Qian Yongjian is the third child in the family, and several of his mother's brothers are engineering professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
"Oh, I forgot you have a biology lab in Princeton!" Chen Lao smiled, but he didn't say anything about what Junxin said, he didn't know that much about living things.
"If you haven't thought about the first stop, then I have a suggestion that you can consider!" Chen Lao said.
"Where is it?" Junxin hurriedly asked.
"It's not far away, it's in Manhattan, New York!"
"Columbia University?" Jun Xin raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Yes!"
"Why would you recommend this school to me? Of course, this is one of the schools I plan to go to. Junxin asked.
"According to my friends at Columbia University, a few days ago, the world-famous physicist Wu Dayou, a distinguished alumnus of Columbia University, was visiting and giving lectures at Columbia University recently, and I don't know when he will be leaving, so if you want to meet him, going to Columbia University will be a good choice!"
"That's a good choice!" Hearing Wu Dayou's name, Junxin made a decision in an instant.
Wu Dayou may not know much about him in the mainland, but as the person with the title of the father of modern Chinese physics, it is not so simple. Wu Dayou once studied under Nankai University, a famous Chinese physics teacher Rao Yutai, and was later recommended by him and Professor Ye Qisun to study at the University of Michigan in the United States, and is a well-known Chinese founder of spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, nuclear physics and other disciplines.
Wu Dayou also has high attainments in education, Nobel laureates Tsung-Dao Lee, Yang Zhenning and others were once his students. Famous physicists such as Huang Kun and Zhu Guangya were also his students. In addition, such as Ma Shijun, Guo Yonghuai, and Yu Fuchun have all benefited from him.
Wu Dayou has never studied at Columbia University, but he has worked at Columbia University for two years, so he is also an alumnus of Columbia University, so he was invited to give lectures and visit by Columbia University.
And Columbia University is also a school that Junxin has always liked, not because this school has produced three presidents, and even Eisenhower once served as the president of Columbia University. Since the beginning of the Nobel Prize, a total of 98 students have won this honor, making it the second largest university in the world. It is also one of the most important research institutions in the United States, because it is the birthplace of the world's first nuclear weapons research and the birthplace of the Manhattan Project, the first nuclear fission in North America.
Because of the construction of the first nuclear reactor and the resulting launch of the Manhattan Project, the research on the atom carried out by Columbia University teachers John Ray Dunning, Isidore Isaac Rabi, Enrico Fermi, and Polycarp Kusch put the physics department of Columbia University in the world spotlight in the forties.
Junxin should be most interested in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, one of the most prominent graduate schools in the United States. The college began to take shape in the late 19th century, with more than 100 majors in applied physics, applied mathematics, physics, history, art history and archaeology, astronomy, atmospheric and planetary sciences. The physics major is one of the most prominent of them all. Over the past 100 years, 31 Nobel laureates in physics have studied and worked here, including 10 PhD students. Famous physicists such as Fermi, Planck, Rabi, Wu Chien-shiung, and Lee Tsung-dao have all taught and researched here. The current Nobel Prize professors are Tsung-Dao Lee and H. Stomer. The famous Manhattan Project was born here. The American Physical Society was also founded here.
Of course, as a traditional Ivy League school in the United States, the environment around and inside the school is also one of the most enjoyable places for him.
The school belongs to the Ivy League. Manhattan is the heart of New York City, where the most important commercial, financial, and insurance institutions in New York are located. Wall Street, the world's financial center, is located in Lower Manhattan, while New York's large business and commercial centers are located in Midtown Manhattan.
Famous sightseeing spots in Manhattan include Uptown's Central Park, the Upper CD District, the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, Madison Avenue, the Upper CX District, Lincoln Center, the American Museum of Natural History, Harlem, and Museum Avenue just north of 77th Street. In addition to skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center, Midtown is also close to Times Square, the Broadway theater district, Fifth Avenue, and Grand Central Terminal. The XC District is centered on finance, with famous attractions including Soho, the New York Stock Exchange, the World Financial Center, South Street Seaport, Greenwich Village, and Battery Park. There is also a Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in the XC area.
The climate in Manhattan is relatively mild. January is the coldest month at around minus 9°; July and August are the hottest months, around 30°; The average monthly temperature ranges from below zero to around eight degrees Celsius. The four seasons in New York are very distinct, with new sprouts of street trees in spring, high temperatures of more than 30 degrees in summer, and occasional showers in the afternoon; Autumn maple reds in the treetops will tell you that autumn has arrived, while the sub-zero cold and snow in winter will make down jackets play a big role.
Therefore, whether it is for sightseeing or visiting and studying, Columbia University is one of the established goals of Junxin.