"Hello, boy, is anyone sitting on your side?" A man with a thick American accent suddenly remembered in Junxin's ear, pulling his thoughts back to reality.

"Oh, hello sir, I'm alone here for the time being, if you don't dislike it, please sit down!" Junxin was in a trance for a moment and said quickly.

"Thank you!" The man thanked politely, then put the briefcase in his hand under the table in front of him, took out the theme brochure of the conference like Junxin, and asked, "Which university are you a student at?" Forgive me, it's rare to see someone as young as you get an invitation. ”

Junxin naturally heard the subtext of the comer, and said with a smile: "It's an honor to get the invitation to this meeting, I'm Junxin from Shuimu University in China, what about you?" Mr. ”

"Junxin, Junxin? A very familiar name. The man didn't answer Junxin's question, but frowned slightly and fell into thought. Junxin is his real name, but in the author column of the paper, the surname is generally followed and the first name is first. So when Junxin said his name in his own way, the man didn't think of xinJun, the discoverer of the quasi-crystal.

"My name is Danielle Shechtman, I'm from Israel, and I'm now an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University." When the man Shechtman couldn't think of it, he simply stopped thinking about it and introduced himself very warmly.

"Oh, you... Hello, it's an honor to meet you! "Junxin is really in a bit of a trance at this time. He actually met the true discoverer of the quasi-crystal here, and he couldn't help but feel a little weak.

"Are you an international student in Toronto?" Shechtman asked curiously, he was sure that he had an impression of the name Junxin, so he became interested in the boy in front of him.

"Ah, no. I'm an international student, but I'm not an international student at the University of Toronto, I'm an exchange student at Princeton University, and I'm going to report to Princeton University when I start in September. ”

"Princeton's engineering school is pretty good, too!" Shechtman nodded and commented. "But why don't you choose us at Johns Hopkins? You know, our engineering school is much better than Princeton. You know, Princeton's engineering school is ultimately more theoretical, but engineering has to be more practical! ”

Junxin suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, what is this called? Shechtman actually advertised the school he worked for on this occasion. This kind of thing is the first time Junxin has learned it.

"Sir, I didn't go to engineering college, I went to the math department at Princeton. I'm a math student, not a chemistry major! ”

Shechtman looked at Junxin in surprise: "Then why did you come to this place to attend the meeting?" Did the organizing committee have their heads pumped? Send an invitation to a mathematician? ”

"Oh, sorry. Maybe I'm biased towards crystal research in the direction of mathematics research! Junxin calmly replied, "I have a lecture this afternoon, and you are welcome to come and correct it when the time comes." ”

"Oh? Definitely, definitely. Shechtman didn't ask where Junxin was, for them, as long as they were interested, they would definitely go, on the contrary, if they were not familiar with or interested in and their level was insufficient, they didn't bother to attend the lecture.

The two stopped communicating here, because the time for the conference had arrived. And the people on the rostrum also began to sit one after another.

"It's Lady Dorothy Crawford Hodgkin!" When the last lady appeared, Shechtman, who was sitting next to Junxin, couldn't help but speak. In fact, at this time, most of the people present involuntarily let out exclamations.

"Is that the legendary lady who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964?" Although she does not know much about the chemical world, this lady's name is also well-known in the scientific community, and Junxin certainly knows something about his deeds, although it is not very comprehensive.

"yes, I didn't expect even this one to come!" Shechtman also said excitedly, "There have been rumors that Ms. Hodgkin will participate in this session of the Crystallography Federation, but there will always be one or two inaccurate news at a conference like this, so I didn't take it seriously, I didn't expect Ms. Hodgkin to really come." ”

"I've only heard rumors before, but this time I've seen a real person." Junxin interfaced.

Dorothy Crawford Hodgkin, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1964. If such an introduction is not enough to say anything about her position in the world of crystallography. It would be more accurate to compare her to the Grothendieck of crystallography.

Ms. Hodgkin is a legendary scholar like Grothendieck, but Grothendieck is more about creation and research, while Hodgkin is more about discovery. She used X-rays to discover the tertiary structure of penicillin; The discovery of the chemical structure of vitamin B12 and so on, is an authority in the field of crystallography.

Ms. Hodgkin also had a good relationship with China, having traveled to China eight times, including the year before her death. She is also one of the few chemists in the world to admit that China has cracked the structure of insulin.

This last point was also mentioned by Professor Cheng and Junxin during their conversation, so Junxin had a deep impression of this, and naturally had a great respect for Ms. Hodgkin.

"No, it's just a quasicrystalline discovery, and it shouldn't have caused Miss Hodgkin to come." Shechtman shook his head and muttered.

"Anyway, since Professor Hodgkin is here to attend this meeting, then there is naturally a reason for her to attend the meeting, anyway, just read on, won't you know the answer soon?" Junxin said indifferently. However, although he didn't care about it, Junxin could understand Shechtman's thoughts. It's like an ordinary university physics professor suddenly meets Einstein, and an ordinary star chaser meets his favorite idol, and gaffes are inevitable.

"As I said, there's also a welcome party in the evening, so it's just the right time to have a chat with Ms. Hodgkin." Shechtman listened to Junxin's words and said after calming down.

Ms. Hodgkin was seated in the left-left of the center of the podium, next to Docarlos Watney, president of the International Union of Crystallography and professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who organized the conference. On the other side is the person in charge of the organizer this time, the president of the University of Toronto, what is the specific name, Junxin is far away and can't see clearly, so he doesn't care. After all, the president of the University of Toronto has always been a member of the education system, and it is basically not compatible with the natural science system.

The rostrum was quickly finished, and the secretary general of the International Union of Crystallography, who was sitting closest to the standing podium, got up and walked to the front of this independent podium, looked at the scene that had become silent at this time, and said: "......"