While Junxin was concentrating on the problem at hand in his office, a professor from the School of Chemical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, a world-renowned university, was reading the latest issue of Nature magazine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

For researchers in any discipline, it is very important for researchers to study the latest paper content and find the latest research results of their peers, so as to avoid repetitive research and gain research inspiration. In particular, the articles on CNS have great reference and discussion value.

And this professor named Richard can work at the Whiting School of Engineering at Hopkins University, and his own ability is naturally not bad, so even in Johns Hopkins University, which is full of people, Professor Richard is an extremely important professor. His materials lab is the largest materials chemistry laboratory at Hopkins University, where he serves as a project team leader.

Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering (Whiting) began in 1913, was founded as an independent college in 1919, and by 1937 had produced more than 1,000 students with engineering degrees. In 1961, the College of Engineering was renamed the Hopkins School of Engineering and Science, and in 1966 it was incorporated into the Hopkins College of Arts and Sciences. It was not until 1979 that the School of Engineering once again formed an independent academic branch and was renamed Whiting College of Engineering.

Although the Whiting School of Engineering is small (16 professors in 2013), it has a large number of scientists working there. Richard's ability to get a professorship in such an environment is really impressive.

"Hey, there's another supplement in this issue of Nature? It's been a long time since that's been the case. Which scientist made such a major breakthrough and made a beautiful paper? Let me see. ”

Richard, who was quite high-natured, opened the magazine and read it. However, he did not read according to his usual habits, but directly took out the supplement and began to read it.

"On the mathematical structure of a new substance that is long-range ordered but does not have periodicity? Is this a math paper, or a chemistry paper? Damn, it can't be another Fourier, right? Professor Richard couldn't help but have a little headache when he saw the title of the paper, he said goodbye to physics because mathematics did not meet the requirements, but he didn't expect to see a paper here that looked like mathematics and chemistry.

"Anyway, let's look at the content of the paper first." Richard didn't dwell too much on it, but skipped this thought, and if he continued to think about it, he was afraid that he would have to get into the tip of the horns.

For the average scientific researcher, reading the literature is a very laborious thing, because you have to read carefully to keep up with the author's thinking, in order to refine the author's ideas and information. However, for top scientists, reading the literature is quite easy, because he can quickly understand the author's ideas, and at the same time give extensions to the author's ideas and experiments, so as to stand on a higher level and grasp the direction of the article, it is naturally very easy.

Although because of the large amount of advanced mathematics content, this article seems a bit difficult to understand. However, perhaps precisely because of this, it also adds credibility to the article. After all, mathematics is the easiest thing to verify, as long as you find a mathematician and verify the results, then you can naturally determine whether these are true or false.

However, Professor Richard did not verify it, in his eyes, to a large journal like Nature, if the article is published without rigorous verification, and it is published in the form of a supplement, hehe, the consequences can be said to be the most enjoyable for Science.

"It's interesting to reason that after Penrose's theorem of two-dimensional structure was extended to three-dimensional, and applied to crystals, the conclusion obtained was indeed that there was indeed a new structure that did not have periodicity." For the sake of the coherence of the content of this supplement, Professor Richard finally read the inference part of mathematics and prepared to read the experimental part of the main text. At this time, the door of his office was slammed open. It was none other than his collaborator, Professor Shechtman.

"Richard, have you seen the latest issue of Nature?" Before Professor Richard could speak, Professor Shechtman spoke loudly.

"Shechtman, would you like to knock on the door next time you enter? Also, I usually watch it for the first time after CNS comes out, but I haven't finished reading today's issue. ”

"Richard, I think it's necessary for us to repeat the experiment, at least to verify whether there are any problems with the experimental process of this author from a third country."

"Shechtman, that's not the point." Richard shook his head and said, "I must regret to tell you that the author of this article has little to do with the article, but he completely explained what he wanted to say in the way of mathematical reasoning, and I think I don't need to read it to know that it must be the experimental verification under the system he established, but I don't know if he has systematically summarized this system, if so, he will definitely put forward the standard model and related predictions, we only need to verify the predictions he said or use the model of the system he proposed, The accuracy of his article can be proven. ”

"Uh, you're right, so do we need to do a verification?"

"Shechtman, if you have finished reading the article, then you should go to this project application now, and apply for funding as soon as possible, and I will further study his thesis, and then I will work out the relevant experimental plan." After thinking about it, Richard said that he vaguely felt that the storm of change in the international crystallography community was coming, so he planned to strike first.

"Okay, I'll finish the application later." Shechtman nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I guess that's it for now, and the rest will come back after the experiment begins." Richard commanded.

"Well, I'll go first."

Outside of Johns Hopkins University, the institutes of the world's leading universities issued orders not much different from those of Shechtman at an early stage.