Chapter 123: Why
"Don't worry, we've just borrowed a copy of the footage from Canadian television, so we don't have to make another trip, you can take a look at Professor Peruz's recommendation now." Another Xinhua News Agency staff member who came with the man said a little haggard.
"It's okay, I remember that the hotel room provides video service, so let's watch it in the room." Opening the bedroom door, Junxin led the two into the room and came to the TV.
"Your room is really clean and tidy!" The man from before said, "Ah, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Li Qun, this is my buddy, Wang Sheng, who has been a partner for twelve years. ”
"Oh!" Junxin didn't have any expression, "I'm a little bit of a cleanliness or a little obsessive-compulsive." So it is customary to clean the room very cleanly. Okay, let's play the tape quickly. ”
"Understood!" Wang Sheng said that he had come to the video cabinet next to the TV and put the video tape that had been prepared a long time ago.
After a while of the water curtain changed, a familiar scene appeared on the screen, which was the video room of Junxin's interview a few days ago. And the person who hosted the show was naturally the well-known Madeleine in the academic world.
However, Wang Sheng did not stop, but fast-forwarded for a while, and as the picture switched, he soon stopped at a person who Junxin was very familiar with but very strange to the public.
"This is it." Wang Sheng nodded, and unceremoniously took a stool and sat down.
Junxin didn't bother to care about them, and after checking their documents, he knew that he couldn't hide from today's trouble. So I focused my attention on Professor Cruz's thoughts.
"How do you think we should evaluate Mr. Junxin's achievements?" Madeleine asked.
Professor Cruze replied: "As I said earlier, it broadens people's understanding of the material world, which is no less than a Nobel Prize-level achievement. ”
"Nobel Prize level?" Madeleine was surprised.
"Yes, in fact, I think the discovery of quasicrystals can be called a Nobel Prize-level achievement. The discovery of quasicrystals has greatly broadened the cognition and imagination of human society in the material world. For example, as you know, I came from a protein background, and the structure of spherical proteins won me the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. However, after reading Mr. Junxin's article published in Nature, I was also thinking about the question, if the protein is used as the original, can a quasicrystalline substance with protein complex be made? So what kind of properties will this substance have? What kind of significance and value will it have for my research, and so on, is a question that I have been thinking about during the International Union of Crystallography Congress. ”
"You just mentioned the issue of the Nobel Prize, so I would like to ask you, will Mr. Junxin's discovery have a chance to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?" Madeleine was not interested in Professor Peruz's subject, but what she wanted to know most now was whether the discovery of Junxin's quasicrystals would win the Nobel Prize.
"I don't think it would be too difficult for Junxin to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry if the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences can be objective and impartial." After a pause, Professor Peruz continued, "In fact, a few days ago, I, Professor Kluger, Professor Hodgkin, and Professor Watney, the current President of the International Union of Crystallography, had an in-depth exchange, and after discussion, several of us agreed that his work should be valued by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Review Committee, and Ms. Hodgkin was even willing to recommend this important achievement of Mr. Junxin's quasicrystalline matter to the members of the Chemistry Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. As the result of next year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. However, I thought it would be better for me to do this, so I decided that in March next year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jury would officially use the right granted to me by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to officially recommend Mr. Junxin and his quasicrystalline substances as the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ”
"Oh my God, are you telling the truth?"
"Naturally, in fact, I think if I had read this paper earlier, I think I would have recommended him as a Nobel laureate in chemistry earlier, and maybe I wouldn't have to wait until next year."
"Is quasicrystals really that important?" Madeleine couldn't help but ask.
"It's not a matter of importance, but in my opinion, it's a step forward in people's understanding of nature." Isn't the purpose of the Nobel Prize to make major discoveries and basic research that can change human cognition? Quasicrystals are considered to be the greatest discoveries of the last two decades of the twentieth century, and it is natural to have the ability to obtain him. ”
"However, my dear lady, the Nobel Prize is only one of two important prizes. Don't think of it as important. Winning the Nobel Prize just means that you are a good scientist, and you don't have to myth it too much. ”
"But you have to admit that the Nobel Prize is one of the most influential scientific prizes in the world, so for us, the attitude towards the Nobel Prize is far higher than the other awards."
"Yes, but if he does win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, then he will really become the youngest Nobel laureate." Professor Peruz did not argue, but followed the words of the moderator.
Indeed, more than sixty years have passed since 1915, when Lawrence Bragg and his father shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics as the youngest age to win a Nobel Prize, and no one has been able to break his record for the youngest to receive the prize. If Junxin wins, then he will be the one to break Prague. ”
"Mr. Laurence Bragg was twenty-five years old when he won the Nobel Prize, and maybe I could actually see a person who broke a record and set a new record." Madeleine said.
"Then look forward to it!" Professor Peruz nodded in reply.
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"I see, thank you!" Junxin politely thanked him after watching the video.
"You're welcome, we need to get an interview with you, and I think tomorrow's headlines will be happy to put you on the front page."
"Oh? Should I thank you then? Junxin said lukewarmly. He already had a premonition of a lot of trouble he was about to face.