Chapter 107 International Union of Crystallography (II)
Internationally, since modern times, because of the rapid development of science and technology, more and more international cooperation and exchange organizations have begun to appear. Guy has a much larger proportion of female scientists in this organization than in other societies.
Of course, not all the famous crystallographers are members of the International Union of Crystallography. But it has to be said that the female members are indeed a little better than others in this area. One of the more famous is Benjamin Franklin, who took an accurate diffraction picture of the structure of DNA, which was eventually used by the famous biologists Watson and Crick to complete the famous double helix structure of DNA. Unfortunately, Franklin died young, at the age of thirty.
These materials were also known by Junxin when he began to pay attention to the development of crystallography and consulted a large number of literatures, but unfortunately this is almost a well-known thing in the biological community.
The International Union of Crystallography Congress is not only a conference, it includes many small exchanges and lectures, and according to more than 10 branches of the International Union of Crystallography, they are held separately. Therefore, the duration of the conference is also a relatively long academic exchange conference among international academic conferences.
This year's International Union of Crystallography borrowed the campus of the University of Toronto, a large school that can accommodate more than 60,000 students to study and communicate, and it is naturally easy to find a place for hundreds of people to communicate with each other. For example, this conference did not occupy any public college facilities at all, and the building where the chemistry department is located has completely fulfilled all the space requirements.
Due to the emergence of Junxin's quasicrystal, and with a large amount of data and experimental results to support, the world's major laboratories have successively carried out repeated experiments, which has caused a huge impact on the crystallography community, which makes this time the topic become a new definition of crystallography under the discussion of the Standing Committee a few months ago.
Since the conference lasted about 10 days, there was a plenary meeting in the morning and the last day of the conference, and almost every day was interspersed with exchanges from various branches and lectures and reports by some scholars and scientists. Looking at the schedule, Junxin said that he was very interested in the speeches and reports of some of these scientists, but he also had to be prepared for this aspect, after all, because his research results changed the theme of the conference, so he was also asked to give a keynote speech, and the focus was on the discovery of quasicrystals.
Junxin, who has many international conference experiences, is naturally not afraid of these at all, after all, he has always said that he is a mathematician, and most of the papers are published from a mathematical point of view, which is why he seems so leisurely these days.
"Jennifer, I have some documents here that need to be copied for the afternoon presentation, where is the photocopier here?" Although I have visited the entire University of Toronto in the past few days, and I already know the University of Toronto by heart with a strong memory, I still accepted Laura Jennifer, a volunteer arranged by the organizing committee, for him, after all, there are many temporary things that can be completely helped by Jennifer, such as the copying of the speech this time.
The various scientific circles are divided into many small circles, among which the small circle of mathematics is the least numerous, followed by physics, chemistry again, and the largest number is biology, which can reach several thousand people. And a little less chemistry has a scale of nearly 1,000 people.
Although there are only a few hundred people participating in the International Union of Crystallography, in order to fully take care of the scientists, there are more than a dozen reports in a day, although the organizing committee takes care of Junxin, but everything has to be in accordance with the rules, so although the scientists who make reports at the same time as Junxin are not so famous, but the number of people is relatively large.
"Sir, just leave this kind of trivial matter to me, the organizing committee has special copying equipment, I'll just go over and make copies." Jennifer took Junxin's speech and said with a smile.
"It's good!" Junxin nodded and said, "My speech will start this afternoon, in classroom 0522 on the fifth floor, if you don't have anything to do, you can come and listen to my speech in the afternoon." Most of what you have been told these days is from a mathematical point of view, and the same is true for the discovery of quasicrystals in the afternoon, which may help you. ”
"Thank you, Professor!" Jennifer nodded hurriedly and said.
"Ha, I'm a student like you, but I'm not a professor, don't get me wrong." Junxin shook his head and laughed.
"But I think you can become a professor." Jennifer said seriously. I have to say that serious men are charming, but serious women are even more charming. Jennifer, who spoke seriously, had a little more brilliance in Junxin's eyes.
"Ha, don't talk about it, I'll go to the venue first, after copying the documents, you can put them on the podium in classroom 0522 first, and I'll go over after dinner in the afternoon."
"Yes, sir." Knowing that Junxin didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble because of the title, Jennifer changed her tune.
Junxin waited until Jennifer left, and then stepped into the conference hall. I have to say that the University of Toronto does have money, and a chemistry department has an auditorium of several hundred people, which is something that other schools dare not imagine.
There were already many people in the auditorium, some of whom I knew, such as the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, the famous British chemist Sir Aaron Kluger, who creatively used an electron microscope to observe the tobacco mosaic virus under X-rays, thus unraveling the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus, because the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jury awarded him the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry as a reward for his research results.
However, most people Junxin don't know each other, in the final analysis, because they are not in the same circle, so some public figures may still know, but some other people are really so confused that Junxin doesn't know anyone.
There was no arrangement in the conference hall, except for the rostrum and the first row, which naturally included the main leaders of the International Union of Crystallography, including the senior management of the University of Toronto. In the first row of seats are the leaders of the various branches of chemistry. For example, there is Max Peruz, the 1962 Nobel laureate in chemistry, who and John Kendru won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on spherical proteins.
In addition to him, there are other people who do not belong to the chemical branch of crystallography, such as the American chemist Russ Engsag.
Junxin casually found a position to the left of the center and sat down, picked up the briefing of this conference in his hand, and had deep expectations for this conference.