Hu Shi can so happily agree to be interviewed because he will not let go of any opportunity to become famous.

And Chen Muwu is because he still has something to ask for Zhang Hatshui.

He gave Hu Shi the opportunity to be interviewed first, because he respected the old and loved the young, and respected the teacher.

However, Chen Muwu is not respecting Dr. Hu, but others.

He saw Yan Renguang, the head of the physics department of Shao University, and Xia Yuanying, a professor waiting on the side, and the two seemed to have something to say to him.

After getting along for more than half a month, he has a lot of respect for these physics seniors, and he is not too embarrassed to let them wait for him too long.

Seeing Chen Muwu coming over, Yan and Xia first expressed their gratitude to him for donating all the remuneration for the lecture to the Department of Physics of Shao University.

Chen Muwu smiled and waved his hand and said, "A little thing, it's not enough to worry about, Director Yan, Professor Xia, what do you two have to teach the juniors?" ”

Yan Renguang said with a smile: "Hanchen, sure enough, nothing can escape your eyes!" I don't dare to give advice, but I do have something to ask you for.

He looked at Xia Yuanyu beside him, who nodded at him, "Then I'll tell you directly, does Minister Shulman want to invite you to study at Cornell University?" If you want me to say, this Cornell, Hanchen, you can't go.

"Although it is a bit unkind to say this about my alma mater behind my back, I have to say that whether it is the level of physics teaching at Cornell University or the hardware facilities, I don't think it is worthy of your talents, and your light should not be drowned out there.

"Hanchen, if you want to study abroad, I can write a letter to my head of the department at the University of Chicago, Michael Sun, and my teacher, Professor Milligan, recommending you to study at the University of Chicago or the California Institute of Technology, both of which have a much better physics department than Cornell University."

Xia Yuanying also chimed in: "Hanchen, if you want to go not to the United States, but to Europe, then I can also write to my teacher Planck and recommend you to Humboldt University of Berlin." ”

Hearing the sincere advice of the two seniors, Chen Muwu was very moved.

Although he is not a student of Shao University, the two professors are still in the spring breeze, and hope that he, a rising star in physics in his own country, can go abroad to receive a better education, so that he can better give back to the academic community and serve the motherland after completing his studies.

Chen told the two professors that he did not plan to study at Cornell University, and thanked them for their kindness.

However, as soon as he heard Professor Xia Yuanzhen talk about writing a letter to Planck and recommending himself to study at Humboldt University in Berlin, Chen Muwu suddenly remembered that a little old man named Albert Einstein also told him the same thing a month ago.

Why didn't Lao Putou give him news? Did you forget him?

Did the first paper on the "Chen effect" that I sent last year be published in either of the two journals?

The second paper on "Chen Universe" and "Chen Jie" has now reached Europe, or is it still adrift on the sea?

……

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

Just when Chen Muwu was working hard to "write" novels to earn manuscript fees, his first paper also set off a bloody storm in the European and American physics circles.

The January 20 issue of the Annals of Physics published Chen Muwu's paper, "Another Effect Between Light and Electrons: A Quantum Physics Explanation of the Properties of Monochromatic Gamma Rays Scattered by Matter," was published as scheduled.

At the end of the paper, Planck wrote a handwritten statement, saying that Chen Muwu's paper was recommended to him by Albert Einstein, and he invited experimental physicists around the world who could read the paper to design experiments to verify the theoretical explanations presented in the paper if they were interested.

In addition, Planck concludes with the book: "If the theory in the paper is indeed experimentally proven, it can be assumed that the energy and momentum of light, like 'energy particles,' are transmitted one by one." However, I do not agree with the assumption stated in the paper that light exists in the form of 'photons'. We cannot and should not overturn Huygens's wave theory and revert to Newton's theory of particles. ”

Although the Journal of Physics has risen to prominence in recent years, it has challenged the dominance of the Annals of Physics as a German-language physics journal.

But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Annals of Physics still has a large number of subscribers, distributed among universities and institutes around the world.

The first issue of the Annals of Physics in 1923 will be delivered to subscribers in a matter of days, ten days or dozens of days through the postal system of the UPU.

A little more than a week later, the journal traveled across the ocean to Illinois, USA.

Arthur Compton, who had just left his position as chair of physics at Washington University in St. Louis[1] a month ago and transferred to the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago as a professor, sat gloomily on a bench in Lake Michigan's lakeside park outside the University of Chicago campus.

At the end of December last year, he submitted a report on X-ray scattering to Physical Review, one of the top physics journals in the United States, sponsored by the American Physical Society.

Physical Review's delay in publishing academic papers is too lengthy to ensure academic quality.

Therefore, each paper must be sent to a committee of the Physical Sciences Division of the American Research Council for discussion before being selected for the journal.

Compton himself is a member of this committee, and "there are people in the DPRK and China who are good officials," and it stands to reason that his paper should be easily approved, and the discussion is just a simple formality.

However, the chairman of the committee, William Duane, a professor of physics at Harvard University, strongly objected to the inclusion of Compton's work, arguing that the results were unreliable.

Because Duane's lab is doing the same experiment, but it doesn't get the same results.

The two have quarreled to the point of-for-tat over Compton's paper, and Duane even personally designed a series of falsification experiments to prove that Compton's paper was wrong!

The paper was detained for more than a month and could not be published, and the rush to fire made Compton, who was a humble gentleman, almost crazy.

He even wanted to go to the Canal Street train station near Madison Avenue, take the first train, arrive in Boston on the West Coast, pull Duane out of the Harvard laboratory by the collar, throw him a Browning, and then smash a white glove in his face, like a western cowboy, relying on the gun in his hand to tell who is right and who is wrong.

Just as Compton was sitting by the lake complaining and sighing, a Chinese student suddenly ran out of the gate of the University of Chicago in a panic, and he seemed to be holding something in his hand.

"Professor! Professor Compton! The latest issue of the Annals of Physics has arrived! ”

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[1] Author's note: Washington University in St. Louis is not in Washington, D.C., but in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, called Washington University.