Compton's resentment that had been stored in his heart for a long time finally found an outlet.

Immediately after returning to his lab at the University of Chicago, he wrote a letter to Harvard, full of filthy words and scolding Professor Duane.

Compton then sent a letter to the American Physical Society at Columbia University, requesting that he retract the paper he had submitted at the end of December.

After reorganizing the paper, he asked for help in translating it into German and sent it to the Almanac of Physics in Berlin.

……

On the other side of the ocean in North America, Compton of the University of Chicago is not the only one who has received this issue of the Annals of Physics.

Professor Duane of Harvard University, Compton's nemesis, also received the journal.

But because he was in the lab at this time, trying to find the absurdity of the Compton paper as soon as possible, he didn't have time to open the magazine to see what new discoveries his fellow physicists in the world had made.

It wasn't until two days later that he received a letter from Compton from Chicago, the text of which was filthy, and he began by scolding himself with a slap in the face, calling himself a thunderous man, a corpse vegetarian, and an uneducated man.

Duane was confused, thinking, what kind of nerves is this Compton going on?

At the end of the letter, Duane saw Compton asking him to read an article in the latest issue of the Annals of Physics to see if he was more intelligent and right than Planck and Einstein.

In fact, Duane was not a straw bag, and he did not allow Compton's paper to be published, not because he did not support the optical quantum hypothesis cited in the paper, on the contrary, he was one of the first physicists in the United States to support the optical quantum hypothesis.

After Milligan confirmed the correctness of Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect with light quanta with precise experiments, Duane followed suit and personally supervised two of his doctoral students in 1921 to remeasure and calculate Planck's constant using the X-ray method.

The exact result of Planck's constant, h=(6.556±0.009)×10^-27erg·s[1], was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and this result has been used by the physics community for 16 years.

So when Duane saw that Compton's letter said that there was a paper that was favored by Planck, the father of quantum, and Einstein, the proposer of the quantum hypothesis of light, he immediately asked his secretary to find the latest issue of the "Annals of Physics".

Although he also did not know German, he was able to guess the general content of the paper through symbols, formulas, and diagrams, which are the common language of physics.

He also recognized that the person who signed the title should be a Chinese person.

Duane approached Ye Qisun, who was writing his doctoral dissertation under Percy Bridgeman's guidance, and asked the same question as Compton: "Dr. Ye, do you know that there is such a physicist named Chen Muwu in your country?" The name Muwu (move), as you read it, seems to have been born to be a man destined to study physics. ”

Ye Qisun is one of the two doctoral students who helped Duane determine Planck's constant, he was a 1918 Gengzi student in the United States, and after writing his graduation thesis this year, he will leave for China.

He has been in China for many years, and naturally he doesn't know that Chen Muwu is a rising star in the domestic physics community, so he shook his head very honestly and said: "I'm sorry, Professor Duan, I haven't received news from China for a long time, and I didn't know that there was such a gentleman." ”

Duane nodded, as if he was talking to him, as if he was talking to himself: "Could it be that this time I was really wrong?" ”

Ye Qisun was born in Tsinghua School, and the status of this school was a preparatory school for studying in the United States when it was established, in order to send students to study in the United States, so English is naturally the only foreign language.

He didn't know how to comfort his big boss, and he couldn't translate German papers for him like Wu Youxun did, so after standing in place for a while, he could only quietly exit Duane's office.

……

Originally, at the end of the 19th century, Europe was the center of physics experiments.

But as the United States gets richer and richer, so does their desire to have a greater say in science.

As a result, the Yankees invested a lot of money in building one laboratory after another with advanced equipment and observatories with large-aperture telescopes, and the results and observations were more accurate than those of their poor cousins in Europe.

From Maxwell's octaprism to measure the speed of light and the interferometer to conclude that the speed of light does not change, to Milligan's oil droplet experiment and precise photoelectric effect, to Duane's precise Planck constant measurement, and Compton's scattering experiment, the experimental center of physics has gradually shifted from Europe to the American continent.

As a result, a large number of physicists appeared in Europe who had no money and a lot of free time.

As Rutherford said, "Because I have no money, I have to think hard", they devoted all their rich energy to theoretical research, so that the wave after wave of theoretical physics appeared on the land of Europe in the early twentieth century, until it reached its peak in the early thirties.

Although American universities have deep pockets, they are ultimately lacking in foundation, so they have always adhered to the idea that "foreign monks can recite scriptures", and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to invite well-known European physicists to give lectures throughout the United States.

Renowned artists have been invited, including Lorenz, Planck, last year's Albert Einstein, and this year's Arnold Sommerfeld.

As Dean of the School of Theoretical Physics at the University of Munich, Sommerfeld was the world's most nominated physicist (81) and the person who taught the most physics laureates, although he never won a Nobel Prize.

Sommerfeld's greatest contribution to physics was his α of the fine structure constant, and countless famous physicists were fascinated by the number 137.

Before he died, Pauli felt refreshed because the ward he was admitted to was room number 137; Eddington, on the other hand, was a devotion to the 137-theistic religion, believing that the reciprocal of the fine structure constant 1/α must and must be 137.

When he saw the new issue of the Annals of Physics, Sommerfeld was at Stanford University, preparing for tomorrow's lecture.

*****

[1] Author's note: erg is the unit of energy and work in the centimeter-gram-second unit system (CGS), and 1erg is equal to the work done by 1 dyn (dyne) to move an object 1cm (centimeter) in the direction of the force. The conversion relationship between the Ergo and the units of energy and work J (joules) in the International System of Units (SI) is, 1erg = 10^-7J. In addition, the conversion relationship between the units of force dyn and N (Newton) is 1dyn = 10^-5N.