"Director, you don't have to thank me, this money is entirely funded by the Duke of York, I just told him the truth about the current situation of our laboratory."

"Chen, you shouldn't be so modest, if it weren't for your achievements in physics, astronomy, and the Olympics, I don't think the Duke of York would be interested in meeting you at all.

"It doesn't matter who paid for it, but in short, this opportunity was won by you. So no matter what, you're a great contributor to our Cavendish Labs. ”

Rutherford's emotions were still high.

Then he seemed to suddenly think of something, lowered his head and said with some chagrin: "No wonder my teacher, Sir Tomson, wants you to be a lobbyist and persuade me to accept that student from the United States, it turns out that from the very beginning, he has already calculated all this!" ”

Rutherford looked up after a moment of shame, his eyes shining with confidence again.

"Chen, since you have brought me a piece of good news, then in the same way, I also have a piece of good news to bring to you.

"This summer, while you were making money for our lab, I also wrote a lot of letters to others, in which I persuaded them to leave the nomination for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics to you.

"It's not because I'm your teacher and you're a student at our Cavendish Lab that I'm using my connections to help you operate, but because I honestly think that you have what it takes to win this award.

"This was first mentioned to me by Sir Bragg on the ship returning from Belgium in May, and when I heard it, I thought it made sense, and when I came back I thought it was exactly what he said.

"Although you haven't been in the lab for a long time, and you haven't done many experiments, gamma ray scattering, visible light scattering in liquids, and the experiment you did at the beginning of this year to prove the wave of electrons, these groundbreaking experiments, take any one, I think you can win the Nobel Prize.

"That's why I've written to a few friends and students to recommend you, and with the fact that you've recently won four Olympic gold medals in swimming in a row, you've gained a certain amount of popularity around the world, and I think the judges of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in the face of nomination letters sent from all over the world, should be thinking seriously about whether to award you this year's Nobel Prize in Physics."

The first to mention the Nobel Prize in Physics to Chen Muwu was also Old Prague.

So when he heard the news at that time, Chen Muwu's heart was already excited once.

So now that he heard Rutherford say it again, Chen Muwu felt a little unfazed.

Whether or not you can win the Nobel Prize does not depend on the number of nominations that the person receives.

Moreover, the qualification for Nobel Prize nomination is not as difficult as the Nobel Prize.

Professors from top universities in various countries, as well as aristocrats from several European countries, are eligible to nominate Nobel Prize candidates to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

This is just like the national football team, although no one can be shortlisted for the "World Footballer of the Year" campaign, but the national football coach is eligible to vote.

Pauli and Heisenberg's teacher, Professor Sommerfeld of the University of Göttingen, was nominated for the Physics Prize 81 times in his lifetime, and he was the most nominated among those who won and those who did not.

But as long as the judges of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences don't nod their heads, hasn't he still been able to touch this highest honor in physics in his life?

Let it be, this is Chen Muwu's view on whether he can win the Nobel Prize this year.

"Thank you for your kindness, teacher, I will definitely continue to work hard and strive to achieve more results in the laboratory."

Chen Muwu's calm expression once again won Rutherford's favor.

He thought, if he heard the news that he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize at the age of 22 at Chen Muwu's current age, would he jump up from the ground excitedly?

It's just that Rutherford never thought that when he was twenty-two years old, there didn't seem to be a Nobel Prize in this world.

Rutherford, who suddenly became rich, was in a good mood, and inevitably praised Chen Muwu again.

He encouraged Chen Muwu to guard against arrogance and rashness, continue to move forward, and strive to explore more of nature's true nature through experiments.

After inhaling three more bags of secondhand smoke, Chen Muwu finally left Rutherford's office.

Now there are still two months before the start of school, and most of the people in the laboratory are still enjoying the leisurely summer vacation, and only a few people stay here because of the experiment.

But no matter what kind of experiments they were doing, the first thing they said when they met Chen was to congratulate him on his four gold medals at the Olympics.

The Eagle Club at Cambridge University, which was set up specifically for athletes, is now a guest of honor.

They not only awarded Chen Muwu a special scholarship for the Olympic gold medal, but also helped him register a patent for the style of swimming trunks he wore during the Olympic Games.

But Chen doesn't expect the patent to make him a lot of money, because in the eyes of the general public, these shorts are only suitable for swimming in the pool.

And on a hot summer day, when playing in the water, they still prefer to choose the one-piece swimsuit style that wraps their body tightly rather than a topless swimsuit with a swim trunk that shows their breasts.

Alas, men's minds are still so conservative, and the women's liberation movement has a long way to go, and I don't know when he Chen Muwu will be able to see a cool bikini on the beach.

Oh, and whether a bikini can exist in this world is also a question.

Of course, Chen Muwu is not referring to this cool style of women's swimsuit, but to the name of this swimsuit, Bikini.

In the original time and space, the name of the bikini originated because the designer happened to see in the newspaper that the United States conducted a nuclear explosion experiment on Bikini Island in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean, so he named the new swimsuit he designed as Bikini.

Chen Muwu suddenly thought of an evil and bold idea in his heart, maybe in this life, this cool swimsuit style divided into two parts, the upper and lower parts, may be called Honshu, Kyushu or Shikoku?

……

In addition to the Eagle Club, on the evening of Saturday, August 9, Chen Muwu also went to the regular secret meeting of the Cambridge Apostolic Society, which was held once a week.

Unlike the deserted Cavendish laboratory, the Apostolic Society, although small in number, was attended by a large number of people.

Chen Muwu was surprised, why didn't these people enjoy the summer, but they all stayed in Cambridge?

After everyone's warm applause and welcoming him, the new Olympic champion who had not come to the party for more than a month, Chen Muwu asked his own questions.

As a result, the answers he got were all the same.

The reason why these rich and powerful boys are reluctant to go home during the summer vacation is that as soon as they return home, their parents will ask them to dress up as gentlemen, follow the elaborate etiquette, and go to salons, dinners, and balls everywhere so that they can find the right girlfriend.

A year ago, when he was still in China, Chen Muwu couldn't bear the nagging of the old lady to force marriage.

As a result, when he went abroad, he saw that his peers were also troubled by this headache, and he couldn't help but gloat in his heart, fortunately, our old Chen ran fast!

After taking a seat, a fresh face walked up to Chen Muwu with a wine glass and took the initiative to greet the latter.

"Hello Brother Chen, I'm Frank Ramsey."

Although 100 percent of the apostles in the Apostolic Society today are left-leaning atheists, they still follow the tradition of decades ago, not calling each other names, honors, positions, and sir, but only adding the title of brother after their surname.

Chen Muwu couldn't accept this title from beginning to end.

Every time he heard someone call him "Brother Chen" and "Brother Chen", Chen Muwu's first reaction was always, could it be that he had traveled to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with a red turban on his head?

Chen Muwu also stood up and touched him with a wine glass filled with water: "Brother Ramsey, I have long admired the great name." ”

This sentence is not polite and flattering, but Chen Muwu really knows that there is such a person.

Every year, Trinity College holds a difficult math exam for its graduates, in order to select the best of these talented brains and select the most talented of them.

Graduates who achieve a Distinction grade in this exam are called "Wranglers", while the one with the highest score in the Wranglers is called "Senior Wrangler".

It can be said that the Chief Wrangler represents the highest level of their class of Trinity College graduates.

Among those who Chen Muwu was familiar with, only Eddington, director of the Cambridge Observatory, was the chief Wrangler.

And like the predecessors of physics, Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the current dean of Trinity College, Tomson Sr., they can only be the second Wrangler of their respective class.

In addition to Eddington, Chen Muwu knows the name of the chief Wrangler, and the only one in front of him is Ramsey.

Ramsey was a 1923 graduate of Trinity College, and at the end of the spring semester when Chen Muwu first arrived in Cambridge, he happened to witness Ramsey receive the honor of Chief Wrangler at the graduation ceremony.

But Chen Muwu didn't get up to greet Ramsey because he respected the chief wrangler.

It's because Chen Muwu has heard the title of Dean Ramsey many times in Ye Gongchao's mouth.

Arthur Stanley Ramsey, now the dean of Magdalen College, Cambridge, was also the father of Frank Ramsey who stood before him.

Chen Muwu thought that if Zhao Zhongyao and Shi Ruwei came to Cambridge and failed to be admitted to Trinity College, if he had a good relationship with Little Ramsay, would he be able to find another way back for them on the side of Magdalen College?

Just like parents all over the world will urge their school-age children to get married, where can there be no love in the world?

(End of chapter)