What should come will always come.

After winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, various honors followed.

Since the discovery of the ninth planet, Chen Muwu has long been a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS).

A few years later, as a Chinese, Chen Muwu could only become a foreign fellow of the Royal Society, even if his academic achievements were recognized by the Royal Society.

But there is no such thing as a foreign fellow, and becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society is basically the highest honor that Chen Muwu can achieve in the British academic community.

If he is an Englishman, or a national of other colonies and dominions under the Commonwealth, then if he achieves some academic results later, Chen Muwu may go one step further and accept the canonization of the royal family and become a nobleman such as Sir and Lord.

Like Old Tomson, like his teacher Rutherford, both of whom are now Jazz

In the future, Rutherford even surpassed his teacher and became the Baron of Rutherford of Nelson.

Rutherford has also been on a positive note lately, not least because his protégé Chen Muwu won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

He has been informed in advance that King George V will award Rutherford the Order of Merit on January 1 next year.

The Medal of Honour does not have a title, but can be marked by OM at the end of the name, as is the case with a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Moreover, the Medal of Honour is the only medal awarded to a person who has been awarded a medal directly by the King of England for outstanding achievements in the military, science, art, literature or the promotion of culture.

The limit for this medal is only twenty-five, and new members can only be replaced after someone dies or voluntarily returns the medal.

In other words, the person who can receive the Medal of Honor is basically one of the twenty-four closest people to the reigning monarch (the monarch himself also occupies a quota for the Medal of Honor).

In addition to receiving this Medal of Honor, Rutherford had another double happy event.

Charles Sherrington, the current president of the Royal Society, was stepping down as president in 1925.

If nothing else, Rutherford will be nominated as the new president of the Royal Society at next year's plenary session.

There are people in the court who are good officials, and Chen Muwu can be absorbed by the Royal Society this time and become the youngest fellow, and his teacher Rutherford has also contributed a lot behind the scenes.

Rutherford not only helped his beloved disciple win a fellowship, but also earned Chen Muwu a Hughes Medal from the Royal Society.

The Hughes Medal was established in honor of the British-American inventor David Edward Hughes.

He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and is known for his research and refinement of the telegraph and microphone.

After Hughes's death, the Royal Society established the Hughes Medal to recognize original discoveries in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their related applications.

Chen Muwu was able to win this medal not because of his sophistication, but mainly because of his real talent, after all, his recent original discoveries in physics are not few, and especially in electricity.

Electrons, of course, also belong to electricity, right?

As for the Copley Medal, it is also awarded by the Royal Society.

Unlike the Hughes Medal, which focuses solely on physics, the Copley Medal is awarded for consistently outstanding achievement in any field of science.

First awarded in 1731, it is not only the oldest medal of the Royal Society, but also the oldest in the world.

The Copley Medal is arguably the UK's highest award for scientific achievement, and the recipients are not limited to British nationals or expatriates engaged in scientific research in the UK, but are extended to the rest of the world.

Some people say that before the Nobel Prize, the winner of the Copley Medal represented the highest level of scientific research in the world at that time.

Rutherford learned so much about the Royal Society and the Medal to Chen Muwu, but it was not revealed which of Chen Muwu's old acquaintances next year's Copley Medal winner was.

But now, Chen Muwu already had a faint guess in his heart, and the more he listened to Rutherford's description to him, the more he felt that this medal winner was the person he had never wanted to meet.

"Teacher, is this person you are talking about, is it Dr. Einstein?"

Hearing Chen Muwu's answer, Rutherford burst into hearty laughter again.

"Chen, you are worthy of being a genius who can win the Nobel Prize in physics, and you guessed the correct answer at once.

"Originally, the medal was not like the Nobel Prize, which required the winner to go to the Royal Society in London to collect it in person.

But when Dr. Einstein learned of his award, he immediately sent a telegram to the Society, indicating that he would come to London to receive the award in person.

"I think it may be because after the war, Germany has been isolated from the whole of Europe for so long that there were no German physicists at the Solvay Conference.

"Dr. Einstein probably wanted to take this opportunity to have a good exchange with our colleagues."

Chen Muwu said in his heart, teacher, you are more accurate than my own guess, if nothing else, he did come to communicate.

He suddenly felt that the road was narrow, so if you didn't go to the mountain, the mountain came directly to you?

Since Einstein has already chased after Britain, there is no way to retreat, and Chen Muwu can only fight.

He didn't have faith in convincing Einstein, a stubborn old man, and only hoped that when they first met, he wouldn't be angry.

Fortunately, there is still more than a month left for London to receive the award, and Chen Muwu can be more prepared.

But he didn't get through the winter very quietly.

In the more than two months since I left the UK, Cambridge University has accumulated a lot of things to do.

And after learning that he had returned to school, all kinds of acquaintances and strangers also came in the name of congratulating him on winning the Nobel Prize.

The Legation of the People's Republic of China in London in Britain, as it did last year, sent an invitation letter inviting Chen Muwu to the Legation to participate in the double celebrations of the founding anniversary and New Year's Day.

He participated with Ye Gongchao once last year, and at that time, just after a small success in physics, a bunch of unbridled international students took turns to greet him, and some people wanted to invite him to do that.

This year, Chen Muwu has been upgraded to a young talent with "academic and sports blossoming" and both virtue and art.

He thought that if he went to this smoky event again, then there would only be more people who came to greet him, and their invitations would be greater.

Chen Muwu didn't want to have anything to do with these people, so he refused the invitation of the legation under the pretext that he had just returned to Cambridge after a tiring journey.

However, Chen Muqiao always felt that the officials in the legations of the People's Republic of China in various countries were the parents of their wanderers.

So when he first came to Cambridge, after receiving a notice from someone else to Chen Muwu and persuading his younger brother to go with him was refused, he took great pains to return to London again.

After Chen Muqiao left the sea in October this year and went abroad from Harbin, he always saw foreigners along the way.

This time, I met so many compatriots at the London Legation at once, and heard all kinds of compliments on him.

No matter how high Chen Muqiao's cultivation is, no matter how deep the city government is, he can't hide the smile on his face when he returns to Cambridge.

"Little brother, after a long conversation with Chargé d'Affaires Zhu of the Legation in the UK, I realized how much influence you have on the academic circles in China when you won this Nobel Prize.

"Except for the Pangu that you proposed, which caused controversy, most scholars in my country still praise you a lot.

"Chargé d'affaires Zhu also revealed to me that the rank of your two medals has been promoted by one level, and he has also received many telegrams from people from China, asking about your specific situation. Although those telegrams did not say anything explicitly, they basically inquired about our family and your marriage.

"Guess who else I've seen? The young owner of the company of Yongan in the sea! That Young Master Guo claimed to be an old acquaintance with you, and asked you why you didn't go to London this year.

He said that under your guidance, he recently started a mahjong business when he was traveling back and forth between the UK and China.

"According to my observation, whether it is in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, or in the current Cambridge University, it seems that these foreigners, especially your scientist friends, seem to like playing mahjong very much? Is this your credit? ”

Chen Muwu nodded with a smile.

And their mahjong level is still higher than their own, do you say that people are angry or not?

However, Guo Linshuang still has a lot of brains, and he thought that there was no oil and water in mahjong, but he actually made it a thriving business.

"Young Master Guo also asked me when you will return to the sea, he has a sister who is waiting for the word boudoir, and he wants to introduce you to it. Little brother, it seems that many people are eyeing you, a fast son-in-law who rides the dragon. Why don't you go back to China after a few more years in the UK? ”

Dare me to treat you as a friend, you want me to be your brother-in-law, right?

Chen Muwu was speechless.

Once you have achieved something and become a young talent in the mouth of others, it is easy to be introduced to someone.

The year before last, when he was still in the Railway Administration of the Two Routes of the Yangtze River, he was harassed by many colleagues in the Railway Bureau once because he was invited to give a lecture at Shao University.

After arriving in Denmark, the reason why Bohr asked his wife Margaret to hold a ball was to use beauty tricks to keep himself.

I didn't expect that even though I had already run away to England, I still couldn't escape this "happy trouble", at least in the eyes of others.

"Big brother, you're making fun of me again," Chen Muwu deliberately ignored Chen Muqiao's mention of returning to China, "How did you talk to Eve's mother, Marie Curie, in France before?" I don't know how much their family wants? ”

Chen Muwu was anti-guest, and directly shut up Chen Muqiao, who wanted to see his jokes.

Although Ye Gongchao hated Chen Muwu's endless exploitation of him in writing books, he still truthfully reported to him the meeting between Chen Muqiao and Marie Curie.

After all, his eldest brother doesn't know French, so he can only let Ye Gongchao, who has only learned French for more than half a year, be the translator from it.

Chen Muqiao still follows the old tradition, and always feels that when a couple of young men and women get married, they have to meet the "orders of their parents, the words of matchmakers", and all kinds of messy rules such as bride price, engagement and marriage.

Unexpectedly, Marie Curie was not at all interested in what he proposed, and she thought that young people were free to fall in love, and no one had the right to interfere.

She only made one request to Chen Muqiao, that is, if the two of them really got married, could Chen Muwu come to Paris from England to continue scientific research in the Radium Research Institute.

Pierre Curie left early, and Marie Curie took care of her two daughters alone, and she did not want her to be too far away from her.

In this conversation, Chen Muqiao, who felt the deep cultural difference, felt that he had punched the cotton, and he was very reluctant to hear Chen Muwu mention his meeting with Marie Curie, so he stopped mentioning it with interest.

Now that his younger brother has identified this foreign daughter-in-law, Chen Muqiao began to think in his heart about how to convince his mother for his younger brother after he returned to China.

……

In terms of Trinity College, the welcome to Chen Muwu, who returned with honors, was very warm.

After the Gregorian New Year, the college held a luxurious university dinner for Chen Muwu in the banquet hall.

The dinner, full of greasy food, foul-smelling cigars and elaborate etiquette, was not to celebrate Chen Muwu's Nobel Prize in physics, but to celebrate his promotion from a researcher to a fellow of Trinity College.

All the participants wore the traditional costumes of Trinity College, and the dean, Tom Sun, presided over the dinner himself.

Because of the arrangement for Oppenheimer to enter the Cavendish laboratory, Old Tomson owes Chen Mu a favor.

So in his speech, Chen Muwu was once again blown into the sky.

After being the youngest Nobel laureate in history and the youngest member of the Royal Society in history, Chen Muwu is now the youngest Fellow of the University of Cambridge in history.

Academicians, who are basically equivalent to senior members of Trinity College, enjoy a high status in the college.

Now, Chen Muwu has obtained a place in the academy that is exclusive to him, and he can freely enter and exit places that he could not enter when he was a student before, and according to the tradition of Trinity College, he now has a personal servant in the academy who serves him anytime and anywhere, day and night.

Theoretically, from then on, he didn't have to make his own bed before going to bed every day, and he didn't have to worry about folding the quilt after waking up, and someone helped clean his clothes and shoes, and the manservant could also help sort out letters and telegrams, so that Chen Muwu could devote himself more distractions to academics.

Of course, Chen Muwu's manservant could not be a noble British, but a third brother who has been British.

Suddenly became the "ruling class", Chen Muwu was still a little unaccustomed to it for a while.

Kapitsa, who entered Trinity College before him and became a researcher, has not yet been able to become an academician, so he cannot enjoy this noble VIP service.

So after meeting again from Sweden, Kapitsa began to joke about his good friend: "The smartest man in the world, you really deserve the Nobel Prize." ”

Although Capitsa has always liked to exaggerate, when he first met him at Mrs. Brown's house two years ago, he opened his mouth to call Chen Muwu "a Chinese genius".

But Chen Muwu felt that Kapitsa's title today was still a bit excessive.

How did he become the smartest man in the world?

You will give Yuwen Chengdu a gold medal engraved with "The World's No. 1 Brave and Invincible" now, what should you do if Li Yuanba suddenly comes out on the way?

"Peter, don't make a fuss, I really can't afford to be called."

Kapitsa still refused: "Chen, this is not the nickname I gave you, but the name of you in the British newspapers.

"Until then, the title had been reserved for Dr. Einstein."

"In addition, Professor Eddington's popular science book on quantum mechanics sold well after its publication.

In his book, Eddington declared that the uncertainty principle you proposed is as important in physics as Einstein's principle of relativity.

"But didn't you point out a mistake by Dr. Einstein at the Nobel Prize ceremony?

"The one who can point out the wrong ones to the smartest people in the world will be smarter than the former.

"So in these British newspapers, the title is transferred to you."

After listening to Kapitsa's ins and outs, Chen Muwu felt that these British newspapers, like the British, were all-stirring sticks who feared that the world would not be chaotic.

When they came up with this title, it would naturally attract attention and increase the sales of the newspaper.

But at the same time, he also used himself as a target tree.

These uncrowned kings of Fleet Street are fucking up!

Chen Muwu suddenly remembered that he seemed to have an account that he hadn't settled with Kapitsa.

"Peter, why would Director Rutherford know about Eve? Did you tell him? ”

"The crocodile asked why you didn't come back with us after receiving your prize in Sweden.

"I can't deceive him, so I can only tell the truth!

"Chen, your vision is really good, such a beautiful Eve, and you are so handsome, you are really a match made in heaven.

"When you get married, I'm going to be your best man.

"After giving birth to a child, I came to be Xiao Chen's godfather."

How can this Russian be more anxious than anyone else?

Others just ask when they will get married, how in his mind, even the child has been born.

And the key buddies don't believe in any religion, and there is no godfather at all.

But it's okay to be a godfather, as long as you spend your New Year's money every year.

……

Because of the title of "the smartest man in the world", Kapitsa is not the only one who comes to the door.

After learning that Chen Muwu had returned to Cambridge, people from Penguin Press came to the door again.

The previous two detectives in the George Chan series have become bestsellers in the British book market.

Readers find that detectives can still write like this, either everyone is a murderer or everyone is a victim.

Penguin Publishing is now impatient to launch the third book in this series, but fortunately, Chen Muwu also came prepared and handed over Ye Gongchao's third manuscript.

In addition to the achievements in publishing, the magazine, which operates on the model of "Reader's Digest", has gradually opened up the market.

According to readers' feedback, the Magic Square and crossword puzzles published in the magazine are the most popular, and the publisher plans to make these two games into separate books and sell them separately from the magazine.

They also took a fancy to Chen's title of "the smartest man in the world" that the British newspaper had dubbed, and planned to ask him to write a recommendation for the puzzle game book to further increase the sales of the single book.

Of course, Chen Muwu couldn't agree to this condition, and he would never admit this name.

However, he thought of Einstein, who was about to come to England, so he promised this person from the publishing house to help him connect with Einstein when the time came.

……

Not everyone at Cambridge welcomes Chen Muwu.

When he was touted a little fluttering by groups of visitors who came to the door one after another, someone came to Trinity College and asked Chen Muwu Xingshi for his guilt.

Seeing Eddington walking into the room with a straight face, Chen Muwu was startled.

This is Einstein's close comrade-in-arms, and he is also full of martial virtues, is it possible that this time he is also here to teach his old friend a lesson?

But according to Kapitsa, didn't Eddington boast about the uncertainty principle in that popular science book?

He should have been with him, standing on the opposite side of his old friend!

"Mr. Eddington, I should have visited you at the observatory, how could I let you come to me for a special visit!"

Chen Muwu had already forgotten about Eddington, he just said a kind word.

"Come on, you, if you don't have anything to ask for, you will never go to the observatory to find me," Eddington really saw through Chen Muwu's perfunctory, "Congratulations on making a new achievement in astronomy!" ”

The second half of his sentence was very yin and yang, and the content of his words reminded Chen Muwu that in addition to being Einstein's friend, the Eddington in front of him also had an identity as a world-famous astronomer.

Could it be that he came to the door today, not because he was upset with Einstein, but because he disagreed with the expansion of the universe and the Big Bang, phew, Pangea process that he proposed?

"It's just a mistake, a mistake.

"As you know, Mr. Eddington, I've always been interested in the Andromeda Nebula, and I've talked to you a few times before.

"So as soon as I learned that Dr. Hubble of the United States had made a breakthrough in nebula ranging, I asked him for specific data.

"It's not my credit, it's just that I just happen to connect the dots between two previous researchers.

"Do you think the universe is not expanding? But now, facts and figures, like the elephant in the room, cannot be ignored. ”

"I'm not saying that the expansion of the universe is wrong, on the contrary, I do agree that your scientific mind can find the correlation between the distance and velocity of galaxies in such a short period of time. You deserve the Nobel Prize, and if there is a Nobel Prize in astronomy, I will be the first to nominate you. ”

If Eddington agrees that the universe is expanding, why does he still have an angry expression? Chen Muwu couldn't figure it out.

Eddington changed his words: "It's just that your behavior makes me angry." I carefully read the full text of your acceptance speech published in the newspaper. You say in it:

"Sriver published the regression velocities of twenty-five galaxies, while Hubble gave seventeen galaxies at a distance from us, fourteen of which coincided with Sleaf's descent velocities, while the remaining three did not find their specific regression velocities.

"There's nothing wrong with what you said, Sriver's paper, which was published in 1917, really only has twenty-five numbers in it.

"So I'm sure you haven't read the book "The Mathematical Principles of Relativity" that I gave you just after it was published last year.

"In order to write this book, I asked Sriver for the latest data he had observed in February 1922, and they were published in full in the book. After another five years of observations, Shriver has measured the regression velocity of forty-one galaxies, and the three galaxies you didn't find are clearly written in the book. ”

After speaking, Eddington walked to Chen Muwu's bookshelf, pulled out the book he had written, and slapped it heavily on the table.

(End of chapter)