When Old Prague came to David Faraday's laboratory, Chen Muwu was packing his things here and preparing to leave.

Although the machines and liquid gases were painstakingly transported back from the Netherlands, it was all spent on the laboratory's funds.

Even if this fund was earned by Chen Muwu, on paper, this refrigeration machine is still a fixed asset of the Royal Research Institute.

Moreover, Chen Muwu's research in the field of low-temperature physics has come to an end, and there is no need for him to pack all these things back to the Cavendish laboratory.

However, if he did bring the equipment back, it is estimated that the teacher Rutherford would laugh, and maybe ask Chadwick to make a room for these things.

It's just that it seems that he said that the Cavendish laboratory didn't want to study low-temperature physics, but only wanted to focus on things in the nucleus?

"Dr. Chen, Dr. Chen! I recently got you a good job! ”

Old Prague's face was full of smiles.

"Sir Prague, but I'm going back to Cambridge soon."

"Don't worry, I just got the news, and this position is not only yours!"

"You mean the head of Mondstadt Labs, right?"

"How do you know this?"

How do you know? Guess.

As soon as the news of his departure spread, old Prague couldn't wait to meet him.

Chen Muwu knew that the purpose of his coming this time must not be to practice for himself, but to leave himself.

After all, the elder Prague himself is a crystallographer who mainly studies solid-state physics, and it is okay for him to engage in laboratory management, but it is not very glamorous to hand over a laboratory specializing in low-temperature physics to him.

However, this Mondstadt laboratory was not attractive enough for Chen Muwu.

Not to mention that this is a specialized laboratory, but being the director of the laboratory is equivalent to stepping into a management position, and the big and small things that happen in the laboratory in the future will have to be painstaking.

How can this be comfortable hiding in the Cavendish laboratory to do experiments and conduct research with peace of mind?

No matter what happens, there is his teacher Rutherford on top, and the things in life and work are arranged by the big butler Chadwick, and on the side of Trinity College, there is also his master Tom Sun.

In addition, Chen Muwu is also supported by two organizations, the Eagle Club and the Cambridge Apostle Society.

The former is made up of some of Cambridge's most prominent athletes, while the latter is made up of some of the brightest and most powerful students in the school.

Looking at it this way, Chen Muwu is simply a small yaman at Cambridge University, who can run rampant and domineering on campus without any scruples, bully and dominate the market, and rob people's daughters......

Of course, the above three idioms are jokes, and the most critical point is that Chen Muwu is still waiting to go back to Cambridge University to build an accelerator.

Staying in the Mondstadt Laboratory, a place dedicated to low-temperature physics, and working on accelerators, is a misnomer.

"I'm sorry, sir, but you'd better be smart. It's been a real pleasure working with you for more than half a year, but I really have other work to do at Cambridge. ”

Chen Muwu has made up his mind.

"This ...... Dr. Chen, you should now be one of the most authoritative researchers in the UK in low-temperature physics. And I've already talked to Oxygen UK, and they're going to be responsible for supplying all kinds of liquid gases to the labs in the future. Now that everything is ready, if you leave like this, who will entrust the Mondstadt Lab to which it will be built? ”

"Sir, my lord, where is little Mr. Prague now? Why not bring him in to London to manage the new lab? ”

After working with the old Prague for so long, Chen Muwu never saw his son Little Prague once.

It was only recently that he met little Prague for the first time, but not in London, but at Chadwick's wedding in Liverpool.

Prague Jr. was born in 1890 and is only a year older than Chadwick, who was born in 1891.

But in fact, according to the teacher-student relationship, he is indeed Chadwick's teacher.

In 1909, after following his father back to England from Adelaide, Australia, Prague entered his father's alma mater, Trinity College, Cambridge University, to study with his father's classmate Tomson Sr.

In 1914, after graduating from Little Prague, he became a researcher and lecturer at Trinity College.

At this time, Chadwick was still living his miserable career as a prisoner of war in Germany, until he returned to England after the war, and he followed Rutherford from Manchester to Cambridge, which established a brief teacher-student friendship with Little Prague.

If Chen Muwu's success is a traverser's welfare, then little Prague is a pure physics genius.

It's just that his research direction is not in the microscopic world, but following his father's footsteps, he has been engaged in crystallography research in solid state physics.

"Lawrence, you say? He is now at the University of Victoria in Manchester, and since your teacher Rutherford left Manchester, Lawrence has succeeded him as Langworthy Professor of Physics. ”

Prague Jr. is in Manchester, which is why Chen Muwu was able to meet him in Liverpool, not far from Manchester.

The first half of Little Prague's life can be regarded as crossing the river with Rutherford.

In 1919, as soon as Rutherford left Manchester, Little Prague took over his position and laboratory at the University of Victoria, where he remained for eighteen years.

In 1937, after Rutherford's death from illness, Prague Jr. took over as director of the Cavendish laboratory.

It was also after he joined the Cavendish Laboratory that he gave up the laboratory's research on nuclear physics and vigorously supported his old profession, solid-state physics.

Germany forced a bunch of good Jewish physicists to the United States because of the racial issue.

The change of course at the Cavendish Laboratory after Little Prague also caused a large number of British nationals and nuclear physicists engaged in nuclear physics research in the United Kingdom to lose their research centers in the United Kingdom and turn to the wealthier Americans.

In 1943, Chadwick led a group of British scientists to Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, to participate in the development of the atomic bomb.

It is not to say that Little Prague was wrong, and the lab has achieved a lot after getting the Cavendish lab to change its research direction.

For example, Watson and Crick, who discovered the double helix structure of DNA, were both students of Little Prague, and the X-ray diffraction they used was the same research method that Little Prague had been using for a long time.

But he gave a large number of nuclear physicists from Britain to the United States for nothing, and it is really hard to say whether this matter was right or wrong.

Chen Muwu thought that it would be better not to let little Prague go to the Cavendish Laboratory, and let him follow his father to be the director of this Mondstadt Laboratory.

But the next words of old Prague showed that he had no intention of taking his son to his side at all: "Besides, Lawrence, like me, has been studying crystals, and it is also a mistake to let him be the director of the low-temperature physics laboratory."

"Dr. Chen, although this Mondstadt laboratory has been established and the location has been chosen, it will take some time for it to be built, so why don't you go back to Cambridge University first, and then return to London to be the director after you are done?"

Old Prague still wanted to keep him.

But what Chen Muwu thought in his heart was, when I have a really good electrostatic accelerator at Cambridge University, your Mondstadt laboratory will be completed, but my school in Sweden can basically be completed.

How could I have remained in London, England and waited for the bombing at that time? By then, it must have gone to Northern Europe!

"Sir, it's a pity that little Mr. Prague can't come to London, and that you father and son can't share the joy of family.

"Otherwise, shall I recommend another person to you?"

"Who?" Old Prague is thirsty.

"A good friend of mine, like me, is your junior at Trinity College, and now works in the Cavendish laboratory. Before I entered the Cavendish Laboratory, he was the one who received the best student scholarship in the lab every year. ”

Since the elder Prague was unwilling to work with his son, Chen Muwu thought, and the only way to return this Mondstadt Lab that appeared earlier than the original time and space to its original owner in advance.

"Peter Kapitsa, you've probably heard of that name."

"Oh, oh, I know him, every time I met Ernest before you came to England, he always mentioned that man. It's just that if I'm not mistaken, this Mr. Kapitsa, it seems to be a Sulian? ”

The expression on Old Prague's face was a little complicated, and it belonged to the very common talk about Su color change among the British today.

Last year, because of the no-confidence vote against the McDonald government of the Labor Party, a new general election was held in the United Kingdom on October 29 of that year.

Four days before Election Day, the British penny newspaper Daily Mail published a letter purportedly from Zinoviev, the leader of the Communist International, to the Communist Party of Great Britain.

In this letter of instruction, Zinoviev ordered the latter to engage in sedition, rebellion in Britain.

Because the Labour Party formed a government in Britain for the first time, and Prime Minister McDonald restored diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union during his tenure, many people believe that the Labour Party also has close ties with the Communist International.

This incident, which was later called the "Zinoviev Letter", although later research believed that the letter was forged by the Daily Mail in favor of the Conservative Party, was considered to be a real letter at the time, which not only made British voters boycott the Labour Party, which made the Conservative Party win a landslide victory in this general election, but also made the British people a little more jealous of the mysterious red country in the Far East.

Hearing that Chen Muwu was going to recommend a Sulian to be the director of Mondstadt Laboratory, old Prague had to have some worries in his heart.

"Sir, you should not deny that even though the current Davy Faraday Laboratory is the most famous laboratory in the whole of the United Kingdom, the Cavendish Laboratory is still the most powerful physics laboratory in the United Kingdom."

Old Prague nodded.

Kapitsa, on the other hand, was a very high-level student and staff member in the Cavendish lab. Sir you should know what my teacher, Sir Rutherford, is a man who is stingy with his praises.

"Such a person is enough to be the director of Mondstadt Labs, and you shouldn't have any scruples about Kapitsa because of his Sulian status.

"If it's really because of nationality that Mondstadt Lab is missing out on a talented person, what's the difference between that practice and the ridiculous Americans who are convicting them of teaching Evolution in schools because it contradicts the Bible's 'God created the world.'"

The example cited by Chen Muwu is a news item that has recently caused a sensation in the newspapers.

Although this news happened in the United States on the other side of the Atlantic, it caused a lot of uproar around the world.

As he said, Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" has been published for 65 years, but in Tennessee, USA, at the end of last year, a law called the "Battle Act" was passed, which prohibits school teachers from teaching "Evolution" to students.

After the promulgation of this bill, all kinds of forces came out to rub this hot spot.

Some people want to take the opportunity to brush their faces and run for president.

And some people are worried that their business is not doing well, he happened to be in a small town in Tennessee, and he wondered if he could use this bill to make some articles and plan a great trial of religion and science, whether it would attract popularity to the town and drive his business?

What was originally a very absurd and inconspicuous incident became the first trial in the history of the American legal profession to be broadcast live to the whole country.

The controversy in the court over whether the Bible allows man to be transformed from monkeys was transmitted across the United States by radio waves, and even gave the trial a resounding nickname, "The Monkey Trial."

The judge of the monkey trial, a devout Christian, of course ruled against the teacher who taught evolution in class.

This was a legal recognition of the supremacy of the Bible over science, and the trial caused a huge reaction not only in the United States, but throughout Christendom.

Perhaps the pious people would object to the fact that man is a monkey, but as a scientist, the elder Prague was right to support the theory of evolution.

He also understood what Chen Muwu was doing with this example, this person was telling him that science is science, and it has nothing to do with religion, and it has nothing to do with nationality.

It's just the prejudice in his heart, which can be said so easily, old Prague sighed helplessly: "Alas, about the candidate for the director of the laboratory, let me think again, right?"

"But Dr. Chen, is there really no room for things to turn around?"

"I'm sorry, Sir, I really can't stay in London anymore."

"Okay, I respect your choice, but—Dr. Chen, how old are you?"

Although he didn't know what old Prague was asking himself for, he replied truthfully: "I am twenty-three years old. ”

"So you were born in 1902?"

Chen Muwu nodded.

"Well, Lawrence also has a sister named Gwendelin, who was born in 1907, almost four years younger than you, or how about I introduce you two to each other, and find a chance to meet before you leave London?"

This......

Chen Muwu thought that old Prague had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he was upright, how could he end up like Bohr and do this one?

(End of chapter)