The English name of the school supervisor is Chancellor, and a school has another position called Vice Chancellor.

When Vice is used as an adjective, it has the meaning of "vice", so the latter position is often translated as deputy superintendent, or simply as vice principal.

But in fact, Chancellor is more of an honorary position, although he is the school's superintendent and the chairman of the judging committee, but he has no actual power, just a kind of mascot-like existence, like the king of England.

Vice Chancellor's actual job is to manage the leadership, academic and day-to-day administration of the school in place of the school supervisor, and he is the real person in charge of a school.

As one of the best universities in the UK and the world, the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge is a kind of honorary title, so that politicians like Balfort who have retired from high positions have some capital to talk about when they go out and introduce themselves to others.

In fact, Balfour would not have been seen at Cambridge a few times a year, and if it weren't for the upcoming general meeting of the International Federation of Astronomers (IAU), he would not have been able to run from his big house in London to such a poor place in the countryside in the middle of the summer sun.

When I saw the flow of the meeting, Belfort was still quite happy.

The newspaper reported so much that he also knew that Chen Muwu had discovered the ninth planet in the solar system, and he also knew that the location of the discovery of this planet was the observatory of Cambridge University.

The people who accompany Balfour today are basically the most famous and powerful astronomers in the world.

If he can boast to them in person about how good the astronomy level of Cambridge University is, then he is also honored as the school superintendent.

As a result, as soon as they met, before they had time to introduce it, Belfort was stabbed by the soft knife in Chen Muwu's words, and the smile froze on his face.

After more than three years, Chen Muwu has basically maintained an elegant and easy-going state in dealing with people.

Even when he treated his "friends", he was equally assasian, pointing them out the direction of future physics research.

It seems to be Chen Muwu's first time to jump his face like today.

First, he knew that this school supervisor was a puppet with no actual power, and there was no way to fire him.

The second is because Chen Muwu is confident enough, even if Balfour excludes himself from Cambridge University through various despicable means, then as long as he leaves the school on the front foot, various universities or research institutes around the world will throw olive branches to him on the back foot.

Seventy-seven-year-old Balfour, who has been in the officialdom for so many years, has long since become an old fox with a thousand years of cultivation.

He was slightly embarrassed for a few seconds, then continued to force a smile on his face, "How could it be, Dr. Chen! You're one of the brightest young people at Cambridge, and I would never do anything like that. ”

Anyway, the purpose of disgusting people has been achieved, so Chen Muwu didn't continue to argue with him.

Although he is quick to speak for a while, if he wants to be looked down upon by others, he still needs to strike iron and be hard, which is exactly what he will work towards in the future.

Beside Balfour, there was another old man who looked slightly younger than him, and he also said with a smile on his face and in a very relaxed tone: "Dr. Chen, if Lord Balfour wants to kick you out of Cambridge University, then I will personally give you the next offer at the first time and invite you to teach at the University of California." ”

The words of the old man in the United States verified Chen Muwu's conjecture just now, and there are still people who want him at his level.

Although he didn't know who this person was, he still had a slight affection for this American in his heart.

Before he could say thank you, after the American accent ended, another British accent came out: "Mr. Campbell, your idea is good, but I'm afraid things won't go the way you think." While your offer was still adrift across the Atlantic, Dr. Chan had already entered Imperial College. ”

From the mouth of this old British man, Chen Muwu probably guessed the identity of the old American man just now.

If nothing else, he would be William Campbell, president of the University of California and director of the Lick Observatory at the University of California.

That's right, it was Campbell who did not believe in Eddington's total solar eclipse observations published in 1919, and personally led a team to Australia to observe the total solar eclipse again in 1922, and finally proved that the gravitational redshift predicted by general relativity was infallible.

On New Year's Day 1923, in the auditorium of the Ministry of Industry Bureau in Qihai, someone also mentioned this incident to the visiting Einstein.

The reason why Campbell led the team all the way from the United States to Australia was because the results announced by Eddington were too wrong, and second, because they were anti-German.

The Germans lost a World War and were questioned for several years with Einstein's theories.

Campbell's evening is bleak, and as an astronomer who uses his eyes to explore and uncover the mysteries of the starry sky overhead, he is blind in his later years.

He couldn't stand the blow and finally fell from a fourth-floor window in San Francisco, California, at the age of seventy-six.

"Professor Campbell, I've admired my name for a long time, and it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Chen Muwu. ”

Xiao Chen hurriedly shook hands with this one.

Although he now knew who this was, he began to wonder the identity of this second old Englishman.

Imperial College London? Except that old Prague once went to Imperial College to buy metal for himself, he has no connection with Imperial College?

Eddington, who was the host of the meeting, was a little embarrassed by the jokes that had just been seen by the guests, especially an American who had not believed in his observations.

But this is not to blame Chen Muwu, the things that Belfort did were really not very pleasant.

If he had known that Chen Muwu didn't like this school supervisor, then he should never let the two of them meet today.

And the one that won't show up is most likely Balfour, after all, this is a gathering of scientists, not politicians.

"Dr. Chen, let me introduce to you, Professor Alfred Fowler of Imperial College London, who is the secretary general of the International Federation of Astronomers, and Professor Campbell, whom you already know, is the president of the Federation."

With a president and a secretary-general, it is no wonder that today the school supervisor Belfort personally accompanied him to visit the observatory.

When shaking hands, A. Fowler did not forget to dig people: "Dr. Chen, you must think more about the thing I just said." Imperial College London is ready for you to teach. ”

"There must be a chance, definitely."

Even if he leaves Cambridge University, even if he wants to continue his research in astronomy, Chen Muwu will definitely not go to Imperial College.

London is so polluted by light pollution, and Imperial College's telescope isn't as big as Cambridge's, so what can be done there?

It's better to say three sentences and let a man build a new observatory for me!

Don't get me wrong, this is not alarmist, but Chen Muwu really has that ability.

At the end of last year, Prince Adolf Gustav, who listened to Chen Muwu's Nobel Prize speech in Stockholm, may have been attracted by the Chinese myth and legend of Pangu opening the world, and was very interested in the expansion of the universe mentioned in the speech.

Although physics is difficult to understand, for ordinary people, astronomy is a subject that can be seen at night when they look up, and anyone can talk about two sentences.

Sweden has produced famous astronomers, not counting Tycho, the ancestor of modern astronomy, who has a dispute with neighboring Denmark, and the most famous astronomer in history is Anders Reseus.

The greatest contribution of Serseus in the history of science is that he was the first to propose a temperature scale with the boiling point of water as zero degrees and the freezing point as 100 degrees.

Later, Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern ecology, turned these two temperatures upside down, and it became the most common Celsius temperature scale in life - this is named after the surname of Celsius.

Sweden has good astronomers, but no good observatories.

Both Uppsala University Observatory and Stockholm University Observatory were built in the mid-18th century, the same time as Celsius.

Nearly 200 years later, however, the two observatories have completely lost their function as scientific research.

Nowadays, Sweden basically has no conditions for astronomical observations, otherwise Stromgren would not have gone to the neighboring University of Copenhagen Observatory as the director, and finally chose to become a Danish naturalized.

All in all, the appearance of Chen Muwu gave the Swedish crown prince the idea of reviving Swedish astronomy.

In addition, there is really no observatory in China, so he wants to build an attached observatory at the same time as the construction of the Prince Academy.

But as soon as the Swedish crown prince proposed this idea, Chen Muwu rejected it.

It's not expensive to build a house, but it's expensive to build an optical telescope!

The crown prince personally runs the school, so the caliber of the telescope cannot be too shabby.

The larger the caliber, the more expensive the money, and Chen Muwu has no intention of continuing his research in astronomy.

It can't be so bad if you have money, it's better to build a few more houses for the academy, or save the money for the future development of radio telescopes.

……

Thinking of strange things in his head, Chen Muwu had already followed the flow of people into the dome of the Cambridge University Observatory, and the ninety-two-year-old Northumberland telescope was quietly placed on the stand.

In the eyes of astronomers from all over the world who visited, the telescope was not the world's leading in aperture, but it was also decent – except for the Americans.

The enthusiasm of the rich in the United States for astronomy is very high, and the aperture of astronomical telescopes is also climbing like a competition.

Campbell was dismissive of the nearly 100-year-old telescope in front of him, which he managed, the Lick Observatory, which had been built for nearly forty years, was also refractive but had an aperture three times the size of the Northumberland telescope.

"Dr. Chen, did you discover the Yellow Emperor Star in such an old and outdated telescope? It's not an easy thing to do! I'm not joking, but I sincerely invite you to continue your astronomy studies at the University of California's Lick Observatory! ”

Campbell deliberately showed a very surprised expression, which made Eddington, who was accompanying him, very angry.

It's just a matter of digging other people's corners in front of the host, why did you start teasing this meritorious telescope at the Cambridge Observatory?

Telescopes may be small, but they can discover new planets.

No matter how big the telescope of your Lick Observatory is, it still finds nothing?

Although several moons of Jupiter have been discovered, how can the moons compare to the planets discovered by Dr. Chen?

Angry, angry?

Of course, Chen Muwu will not accept Campbell's invitation.

On the one hand, he didn't want to continue studying astronomy, and on the other hand, he felt a little awkward about the Solik Observatory.

The Lick Observatory was built on the estate of James Lick, the richest man in California at the time, so it was named after the rich man.

But the relationship between the Lick Observatory and Lick doesn't stop there.

The observatory houses a "Great Lick Telescope" named after Lick, and Lick's body is buried under the base of the telescope.

Chen Muwu respects the contribution made by this rich man to the development of human science, but he will never go to the Lick Observatory to do any astronomical research.

As we all know, the use of optical telescopes to observe the starry sky is basically only done at night after the sun has set.

In the middle of the night, you sit in front of the telescope and look at the scenery, and the people watching the scenery are silently watching you under the telescope, how cautious it feels!

"Thank you, Professor Campbell, for having me, but I'm doing well at Cambridge University right now, and the teachers here are all talented and speak well...... And for various reasons, I personally do not want to go to the United States to engage in scientific research......"

Campbell was disappointed, not because Mr. Chen seemed to be mocking his American accent.

He just felt that Dr. Chan had already achieved so much at such a young age, and that he had at least forty or fifty years left in his academic life.

If Chen Muwu can be poached to his side, then he will definitely be able to ensure that the University of California will be in the leading or even first place in the United States in physics and astronomy in the next few decades.

Campbell cursed in his heart that those politicians in the United States who had enough to eat and had nothing to do, and they had to do the Rausch Chinese Exclusion Act!

Eddington was in a very comfortable mood listening to it, Chen Muwu is worthy of being a person who is all about scientific research, and he is also worthy of the training of Cambridge University.

A rich Yankee may be able to poach other people with a lot of money, but he will never be able to poach such a pure person!

He saw Lord Balfour, the schoolmaster, who had been left out in the cold, and suddenly had a plan in his mind.

Today, in front of so many people, the telescope of the Cambridge University Observatory was ridiculed and ridiculed by the Yankees who had no one in their eyes, which is a very humiliating thing.

But at the critical moment, it was Chen Muwu who stood up and made the attentive Campbell stunned.

Now that I have the backing of my own person, Dr. Chen, what if Dr. Chen leaves Cambridge University?

Eddington intended to use this as an excuse to lobby the Rector of the University, who had witnessed the whole situation today, in the hope that he would raise the issue of funding the Observatory at the next meeting of the Jury.

Or simply donate a new telescope to the observatory in your own name.

Wasn't this Northumberland telescope also donated by the former Chancellor, the Duke of Northumberland?

Balfort, who had been squeezed into a corner by the crowd of visitors, was still sullen, completely unaware that someone had already made up his money bag.

(End of chapter)