126 Precious than gold

The more Chen Muwu thought about it, the more he felt that the museum was feasible, but he didn't want to tell the Swedish crown prince on the other side of the table about it for the time being.

He still needs to do a little more research into this project, what if it is easy to send cultural relics and exhibits abroad, but it is difficult to send them back to China?

Chen Muwu tried his best to avoid not only the fear that the cultural relics shipped to Sweden would become like the British Museum in later generations, and all kinds of valuable cultural relics could not be returned to their own country, so they could only shoot "Escape from the British Museum" to helplessly express their own protests.

He is also afraid of another point, that is, these cultural relics are likely to be snatched to the island by the fleeing steamed bun authorities in 48 or 49 under various pretexts.

- Just like those relics in the Forbidden City.

The Palace Museum on the island has been criticized by many people for how casual and careless it is when dealing with cultural relics in the future.

Chen Muwu even knew many cases of their destruction of cultural relics, and with a single dozen, he turned a porcelain from the Song and Yuan dynasties into pieces, and he didn't know how to cherish it carefully.

If the cultural relics he carefully protected still can't escape this kind of ending, Chen Muwu feels that there is no need to make himself think hard for decades, and in the end, it is still a bamboo basket to draw water - a failure.

In addition to talking about museums and remembering cultural relics, Chen Muwu was a little depressed, and the dinner he had with the Crown Prince of Sweden was generally very harmonious and pleasant.

At the end of the separation, the Swedish crown prince emphasized again that after he returned, he began to prepare for the award of Chen Muwu, and he would definitely give him a Swedish knighthood next year.

After meeting with his friend and benefactor, Chen Muwu returned to the construction site of the Prince's College on the outskirts of Stockholm.

He didn't tell his other partner, Marcus Jr., what the Crown Prince of Sweden had told him at dinner the other day.

Because although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that he himself would bear the entire cost of this cyclotron, the money that should be paid by the Crown Prince of Sweden is actually out of whose pocket, this matter is simply Sima Zhao's heart - everyone knows.

The Wallenberg family paid hundreds of thousands of kroner for Chen Muwu to build the world's first cyclotron in the physics laboratory building of Prince Stockholm College.

As a result, this machine was finally built because it was led by the Crown Prince of Sweden, so it was named the Cyclotron of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and even if the Wallenberg family didn't say it, they should be in a very unhappy mood.

And this unhappy emotion cannot be vented to the future king of Sweden, and it will definitely be counted on Chen Muwu's head.

Therefore, the matter of naming His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Cyclotron must not be raised by Chen Muwu, but should find a way to let Little Marcus and the Wallenberg family say it themselves.

Chen Muwu, who returned to the construction site, saw what is called the power of money.

In order to build a compliant insulation environment for the laboratory where the cyclotron will be installed in the future as soon as possible, Marcus Jr. offered a bonus for the Swedish construction workers to work overtime.

As soon as the purchased mica flakes arrived at the construction site, a few days later, an insulated laboratory covered with mica flakes and accepted by Cockcroft appeared in the physics laboratory building of Prince College.

However, it is very embarrassing that Chen Muwu and the others are not to mention the cyclotron itself, and even the cyclotron model that they said they would try to make first is still not a word, which is in stark contrast to the speed of the construction and decoration workers.

They ordered all the parts they needed from factories around Stockholm, and they also went to the Royal Institute of Technology to find a lot of ready-made physics equipment, and they barely managed to assemble them by the end of November to assemble a fifteen-centimeter model of a cyclotron, or test machine.

However, as soon as the clock ticked into the end of November, the Nobel Prize atmosphere in Stockholm was immediately intense.

In the era of lack of entertainment, the Nobel Prize ceremony, speeches, and a series of after-heat and preparations before the event were a major event in the Nordic capital.

At the same time, it also makes the festive atmosphere here arrive much earlier than in other countries where Christmas is only celebrated once.

The Christmas party of the citizens of Stockholm can be said to start at the beginning of December.

But it also shows that two of the three nominees for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft, are starting to get busier with their schedules in Sweden, and their time in the lab is getting less and less.

Another of the three laureates, Professor Wilson, also from the Cavendish Laboratory, arrived in Stockholm a dozen days before the ceremony.

Chen Muwu still asked Marcus Jr. to send someone to meet him at the train station in the city, and invited Professor Wilson to the Prince's College.

Chen Muwu did not have any intention of digging Professor Wilson to Stockholm, because he was British, and he was middle-aged, and he had already settled down in Cambridgeshire and taken root.

And a person's scientific research age is always limited, which is fine for mathematics, but for physics, the physics that can be famous all over the world are basically the most famous results in their academic careers before they are forty years old.

Professor Wilson was already over forty years old, and his most outstanding contribution to physics in his lifetime was the invention of the cloud chamber, which made it easy to observe the trajectories of microscopic particles.

If he were invited to Prince's College in Stockholm, he would probably be just a mascot in the school, adding one more Nobel laureate to the physics faculty and nothing else.

And if you want a mascot, wouldn't someone as famous as Albert Einstein or Marie Curie be better than Professor Wilson?

Professor Wilson did not live in the hostel arranged by the Nobel Prize Organizing Committee in downtown Stockholm, but came to Prince College, which was actually commissioned by Chen Muwu.

He asked Professor Wilson, who had come from Cambridge University, to work with Blackett in the Cavendish laboratory in the past month or so to produce an improved cloud chamber, which will be used in the future with the completed cyclotron.

As soon as they met, Wilson smiled unceremoniously and complained to Chen Muwu: "Dr. Chen, you are really calculating, I, an old fellow of my age, traveled to Sweden to receive a Nobel Prize, and at the same time worked part-time as a postman to send you what you wanted." ”

There was not the slightest hint of complaint in Wilson's words, he was just joking with Chen Muwu, who was super popular in Cavendish's laboratory.

Wilson also knew what was the decisive reason for his victory in physics this time.

Although the cloud chamber shines in physics laboratories around the world, many of the heavyweight results achieved by relying on the cloud chamber are inseparable from Chen Muwu and his partners.

For example, Chen Muwu did an accurate gamma ray scattering experiment to prove that light will be a particle;

For example, with the help of Chen Muwu, Blackett found the first manually completed nuclear transmutation in human history in the photos of the cloud chamber;

Another example is the cloud chamber, which shines with the cooperation of the particle accelerator, discovering many new particles and many new nuclear reactions, and the particle accelerator, which was completed by him and his two assistants Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft under the leadership of Chen Muwu;

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Wilson could cite many more examples of this, and he felt that if it weren't for Chen Muwu, he might have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the cloud chamber, but the time might not be as fast as it is now.

- He didn't know that even if there was no Chen Muwu, he would have won the award this year, and the reason for the award was only gamma ray scattering, not as much as he imagined.

"Professor Wilson, I've worked so hard for you."

Chen Muwu smiled and said politely.

"Dr. Chen, after the Solvay meeting, you didn't go back to the Cavendish Lab, but came directly to Sweden, what are you going to do here? I have been commissioned by Sir Rutherford to inquire into the matter. ”

Wilson didn't hide it, but directly told him what Rutherford asked him to do in a joking tone.

He knew that it would be better to explain the matter directly and name his teacher Rutherford than to secretly touch him in private, and then name his teacher Rutherford, so that Dr. Chen would not tell lies to prevaricate himself.

"Oh, yes, I was asked to build a particle accelerator for this school in Stockholm."

Sure enough, just as Wilson thought, Chen Muwu didn't lie to him.

- I just didn't tell the whole story.

Is a cyclotron a particle accelerator? Yes, of course!

Fortunately, the current model of this machine has not been installed, Wilson had seen the electrostatic particle accelerator at Cambridge University, and Chen Muwu was afraid that if he saw the shape of the accelerator changed from spherical to cylindrical, would he be pulled to ask questions.

After instructing everyone to install this custom-made cloud room, Wilson stayed with Chen Muwu and them for one night in a hostel on the outskirts of the city.

The next day, together with Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft, he left the vicinity of the Prince's College and returned to the city of Stockholm.

Because the award ceremony is approaching, as the new Nobel laureates, they always have to be interviewed by some reporters, and cooperate with various departments in Sweden to do some public welfare activities, such as going to primary and secondary schools in Stockholm to give speeches to young students, cultivating their interest in physics and science.

The reason why Chen Muwu is clear about this matter is because he has also done this kind of thing.

Before parting, Chen Muwu specially told them that all information about his time in Stockholm should not be disclosed to these reporters from all over the world.

Even if you accidentally say something, you must not tell your specific location to reporters.

It's not that he's afraid that the cyclotron construction work he is secretly engaged in will be revealed in advance, but he is just afraid that after the news gets out, he will attract a bunch of reporters to ask him this and that, disrupting his work schedule.

Chen Muwu thought that he would not attend any Nobel Prize-related activities, but would take advantage of the time when the world's eyes were focused on Stockholm City Hall to speed up the progress and secretly develop a cyclotron, and strive to get the machine out as soon as possible.

Of course, the dinner and award ceremony still have to go, on the one hand, the Swedish crown prince will definitely invite himself, and it is always difficult to refute the other party's face.

On the other hand, Chen Muwu is still thinking about his foundation, the one that raised funds to support education in the Far East.

Temporarily losing his right-hand man in the Cavendish laboratory, Chen Muwu began to work as an experimental partner with the Curie couple.

He may still be a little uncomfortable in his heart, because although they are relatives, it is the first time they have worked together.

The little Curies did not have so many scruples, they threw themselves into the laboratory wholeheartedly, striving to build the cyclotron as soon as possible, and when they learned the technology, they would go back to the Radium Research Institute to build such a one.

The top priority was to assemble this 15-centimeter experimental model.

In the whole model, the most expensive thing is not the D-box specially made in the factory, nor the electric and magnetic field generators they made themselves, but the radioactive particle source.

Sweden is not like Germany, Britain, France, and the Netherlands, where there are many universities and laboratories that excel in physics.

It is also not like its neighbor Denmark, which loves and hates grudges, and has a fierce man Bohr who can single-handedly lead the development of physics in the whole country.

Even Uppsala University, the best university in the country, is not located in the metropolitan area of the capital, Stockholm, but in the satellite city of Uppsala northwest of Stockholm, just as Cambridge is to London.

And now in the whole of Sweden, there is only one university with professors who specialize in radiophysics.

The particle source used in the fifteen-centimeter cyclotron model they built was borrowed from the physics laboratory at Uppsala University.

Chen Muwu, who still wanted to deliberately conceal his identity, did not come forward, but asked Frederick, who could speak French, which was more common in Europe, to go north.

But even if he showed himself to be a Ph.D. at the University of Paris, a researcher at the Institute of Radium, and the son-in-law of Marie Curie, the people at the University of Uppsala were reluctant to lend them the precious source of particles.

In the end, I had to leave a large deposit there, and I was able to lend this source of particles that were more expensive than gold to Stockholm.

(End of chapter)