140 Irena repents of not being at the beginning
After completing the doctoral dissertation defense, Zhao Zhongyao finally became the third Chinese in Cavendish Laboratories to get a doctorate after Chen Muwu and his classmate Shi Ruwei.
Chen Muwu was the first Chinese Ph.D. in Cavendis's lab, but not the first at Cambridge University.
The first Chinese to get a doctorate from Cambridge University was named Wu Liande.
In 1910, before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, he successfully resisted the bubonic plague that had been introduced from Tsarist Russia to Harbin via the Eastern Railway, and did not allow the disaster to spread throughout the country.
A few days after Zhao Zhongyao put on the doctor's hat, another piece of good news came over.
That is, the factory with poor work efficiency, finally sent a telegram to Chen Muwu, informing him that the order placed to the factory in January of several years has now been completed, and he can pick up the goods by himself, or call back to inform him that ICBC will rent a wagon and deliver it to his door.
The telegram also asked if the address was the same as last time, and it could be delivered to the Cambridgeshire railway station.
The factory was intimate in such an unnecessary place, which frightened Chen Muwu.
The batch of goods ordered this time must not be sent to Cambridge University.
The cyclotron they ordered was all spent on the funds of the Prince of Stockholm Academy.
It was sent to the University of Cambridge and installed in the Cavendish laboratory, but what happened?
Chen Muwu hurriedly called the factory back as soon as he received the telegram, saying that they would send all the materials ordered to the docks in Norwich, a port city in the northeast of England.
The celebration of Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft, who had just won the Nobel Prize in physics and had a doctorate, ended, and they were about to embark on a new journey under Chen Muwu's arrangement.
At the same time as calling back the factory, Chen Muwu also sent a telegram to Marcus Jr. of Sweden, asking him to send a Swedish freighter to Norwich Port to help transport the cyclotron parts.
Chen Muwu feared that if he did not get in touch with the Swedish side, he might encounter many difficulties when he encountered a British freighter in the port of Norwich.
For example, there is not enough space and load on the ship, and you have to wait for the next shift.
Or the British shipbuilders are asking for sky-high prices and deliberately making things difficult.
In addition, the specific content of their shipments may also be leaked.
Based on the above possible reasons, Chen Muwu felt that it was safer to get in touch with Marcus Jr. in advance.
Chen Muwu's estimate of the construction period of the cyclotron is about two months.
When the cyclotron is officially completed in Sweden, it will basically be time for the Prince of Stockholm College to be put into operation.
Chen Muwu also had to attend the opening ceremony of the Prince College over there, and it was inevitable that there would be a lot of things.
After that, another big thing for Chen Muwu was getting married.
The year 1928 is no less commemorable to Dr. Chan than the year 1922 he had just crossed over.
In this year, he will first start a business, then start a family, and complete two major events in a person's life.
Between the opening of the Stockholm Prince's Academy and the marriage of himself and Eve, there is another event.
That is to repeat the experiment that Chen Muwu had done last year, announcing to the world that after years of hard work, he had finally discovered another electroneutral particle hidden in the nucleus, in addition to protons-neutrons, confirming the conjecture of his teacher Rutherford for ten years.
Well, in addition to neutrons, there is another derivative of that experiment, the positron, which can also be announced to the public.
He and Pauli's bet had risen eight hundredfold from a ten-pound Sovereign to an eight-thousand-pound deal, and it was time to finally cash it out.
In addition, the discovery of neutrons and positrons has nothing to do with the cyclotron they built in Stockholm.
Physicists all over the world must not be allowed to think that Chen Muwu has defrauded investors of a large amount of money, but has created a useless thing,—— and he is not going to return to China next week——, Jia Yueting must let the world see the advanced nature of cyclotrons compared to electrostatic particle accelerators.
Therefore, Chen Muwu also had to do experiments on the cyclotron, obtain the first research results, and create the world's first man-made element - sandwiched between the No. 42 element molybdenum and the No. 44 element ruthenium, people came to find the No. 43 element that has not been found for more than ten years.
Compared to the complicated naming process of a star in astronomy, the chemical community is much simpler and easier to identify the name of a new element.
So one of the great pleasures of chemists has always been to try to find new elements and then automatically get the naming rights for that new element.
Everyone is very interested in whether there are new elements behind uranium 92, and one of the hot topics in the chemical community today is to find the existence of transuranic elements.
This topic also deserves a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In addition to transuranic elements, element 43, which has neither a head nor a tail, is also a hot research object.
Every once in a while, someone would jump out and say that they had discovered element forty-three, and then after a while it would be falsified, and then after a while, someone else would jump out.
Again and again, everyone is happy with this activity, just like those who repeat it in QQ groups or WeChat groups.
Now that the cyclotron has been completely built, it is finally Chen Muwu's turn to jump out and use the real element forty-third to interrupt this pointless carnival repetition.
And he had already thought of the name for element 43, Zhonium or Chinium, the symbol Zh or Ch, the Chinese character "bell".
And after the name is announced, the Swedes of the country where the cyclotron is located, especially the Swedish crown prince, who likes credit, will not be unhappy.
This is because there has long been Holmium, Ho, the 67th element named after Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
The literal translation of the place name Stockholm should be the island of Stock, so the literal translation of the name of the holmium element can also be understood as the island element.
In addition to Stockholm, there are of course elements named after Sweden.
Most people memorize the periodic table and will memorize calcium, which is ranked 20th.
The twenty-first element after calcium is scandium (Sc), whose Latin spelling is Scandium, was discovered and identified as a new element by Swedish chemists in 1879.
Therefore, the origin of the name of the scandium element is Scandia, which is the ancient name of Scandinavia.
The name comes from the Teutonic word Skadino, which means dark, and refers to the fact that Northern Europe does not see sunlight for a long time of the year due to its proximity to the Arctic Circle.
In addition to scandium, element 69 was also discovered by Swedish chemists in 1879.
This time, they used another ancient Scandinavian name, Thule, and named the element Thulimu (Tm).
There are far more than these three elements related to Sweden.
Sweden also has a quarry called Ytterby, a small place that is not necessarily marked on the European map, but it is actually related to four rare earth elements.
Yttrium (Y), Terbium (Tb), Erbium (Er) and Ytterbium (Yb).
The roots of the first three elements, Ytt(e)r-, Terb- and Erb-, are all included in the name of the mining farm Ytterby.
The last type of ytterbium is named directly after the full name of Yutbi.
The Swedes already have so many elements related to their country to name, so naturally they don't care about Chen Muwu, a Chinese, naming the new element found using their country's instruments as an element related to China on the land of their country.
Even if Chen Muwu gave up the naming rights of this element, it is estimated that the Swedes will not be able to think of a better name.
Named after Sverige (Sverige) (Sverium, Sv)?
Or is it simply like Galileo named the moons of Jupiter after the Medici family, his big financiers, and Gustium (Gt) after the surname of Gustaf, the crown prince of Sweden?
Thinking of this, Chen Muwu felt that these two naming methods did not seem to be impossible.
Then when the second and third elements are discovered later, it will be named in these two ways, and it will not take too long anyway.
Chen Muwu made a list of his next schedules in his heart, and the next few months were all full.
This also means that he really can't find time to go to the Amsterdam Olympics, which kick off on July 28.
In this way, Chen Muwu, who won four swimming gold medals in a row at the last Paris Olympics, retreated bravely, leaving only his legend.
He may also be the first Chinese athlete to be inducted into the Swimming Hall of Fame.
Although there will be a macho man in the future, he won eight swimming gold medals in a row at the same Olympic Games, which is more than double the record set by Chen Muwu.
But how many events did he swim under that time, and Chen Muwu only had a few events in swimming at this time.
And even if Phelps has eight gold medals, does he have a Nobel Prize?
The factory sent Chen Muwu a phone call back again, agreeing to ship all the parts he had customized to Norwich.
Marcus Jr. also sent a call back and forth, saying that he would arrange a freighter with plenty of space as soon as possible to depart for Norwich Port in the United Kingdom.
Chen Muwu, who had packed his luggage at home, was about to set off again.
In order to appease the old lady who has always regarded the marriage of her youngest son as a top priority in recent days, Chen Muwu assured her that it would only take two or three months to come back as soon as possible, and ask the old mother to find an auspicious day of the zodiac in September and October, and he would marry Eve at that time without further delay.
On the same day that Chen Muwu was carrying his bags at Victoria Railway Station and boarding the train to Dover, Penguin published a new book by long-lost Mr. Chandler Yorke, "Murder in the ABC".
But this time, Mr. Chandler York changed to a new pen name, Chen Muwu.
Many local London journalists were tempted to interview the part-time detective writer, who no longer wore a vest but was finally making a name for himself as a physicist.
When they found Chen's Mansion this time, they were no longer greeted by General Tie, who guarded the door, but Chen Muwu's eldest brother, Chen Muqiao.
The latter showed the stub of the train ticket to Paris that Chen Muwu had purchased a day earlier, signaling that the reporters did not avoid Chen Muwu this time, but that they did pounce.
Chen Muqiao did this under Chen Muwu's instructions.
After I left, it was not always a way to block the reporters waiting for an interview at the door of my house every day, whether it was going out or visiting guests.
It's better to tell them generously about their trip to Paris, anyway, Chen Muwu's final destination will definitely not be Paris, even if the reporters chase after them, it's strange that they can find themselves.
Facts have proved that Chen Muwu's strategy of getting out of the shell of the golden cicada has been used very successfully.
Taking advantage of the time difference, he managed to meet up with Jorio and Irena in Paris, and together they set out on another trip to Stockholm.
They were the last to arrive, and they arrived in Sweden a few days earlier than Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft, who followed the ship to escort the goods.
Once they had reached the port of Stockholm, unloaded the cargo from the ship, and transported it to the Prince's College in the car Marchus Jr., the cyclotron was built again.
In fact, after having the most difficult parts to produce, all that remains is to put them together and test them up, and if no problems are found, everything is fine.
Perhaps even the cyclotron, which is still in the state of components, did not expect that this last step was not a complicated assembly work, in which three Nobel laureates in physics were involved.
As the only two of the five people who have never touched the Nobel Prize, it would be false to say that they are not jealous.
It's just that the object of their eyes is not the prospective brother-in-law Chen Muwu, but Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft.
The British are really lucky, and they found the rooster of Chen Muwu, who constantly lays eggs of academic achievements.
How good would it be if Chen Muwu had gone not to England, but to France?
But this seems unlikely, because when he visited China, he met Chen Muwu with Professor Albert Einstein from Germany, who only recommended this talented young man to his own country, Germany, and to his friend Professor Eddington's country, England, and France was not in his consideration at all.
Probably from beginning to end, Chen Muwu is unlikely to come to France, right?
Wrong!
(End of chapter)