169 Chen Muwu started a family
Rutherford's words about achieving new achievements in life as soon as possible are of course not referring to other things, but to let Chen Muwu cultivate the next generation as soon as possible.
When he says such things on an occasion like a wedding, no one thinks he is out of place, let alone annoying.
After all, whether it is the East or the West, marriage will be associated with reproduction.
Everyone is just an ordinary person, not the kind of big landlord, big noble, can have many illegitimate children without marriage, and it is not the so-called Virgin Mary, who has never met a man without marriage, and gives birth to a baby in a manger out of thin air.
Especially the old lady of the Chen family, after listening to her eldest son Chen Muqiao translate Rutherford's wedding speech into English word by word, she was even more happy and couldn't stop clapping her hands with her hands.
And the people who sat in the audience to watch the ceremony, their performance was also very different.
But Einstein sighed: "I didn't expect Chen Muwu to step into the grave of marriage so early." ”
Bohr, who was sitting next to Einstein, disagreed with his statement: "Professor Einstein, if I am not mistaken, it seems that you were married earlier than Dr. Chen, as if you had just graduated from university and had not had time to propose the theory of relativity. ”
Einstein nodded and agreed with Bohr's statement: "That's why I didn't last that marriage to the end, and it ended in a breakup, which is why I just sighed that I thought it was too early for Chen to get married." ”
Einstein and Bohr not only held an intolerable view of whether quantum mechanics was correct, but their marital circumstances and concepts were also very different.
Bohr, who had a happy marriage and a happy family, did not approve of Einstein's pessimistic prediction about Chen Muwu's marriage.
Especially today is a day of great joy for his junior brothers, and he will never allow Einstein to say such pessimistic and depressing words on such an occasion.
"Professor Einstein, I think the two of them are talented and beautiful, and one is a top student in the Cavendish laboratory, and the other is also the youngest daughter of the great physicist Madame Currie, how do you look at it, they are all a perfect match, the two of them got married this time, and linked the Cavendish laboratory of the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Radium of the University of Paris, maybe they can achieve more new results in the future."
"I hope so! In fact, more than anyone else, I hope that Dr. Chen can make new discoveries one after another like this year, preferably in a few years, so that he can study all the things related to the atomic nucleus, or let him completely lose interest in those things in the microscopic world, and then devote all his time to the study of cosmology, while I still have some energy, we can completely solve the mysteries of the universe together. ”
Hearing Einstein's unrealistic dream, Bohr responded with a smile: "Professor Einstein, you still think about it." ”
Throughout 1928, one of the most eye-catching weddings in the world came to a successful conclusion.
With the help of relatives, friends and royal staff, Chen Muwu held this wedding without mistakes and perfectly.
Nothing was said all night.
The next day, the scientists, who had come to London from all over the world for the wedding, and the rest of the staff, did not choose to leave the UK because of the end of the wedding.
Because the vast majority of them are engaged in science-related research, it is not easy for them to get together with their peers, especially those who are the top leaders in the industry.
Taking the opportunity of Chen Muwu's marriage, everyone came to London, England from all over the world, and they could just take this opportunity to discuss some academic issues with each other.
For example, Einstein and Bohr, because they lived in the same room in the hotel, they had already discussed the correctness or incorrectness of quantum mechanics before Chen Muwu's wedding began.
And the younger generation of Oppenheimer, Heisenberg, Dirac and von Neumann began to get together from the time when Chen Muwu was the best man.
After the wedding, Debroy and Capitza were added to the group.
In addition to these people in the physics circle, Russell and Ramsay, who were unable to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians at the University of Bologna in Italy today, also took the opportunity of attending Chen Muwu's wedding to meet with Hilbert, the king of mathematics.
After greeting each other, Hilbert half-jokingly joked to Russell: "You, the most powerful mathematician at Cambridge University, are really incompetent, obviously there is such a peerless genius as Chen Muwu by your side, but you want to let him go and let him study physics." ”
Hubble approached Eddington, director of the Cambridge Observatory, and Kings, president of the Royal Astronomical Society, to discuss the recent use of their telescopes for astronomical research.
Chen Muwu, who has just gotten married, still has a bunch of things to do.
So his teacher Rutherford naturally stepped forward, and he simply asked Chadwick to organize a trip to Cavendish Laboratories, and organized all the scientists who came to attend Chen Muwu's wedding, regardless of their discipline, and welcomed them all from London to Cambridge University.
Others only hold commemorative activities on the occasion of the birth or death of a great scientist, or the completion of a famous scientific event.
Moreover, the relevant personnel who participated in the meeting should also be practitioners of the discipline.
For example, last spring, Chen Muwu attended the Como conference near Milan, Italy, to commemorate the centenary of Volta's death, and the participants were all physicists.
Looking at all the academic conferences around the world, it seems that there is only one temporary meeting held at Cambridge University, not to commemorate a certain person or event, but to celebrate Chen Muwu's successful marriage.
Rutherford was very satisfied with his impromptu arrangement this time, except for one, that is, the world's first particle accelerator in the Cavendish laboratory, which had only passed for a year, and was surpassed by the cyclotron created by Chen Muwu in Stockholm this year.
If it weren't for that nasty cyclotron, then this visit to Cambridge University with so many physicists might have been able to sell a few more and add some funding to the Cavendish laboratory.
Chen Muwu, who was busy with marriage-related matters, also followed him to Cavendish Laboratory.
Chen Muwu returned to Cambridge University to thank the guests who had come from all over the world to attend his wedding, and secondly, to recruit talent and educate everyone about the policies of Prince of Stockholm.
Even if he blows up the salary package of Prince's College, it will not attract those who are old and have stable jobs.
Bohr was at ease as the director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in his hometown of Copenhagen, and Einstein was also the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics.
Of course, the main target group of Chen Muwu's preaching is not them.
The main reason for saying this in front of everyone is to plant a seed in their hearts, especially those Jewish scientists from Germany.
If one day, they have to leave their country because of something, maybe this seed planted in their hearts will take root, and there is a closer Sweden where they can settle than to go to the United States.
The main target of Chen Muwu's lecture is still those who are close to graduation or have already graduated, and have mixed qualifications in well-known universities or research institutes, such as Heisenberg and von Neumann.
As a tricolor old German, the former is likely to choose a university to teach at a university in Germany, even if the academic level is not among the top in Germany, as long as it is in his hometown.
But for von Neumann, he was not German but Hungarian, and he went to university in Zurich and received a doctorate from the University of Budapest.
It can be said that von Neumann would not have stayed in Germany if he had not studied mathematics with Professor Hilbert at the University of Göttingen after completing his doctorate.
If it weren't for Chen Muwu, von Neumann's life trajectory would have been to leave Germany for the United States in the thirties, and then just to avoid several campaigns against Jews in Germany, and stay there for the rest of his life.
Now that Chen Muwu is here, von Neumann has naturally become his main target.
What to go to America? Why don't you go to Sweden with yourself!
Relying on his own mouth, even if the Prince of Stockholm Academy is blown to the sky, the number of people it can attract is still very limited.
If you want to make your argument more convincing, you have to come up with concrete examples.
Chen Muwu developed a cyclotron at the Prince College in half a year, and discovered neutrons and positrons, as well as No. 85 iodine and No. 43 manganese, which are convincing examples.
In addition, he also invited important guests.
Chen Muwu did not come to Cambridge University from London alone, he was accompanied by the Curie family of three, who have finally become a family, and Chen Aifu.
It was the first time Marie Curie had visited the Cavendish laboratory, and she had seen the particle accelerator that had left her in mind.
But "this time, that time", because compared to the world's first particle accelerator in front of me, I already have another one better.
Yes, Marie Curie did not come to the Cavendish laboratory not just to attend Rutherford's impromptu conference at Cambridge University.
Her new aunt invited her to come just to help the Prince's College come to the platform.
At this meeting, Marie Curie announced to the public that she would next transfer the center of her research from the Institute of Radium in Paris, France, to the Prince's College in Stockholm, Sweden.
Marie Curie made this decision after careful consideration.
Because since last year, her eldest daughter and son-in-law have gone to Stockholm and followed Chen Muwu to make so many achievements in the Prince's College.
In addition, both of them unanimously praised the Prince's College for not only being bright and clean, but also having a much better research atmosphere than the Radium Institute in Paris.
Chen Muwu's research results are there, Irena and Frederick give strong testimony, and Marie Curie is reluctant to be too far away from the two children.
- After Eve gets married, she will definitely live with Chen Muwu, and Irena and Frederick have also made it clear that they will also go to the Prince Academy to do research in the future.
So after thinking about it, after the wedding of Chen Muwu and Eve, Marie Curie expressed to her new son-in-law that she also wanted to go to Sweden together, and Chen Muwu was naturally excited after hearing it.
However, he also invited his mother-in-law to Cambridge University to do him a favor.
So at today's meeting, Marie Curie announced her decision to the public.
The scientists present all knew that Chen Muwu had not only made so many new achievements at the Prince's College, but also invited Marie Curie, a Taishan Beidou-level figure in the radiophysics community, to Stockholm.
The news will soon spread from Cambridge to all corners of the world.
Although they are related to each other, the fact that Marie Curie can leave Paris, where she has lived for many years, and go to Stockholm, the extreme cold of Northern Europe, is in itself a kind of recognition of the predecessors of physics for the younger generations.
Rutherford, who was sitting in the audience, was full of regret in his heart:
He regretted why he didn't have another daughter in the first place, otherwise his favorite Dr. Chen would not be the son-in-law of the "old rival" Curie, but his own son-in-law;
He regretted that he should have been more generous to Chen Muwu at the beginning, and he couldn't stick his neck in the funds.
But regret now is of little use, and Rutherford can only wish his good student a bright future.
This impromptu academic conference at the University of Cambridge did not have a definite topic, and the duration of the conference was not long.
After the meeting, the guests from all over the world either returned to their own places or used the UK as a springboard to continue their visits to other places.
Marie Curie also returned to Paris with Irena and Frederick to begin planning a move to Stockholm.
After returning home for a little rest and adjustment, Chen Muwu took his new wife Eve and left London for Stockholm.
He will take a break from academic research and devote his whole body and mind to the construction of the Prince's College.
(End of chapter)