Chapter 111 We are also a car family!

Chapter 111 We are also a car family!

When other exchange students come to visit Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it is like a pilgrimage, observing carefully and learning with an open mind.

After visiting, many people will set this place as their future dream, hoping to work here one day.

Zhang Wei came over to teach researchers at Berkeley Lab how to use solvents. Are you here to visit and learn, or are you here to cause trouble?

After all the trouble, I got a paper. The key is that you only need to talk, others will do the experiment for you and write the paper for you!

How come the gap between people is so big! Who can I ask to explain this?

Zhang Wei instantly received another look of envy and jealousy.

“I don’t accept anyone else, so I will accept you!” Ye Haotian quietly gave Zhang Wei a thumbs up.

"Be humble, humility makes people progress!" Zhang Wei whispered.

“What kind of modesty are you talking about with Americans!”

"That's right. Americans like people with flamboyant personalities. If you talk to them about modesty, they will think you are weak." Zhang Wei nodded with deep approval.

Ye Haotian glanced in the direction of Huang Junji: "The way you look at Bangzi, I probably hate you to death!"

"Just hate me! Is it possible that he can still do it? What kind of tricks does he have?”

“Are you talking about a biological father?”

Zhang Wei thought for a moment: "Then let me correct you. Besides having two powerful fathers, what else does he have?"

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The life of an exchange student is very fulfilling. In addition to the various academic courses arranged by the school, there are many other activities.

For example, go to visit museums, art exhibitions, concerts, participate in various community activities, be a volunteer, and go to the beach to pick up trash. There are also various physical education courses, the most important of which is to experience American football. As for basketball, it is like Little Karami.

In American high schools, the gap between basketball and American football is not very big, but at the college level, American football really lags behind basketball.

Although the NCAA basketball games are also very popular, and some important events even have celebrities assisting them, compared with the NCAA American football games, both in terms of popularity and scale, there is really a big difference.

In their spare time, exchange students can also participate in travel and exploration activities to experience the local natural scenery and customs of the United States.

For example, Zhang Wei’s oil guy roommate likes to participate in hunting club activities.

But because the oil man does not have a gun license, he has to spend money to hire a firearms instructor every time, and the fee is very expensive. The oil man does not care about money, just be happy.

Ye Haotian provoked three more American girls, a pure white man, a pure black man, and a Mexican brown girl. This made Zhang Wei hesitate whether to take him to Las Vegas to find Ocean Horse.

As for Zhang Wei himself, in addition to his normal exchange student activities, he also had to complete a paper on technical improvements to desorption electrospray ionization.

Linda Zhou, the Runren female assistant researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, handed a copy of the experimental results to Zhang Wei.

Linda Zhou’s real name is Zhou Lin. After coming to the United States, she gave herself the English name Linda. Fortunately, she didn’t forget her last name.

When he was in China, Runren was also a top student. Although he did not get into Qingbei during the college entrance examination, he did get into a prestigious C9 school.

Later, because of my excellent grades, I applied for a full scholarship to an American university and went to the United States to study for a master's degree, and then came to the University of California, Berkeley, to study for a PhD.

After graduating from Ph.D., upon the recommendation of my supervisor, I entered Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I started as an intern and finally became an assistant researcher, and I became a U.S. citizen.

Her next goal is to drop the word "assistant" and become a researcher. Then she will be qualified to be responsible for the sub-research of some projects.

As she is so keen on the paper on the improvement of desorption electrospray ionization, she also hopes to accumulate more qualifications and become a researcher earlier.

There are not a few Chinese Run people like Linda Zhou who are working hard in American scientific research institutions.

"According to what you said, I changed the ingredients of the modifier. This is the latest experimental result, and it is indeed better than before." Runren said

Zhang Wei quickly After reading it again, the result was the same as I imagined. Zhang Wei had used this kind of modifier hundreds of times in his previous life, and he already knew the characteristics of the modifier.

"OK. Let's proceed to the next step of the experiment. I listed a few steps, mainly to explore the changes in the ionization effect after the various modifiers are fused with the solvent." Zhang Wei took out a piece of paper and handed it to the woman. Moisturizing people.

Nv Runren took it and looked at it carefully, and then showed a surprised expression.

"I think you are not exploring the next step of the experiment, but verifying the results of the experiment!"

"It's almost the same! As long as the results are produced." Zhang Wei said and stood up. leave.

Nvrunren stopped Zhang Wei: "By the way, how did you come up with these improvement plans?"

"Scientific research, if you think about it carefully, you will always be enlightened."

"But you are just an undergraduate!" The subtext of the female Runner is that I, a researcher with a Ph.D., would never have imagined that you, an undergraduate Why can students think of this?

Zhang Wei just smiled slightly and did not answer. He was too lazy to talk to the female Runren.

"Zhang Wei, do you plan to come to the United States in the future? I think with your talent in scientific research, you are more suitable to come to the United States for development. It would be a waste to stay in China!"

This time, Nurunren spoke in Chinese.

In the minds of Run people, moving to the United States is the right choice, and smart people should make this choice.

“Why should I come to the United States?” Zhang Wei asked.

On the other hand, Nurunren was stunned. Isn’t it natural to come to the United States? Do you need any reason?

She thought for a while and replied: "The conditions in the United States are good!"

"My family is not poor!"

"The environment in the United States is great! Especially the academic environment is much better than at home. If you are engaged in scientific research in China, you have to fight with your leaders and colleagues every day. In the United States, you don't have so many worries. The interpersonal relationships are simple and you can devote yourself to scientific research with peace of mind. "

"You don't engage in interpersonal relationships and devote yourself to scientific research, so you have been working for so long, so you are an assistant researcher? If there are a lot of people with your academic qualifications at Berkeley Lab? If you have a good relationship, will you be promoted faster?"

Zhang Wei's words directly broke Nurunren's heart.

“With your academic qualifications and qualifications, if you return to China, the 985 universities will definitely be scrambling to recruit you. At the very least, they will allow you to independently take charge of scientific research projects.

You have to be willing to be humble and willing to go. In colleges and universities in small cities, the school will give you a big villa! When you go out, people call you Professor Zhou. Is your social status not higher than it is now? ”

Zhang Wei curled his lips as he spoke, ignored Nu Runren, and left without looking back.

The next ten years will be the decade when China’s economy takes off. If you stay in China, you will have many more opportunities!

In Zhang Wei's view, Run came to the United States at this time, not as a eunuch in the palace in 1911, but as a member of the Chinese army in 1949.

What’s more, Zhang Wei also has a Nobel Prize!

Only a fool would go to the United States to win the Nobel Prize!

The United States grabs a lot of Nobel Prize scholars. At that time, China did not have a single Nobel Prize scholar.

Even giant pandas are no longer considered rare when there are so many of them!

For the same Nobel Prize scholar, if you stay in China, you will be unique, and the whole country will support you. It will definitely be more enjoyable than coming to the United States.

...... Taking a break from his busy schedule, Zhang Wei went to take a driver's license test.

In fact, according to California law, foreign driver's licenses are recognized.

Unfortunately, Zhang Wei never had free time when he was in China, so he didn’t have a driver’s license yet and had to take the test.

It is not difficult to get a driver's license in the United States, at least it is much simpler than in China.

First take the written test. After passing the written test, just find an adult with driving experience to practice driving with you. You don't have to go to a driving school.

When you think you are qualified, you take the road test. You can use your own car for the road test. If you pass the road test, you can get your driver's license.

In the United States, it is difficult to move around without a car, so many children start practicing driving when they are thirteen or fourteen years old. It is also common for teenagers to steal their parents' cars and go out on dates to pick up girls.

When American children reach the age where they can get a driver's license, they will definitely take a driver's license test and then drive to school by themselves.

The exam for underage children will definitely not be too strict, they will almost pass.

After getting his driver's license, Zhang Wei went to Professor Adelman and borrowed a car.

It was an amber gold sixth-generation Honda Accord, which was considered to have the largest space among C-class cars. It had a 3.0-displacement V6 naturally aspirated engine, which was very suitable for American tastes.

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"Brother Haotian, we have a car!"

"Honda Accord, what a luxury car!" Ye Haotian walked around the car.

In China in 2004, the Honda Accord was really a luxury car.

The sixth-generation Accord at that time was all imported, and the total cost of purchasing a car with a license plate was more than 400,000 yuan, which was equivalent to several apartments in a third-tier city.

"Pack up, let's go to Las Vegas and ride the Ocean Horse!"

"What else to pack, we can leave now!" Ye Haotian got into the passenger seat directly.

Zhang Wei drove the car onto the highway, heading south, getting further and further away from downtown San Francisco.

Finding that Zhang Wei had already driven more than 20 kilometers, Ye Haocai panicked a little. He asked, "Are we really going to Las Vegas to ride the Ocean Horse?"
< br>"What are you thinking about? It's a full 900 kilometers from San Francisco to Las Vegas. It takes a whole day to drive! You're going to tire me out. Even if you get there, I won't have the energy to ride a Ocean Horse!"

Zhang Wei paused for a moment, then continued: "Our city of Palo Alto is only more than 40 kilometers away, and we are here!"

"Are you going to Stanford University?" Ye Haotian finally understood. come over.

“I just contacted Professor Weiman. He happens to be in the laboratory. I thought it would be better to choose a different day and go see him!”

University of California, Berkeley. It is next to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Stanford University is in Palo Alto, south of San Francisco, which is also considered to be in the Bay Area.

When Zhang Wei came to the United States, he asked for an invitation letter from Carl Weiman. Now that Zhang Wei has arrived in the Bay Area, of course he has to come and see Professor Weiman.

Before that, Professor Weiman did not know that Zhang Wei was still a college student. It was not until Zhang Wei came to the United States and the two talked on the phone that Weiman knew that Zhang Wei was only a 19-year-old young man.

After the shock, Weiman also accepted the reality. After all, young genius scientists are everywhere in history. It is reasonable for a scientist like this who was previously unknown to appear suddenly to be young.

Just imagine, if you are an older scientist, if you really have that ability, you must have been famous for many years and published many papers. How could you become a blockbuster in a certain field?

Scientific research still needs accumulation. There will be sudden discoveries, but there will not be sudden enlightenments. An excellent older scientist must have grown up from an excellent young scientist.

Zhang Wei came to the Weinman Laboratory and finally met this Nobel Prize-winning expert who he had known for a long time.

Carl Weiman is in his early fifties, with golden brown hair, toad-framed glasses, a light blue shirt and jeans. He looks like a high-spirited scholar.

It is difficult for a physics genius to win the Nobel Prize at the age of 50 or not to be high-spirited.

"Zhang, even if I see you in person, it's hard for me to believe that you are so young! It is no exaggeration to say that my youngest students are older than you!"
< br>Karl Weiman has a big smile. As a top scientist, he knows very well what youth means.

Zhang Wei also quickly complimented a few words, and then presented tea brought from China.

Then the two of them talked about graphene. Zhang Wei added more details and talked about the process of discovering graphene, such as staying up late in a rental house to tear off tape, secretly running to the Tsinghua University laboratory to do experiments, and then being expelled. Wait, I said it all again.

After listening to Zhang Wei’s story, Carl Weiman was amazed again and again.

“I think your experience of discovering graphene can be written as a novel!”

Americans love this kind of story with a touch of personal heroism.

You tell them about the great unity of people from all over the world, but Americans won’t look down on you at all!

But if you talk about Liu Adou's seven entrances and seven exits at Changbanpo, it will definitely make Americans listen with gusto.

Imagine a newborn baby, carrying his fourth uncle Zhao Zilong on his back, fighting his way through a group of enemies. How legendary is this! What heroism! Superman will kowtow when he sees you!

At this moment, an assistant knocked on the door and came in.

"Professor, Korea University called again! Do you answer or not?"

"It's really haunting!" Professor Weiman looked at his watch and continued: "It must be early morning in Korea now, right? If you call me so late, do Koreans really not sleep?"

"Professor, if you have anything to do, we'll leave first!" Zhang Wei stood up immediately.

"It's okay, just some boring Koreans." Professor Weiman continued: "It's almost time to announce the Nobel Prize. At this time of year, Koreans always come up with projects and let me It’s so annoying to nominate their research!”

Professor Weiman replaced Sun Monkey’s emoticon and continued: “These Koreans think they can get it if they get endorsements from a few more Nobel Prize scholars! Nobel Prize, don’t think about it carefully, the things they have produced are just mediocre results, how can they be worthy of the Nobel Prize!”

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At the same time, At Berkeley, Hwang Jun-ki, Hwang, was also on the phone with his biological father, Hwang Woo-suk.

"Dad, don't worry. My study and life here are going very smoothly. I haven't encountered any difficulties. Professor Doudna takes good care of me.

What? Are you coming to the United States at the end of this month? Will you come to California? ? Will you come to our school to give a lecture? That’s great!”

Huang Junji jumped with excitement when he heard that his father was coming to Berkeley.

"At the end of this month, there should be enough time. By then, I will let the entire University of California, Berkeley know that a tiger father has no dog son!"

Thank you for your subscription, and I will continue to write ten thousand words today. , let’s start with a chapter of 4,000 words, one at noon and one in the afternoon. This chapter foreshadows a lot of content, all of which prepares for the development of the following plots to avoid abrupt conflicts. Speaking of the sixth-generation Honda Accord, I have actually driven it. The V6 engine is really powerful, and the high-speed Piao 180 is still stable, but the steering wheel is a bit heavy. Finally, please give me a monthly ticket. Thank you for passing the test!

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