Chapter 97 The Nobel Prize is awarded and the world is paying attention!
After finishing the knighthood matter, Li Qiwei had not yet begun to take some time off. The Nobel Prize award ceremony was about to begin.
According to the procedure, he will deliver a lecture on physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on December 7.
Then on December 10th, accept the award ceremony from King Oscar II of Sweden, and then attend the celebration dinner.
So, Li Qiwei prepared to leave early and arrive in Sweden on December 3 to familiarize himself with the environment.
This time, Li Qiwei planned to take everyone with him and treat it as a trip.
The only 1,000 pounds left is estimated to be running out after one round trip.
As for the prize money for the Nobel Prize in Physics, after the three people share it equally, he will get 50,000 Swedish kronor, which is about 3,300 pounds.
However, he is planning to donate all the winnings to the University of Cambridge to gain goodwill and increase his chances of being knighted.
So, after returning from Sweden, Li Qiwei became a real pauper.
He couldn't bear to ask his father for help. It would be too embarrassing for the senior time travellers.
When the time comes, it depends on whether Gerald can surprise him.
On November 25, Li Qiwei and six people officially set off for Sweden.
A group of seven people took a luxury passenger ship, departing from London and crossing the North Sea.
Then it passes through the Skagerrak, along the Danish coastline, and then through the Kattegat and into Denmark.
After replenishing supplies in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, the ship entered the Baltic Sea and headed north, finally docking in Stockholm, Sweden.
It was already December 1st, 2 days earlier than Li Qiwei expected.
After he took everyone to check in, they went to visit this Nordic city together.
Stockholm is Sweden's largest city and a famous tourist destination.
But in later generations, it seems that apart from the Nobel Prize, people have little impression of this city.
Mainly because Sweden itself has no sense of presence in world history, and there are few important events.
At this point in time, neighboring Norway was still under Swedish governance, forming the so-called Norwegian-Swedish Alliance.
Norway would not become independent until 1905.
The five Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland are famous countries for depression in later generations.
There is basically no sunshine throughout the year, and the weather is always gloomy and a bit cold.
Moreover, it is located at a high latitude, with a vast territory and sparsely populated areas, so people in this country are prone to feeling bad and suffering from depression.
Fortunately, the exotic scenery dispelled the cold weather, and several people visited various Stockholm characteristic buildings with great interest.
Among them are Stockholm’s Concert Hall and City Hall.
The Stockholm Concert Hall, also called the Stockholm Blue Concert Hall, is a building with a blue exterior wall.
Viewed from the front, the concert hall is simple and grand, with ten huge pillars reaching from the ground to the eaves. There is the famous Orpheus statue in front of the concert hall.
Stockholm City Hall is a unique and exquisite building built on the shores of Lake Mälaren in the city center.
The main body is built of red bricks, with a tall bell tower on the right.
According to the arrangement of the Nobel Prize Foundation, the award ceremony will be held at 4 pm on December 10th in the Concert Hall.
After the event, everyone will move to the City Hall to attend the celebration dinner in the blue hall inside.
Finally, several people came to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Looking at the red building in front of him, Li Qiwei felt emotional. The smartest minds in Sweden gathered here.
They are independent of government and seek out and review the world's most amazing scientific achievements.
Everyone here is a knowledgeable academician who plays a leading role in their respective fields and is a priceless treasure.
Looking back at the current Qing Dynasty, no matter whether you are a professor or an academician, you are all regarded as craftsmen, only qualified to build roads and bridges.
As for what the country’s science and technology policies are and what directions it needs to tackle, I’m sorry, but craftsmen can’t participate.
Those are the jobs of officials who have read the Four Books and Five Classics, and it is not the turn of mud-legged people to give guidance.
This attitude towards scientific talents is the key to determining the long-term prosperity and decline of a country.
The demise of the Qing Dynasty is inevitable, and seclusion and suppression of Western talents are definitely one of the important factors.
Li Qiwei was secretly determined at this moment that he would also promote the establishment of similar institutions in China in the next few years. If it doesn't work, it can only be placed in the City of Science.
In the next few days, many people from foreign countries arrived in Stockholm every day.
They all came to witness the awarding ceremony of the first Nobel Prize.
According to rough statistics from the Swedish government, as many as 800 people are expected to attend the ceremony.
Because there are four awards awarded in Sweden: Physics Award, Chemistry Award, Physiology or Medicine Award, and Literature Award.
The Peace Prize was held simultaneously in Oslo, the capital of Norway.
The average number of participants for each award is around 200.
In 1901, no matter how you looked at it, it was an awards ceremony of unprecedented scale.
And the people who came to participate included politicians, writers, scientists, nobles, gentry, celebrities, etc.
They are basically elites from all walks of life. They are really good at talking and laughing, and have no idle contacts.
In addition to these 800 people, all the world's famous newspapers sent people to interview and record this event.
"The Times", "Daily Mail", "Paris Journal", "Frankfurter Zeitung", "New York Times".
Not only these major newspapers, but also dozens of tabloids are also coming to get a share of the pie , trying to get some exclusive news, even scandals about scientists.
It can be said that from now on, every move of the first Nobel Prize Award Ceremony will be watched by the whole world.
Processes, personnel, ceremonies, speeches, everything will be reported in newspapers and become the talk of people in the future.
Because of the emergence of Li Qiwei, the early Nobel Prize has been brought to a height that does not belong to it, and it has become a world-famous existence.
On December 5, Thomson, Wilson and other Cambridge personnel also came to Sweden, with a group of about twenty people.
Including Cardwell, Professor Case, etc., as well as several personnel from the Cavendish Laboratory.
Soon after, Roentgen, Planck, the Curies, Becquerel, etc. also arrived one after another, each with their own students and colleagues from the school.
Then there are Einstein, Lorenz and others.
As for Rutherford, Millikan and others, they did not come to participate because they were too far away.
After all, this is a ceremony, not a physics discussion conference.
In later generations, it would take more than ten hours to get there by plane, but now, it takes too much time to go back and forth.
Basically, the first Nobel Prize in Physics invited all the leading physicists in the world today.
This is a hundred times more grand and spectacular than the last London Quantum Conference.
Everyone is waiting for Li Qiwei’s speech, hoping that he will make another earth-shattering statement.
Since he won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, someone carefully summarized his deeds and got two words: intuition and confidence.
He can always rely on intuition to discover the core problems and solutions in physics.
And he has extreme confidence in his theory. Even if everyone in the world opposes it, it will not shake him at all.
When these two qualities come together in a physicist, what is born is either a madman or a genius.
Obviously, Li Qiwei belongs to the latter.
But even a genius is stumped by tomorrow's speech at this moment.
Li Qiwei even asked Einstein, Wilson and others.
Unfortunately, they all said with a smile: "Bruce, that is your own business."
So, he locked himself in the room alone and told Wang Luyao and others not to disturb him. he.
Write and draw on paper, thinking and revising over and over again.
From December 7th to 8th, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Karolinska Institute, and the Swedish Academy held keynote speeches by Nobel Prize winners.
Among them, Li Qiwei will give a speech at the Royal Academy of Sciences together with Röntgen, Planck and others, together with Chemistry Prize winner Fantoff.
This time, Ridgway will transcend the limitations of the world of physics.
Officially send out your own voice to the world, the voice of China!
For the needs of the plot, the location of the Nobel Prize awards has been modified. In real history, the concert hall and town hall would not be built until 20 years later. The previous Nobel Prizes were all held in a large hotel. But writing it that way would be too low-key. So I hope everyone understands, it’s not the author’s fault.
(End of this chapter)