Chapter 184 The second batch of members of the Spark Project, the difficulties of the City of Science
In Li Qiwei’s vision, the goal of the Spark Project is to accelerate the domestic scientific level.
Through his future vision and knowledge, Huaxia will avoid detours and complete the accumulation of talents and self-regeneration capabilities in advance.
The method is to start a prairie fire with a single point.
Using physics to drive other natural sciences, it spread throughout China with Li Qiwei’s master and disciples.
The core of the Spark Project are He Yujie, Xia Yuanzhen, and Xu Qitai.
The three of them are also the so-called first batch of elders.
This ranking has nothing to do with age, it is purely based on who receives the guidance of Li Qiwei first.
Originally, his initial plan was to select talents from China and then send them to the UK for further study.
But the plan could not keep up with the changes. After returning to China, he discovered that the scientific background in the country at this time was not as bad as he imagined.
Therefore, he decided again to promote the Spark Project with Whampoa University of Technology as the core.
He will select outstanding candidates from the first batch of undergraduates who graduated from 1904 to 1908 as the second batch of members of the Spark Project.
And within four years, he will not admit a new class of students every year like later universities.
This is a bit unrealistic in the current country.
Li Qiwei still needs to polish his education plan, so he just uses this class of students as an experiment.
After they have accumulated rich teaching experience, they can consider enrolling students every year.
So the first student union of Huangpu Polytechnic is a very unique one.
Because within four years, the entire university will only have students from their class, there will be no juniors, and they will not be able to become seniors.
A lot of fun is missing.
Next, the third batch of members of the Spark Project will be selected from the graduates from 1908 to 1912.
These two groups of members will be recruited by him to teach in various universities, just like He Yujie and others.
Or maybe he will build a few more universities by then and digest them internally.
He estimated that three batches of Spark members should be enough. The rest is to select the best among the best and find real scientific research talents, not teaching talents.
Li Qiwei was not prepared to stay in the country until 1912, because the domestic situation at that time was too complicated and was not conducive to his personal safety.
After returning to Europe, his biggest goal is to find a way to get a piece of land from the United Kingdom as the base of the City of Science.
This was at the heart of all his plans.
In this era, almost every country in Europe had overseas colonies.
But in terms of area, the UK is the undisputed leader.
Several alternative places that Li Qiwei was interested in were all British territories.
So no matter what, he can't avoid the British.
He was also thinking about what bargaining chips he would use to get Britain to agree to sell a piece of land to him.
And the timing of establishing the City of Science is also very important.
The first time point is before 1914. When the war breaks out, as long as Li Qiwei strictly maintains neutrality, there should be no big problem.
Of course he will definitely find a way to have an armed force.
The second time point is after 1918, preferably in 1919.
In this case, there will still be a buffer time of more than ten years before the next war begins.
There are still 27 years from now to 1931, and Li Qiwei is confident that he can develop an atomic bomb within these 27 years.
Even with strong self-confidence, he sometimes feels a little tired.
This is really too difficult.
As a time traveler, he dare not say that the plan will be successful.
Although Li Qiwei had no worries about simply building an atomic bomb, there were too many things that needed to be dealt with and dealt with during this period.
He has no system. He has to do everything by himself and accumulate it bit by bit.
Sometimes even Li Qiwei wanted to give up, but he gritted his teeth and persisted.
In his previous life, he was just a Ph.D. and didn't have much social experience.
Now in this era, he forces himself to become a superior and constantly learns the feeling of controlling all living beings.
The city of science he wanted to create was a pure place, but this purity required him to protect it with the highest status.
Li Qiwei exhaled heavily and threw away the pessimism in his mind.
As a Chinese, since his mission has been determined, he has no intention of explaining right and wrong.
You can’t reach a thousand miles without taking small steps. Let’s start with the selection of the second batch of Spark members.
After reading the physics test paper, Li Qiwei basically decided on the candidate.
At the same time, the experiences of these people in real history also came to mind.
First place, Li Yaobang, 20 years old, from Guangdong, with a physics score of 68 points. He was one of the first Chinese people to study physics abroad and received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1914.
The absolute value of the electric charge of solid particles was determined by Millikan's method.
He returned to China in 1915 and served as a professor at Nanjing Normal University.
The second place is Zhang Yihui, 18 years old, from Anhui, with a physics score of 65 points.
In 1914, he graduated from Kyoto Imperial University with a Bachelor of Science degree.
In 1922, he worked at the Research Institute of the University of Chicago in the United States.
Returning to China in 1924, he founded the Department of Physics of Beijing Normal University and served as its director.
Actively publicize and promote domestic unification of weights and measures.
The third place is Yan Renguang, 16 years old, from Hainan, with a physics score of 62.
In 1918, he graduated from the University of Chicago with a doctorate in physics.
He returned to China in 1920 and served as director and professor of the Physics Department of Capital University.
Engaged in the study of gas ion motion, and made precise determinations of the absolute values of viscosity coefficients of several gases.
And he is good at researching instrumentation, especially the design and manufacturing of various electric meters, and has made a significant contribution to the development of instrumentation in our country.
After reading the lives of the three people, Li Qiwei felt like he had found a treasure.
Although he has not met the kind of genius who can score 90 points, he is already very satisfied.
Although the physics subject of the entrance examination is relatively low in difficulty, Li Qiwei estimates that only people with a foundation like Wang Jilie can score above 90 points.
And Li Yaobang and the other three are still teenagers at the moment, so it is already very good to have such achievements.
It seems that they have worked hard before the exam, otherwise they would not be able to solve a few questions due to their age.
Although they will not be highly accomplished physicists in the future, they will be physics educators, which is very suitable for Li Qiwei's current urgent needs.
So, Li Qiwei prepared to personally guide these three people and let them become the second batch of members of Project Spark.
As for the chemistry subject, Wang Jidian actually scored an astonishing 95 points, fully meeting the requirements for special recruitment.
Li Qiwei couldn't help but exclaim, he is indeed worthy of being a scientific family in the future, very powerful.
And there was another person in the chemistry subject who caught his attention.
This person's name is Wang Jing. Although he is only 16 years old, he scored 85 points in the chemistry test. Xu Qitai praised Wang Jing in his comments.
At this time, Li Qiwei already knew all the information about Wang Jing.
He couldn't help but sigh that he underestimated the world's heroes.
Wang Jing’s Ningxi Wang family is almost another copy of Wang Jilie’s Suzhou Wang family.
Another extremely tyrannical scientific family.
Wang Jing himself is a pioneer in the study of Chinese chemical history and analytical chemistry, and has devoted his life to studying the history of Chinese chemistry.
He prepared the first chemical engineering department in my country.
Chemistry is also an indispensable part of Li Qiwei's plan. With the addition of Wang Jing, he can share a lot of effort.
In addition, Xu Qitai’s family also has a profound background in the field of chemistry, so chemistry is enough for the time being.
In this entrance exam, except for these four outstanding talents, the rest are relatively ordinary.
But Li Qiwei did not treat others favorably and did not value others.
History has changed. Perhaps under his guidance, even more amazing talents may appear among the remaining students.
Thousand-mile horses often exist, but Bole does not always exist.
There are too many geniuses buried in history. Maybe they just lack an opportunity or a leader.
And Li Qiwei was the person who changed their destiny.
After comprehensive evaluation and calculation, a total of 27 people passed the entrance examination.
These 27 people will become the first batch of undergraduate students at Huangpu University of Technology.
Having been accustomed to seeing university enrollment in later generations, recruiting thousands of people in one move, Li Qiwei suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
But in fact, 27 people is already a lot.
You know, even in a few years, after the founding of the Republic of China, the number of students enrolled in the Physics Department of Capital University will not exceed 50.
Because of the great master Li Qiwei, Whampoa University of Technology has gained an extraordinary reputation and attracted more people to study there.
Decades later, countless students were madly envious of the 27 people in 1904.
Because they are Li Qiwei's first students in the true sense, all of them have been tutored by Li Qiwei, and some have even debated.
And this kind of thing that seemed very ordinary at the time will be a very high honor in the future, and even bring some kind of faith-like power.
These 27 people are proud to be the first graduates of Huangpu Polytechnic.
But privately, they would all say: It was just normal at that time.
(End of this chapter)