Chapter 221 An extremely important conversation
As the group of people left in a grand manner, other tourists in the reception hall also came to their senses.
The people who watched the whole process of picking up the airport started talking about it.
"With so many people picking up the plane, who is this young man? What is his background?"
"What the hell? You don't even know Sichuan God?"
"God of Sichuan? Which celebrity is a hottie?"
"Celebrity? Little hottie? Don't make trouble. You're not doing well in school. Those little hotties are not worthy of carrying his shoes. This one just won the highest honor in mathematics, the Fields Medal. Here, No Chinese has ever gotten it before.”
"Do you know the other seven Millennium Problems? The prize for each problem is one million gold. Sichuan God has solved one and is currently solving another one."
"What the fuck? One million meters of gold for one question? Seven million rmb?"
"This is only from the Clay Institute. There are other awards, such as national awards and so on. There are tens of millions of bonuses at least."
"Tsk, tsk, if I had studied hard when I was a kid, I would have been able to get a bonus of tens of millions for solving a problem. That would be great."
"Oh, is it easy to get it? There are 7 billion in the world, and there are only two people who can get this bonus. You should just work hard and move bricks, and don't dream about the blue sky."
Some people may not be very clear about the Fields Medal and the seven millennium problems, but in terms of money, everyone will know the importance of this issue.
Of course, problems like the seven millennium problems cannot be described in terms of money, nor can they be solved with money.
If it could be solved by spending money, let alone 10 million, it would be 100 million or 1 billion, and countries would be rushing to pay for it.
Every millennium problem that is solved brings scientific progress and the hope and future of civilization.
After getting in the car, Qin Anguo and Xu Chuan chatted.
"Professor Xu, when you come back this time, is there anywhere you want to go? How about coming to our Science and Technology Department?"
Qin Anguo pulled him over with a smile, while Xu Chuan smiled and shook his head, saying: "I won't bother you, Mr. Qin. I have already agreed to my alma mater and am going to return to Nanjing University to be a professor."
"Teaching and educating people is pretty good." Qin Anguo didn't care too much. Science and technology are actually not very suitable for young people like Xu Chuan. The Chinese Academy of Sciences or top universities are more suitable.
After all, he is only twenty years old and has just entered the golden stage of his academic career. If he really pulls people from science and technology into politics, everyone above him will have to look for him.
China has never lacked officials, but what it lacks are top talents in the field of science.
"What are you going to study next? Should we continue to study NS equations?" Academician Pan Deming asked with a smile.
Xu Chuan nodded and said: "NS equation is one of the next research goals. In addition, I am going to try the water in materials."
Pan Deming raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise: "Materials? This is quite a span."
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Actually, it's not bad. When I was studying at NTU, my tutor taught me some knowledge about physical materials. I was quite interested in this."
On the side, Qin Anguo explained with a smile: "It doesn't matter if the span is large, only young people can be aggressive. The tungsten diselenide material synthesis method studied by Academician Chen Zhengping in the past two years has helped the country save billions of meters of gold every year."< br>
"Professor Xu helped Academician Chen build a mathematical model at that time, analyzed the shortcomings of the synthesis method, and also provided solutions, which played a very important role."
He is the head of the Science and Technology Department, and he has some understanding of some of the top scientific research progress and figures in the country. What's more, before this, he also deliberately learned some information related to Xu Chuan.
Hearing this, Pan Deming glanced at Xu Chuan in surprise.
He knew Chen Zhengping and tungsten diselenide, but he didn't know Xu Chuan's role in it.
Will this follow Qin Anguo's wishes? Is Xu Chuan still the hero in the tungsten diselenide material project?
I have never heard of him being interested in materials in recent years, and there has never been any relevant news from Princeton.
Chatting all the way, the group soon arrived at the hotel where they were staying.
The hotel is not very big, but the location is excellent, right next to the Forbidden City, and you can see Beihai Park and Jingshan Park when you open the window.
A place like this would probably not be provided even for important foreign leaders to entertain people.
In the hotel, the general manager in charge of the hotel personally carried Xu Chuan's luggage and led him to the room.
"Professor Xu, how is it here? Are you satisfied with the room environment and so on?"
Putting the luggage in the corner, hotel manager Xia Huarong asked with a smile while opening the curtains, and bright sunlight suddenly filled the entire room.
Xu Chuan smiled and said politely: "I am very satisfied, you are too polite."
Xia Huarong smiled and said: "Where. If there is anything else you need, just call the waiters and they will tell me. Don't worry about trouble. Serving the pillars of the motherland is what you should do."
For today's China, ordinary talents cannot enjoy such treatment, let alone be personally picked up and received by the head of the Science and Technology Department.
But Xu Chuan is different. He is the first Chinese scholar to win the Fields Medal. He is also a top talent in today's young mathematics community, and can even be said to be the first person in mathematics.
It is not an exaggeration to say that such a talent should be received by a top leader or even a more important person in person.
In fact, when Xu Chuan came back this time, he landed in the capital instead of the magical city, which also meant that others wanted to meet him.
After having lunch in the hotel and washing the dust for Xu Chuan, Qin Anguo from the Science and Technology Information Department asked with a smile: "Professor Xu, is the food satisfactory?"
Xu Chuan smiled and nodded, saying: "It's delicious."
"That's good, that's good." Qin Anguo said with a smile: "Then I won't disturb you here for now. You can take a rest first to relieve the fatigue of the long journey. I will come back tomorrow morning."
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Xu Chuan nodded. He knew what was going to happen tomorrow morning and was ready.
In the afternoon, Xu Chuan left the hotel and walked to the Forbidden City to relax and think about something.
On the other side, in the distant Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in the physics branch located in the corner of the institute building, several members of the selection committee were sitting in an office for a meeting to discuss this year's Nobel Prize winner in physics. "Everyone, we need to start discussing the winners of this year's Physics Prize. The nomination list that has been screened once before has been sent to everyone here. Let's take a look first."
In the office, the chairman of the selection committee of the Physics Branch of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences sent the information in his hand to the other four Nobel Prize selection committee members.
It is now mid-August, and as usual, the first round of final selection for the Nobel Prize in Physics is about to begin.
The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded each year to up to three people and two different scientific researches. Compared with other Nobel Prizes, the recommendation and selection process for the Physics Prize is longer and more rigorous.
Other subjects may not start until September, but the first round of final selection for physics awards basically starts in August.
Of course, the selection of the Nobel Prize is much more than that simple.
Starting from February 1st every year, the various Nobel Prize committees screen and review the recommended candidates, and the work status is strictly confidential.
The list of nominees is never released to the public, and nominees themselves are not informed of their nomination. Nomination records are sealed for a period of fifty years.
Until August or September, the jury will begin the final selection of candidates, which will last one or two months, and finally select the Nobel Prize winner in physics from the final candidates before October.
The Swedish and Norwegian governments have no right to interfere in the selection of the Nobel Prize and cannot express support or opposition to the recommended candidates.
In the office, the five selection committee members browsed the materials in their hands and communicated with each other.
"For this year's physics prize, I recommend Professor Arthur Ashkin for his groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics. His work in this field is outstanding."
"Using optical trapping and manipulating tiny dielectric particles with optical gradient forces. It is a great achievement to extend these studies to bacteria, viruses and cells."
Selection committee member Wolfgang Kottler, who had curly short white hair, suggested.
On the side, another selection committee member nodded and said: "The breakthrough in the field of laser physics is indeed an outstanding achievement and worthy of selection. However, if he is recommended, Professor Jha Moreau and Donna Street Professor Crane should be brought too.”
"The contributions of these two professors in the field of laser physics are equally great, and their chirped laser pulse amplification results are equally outstanding and worthy of selection."
On the other side, a middle-aged and elderly man rubbed his temples with a headache, and then said: "I think we should consider the 'expanded application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem'. This is a greater achievement."
"Especially in the past two days, the Swedish Academy of Sciences has received countless letters recommending the 'expanded application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem', including Professors Sal Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt. Nobel Prize winner ”
Hearing this, Wolfgang Kettler frowned and said: "We have already discussed him in the past two years. Do we need to discuss it again this year? Although this achievement is great enough, it has only been three years since it appeared. Over the years, I am really too young and have not experienced enough time.”
"And he is too young. He is only twenty years old this year, and he will not even turn twenty-one for several months."
The rules of the Nobel Prize in Physics stipulate that the winner's contributions must "have stood the test of time." This means that the Nobel committee often awards prizes decades after a scientific discovery.
For example, half of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Subramanyan Chandrasekhar for his research on the structure and evolution of stars as early as the 1930s.
The disadvantage of this approach is that many scientists who have made important scientific contributions have died before they have the opportunity to be recognized by the Nobel Prize.
Therefore, if you want to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, you not only need to have significant results, but you also need to live a long time.
Hearing this, the old man Professor George Smoot who just spoke retorted: "But it has achieved enough results and has gone through tests, hasn't it?"
"Using it, we have successfully found an exoplanet that is more than 99% similar to the Earth. It has also confirmed that Betelgeuse is not a single star system, but a dual star or multi-star system."
"Every one of these results is worthy of a physics prize, but we have ignored it for two consecutive years, and the outside world is already very dissatisfied with us."
Wolfgang Kettler frowned and said: "But he is really too young. He is only twenty years old now. He can definitely wait a few more years."
"It has only been three years since the nomination started at the age of eighteen. If the Nobel Prize is awarded to him this year, there is no doubt that he will break the world record and become the youngest winner in history."
Although Nobel's will did not stipulate how old the winner must be, not everyone is happy to break the rules and set a new record in history.
Professor George Smoot immediately retorted: "Mr. Nobel never stipulated that the Nobel Prize must be awarded to a bad old man who is over eighty or ninety years old."
"Science has always been young, and most of the great achievements were made by young scholars, from Newton to Einstein, to William Lawrence Bragg and Peter Higgs."
"No genius has ever made great achievements after he was fifty or sixty years old."
"We shouldn't be so prejudiced against young geniuses."
In history, the youngest Nobel Prize winner in physics was twenty-five-year-old William Lawrence Bragg.
He and his father, Henry Bragg, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their use of X-rays to analyze the structure of protein molecules, which led to the first determination of the extremely complex molecular structure of living substances.
Coincidentally, the father and son won the award exactly three years after their results were published.
It has been three years since the publication of Xu Chuan’s ‘Extended Application of Xu-Weyl-Berry Theorem’ results.
This is one of the reasons why Professor George Smoot argued so hard.
The three-year period has expired.
And as an astrophysicist, Professor George Smoot is very aware of the value of ‘expanded applications of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem’.
Maybe it doesn't show much now.
But if humans carry out interstellar migration, this achievement will directly lead humans to advance in the vast universe.
When the selection committee for the Nobel Prize in Physics was still arguing fiercely over whether Xu Chuan should win the prize.
Xu Chuan, far away in China, had spent a quiet night.
The next morning, when the sky was dark, Xu Chuan got up from bed. After washing and having breakfast, he carefully tidied up his appearance.
This morning, he was going to meet a very important person.
This meeting and conversation may determine the future fate of him, science as a whole, and even others.
There is no room for him not to pay attention.