Lord Kelvin came over: "Let me see how he proves it."
He directly moved a chair and sat next to President Huggins.
Lord Kelvin's research fields are very wide, not only the most famous thermodynamics, he has made contributions in the fields of electromagnetism, fluid mechanics, geophysics, engineering applications and other fields.
President Huggins's majors are astronomy and spectroscopy. To be able to hold the position of president of the Royal Society must be a real talent.
When the two of them finished reading the paper, they were both quite shocked. President Huggins spoke first: "It is indeed an incredible paper. It is more than enough as a doctoral thesis."
Lord Kelvin said: "More than that! I have never seen a few papers of this level in so many years."
Huggins turned to the part of the paper about predicting that X-rays are electromagnetic waves and using crystal diffraction. "This scholar has a solid foundation in physics and mathematics, but I always feel that he seems to be hiding something."
"Did you also realize that?" Lord Kelvin lit his pipe, took a deep breath, and said, "At first I thought he was too knowledgeable, and stopped exploring some places without further discussion. But this one is called Yu
Li's Chinese writing is obviously very confident. Even though he has done it very smoothly, I can still vaguely feel that he deliberately stopped his hand. As for why, I can't figure it out."
The editor on the side, Joelson, said: "Is it because of the length? Because we have set a limit on the length of the article in our call for papers."
President Huggins nodded: "This can only be explained. But in terms of these two views alone, if this is true, it will be on the level of two Nobel Prizes."
"It's unbelievable." Kelvin held his pipe and pondered, "As for whether he can win the prize, it also depends on whether he can do the verification experiment he mentioned. An experiment with such precision is not simple."
The two great gods had actually guessed what Li Yu was thinking. He had indeed hidden it deliberately, but it had not escaped the eyes of top scholars.
The reason? Of course, he didn't want to shock the world too much.
In fact, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 and 1915 was indeed awarded to X-ray diffraction and X-ray crystal research.
It's just that Li Yu is not good at doing this kind of experiment. Such a high-precision experiment requires paying attention to a lot of details and adjusting a lot of equipment. The process is also extremely cumbersome, and it cannot be done simply by doing it hundreds of times! It will definitely be successful by then.
It requires many papers.
Therefore, if the Nobel Prize is awarded, he will be nominated at most. Even so, he will be a first-class scholar, T0 level!
What's more, this is just Li Yu's little test of the waters.
However, President Huggins and Lord Kelvin cannot think of this as testing the waters! To them, it is indeed very advanced.
President Huggins said: "My Lord, why don't you write a letter to Professor Roentgen, he is an expert in this field, and let him read it too."
Lord Kelvin put down his pipe and said: "It is necessary!"
The two quickly wrote a letter jointly.
Roentgen is now a professor of physics at the University of Munich. After he saw Lord Kelvin's letter, he was really shocked by the paper attached to it, and he immediately wrote back:
"This paper has pushed the study of X-rays to a new height, and its views are extremely forward-looking. I fully support and agree with this paper..."
Soon, Röntgen's praise was published together with Li Yu's paper in the Transactions of the Natural Sciences of the Royal Society.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves. Because of Roentgen's strong endorsement, most of the European scientific community saw this paper.
At this time, Europe benefited from the advantages brought by powerful science and technology, and was very enthusiastic and respected for science. Soon the British "Times" also published an article to report on it, titled: "Insights from the Land of Dragons·Cutting-edge Rays"
, words of praise.
Of course, Li Yu doesn't know this yet because he is working hard to learn Japanese and German.
On this day, the British Minister to the Qing Dynasty, Sir Sir Daoyi, came to the Prime Minister's Yamen.
When Yikuang saw him, he immediately felt dizzy: Could it be that he is here to ask for money again?
Sa Daoyi signed the "Xinchou Treaty" on behalf of Britain that year, so he had contact with Yikuang relatively early.
"Mr. Minister, it's not that the repayment date hasn't come yet. Besides, HSBC has already collected the money," Yikuang said.
Sa Daoyi shook his head: "I'm not here for this matter."
He put a copy of The Times and a telegram on the table and continued, "I'm here to see a Chinese named Yu Li."
When Yikuang heard that they were not here to collect debts, he relaxed a lot and asked: "Yu Li? Why haven't I heard of it? Who is it? Is it possible that someone wants to surround the embassy again?"
Sa Daoyi pointed to the Times and said: "Now newspapers in the UK are reporting on this person, saying that his achievements in the field of rays have reached or even exceeded Professor Roentgen."
Ha! The newspapers really exaggerated.
"Ah?" There were countless question marks on Yikuang's forehead, but he had never heard of rays or Roentgen, so he had to say, "There are still people like this, could they be the overseas students we sent out? I'll let Tongwen Guan check it out."
The Tongwen Library was very close to the Prime Minister's Yamen, so Yi Kuang immediately ordered his translator Rui Zheng to go next door to find Ding Hailiang.
Yi Kuang picked up the newspaper and exclaimed: "I didn't expect it! I didn't expect it!"
"Not only that," Sa Daoyi held up the telegram, "This is also the telegram that just came from our country yesterday. It was jointly sent by Lord Kelvin and Sir Huggins, the president of the Royal Society. The contents of the telegram named the people who asked our embassy to help find them.
This person is called Yu Li."
For such a long distance telegram, the price per word is extremely high.
The Times is very wealthy and does not care about the money. However, the telegrams received by the embassy were sent in their personal names by Lord Kelvin and President Huggins.
Yikuang didn't know who Lord Kelvin and Huggins were, but it sounded like the President of the Royal Society should be a position like the Imperial Academy, or a bit higher, that is, from the fourth rank or the fourth rank.
On the contrary, the Lord is a bit powerful. After all, the title must be conferred by the royal family. Lord Kelvin is actually a baron. In the Qing Dynasty, it was from the second rank or the second rank, which is almost the rank of the six ministers.
Even though a baron is the fifth-ranked knight with the title of duke, marquis, uncle, son, and the last male, he is already very powerful.
Hong Chengchou, the rebel general of the Ming Dynasty who made great military exploits at the founding of the country, was only a third-class light chariot captain. From the third rank, he was one rank lower than a baron.
And the famous governor Liu Mingchuan was only a baron.
The relatively tall ones are the three fierce men Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang. These three people are marquises.
For the Qing Dynasty, the position of the second rank was already very powerful, and ordinary ambassadors were not that high.
"Yu Li, Yu Li..." Yi Kuang slapped his thigh, "Oops, why did I forget that your name is pronounced backwards? It can't be Li Yu!"
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