As soon as Li Yu mentioned the Nobel Prize to Mendeleev, he met someone from the Swedish Academy of Sciences when he went to visit Pavlov.
Later generations of Nobel Prize selections require nominees to be kept secret for 50 years, so it is impossible to know who is nominated.
Don't believe many rumors. If you want to know, you can only wait for the decryption in fifty years.
However, the system at the beginning of the twentieth century was not so sound.
Nominations for the Nobel Prize generally begin in the second half of the year before the selection, and the Nobel Prize cannot be self-nominated.
Then the screening and review of candidates will begin around February or March, and the winners will finally be announced in October.
The selection process is based on voting by a selection committee of about ten people, who decide the winners.
When Li Yu was walking at St. Petersburg University, he was stopped by a person: "Are you Mr. Li Yu? I didn't expect to meet you here."
The other party was a young man. Li Yu didn't know him, so he asked doubtfully: "Who is your Excellency?"
"My name is Katz. You probably don't know me, but I met you in Sweden. When you were awarded the mathematics prize by the king, I was also present. But I am just an ordinary worker of the Academy of Sciences, so I am not in the corner.
It’s too easy to see.”
Li Yu was really not impressed, so he apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I really didn't notice it."
Kaz didn't take it seriously: "It's normal for a great scholar like you not to see me."
Li Yu asked: "What is Mr. Kaz doing here?"
Katz said: "On behalf of the Academy of Sciences, I am here to send formal applications for nomination to several Russian professors and scholars. It happens that Professor Mendeleev and Professor Pavlov are both in this university."
"Nobel Prize?" Li Yu asked.
Katz said: "Yes, the two professors are authorities in chemistry and physiology respectively, and they deserve to be nominated."
Mendeleev has been nominated several times, but he has never been actually awarded the chemist award. It is a pity that he did not live a few more years, otherwise he would definitely get it.
Pavlov will receive the Nobel Prize next year and will be the first Russian Nobel Prize winner.
Li Yu said: "It's not enough to just write a letter, you have to come in person."
Katz said: "The status of the two professors is too high and they are so close. It is better to come over in person."
Stockholm and St. Petersburg are indeed very close, separated only by the Baltic Sea.
Li Yu said: "It just so happens that I also want to meet Professor Pavlov, let's come together."
As soon as they arrived outside Pavlov's laboratory, they heard a loud quarrel inside.
Pavlov's angry voice came out: "You are really worse than a dirty dog!"
"I'm definitely not a dirty dog. You should at least use caviar as a test product!" Another voice was not to be outdone.
"Caviar?" Pavlov also raised his voice and said, "I am a scientist, not a rich man. I can't afford caviar myself. Why should I use this thing as a test subject?"
"Then you are not worthy of letting me cooperate with the experiment!" Another voice continued to argue loudly.
Li Yu and Kaz looked at each other, wondering whether they should go in or not.
A student outside the door recognized Li Yu: "It's Professor Li Yu!"
Li Yu turned around and remembered that they were the two college students who were with Pavlov when they first came to St. Petersburg University.
"Hello," Li Yu said, "Besides, I'm not a professor."
But the student said: "Your level is more than enough to be a professor."
Li Yu asked: "What happened inside?"
The student laughed and said: "Professor Pavlov's younger brother Nikolai must come to work in the professor's laboratory, but he doesn't understand anything, so he said he can be an experimental subject."
Li Yu was surprised and said: "Experimental subject?"
The student said: "It is the object of the conditioned reflex test. Professor Pavlov used dogs before, but his brother Nikolai said why not use people to test it too."
Li Yu couldn't laugh or cry, there were actually people vying to be a human experiment subject.
From the student's subsequent narration, Li Yu finally figured out what was going on.
Although Pavlov was talented, this younger brother was really useless and had been unemployed at home.
Now that Pavlov has become famous and is in charge of a laboratory, his younger brother wants to work in Pavlov's laboratory.
But he obviously didn't understand science at all and couldn't do anything, so Pavlov refused.
Who knew that Pavlov's mother doted on this younger brother and said to him: "You might as well find your younger brother to go with you when you study with those bastards. Your younger brother is the most greedy, and no one salivates as much as him."
Pavlov conducted a conditioned reflex test by giving food and then causing the dog to salivate.
But although they knew the process of answering questions in the test, they obviously could not understand the original intention of the test.
Pavlov found it difficult to accept this ridiculous proposal: "Please don't know me, I know how to work."
But his mother insisted: "But your decision will keep your unemployed brother at home and give up job opportunities to those dirty dogs you don't even know!"
Well, she figured those dogs were working too...
Pavlov was very helpless and had no choice but to accept this ridiculous suggestion of so-called "human experiment".
But when it came to the experiment, his brother obviously didn't want to eat dog food and asked for caviar, a high-end ingredient.
Pavlov didn't want to get used to his bad habit, so he said: "It's still toast today, you have no choice!"
The younger brother said: "Then you'd better bake something delicious!"
Pavlov said: "Say less, the experiment is about to begin."
Pavlov then rang the bell in his hand.
The younger brother was indifferent.
Pavlov shook it again, and his brother wondered: "Where's my toast?"
Pavlov said: "Open your mouth."
The younger brother said: "No, I want to see bread!"
"Open your mouth first, and I want to record the saliva secretion." Pavlov said.
But when he came over with a pen and paper, his younger brother punched him angrily: "Fuck your experiment, do you want the results without giving me bread?"
Pavlov covered his nose: "How dare you do it."
The younger brother said loudly: "I am not a dog. Of course I will hit someone when I am angry!"
When Li Yu and others saw this posture, they rushed in quickly. After all, Li Yu had practiced kung fu a few times. He was a disciple of Huang Feihong, a top martial arts master. He couldn't deal with the ronin who practiced martial arts. He was still somewhat confident in dealing with ordinary people like this.
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Li Yu grabbed Pavlov's brother's hand and twisted it behind his back. He squatted down in pain.
Students gathered around and asked, "Professor, how are you?"
Pavlov said angrily: "Kick him out and never allow him to enter my laboratory again!"
Li Yu pushed him out of the door: "Did you hear that?"
The younger brother rubbed his arms and snorted: "If you don't come, I won't come."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Li Yu turned around and asked, "How are you, Professor?"
When Pavlov saw Li Yu, he was surprised and said: "It's you." His anger was half gone, "Why are you here again?"
Li Yu said with a smile: "I came to visit the professor's experiment. Suddenly I realized that some people are worse than dogs."
Pavlov was amused: "You are so right, you are really worse than a dog."
Pavlov was also quite helpless. The family did not understand science, so they still insisted on arranging scientific work for his younger brother. It was not nonsense.
Later, Pavlov's mother defended his brother: "What kind of bullshit experiment are you doing? You rang the bell but didn't give Nikolay anything to eat. You know your brother acts like a madman when he's hungry."
It is said that although his younger brother did not stay in the laboratory for a few days, he was still treated as an experimental subject for a few days, but he went around bragging that Pavlov's achievements were actually his credit.
"He is just my secretary," he even said nonsense to the reporters, "I am the director of the entire experiment. When I was drooling carefully, he would be ringing the bell stupidly."
It's also funny enough.
Katz took out a letter and got down to business: "On behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Karolinska Institute, I am here to send you a formal nomination for next year's Nobel Prize."
Pavlov took the letter: "The Nobel Prize, thank you sir."
Katz said: "It's my honor."
Pavlov suddenly thought: "Has the Li Yu in front of me been nominated?"
Katz said: "I didn't know that I was not responsible for statistics on the Far East. Besides, it is too slow to pass on information now, and scholars at the Academy of Sciences don't know much about academic achievements in the East."
Pavlov said: "I think he is very qualified."
Katz said: "Mr. Li Yu has already won the mathematics prize awarded by the king himself, I think it's almost the same."
Li Yu was not anxious about this at all. He estimated that he would get it in a short time. He smiled and said: "At least the bonus is the same."
Pavlov said: "I really hope to see Mr. Li Yu win the prize again, and let those proud people know the power of the East."
The student suddenly pointed to his nose and said, "Professor, your nosebleed can't be stopped."
Pavlov felt the pain on the bridge of his nose when he touched it lightly, "Oops, maybe it's broken! This damn Nikolay has hit his brother so hard."
Several people hurriedly said: "Go to the hospital quickly!"
Pavlov said: "Funny, we will meet another day."
Several students immediately accompanied him to the hospital.
After Pavlov left, Katz looked through the letters in his hand: "I also need to send a letter to Mr. Tolstoy."
Li Yudao: "Are you going to Moscow?"
Katz said: "Why go to Moscow?"
"Don't Mr. Tolstoy live in Moscow?" Li Yu said.
"That's true," Katz said, "but he is currently in St. Petersburg, and it's very close to the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts."
"Academy of Fine Arts?" Li Yu asked doubtfully, "What is Mr. Tolstoy doing there, studying painting?"
"That's not the case," Katz explained, "it was Mr. Repin who wanted to paint another portrait of Mr. Tolstoy."
Well, it turns out that this is the case, and I can actually meet Repin, the famous critical reality painter.
Kaz asked again: "Do you want to go and see it too?"
Before Li Yu could reply, Lu Bicheng, who had been silent behind him, said first, "Of course I want to go."
She didn't know much about great scientists like Mendeleev and Pavlov, but Tolstoy's name was already well known to her.
Katz said: "Madam said this, I think Mr. Li Yu will agree."
Lu Bicheng could only continue to explain: "We are just traveling together."
Kaz was not very old, so he smiled and said, "I understand, I understand. Let's go, it's not far anyway."
Li Yu also wanted to see the true face of this Russian literary figure; and Repin, who wrote the well-known "Trackers on the Volga".
Tolstoy himself is also a critical realist writer, and Russia has really high attainments in this field.
But during the Cold War, the struggle between Lao America and the Soviet Union was not limited to armaments. In order to suppress the Russian cultural field and target the realist school, Lao America crazily promoted Surrealism.
All kinds of paintings that ordinary people can't understand are sold at sky-high prices.
Even in today's art field, it seems that those who cannot understand Surrealism are artistically illiterate.
Alas, Li Yu doesn’t understand art either, so he can only lament whether his aesthetic knowledge is really too low. It’s true that some things cannot be understood as being so artistic.
He could only think this in private, otherwise he would be scolded as artistically illiterate. He didn't understand whether the more abstract he was, the more art he understood. In his opinion, art was diverse and not
European and American surrealism is not the only one.
Russian critical realism is about digging deeper connotations in reality, which ordinary people can at least understand.
Lu Bicheng was very excited: "I have read reports that Mr. Tolstoy is a top-notch literary giant today."
Li Yu smiled and said: "This evaluation is not exaggerated at all."
China started translating Tolstoy's works almost a few years ago. However, due to limitations in translation skills, several of Tolstoy's masterpieces have not yet been translated into China.
But after 1911 and during the May 4th Movement, translation reached its peak.
At that time, domestic literary giants such as Lu Xun and Mao Dun advocated reading Russian works, which led to the literary world’s widespread practice of translating and studying Russian famous writers.
By the late 1940s, almost all of Toweng's works had been translated into China.
Due to its great influence, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Toon's three classic masterpieces "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina" and "Resurrection" were re-translated and republished on a large scale.
From then on, everyone in the country knew Tuoweng's name.
Lu Bicheng said: "It's a pity that all I read were fragments and I couldn't see the whole story."
Li Yu said: "This is easy to handle. I will just buy more English versions when the time comes."
Now in St. Petersburg, what they can buy are basically the original Russian versions.
Lu Bicheng was very interested: "It's a pity that I can't read the original Russian version."
Li Yu smiled and said: "Forget it, it's really difficult to learn Russian."
Lu Bicheng said: "After I bring it back to China, I will definitely find Lin Shu, a professor at the Translation Institute of the Capital University, to translate."
When Li Yu heard this, he said, "Don't be in a hurry."
What he thought was that it would be better to wait and translate directly into vernacular, or the slightly helpless idea of relying on foreigners to respect themselves. Only by letting everyone know that foreigners also use vernacular can they slowly accept it.
Moreover, the translation of Russian works is indeed not an easy task. The key point is that there are too few people in China who understand foreign languages. The only ones that are available are basically being expelled by diplomats. There are not many "idle people" at all.
Moreover, translation is not an easy task in the first place, and it does not only require knowing Russian.