After listening to the lecture at the University of Glasgow, Li Yu was about to leave for the European continent.
Although Stockholm has not yet released a candidate, the British senior management has actually received some reliable information, and there is a high probability that the Chemistry Prize will be awarded to Ramsey and Sir Rayleigh.
After three years of awarding, the Nobel Prize has established its supreme status in the scientific community. And according to the nature of European politics at this time, it will definitely be included in the competition.
European countries now understand what the power of science and technology represents, and a few more Nobel Prizes for their country is very flattering.
The early Nobel Prizes were indeed influenced by politics many times, and they will be affected several times in the next few years.
Not surprising.
In the first three years of the Nobel Prize, the three major awards in the natural field representing the power of science and technology were the Physics Prize, the Chemistry Prize, and the Physiology or Medicine Prize. Only one British man, Ross, won the Physiology Prize in 1902 for his contribution to the discovery of the cause of malaria.
award.
This is completely unsatisfactory for the British who have always regarded themselves as European technological hegemons. Especially since there is no physics or chemistry prize, the British feel that they cannot lose face.
Germany, France, and the Netherlands have all got it, but if they don't have the talent to be a good leader, they will definitely not look good to Sweden.
Therefore, the Swedish royal family has already acquiesced in high-level negotiations that it must give Britain a Nobel Prize medal this year.
Ramsay's idea was to go to the nearest France first and meet Mr. and Mrs. Curie. He had some academic issues to discuss with them.
Li Yu didn't have any objections. Europe was not that big anyway, so it didn't matter where he settled first, and he could go to Hachette Publishing House to discuss the distribution of the Star Wars series.
As for Lord Rayleigh, he took his time and waited for the formal letter from Sweden.
A group of people boarded the ship at the London Pier. This time they chose a faster route. Instead of going directly to Paris along the Seine River, they disembarked at the nearest port of Dunkirk on the other side of the strait and took the train.
Much faster in time.
Dunkirk is very close to the British mainland, only more than 70 kilometers away, which is about the same distance as Hong Kong and Macau.
After getting off the boat, Ramsay took a deep breath: "Sure enough, France without smog and smoke is more suitable for life. If Charles II had not sold this land to the French, maybe I could make more money every year.
Convenient to come here for vacation.”
Konoe Akiyuki had never been to France, but now that he had landed on French territory, he was extremely excited. After listening to Ramsay's words, he curiously said: "It turns out that the British have sold land before."
Li Yu said: "It's a long story if a child has no mother."
Historically, the United Kingdom was not an island country isolated overseas. They once had a very vast territory on the European continent. It was not until Dunkirk sold it to France for 400,000 pounds that they lost their last bridgehead on the European continent.
The survival of these territories can be said to tell a lot about the centuries-long feud between Britain and France.
But for a Japanese spy, Li Yu was not in the mood to talk to her about the past between Britain and France.
They got on the train and headed straight to Paris.
When I came to the University of Paris, I did not find Mr. and Mrs. Curie.
Li Yu met an old professor in the School of Science. Li Yu stepped forward and asked: "Sir, where are Mr. Pierre Curie and Ms. Marie Curie?"
The old professor glanced at Li Yu and recognized him: "Are you Li Yu?"
Li Yu said: "Exactly."
The old professor said: "The last time you came to the University of Paris, I happened to go to Marseille for vacation, so I couldn't meet you. I was very sorry, but I didn't expect to see you again so soon."
Li Yu vaguely recognized him: "Are you Professor Lippmann?"
"Nice to meet you!" Lippman stretched out his hand and shook his hand, "You actually recognize me."
Lippmann was the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics and was the first person to create color photography technology.
It's just that his method is very complicated and requires a long time of exposure. More importantly, it cannot be printed repeatedly, so it cannot be popularized. It is more of a scientific research creation.
Li Yu took out the Kodak portable camera he carried with him: "Why don't you know about optical things? I'm still waiting for the color camera to come out."
Lippmann had seen this camera and said: "I am studying color photography with the Lumiere brothers, and they seem to have made a lot of progress."
Li Yu smiled and said: "I wish you success, I can't wait to take colorful portraits."
In about two or three years, the first modern color photographs will appear.
Lippmann said: "If you are looking for Mr. and Mrs. Curie, you can go to their laboratory. Oh, it is a place that looks a lot like a warehouse. I hope you are not mistaken."
Lippmann had a very good attitude towards Marie Curie. Last year, Mrs. Curie had just received her doctorate from the University of Paris, and the person in charge of the defense was Professor Lippmann.
It was also through him that people began to change their previous inherent impression: Marie Curie was not just Pierre's assistant. This confirmed the important status of Madame Curie.
As for the Curies' laboratory, calling it a warehouse is a bit flattering. After all, there is no such a messy warehouse.
The Curies had won the Nobel Prize, but they still could not get a better laboratory. Although the University of Paris agreed to build a new laboratory, it would take several years before it was completed.
However, Li Yu was not prepared to let Lu Bicheng and Konoe Aoxue go there together and stopped them: "It's better if you wait here."
Through the news report about Nobel Prize winners written by Li Yu at the beginning of the year, Lu Bicheng admired Madame Curie so much that she basically treated her like a goddess. She didn't want to let this opportunity go, so she said firmly: "Why not? I
You must see her!”
Li Yu said helplessly: "Actually, there is strong radioactivity there, which is not friendly to...well, it is not friendly to women who have not given birth."
"Unfriendly? Why?" Konoe Akiyuki also asked.
Li Yu said: "Because radioactivity is harmful to the human body."
"But I heard that radioactivity is a magical thing and can cure terminal diseases." Lu Bicheng also sided with Konoe Akiyuki.
As early as the year when radium was purified, reporters had already reported the matter, and the article directly said: "After four years of hard work, a young good wife and mother finally discovered the magical radium, which can cure cancer.
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Li Yu felt that he couldn't explain clearly, so he could only say: "Then we will stay for a short time."
Arriving at the laboratory, Li Yu still felt a little shabby. The majestic Madame Curie, the greatest female scientist in human history, completed her great discoveries in this difficult environment.
In the future, wherever radioactivity is involved, whether it is hospital X-rays, CT, etc. that ordinary people may come into contact with, or other scientific research institutions, the protection of people is in place. Now, Li Yu can even see directly outside the house.
Heaps of radioactive slag—it was from these tons of slag that radium was extracted.
In the room, Pierre Curie had just returned from the French Academy of Sciences. He sat down, took a sip of water, and said to Madame Curie: "It is really disappointing. We still cannot obtain the title of academician of the Academy of Sciences."
The two of them took reputation very lightly, but they were really short of money and wanted to build a decent laboratory.
Academicians of the Academy of Sciences have much more generous remuneration than university professors. If calculated, it can reach tens of thousands of dollars per year, maybe even higher. Everything is linked to the funding of the Academy of Sciences.
Li Yu is not yet a year old, and by then he will receive huge remuneration from the Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, and the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Marie Curie sighed: "It will take seven or eight years to build a laboratory in the two houses given to us by the University of Paris on Rue des Beaulieu. It is too long."
Pierre Curie said: "If we had not donated part of the Nobel Prize bonus to those three scientific organizations, maybe we could have saved a little money."
Marie Curie said: "They are more short of money than we are."
Pierre knew his wife's temperament and said instead: "Actually, you deserve to be a member of the Academy of Sciences more than I do."
Marie Curie didn't care: "Thinking about the red tape gives me a headache. If you want to become an academician, the applicant must visit all the academicians and win their votes. I hate this kind of culture the most, and I don't even bother to do this kind of thing.
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Pierre said: "Me too. It would be best if the Academy of Sciences could take the initiative to award the award like Li Yu did."
"Dong dong dong!"
There was a knock on the door.
Madame Curie opened the door, and there stood Li Yu and Ramsay.
Li Yu and she had met before and no introduction was needed, but Lu Bicheng was so excited when she saw Madame Curie: "It turns out you are so beautiful and have such extraordinary wisdom!"
Madame Curie smiled and said: "You must be the rumored talented woman Bicheng. I am very honored to meet you. You are equally beautiful and talented."
Li Yu saw Lu Bicheng's eyes shining when he saw his idol, and said with a smile: "You can take a photo together."
Lu Bicheng was so happy: "Being in the same frame as Ms. Mary is a dream honor."
Madame Curie did not object, so Li Yu acted as a photographer and took a group photo for them.
Marie Curie said: "After the photos are developed, you must give me one."
After taking the photo, Ramsay took out a paper and said to Madame Curie: "After many verifications by myself, Professor Rutherford and others at the authoritative Cavendish Laboratory, I found that what Madam said is correct.
, the charge-to-mass ratio of beta-ray particles will decrease as the particle speed increases."
In other words, the greater the speed, the greater the mass.
Marie Curie said: "I have thought about this matter for a long time. Now that the experiment has been verified, it means that the conjecture is correct. I think the mass of the particles is likely to be at least part of virtual mass or electromagnetic mass. There is even a scholar who said
The mass of particles is all electromagnetic mass, but this is a bit bizarre, because if the particle mass reaches the speed of light, the mass will become infinite; and when the speed is much less than the speed of light, the mass will approach a constant."
Li Yu was stunned and couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's simply a grand unified theory!"
Marie Curie wondered: "Grand unity? What is this? I just think this phenomenon indicates the possibility of using the dynamic theory of moving charged particles to construct a theory of material mechanics."
Li Yu admired Madame Curie more and more.
What she proposed and actually recorded was the first relativistic effect observed by humans in history.
Therefore, Madame Curie, like Lorenz and others, also had interactions with the theory of relativity.
Marie Curie discovered extremely radioactive radium from slag. The β-ray electrons released by the radium element were so fast that an obvious relativistic effect appeared.
Judging from her words, her explanation of the experimental phenomenon cannot be said to be completely unreasonable. She even saw a bright future for physics from this incident.
Li Yu smiled and said: "I saw it from a draft of a paper from a Swiss patent officer."
After that, Madame Curie and Einstein had a very good relationship, and Einstein was one of the few people who still defended Madame Curie's reputation during the low period.
However, at this time, Marie Curie had become famous, and Einstein was still an unknown person, doing research at work.
Marie Curie said: "Draft of the paper? It hasn't been published yet?"
Li Yu said: "You should be able to see it soon."
Ramsay was surprised: "Mr. Academician, you mean that in a few months, someone will explain this puzzling phenomenon?"
Li Yu nodded: "Yes, please wait and see."
Ramsey said awkwardly: "If I had known better, I wouldn't have spent so much time on this. But since you have read the paper, can you explain it to us first?"
Pierre and Madame Curie were also very curious: "Yes, we promise not to reveal it."
Li Yu took the paper and pen: "To put it simply, it uses the mathematical skills of Mr. Lorenz, who just won the Nobel Prize last year, a kind of relative transformation."
If you want to fully explain the phenomena of relativity, you need to use the theory of weak interactions, but it will take many years for them to be born.
Li Yu only used a relatively rudimentary method of relativity to demonstrate mathematics.
Even so, Ramsey still couldn't accept it. After all, he was engaged in chemistry, and studying radioactivity was entirely due to his position, and he didn't understand such advanced physical theories at all.
Pierre Curie frowned and expressed that he still had many doubts.
Only Marie Curie was mentally prepared: "I welcome new theories, and I really want to see what Mr. Lorenz would think after seeing these contents."
At this time, another person came to visit. Since winning the Nobel Prize, there have been countless people visiting. The Curies even thought about moving to a secluded new residence, but that would not allow them to conduct experiments.
But today these two people were invited by Marie Curie.
They were two very accomplished doctors in Paris. Through cooperation with them, they quickly discovered that the rays produced by radium have different effects on various human cells and tissues.
Cancer cells that reproduce quickly can be destroyed by radium radiation, which is good news for cancer patients.
Although it was introduced not long ago, radium has already been of great help to medical research, especially making it possible to treat lupus erythematosus and several types of cancer.
The outside world calls this treatment "radiotherapy", while in Paris it is called "Curie treatment".
However, doctors still don’t know much about how to obtain radium and how to use it, so they need to consult the Curies themselves from time to time.
Unfortunately, even doctors still only see the benefits of radium and know nothing about the dangers of radioactivity.