I just want to be a quiet scholar

Chapter 438 Countdown to the Nobel Prize

People, sometimes you need to be stimulated to explode your potential.

Zhou Yu'an was stimulated by Shen Qi, and he also stimulated Shen Qi, and the two stimulated each other.

As a result of the stimulus, Zhou Yu'an finished writing the paper on partial differential equations that he hadn't finished for more than a year in more than a month.

This thesis has a total of 83 pages. Over the past year or so, Zhou Yuan conceived slowly, deduced it carefully, and advanced the work at the pace of Princeton, writing more than [-] pages.

In the past month, Zhou Yu'an's inspiration increased, and suddenly he wrote fifty pages.

"Boss Shen, please review." Zhou Yu'an submitted the manuscript to Shen Qi.

As a subordinate, Zhou Yu'an is obliged to submit the manuscript to the director of the center for review.

As a fellow in mathematics, Zhou Yu'an wanted to hear Shen Qi's professional advice.

Shen Qi took over the paper and said, "You spent a year and a half writing this paper, including the preliminary research time, it's close to two years. It's not easy, it's hard work. Give me half a day, and I'll find you after I read it." .”

For Zhou Yuan's paper, Shen Qi reviewed it very carefully, and used a pen to calculate a few formulas from time to time to verify Zhou Yuan's derivation logic.

In the afternoon, Zhou Yu'an came to Shen Qi's office again: "Boss Shen, please give me instructions."

Shen Qi handed the annotated manuscript to Zhou Yu'an: "Generally speaking, your paper is at the level of a Ph.D. in Mathematics and a student of the Philippine Prize winner. You proved that this type of first-order has non-regular singularity. The nonlinear partial differential equation of , whose formal power series solution belongs to the Geigerg class, and has completed an accurate description. This is a delicate job, and you have done it very rigorously. My suggestion is to do another one about Y through the implicit function theorem Analyzing the functional equation, this article is perfect. After you finish it, you can send it to the journal directly, and you don’t need to show it to me.”

Zhou Yu'an took Shen Qi's personally annotated thesis and flipped through it: "OK, I'll change it, thank you."

"Why is your attitude so good today?" Shen Qi asked.

"Because I saw the image of that academically supreme scholar in you again." Zhou Yu'an put away the paper and asked with concern: "How is your recovery?"

"pretty good."

"That's good." Zhou Yu'an said goodbye and went to revise the thesis.

The body is recovering well, and Shen Qi pays attention to some of the latest developments of this year's Nobel Prize through online news and academic reports.

There are still more than two months, that is, in October, relevant Swedish institutions and the Norwegian government will announce the winners of the six categories of Nobel Prizes this year.

The Nobel Prize review process is strictly confidential, and outside predictions are varied.

Haruki Murakami, a well-known writer in his 70s, was once again nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I can’t remember how many times Mr. Murakami has been nominated for the Nobel Prize. This year, his voice is very high.

Of course, in the past ten years, Haruki Murakami has always had a high call for awards, but he has never won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

"I am still writing in my 70s, and I just published a new book. Mr. Murakami is so diligent and worthy of respect." Shen Qi has read several best-selling novels by Haruki Murakami, but the best-selling novels are useless. The Nobel Prize jury does not look at sales .

No one knows what evaluation basis the six types of Nobel Prize jury committees value. For 100 years, they have never disclosed the specific details of the evaluation.

This year's list of candidates for the Peace Prize, as always, includes several heads of state, as well as some international institutions.

In the selection history of the six categories of Nobel Prizes, perhaps the most controversial is the Peace Prize.

The Peace Prize does not look at academic performance or scientific research results, and the evaluation criteria are relatively perceptual.

The President of the United States has won the Peace Prize, and the European Union has won the Peace Prize.

In terms of military budget, the United States ranks first in the world, China ranks second, and several major EU countries together rank third.

"War and peace?" Shen Qi inexplicably said such a sentence, he saw the name of the President of the United States in this year's list of candidates for the Peace Prize.

Literary Award, Peace Award, Shen Qi watched the excitement, of course he was most concerned about the Nobel Prize in Science.

By convention, the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine are usually awarded to two or three candidates each time.

Take the Physics Award as an example. The 2016 Physics Award was awarded to three scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom in recognition of their contributions to the field of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.This is a topic, and the three won the prize jointly.

The 2010 Physics Prize was awarded to two scientists from the Netherlands and Russia in recognition of their outstanding achievements in the field of graphene preparation.This is a topic that the two won the joint award.

The 2008 Physics Prize was awarded to two Japanese scientists and one American scientist of Japanese descent, which belonged to two subjects and three people won the prize.

In what form will this year's Nobel Prize in Physics be awarded? How many scientists and how many topics will be rewarded?
Shen Qi, a Nobel Prize candidate, has no way of knowing the specific news, he can only predict.

"There are a lot of competitors."

Shen Qi found that competitors from all over the world are mainly concentrated in subdivided fields such as astrophysics, quantum physics, and condensed matter physics, which are also the most cutting-edge research directions in the physics world today.

"Harry Clarke, professor of physics at Princeton, USA, 37 years old, condensed matter physics." The name of an American scientist caught Shen Qi's attention.

When Shen Qi was a professor of mathematics at Princeton, he had heard of the name Harry Clarke in the physics department next door. At that time, this old man was not a professor, he seemed to be a researcher or something.

Harry Clark himself is not well-known, but Princeton behind him has a high international academic status and influence.

What kind of energy Princeton has, Shen Qi is very clear in his heart, he has received some help with the support of this energy.

Princeton's basic mathematics is the best in the world, and Puda's physics major is also famous and powerful.

In fact, the number of first-line scientific researchers in the Physics Department of Pudong University is not as large as that of Yanda Academy of Sciences.

The academic concept of not seeking big and comprehensive, but only seeking small and refined, has penetrated into every department of Princeton.

The three main majors of the Department of Physics of Pudong University are astrophysics, quantum physics, and condensed matter physics. They concentrate their superior resources to do cutting-edge research. In terms of classical physics research, the Department of Physics of Pudong University is at the same level as Yanda Academy of Physics.

"Fight and fight, my biggest competitor is very likely to be a colleague from my old club." Shen Qi is now working for Yanda University. Although he holds the title of Princeton Honorary Professor of Mathematics, in the field of physics, Shen Qi is inevitable. Facing competition from the Department of Physics at UPU.

Shen Qi's condensed matter physics project and Harry Clark's condensed matter physics project are very similar. The two, or the two condensed matter physics teams in China and the United States, are fighting for food in the same pot.

"Harry Clarke has made rapid progress. Most importantly, his boss behind the scenes is Professor Duncan Haldane."

Duncan Haldane is an Englishman, currently a professor of physics at Princeton, a master of condensed matter physics, and the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Haldane Laboratory is known as the contemporary Rutherford Laboratory.

The two British physicists have one thing in common. They have profound skills and won the Nobel Prize.

The two of them have super academic ability and are good at leading apprentices.

After Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 8 Nobel Prize winners were successively produced in his laboratory, all of whom were winners of the Physics Prize.

After Haldane won the Nobel Prize in Physics, two Nobel Prize winners in Physics have been produced in his Princeton laboratory in recent years.

"Will Harry Clark become the fourth Nobel Prize winner in Haldane's laboratory? The first three are Duncan Haldane and his two students." -- This is the American "Chemical Review" Magazine review forecast.

"Shen Qi's personal academic ability is unquestionable, but his achievements in cultivating talents are not brilliant. Shen Qi VS Haldane's students, who will win?" -- This is the comment of the British "Nature" magazine.

The British are like this. Yesterday you were a fan and cried on your knees, but today they might make fun of you.

It is said that Haldane refused to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics again this year. It seems that the Nobel laureate wants to make his student Clark popular.

In fact, Shen Qi has some connections with Professor Haldane and has dealt with them before.

At the beginning of last year, Shen Qi published his first condensed matter physics paper after returning to China. It was Haldane who was the first to stand up and affirm Shen Qi's research results.Shen-Qi phase transition rules and Shen-Qi equation were quickly recognized by ICTP and written into textbooks.

(End of this chapter)