Of course, Johns Hopkins University’s thank-you letters are rarely sent.

No professor is free and has nothing to do. He stays at home to write a bunch of thank you letters for writing a paper. A paper often has more than a dozen or even dozens of references. If you write a paper, you have to thank the author of the reference, and the scholars are too inefficient.

The four professors who participated in the experiment wrote thank you letters at the same time, which was even more rare. In essence, they were forced to do so.

Because the experiment is too repetitive, not only did Yang Rui's philosophy, but also the experimental methods and experimental steps, but in the end, Yang Rui's had to be used.

After using so many things, he even published "CELL". If the Hopkins University research team did not write a letter to explain, he would inevitably be criticized.

Half of the Peking University professors who can understand the thank you letter have guessed the purpose of the thank you letter.

Just a embarrassed explanation and explanation, takeout a ventral saying “We did take your approach, we thank and acknowledge your contribution, but this is our result”.

The four Hopkins professors did not hide this.

Although top journals need to be pioneering and have high requirements, the results are also very important for top journals. British chemist David used electrolysis to produce five elements: sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium and strontium, and his reputation was broken. However, as early as 20 years ago, French scientist Moisan used this to make fluorine.

It is obviously unfair to say that David's research is worthless, but if people need to criticize David, there is a lot to say.

Now, the times have changed. Scientific research is getting deeper and deeper, with more and more categories and even fields. Scientists can fully explore their own things, so there are actually fewer cases of hitting walls.

In this case, the requirement of originality is often raised higher.

However, the results are always decisive.

The research team at Hopkins University was originally doing research on potassium ions and other aspects, and was very concerned about hot research in the field. Therefore, after Yang Rui published his first paper at JMC, they began to reserve theoretically so that they could quickly follow up after Yang Rui published his big paper at CELL.

However, a series of steps such as mutagenesis genes, determining mutant genes, cloning genes, etc. are indeed difficult. There are thousands of key points in the middle. Four people and more than a dozen scientific research dogs have been busy for half a year, but they cannot get the final conclusion.

Faced with millions of dollars in funding and chasing competitors, even the Hopkins research team was forced to succumb to reality.

Of course, they were not prepared to fully replicate Yang Rui's research at the beginning, but when their own paths were not working, they really lacked other options.

Scientific research has always been a job with very low fault tolerance. It is really too expensive. No matter whether the investor is a country or an individual, no one will easily give losers a second chance.

And the more research institutions like Hopkins University are, the more cruel the competition for scientific research is.

The winners of them can easily get millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars in funds.

However, once failure comes, once the winner becomes the loser, the reduction in funds will not be hundreds of thousands, millions, or tens of millions, or as if nothing is described as being nothing.

The life of laboratory poison is much harder than the life of box office poison.

If the professors at Hopkins University have a year or two, they may not have to use Yang Rui's experimental methods anymore. However, they do not have a year or two.

In fact, most researchers don’t have a year or two to delay.

If you consider this way, it seems that more twin papers may be seen in the expected time period in the future.

The professors who thought of this had different expressions.

"Is the original letter here with you?" the principal put down the copy and asked.

"I borrowed it for the time being." Professor Cai smiled and took it out and handed it to the principal.

The principal was also a person who had been studying abroad. He read it again and said, "Leave it to the Foreign Propaganda Department and find a way to publish it."

Professor Cai woke up instantly, said "Okay", and smiled and said, "This is interesting."

"It will be a big news." President Pang said sourly. Before that, his supporter of Richard, a rival of Yang Rui, who was a scientific research rival, even provided funds to Richard in order to cooperate with the University of California Berkeley.

However, Richard spent a lot of money, but lost the competition for scientific research. He had to return home in shame, but he has not yet gotten up.

In contrast, Yang Rui won without the support of the school and the government, and has now received praise from many parties. Principal Pang's face is very bad.

Fortunately, he is still the vice principal, and normal people will not mention this in front of him, but it is inevitable that the prestige will be damaged.

Professor Cai even ignored him and just smiled and said, "It just happened to use Hopkins professors to lay the groundwork, help them promote it well, and let everyone know about Johns Hopkins University."

The best way to promote the winner is to promote the strength of the enemy. For example, the propaganda of Chen Jingrun is to promote Goldbach's theorem, and even attract the attention of countless folk mathematicians.

Johns Hopkins University has almost no reputation in China. I think this situation will improve after a round of publicity.

Thinking about the professors at Hopkins University who were stroking yellow beards and writing papers frowningly, and because of this, they were known to the Chinese, everyone felt inexplicably excited.

As the top scholar in China, everyone has a relatively objective understanding of Hopkins.

Simply put, the Hopkins University research group dare not say that it is the strongest on Earth, it is also the strongest on Earth. The weight of "having to fully adopt Yang Rui's plan" is a bit unthinkable for everyone to think of.

"The scholars at Hopkins University recognize our Peking University's research and teaching level very much." Professor Cai brought the topic back and hit the railway with a hot spring: "We can't drive people out by ourselves."

This time, even if there were objections, they could not speak, and the principal nodded slightly.

"It's also a profit to change to an independent laboratory to a high-level scholar, right?" Professor Cai got the advantage and teased everyone.

The professor in the Department of Physics said weakly: "That's all he needs to stay at Peking University."

"There are three years left before graduation..." Professor Cai laughed twice, and everything was silent.

"That's it." The principal finished his consideration and decided to make the decision.

Professor Cai said with a clapper: "We must have done this independent laboratory."

"This time the expenses are all extra funds, and they must be done." The principal calculated the expenses silently, and felt a little painful, and added a code.

Professor Cai smiled and patted his chest, but in fact he said a little worriedly: "Yang Rui has prepared the project, but applying for funds is time-consuming. Please give priority to the school's funds."

"Who dares to get stuck in Yang Rui's project now?" President Pang said sarcastically, but that's all. Short sentences like $150,000 and the US Ambassador to China are as sharp as daggers.

In just two days, the school’s first batch of 50,000 yuan in grants was given, with an absolute priority channel and directly sent to Yang Rui’s private account.

It seems a bit illegal, but in fact, until the late 1990s, scientific research funds were in this model. It was difficult to apply, but once it was applied, it would be difficult to supervise it. Without strict discipline, not only researchers felt that it was troublesome to have a public account, but the financial staff of the unit also felt that it was troublesome to have a public account.

In the state where people shout "invoices" at every railway station across the country, process supervision is naturally ineffective. In most cases, it can only be allocated in stages, and then look at the results in stages. In the final analysis, it is the results.

If you use 5,000 yuan in funding, you have to make 5,000 yuan in stuff; if you use 50,000 yuan in funding, you have to make 50,000 yuan in stuffing. If you use 500,000 yuan in funding, you have to make 500,000 yuan in stuffing. If you use 5,000,000 yuan in funding, please make 5,000,000 yuan in stuffing!

As for what kind of things are worth 5,000 yuan and what kind of things are worth 5 million yuan, in the final analysis, it depends on the paper and its impact factors.

However, Yang Rui did not use the 50,000 yuan himself this time, but transferred it to the department, allowing the biological department to decide.

On the one hand, he has a bright future and is unwilling to be contaminated with black, gray and white funds. On the other hand, rights and obligations are equal. Schools and departments rely on funds to survive. If researchers do not provide for the offer, how can they maintain such a scientific research system?

There is no system in the world that is perfect. Yang Rui is not a politician and has no intention of confronting and changing it. It is better to let the department make decisions and distributions on its own.

50,000 yuan is optional for Yang Rui, but for most people in college who have a salary of one or two hundred yuan, it is a huge sum of money.

The allocation of this money was naturally made public: Yang Rui, a first-year student at the school, will independently preside over the Ion Channel Laboratory of the Department of Biology, raise 250,000 yuan in construction funds and 180,000 yuan in research funds...

In less than half a day, all teachers and students in the school knew about this.
Chapter completed!