Chapter 231 The youngest Nobel Prize winner in history
In the laboratory, everyone looked at Liu Gaojun and Chen Zhengping with their mouths open in confusion, and even the air became quiet.
No...Nobel Prize?
Are they hallucinating?
Even Xu Chuan showed a little disbelief.
He won the Nobel Prize? What happened?
Although he won the Nobel Prize twice in his previous life, in this life, he never thought that he would get this honor now.
This is the Nobel Prize, the highest honor in science.
Three years ago, Nobel laureate Professor Saar Perlmutter recommended his name to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
But Xu Chuanke never thought that after just three years, he would win this academic crown.
So, when Chen Zhengping and the others informed them of the news, others were a little confused.
After all, he is only twenty-one years old. Even if he has enough achievements, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will not consider such a young scholar.
Except for weirdos like William Lawrence Bragg who won the physics prize at the age of twenty-five, almost all other scholars are over sixty years old.
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After a while, Xu Chuan came to his senses and quickly took out his mobile phone from his pocket.
The finger swiped across the screen, and the display quickly lit up and unlocked. There were dozens of missed calls on the phone interface.
The first missed call started with the area code 046, which is from Sweden.
Then, there were some acquaintances.
From Deligne, Witten, Fefferman at Princeton, to Chen Zhengping, Liu Gaojun and others at NTU, and even his parents and sister, they all gave him phone calls and messages.
It can be said that almost everyone he knows has made at least two phone calls to him and also sent text messages or messages.
Looking at the display on the phone screen, Xu Chuan couldn't help but swallow.
Judging from these missed calls and messages, it seems that Chen Zhengping and Liu Gaojun were not kidding, and he really won the Nobel Prize.
Regarding the call from the Nobel Prize, it’s actually quite interesting.
Because the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences always calls Nobel Prize winners on the day when the list of corresponding awards is announced.
Sometimes they are dismissed as liars. For example, James Morris, the winner of the 1996 Economics Prize, once "rudely" hung up on the Nobel Prize winner several times.
Fortunately, Professor Staffan Nomark, the lifelong secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, has a persevering spirit and finally proved his identity through several phone calls.
Sometimes due to the time difference, when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences calls, the winner may be sleeping, or may have turned on the shielding mode like Xu Chuan.
For example, Professor Sal Perlmutter, the 2011 physics prize winner, was woken up from his sleep by reporters.
If the winner cannot be contacted after repeated calls, the Royal Academy of Sciences will activate the 'bombing' mode.
They will collect the phone numbers of many relatives, friends, and colleagues of the winners, notify these friends, and then ask their friends to call them to tell them, or they may make a trip in person to deliver the news.
Generally speaking, even if you are sleeping or turning on the shielding mode, at least your parents, wife, children, and grandchildren can receive the call and tell the winner.
But the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences may not have expected that this year there would be such a "wonder" as Xu Chuan.
His blocking mode really blocks all incoming calls. No matter whether they are from Xu’s father, Xu’s mother, or other people, no calls can come in.
So this time, Xu Chuan himself didn’t know the news until many people knew that Xu Chuan had won the Nobel Prize.
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In the office, others were still immersed in this shocking news.
At the same time, the unblocked cell phone in Xu Chuan's hand vibrated again, and the ringtone resounded throughout the quiet laboratory, causing everyone to tremble and wake up quickly.
The call that started with 046 also surprised Xu Chuan. His thumb passed across the screen and he quickly answered the call.
"Professor Xu Chuan, I have finally contacted you."
When the call was connected, a voice with an uncomfortable sigh came from the other end.
Xu Chuan smiled dryly and said, "Sorry, I was doing research in the laboratory today and didn't pay attention to my phone."
"It seems you already know." On the other end, Professor Staffan Nomark, the lifelong secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said with a smile.
Xu Chuan nodded and replied: "Yes, my alma mater has informed me. I hope it is true."
"Hahaha, of course." Secretary-General Professor Staffan Nomark smiled, then cleared his throat and spoke again solemnly.
"Hello, Professor Xu Chuan, I would like to congratulate you on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences."
"Because of your great contribution to the field of astrophysics, you have pioneered and created a method to accurately calculate parameter information of distant celestial bodies, and observed and calculated detailed information of the Betelgeuse galaxy. You will be working with breakthroughs in the field of laser physics.
Professor Arthur Ashkin won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics."
Xu Chuan's heart finally calmed down and he quickly replied: "Thank you."
Opposite, Secretary-General Professor Staffan Nomark smiled and said: "This Nobel Prize Award Ceremony will be held on December 10, 2018 at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden. The invitation letter has been mailed to you and we look forward to your arrival."
Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Thank you, I will attend on time."
"I will welcome you on time." Secretary-General Professor Staffan Nomark said with a smile.
Then, he suddenly said: "By the way, Professor Xu Chuan, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the astronomy and astrophysics circles have a heartfelt request."
Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment and said quickly: "You said it."
Staffan Nomark smiled on the other end of the phone and said: "We hope you will rename the achievement 'Extended Application of the Xu-Weyl-berry Theorem'."
"After all, as the main achievement that won the Nobel Prize, it is fully qualified, isn't it?"
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Now it sounds too much like a mathematical result."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Of course, I will carefully consider its new name."
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After hanging up the phone, Xu Chuan let out a long sigh of relief.
Unexpectedly, he would win the Nobel Prize, the highest honor in science, just four years after his rebirth. And it was not the result of winning the Nobel Prize twice in his previous life, but a brand-new result of research in this life.
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Noticing the expectant looks cast by others in the laboratory, Xu Chuan smiled and nodded vigorously.
After receiving the confirmation response, the entire laboratory immediately became excited.
"Damn it! The boss is awesome!"
"Congratulations boss!"
"Awesome, Sichuan God! The first double winner of the Nobel Prize and Fields Medal in history! Breaking the historical record!"
"It's a treat. It's unreasonable not to give me a treat!"
There were cheers and congratulations in the laboratory.
For these researchers at the Chuanhai Institute of Materials, they are also the beneficiaries of Xu Chuan's Nobel Prize.
Following the history of the first Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winner to conduct experiments, this work experience is more than gold-plated.
They are almost all made of 24k pure gold.
No one thought that researchers in a small research institute like them, with total assets of less than 20 million, would have such a super opportunity!
Working in a Nobel Prize winning research team is an exciting thing to think about.
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There was a revelry in the Sichuan-Hai Materials Research Institute, and the outside world was also cheering and shocked.
On October 4, when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in physics, it was the National Day Golden Week in China.
For most ordinary people, this is an extremely rare holiday.
People who have free time lie in bed and scroll through their mobile phones.
Suddenly, a piece of blockbuster news came directly to the top of the hot searches on major software platforms.
The news that Xu Chuan won the Nobel Prize in Physics still climbed to the top of the hot search lists on major platforms at an extremely fast speed.
At first, countless netizens thought it was some fake news, or someone was fooling them.
But as time went by, when some people climbed over the wall and took screenshots of the official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and when major media announced the good news one after another, the entire Internet was abuzz with this news.
"People's Daily": "For his huge contributions in the field of astrophysics, Chinese scholar Professor Xu Chuan won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics!"
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"New Youth Daily": "Professor Xu Chuan, a famous Chinese scholar, won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering and creating a method to accurately calculate parameter information of distant celestial bodies and observing and calculating detailed information of the Betelgeuse galaxy.
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"Xinhua Daily": "Congratulations to our country's Professor Xu Chuan for winning this year's Nobel Prize in Physics! Congratulations!"
"Global Times":"......."
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When major media outlets announced the news on their own accounts, the entire Internet exploded in an instant.
[Holy shit! Is this true? I thought it was an April Fool’s Day joke. 】
[Kawashen? Nobel Prize in Physics? Didn’t he study mathematics and do mathematical research? He has the same name and surname? Or did Nobel establish a mathematics prize? 】
[Hiss~, I thought it was a joke at first, but I didn’t expect it to be true. It’s a bunker!]
[If I remember correctly, this person just won the Fields Medal in August this year, right? Now he has won the Nobel Prize? 】
[Winning the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal at the same time, does this set a new historical record? It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the first person in history and the greatest scholar in the world today.]
[I remember he is only 21 years old this year, tsk tsk, a 21-year-old Nobel Prize winner, the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history.]
[You remember incorrectly upstairs. The youngest Nobel Prize winner is 17-year-old Malala Yousafzayin. In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17. 】
[Peace Prize? Hahahaha, just kidding, even the president of the United States can win it, not even a dog (squinting smile)]
[Peace Prize? I don’t even want to give it to me... I still want it, it’s several million -----]
[It’s so scary! Fortunately, he returned to China. If Sichuan God was still in the United States at this moment, he probably wouldn’t be able to come back. 】
[Definitely, he won the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal at the same time. How could the United States let such a person back? 】
[I’m even more curious, isn’t the Nobel Prize always targeting our country? Why did it fall apart this time (dog head)]
【The devil knows.】
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On the Internet, this is not the first time that Xu Chuan has been on the hot search list once again by many netizens and media.
Countless netizens are discussing it enthusiastically.
Compared with the Fields Medal in the field of mathematics, the Nobel Prize is undoubtedly more famous. In China, it is not even a household name but everyone knows it, but it is almost there.
In the scientific world, whether you admit it or not, the Nobel Prize, especially the Natural Science Prize, can be said to be the highest honor a scientific researcher or scholar can receive.
Although this is not the first time that China has received such a medal, it has a completely different meaning.
What's more, the winner also has another identity, a Fields Medal winner, who is only 21 years old.
Whether it is for scholars or scientific researchers, the age of 21 is just the beginning.
It is conceivable that with the blessing of such an honor, he will be the most important voice in the scientific community in China and even the world in the next few decades. The future will also be controlled by him.
For academia, especially for astrophysics or astronomy, the expanded application of Xu-Weyl-Berry's theorem will be fully integrated into university, master's and doctoral study courses.
Although many universities have done this before, those are only some universities.
After today, it can be said that most institutions with astronomy schools or astrophysics departments will take the initiative to offer this course.
Although it is only just beginning to make a name for itself in academia.
But a new beginning also means new opportunities. If this course can be made world-class, it will be a great achievement for the school.
In addition, it is also a carnival for the mathematical community.
This is the scenario that the International Mathematical Union is most happy to see.
Mathematics has once again expanded its influence and is perfectly integrated with other subjects, helping and improving each other.
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If we say that when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Nobel Prize in Physics on October 4, it was already dark in the country, so it was not widely spread and not everyone knew about it.
So on October 5th, when the national propaganda robot was launched for this purpose, the familiar name Xu Chuan once again entered the eyes of the general public.
Although this is not the first time the state propaganda machine has promoted this name.
The previous Crafford Prize, Fields Medal, and the Hodge conjecture among the seven millennium puzzles were all publicized when they were solved.
But when this name was associated with the Nobel Prize, he completely entered the minds of the people.
The Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, the seven millennium problems, the Crafford Prize, the expanded application of the xu-weyl-berry theorem, double gold medals from imo and ipho, the top scorer in the college entrance examination...
One glory and achievement after another was revealed by netizens again, causing countless people to lament why they don’t have such a brain, and countless parents to lament why they don’t have such a child.
At the same time, Nanda, Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School, and even Xu Chuan’s former junior high school and elementary school were all uncovered.
It is conceivable that these schools, both teachers and the entire college, will benefit from this.
Even Xuchuan's hometown, the quiet mountain village, will become a new tourist attraction.
That original old house might be used by tourists from afar to offer incense and make wishes.