Into Unscientific

".The overseas students you worked so hard to bring back all returned home successfully the day before yesterday."

Hearing what Li Jue said.

Xu Yun was stunned subconsciously at first, and then his eyes widened:

"Director, what did you say? Those international students have returned to China?"

be honest.

If it weren't for the paralysis of his lower limbs that prevented him from moving, Xu Yun would have stood up in excitement at this time.

Well, stand upright.

Then he took a deep breath, put his hands on the table, and asked Li Jue impatiently:

"Director, how many international students are there in total returning to China this time? Where are they now? How will the organization plan to arrange them?"

Looking at Xu Yun who was pouring beans like a machine gun, Li Jue looked at Qian Bingqiong who didn't say much and made a gesture to him:

"Comrade Bingqiong, please introduce this information."

Qian Bingqiong nodded to him politely.

Although Li Jue is nominally the dean of the Ninth Academy, his main focus is currently on the daily management of Base 221.

Especially after the establishment of the [Sanqing] project, almost all the remaining staff of the Ninth Academy in the capital moved to the base. Li Jue's work focus has shifted a lot further than before.

Therefore, Qian Bingqiong is basically responsible for personnel matters outside the base.

For example, Lao Guo back then.

The reason why Lao Guo was able to become the person in charge of the fluid mechanics project was that he was recommended by Master Qian and approved by Qian Bingqiong.

There are also former international students returning to China.

The direct cause of the upsurge of international students returning to China was the "An Open Letter to Students Studying in the United States" published by 51 international students including Zhu Guangya, Hua Luogeng, and Ge Tingsui. The reason why they made this move was because Qian Bingqiong had given Ge Tingsui wrote another letter.

In the letter, Qian Bingqiong, in his capacity as the director of the Institute of Atomic Sciences of the Yenching Academy, called on all overseas travelers to say, "National construction will begin immediately, and all interested people are invited to join in this great work."

And with the authorization from the organization, some project commitments were made to the international students across the sea, and the assignments were indeed made in accordance with the commitments.

Therefore, on this kind of foreign-related project, Qian Bingqiong has much more detailed experience and knowledge than Li Jue.

Then Qian Bingqiong flipped through the small pocket in front of his heart a few times, took out a piece of paper, and unfolded it to reveal a list.

Xu Yun noticed that the text on the list was not printed, but handwritten Chinese characters, and there were signs of alteration in some places.

Xu Yun has seen this situation many times in the base, and it usually represents one situation:

The content on the paper was not sent and transcribed by telegraph, but was transmitted directly via an internal telephone line.

Therefore, there will be more deletions during recording.

For example, if someone's name is Zhang San, the person on the other end of the phone might subconsciously write Zhang San. When they find the mistake during verification, they will correct it directly on the paper.

This approach is cumbersome in process and time-consuming, but as long as the content transcribed in this way is core secret.

no way.

These days, telegrams and faxes all have the risk of leaking secrets. Although the same goes for telephones, the voice can be encrypted through dialects.

For example, the base and the capital have used Leizhou dialect for encryption before. It is said that Wenzhou dialect was also highly used during a certain period of time.

In fact, this is not the most outrageous thing. The most outrageous thing is that the rabbits had thought of this a long time ago, so they arranged for some comrades from Wenzhou to mix in during the logistics evacuation.

After arriving on the other side, several comrades joined the intelligence department on the other side because they were proficient in Wenzhou dialect, and intercepted a lot of precious information for the rabbits.

Of course, although this thing sounds very happy, for those comrades, it is actually licking blood on the tip of a knife.

At the same time, due to the difficulty in cross-strait exchanges, they were unable to see their parents and relatives for a long time, and some even died on the other side.

His eyes returned to reality.

Then Qian Bingqiong shook out the list in his hand and said to Xu Yun:

"Xiao Xu, the number of scientists studying in the United States who returned to China this time is not very large, only 109."

"And if nothing else happens, apart from these 109 people, there will be no other batches of scientists returning to China."

"They just arrived in the Magic City two days ago. They should be on the waterway to Jinmen now. The specific arrangements for the capital are still under discussion."

Xu Yun nodded slightly.

109 people.

This number was actually much higher than he expected.

In the fall of 1988.

Wang Delu and Du Kaixi of the Chinese Academy of Sciences started a research project on "Scientists who returned to the United States in the 1950s". They interviewed 44 scientists.

The 105 tapes formed by these interviews were kept in dust for a long time due to various reasons. It was not until 2013 that the "Interviews with Scientists Returning to the United States in the 1950s", which included the oral accounts of 31 scientists, was officially published.

This book also played a key reference role when Xu Yun was writing novels. Many people's memories are related to the atomic bomb project.

Data Display.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were more than 5,000 scholars and overseas students across the sea. In the 1950s, 1,200 people returned to China, and about 60% of them studied natural science and engineering technology.

The first batch of scientists returned to China on August 31, 1950, when 128 international students including Fu Ying, Jin Yinchang, Lu Guangda, Ye Duzheng, Bao Wenkui, Zhuang Fenggan, and Yu Guocong returned to China on the Wilson.

In the next year, about 1,000 scientists returned to China. At that time, they mainly came back on the "Cleveland", "Gordon" and "Wilson".

On the way back, many stories happened on each ship.

These two groups of overseas students who returned to China from across the sea were the main force returning from China in the early days.

Some of the remaining scientists on the other side of the sea do not dare to return to the country because they are involved with the other side, and some are currently studying (such as sophomores and juniors) and do not yet have the ability to serve the country.

Some are hesitant and undecided, while others have no idea of ​​returning home at all.

all in all.

No matter what their thoughts were, they did stay across the sea in the original history.

but

Now, thanks to Xu Yun's efforts, the third batch of international students returning to China has appeared.

"Of course, Xiao Xu."

Seeing that Xu Yun was silent, Qian Bingqiong continued to introduce the situation on the list:

"Although the number of this batch of international students is not very large, the quality is much higher than any previous batch, and all of them are elites."

"Among these 109 people, only 35 are freshly graduated college students or general scientific researchers, and the remaining 74 have professional titles of associate professor or researcher or above."

This time.

Xu Yun finally showed obvious surprise in his eyes.

I go

So many associate professors and scholars?

What's going on?

As everyone knows.

Different from Huaxia’s professional title system, the teaching and research field across the sea is mainly divided into two systems.

One is a lifelong system, called tenure-track positions in English.

One is a non-tenure system, that is, non-tenure-track positions.

Among them, faculty members belong to the tenure system, and their titles are American-style political system, that is, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor.

Researcher is a non-tenure system. Simply put, you have to sign a contract every few years. If you feel that you are not strong enough, then you will not sign.

Specifically, they are divided into associate researchers, also called assistant researchers, researchers and senior researchers.

In other words.

Professor in China = full researcher = full senior, associate professor = associate researcher = deputy senior.

Across the sea, professor = senior researcher, associate professor = researcher.

Therefore, the associate professor and researcher in Qian Bingqiong's words belong to the same professional title. It can be understood that 74 of these people who returned to China are deputy senior or above.

To know.

It is actually very difficult to rank professors across the sea. There are many associate professors on-site and senior researchers off-site—because researchers are non-tenure-track.

Not to mention that Chinese people are inherently viewed with colored glasses across the sea. Many Chinese people who can become associate professors are actually no less capable than white professors.

These 74 associate professors, not to mention Huaxia, are talents that are difficult to let go of even across the sea.

But what makes Xu Yun a little confused is...

Why are so many top talents returning to China this time?

Although that paper was extremely influential, Xu Yun originally thought that it would be rare to be able to bring back fifty or sixty people, 30% of whom were associate professors.

Nowadays, there are more than 400 associate professors in Huaxia, and the ratio of one in 20 returning may be a bit high - because basically all the scholars who are willing to come back returned to China in the first two batches.

Xu Yun's targets this time are mainly those compatriots who missed the first two batches of opportunities, that is, those compatriots who were studying in college or graduate school when they returned to China. It would be great for these people to be working as teaching assistants now.

And just when Xu Yun looked surprised.

Qian Bingqiong continued to introduce the situation:

"Xiao Xu, many of these 74 scholars at associate professor level and above have received world-class scientific research honors."

"For example, Mr. Chen Shengshen, the most famous differential geometry mathematician in the world, and Professor Li Yaozi, who has always been very close to us."

"By the way, Lao Qian, your cousin Qian Fanglin and her husband are also on the list of returning to China."

Hearing Qian Fanglin's name, Qian Wushi, who had pointed out the calendar to Li Jue not long ago, was suddenly startled:

"Oh? Fang Lin is back too?"

He has been leading a research project in the past period, so he really didn’t care about this news:

"It's strange, why did she agree to return to China?"

Speaking of Qian Wushi's cousins, many people will probably think of Qian Xueju - because Qian Xueju gave birth to a son named Qian Yongjian.

But few people know.

Qian Wushi also has a cousin named Qian Fanglin.

Qian Fanglin is also an international student across the sea, but she did not pursue aerodynamics like Qian Wushi and Qian Xueju, but studied medical care.

More importantly.

Qian Fanglin now holds a very special position in the entire Qian family.

Mentioned earlier.

Qian Wushi is a member of the Qian family in Hangcheng and a branch of the Qian family in Wuyue.

The Qian family of Wuyue has a long history. Mencius once said that the glory of a gentleman can only be destroyed in five generations, but the Qian family of Wuyue has been passed down for more than a thousand years.

From the great talent Qian Yi in the Northern Song Dynasty to the painter Qian Xuan in the late Song and early Yuan Dynasty, to the scholar Qian Dehong and the painter Qian Gu in the Ming Dynasty, to the scholars Qian Wenxuan and Qiantang in the Qing Dynasty.

More than 100 people from the Qian family in Wuyue were granted the title of marquis and worshiped as prime minister.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a descendant named Qian Qi ranked first in the county examination, government examination, college examination, township examination, joint examination, and palace examination, becoming the only person in the history of Chinese scientific examinations to win six yuan in a row. , known in history as the "Six Yuan Number One Scholar" - a man named Huang Guan also achieved this step in the Ming Dynasty, but his fame was later dismissed by Zhu Di.

And such a family that has lasted for thousands of years does not put everything in one basket in many things.

For example, after Qian Wushi returned to China, Qian Xueju's branch was left across the sea by his family.

This approach is somewhat similar to the Zhuge family during the Three Kingdoms period. Zhuge Liang followed Liu Daer, Zhuge Jin followed Sun Shiwan, and Zhuge Dan followed the chosen civil servant Cao Rui.

Of course.

Although the Qian family of Wuyue liked to strike a balance, they still did not sit on the sidelines on national issues of great right and wrong such as the anti-Japanese war.

After Qian Wushi returned to China that year.

Qian Xueju became an important figure in the education field where the family stayed across the sea. Qian Fanglin's status was actually not that high at the beginning.

But two years ago.

After Jack Kilby developed the world's first integrated circuit, Qian Fanglin's value instantly increased a lot - because her husband Demingson was also an expert in electronic engineering and had attainments in related fields. Very high.

It can be said like this.

Currently, there are only about 500 or 600 scientists in the world who are researching integrated circuits - those who are qualified to lead independent projects. Demingson can be ranked among the top 30.

What's more subtle is.

Dai Mingsheng and Qian Fanglin were lovers in college. When Dai Mingsheng didn't have enough tuition to study in China, he married into the Qian family as a son-in-law and received financial support from the Qian family.

In other words, Qian Fanglin is currently the talkative person in the family.

It goes without saying that the Qian family can survive for thousands of years because of its vision and judgment.

Therefore, Qian Fanglin's status in the Qian family is very high now, and it can be said that she is on the same level as Qian Xueju.

The result was unexpected.

This time Qian Xueju stayed across the sea, but Qian Fanglin returned to her motherland?

Qian Xueju's choice of Qian Wushi is actually understandable. Although Chen Shengshen and Xiao Yang said that Qian Xueju was "under consideration" when they talked before, Qian Wushi still knew his cousin's situation relatively well.

Qian Xueju did have the idea of ​​serving the country, but he had been a colonel on the other side of the Taiwan Strait and had always been worried about his identity.

At the same time, he became a citizen across the sea in 1949, and with the push behind the Qian family, it was completely normal for him not to return to China.

But the problem is

Qian Fanglin also has no reason to return to China.

And opposite Qian Wushi.

Xu Yun also showed some thoughts on his face.

It is a pity that Qian Xueju failed to return to China, but many things are so realistic.

Since the other party's answer is "think about it", then in terms of probability, anything can happen.

But in this case, Qian Yongjian probably has nothing to do with China.

But compared to feeling regretful, what really surprised Xu Yun was Qian Fanglin's return to China.

Nowadays, the Rabbits' computer plans are already in preparation. They have the support of leaders in terms of policy, and Wu Jikang and others are in charge of algorithms, but they only lack technology or application talents.

Or to put it more bluntly, a microprocessor expert.

Even Xu Yun himself had a headache about this matter. After all, his major and computers were vastly different. In the future, he would have to ask for help when looking at a graphics card.

Xu Yun's original idea was to leave this matter to time. China now has a lot of talents, and he should be able to find a way by himself.

Although this fumbling method may waste a lot of time, Xu Yun has given the rabbits a leading position in other aspects. If one negative and one positive are added up, at most everyone will be on the same starting line.

The result was unexpected.

Qian Fanglin actually returned to China at this time, and what Qian Bingqiong described was "Qian Fanglin and his wife".

In other words.

Demingsheng also returned to China with her.

Although Demingsheng did not win the Nobel Prize in the future, he was elected as an academician of Haitang University and the German Academy of Sciences, a professor and vice president of Cornell University, and was well-known in the history of integrated circuits.

Now such a big man returns to China.

Xu Yun's last piece of the puzzle on the computer and chip was put together without any warning.

Suddenly.

A quatrain appeared in Xu Yun's mind without any warning:

I visited Kongtong and reached Xianghu Lake, where I read thousands of poems and books and became confused. It takes no effort to get there even if you wear iron shoes.

But soon.

Xu Yun put this emotion behind him, looked at each other with Qian Wushi in a tacit understanding, and asked Qian Bingqiong in unison:

"Comrade Bingqiong (Old Qian), what happened across the sea this time?"

Whether it is the more than 70 associate professors or unplanned people like Qian Fanglin and his wife who have no reason to return to China, they have made one thing clear:

This third row of international students must have experienced some special changes on their way back to China. To be more precise, it should have been before they returned home.

It was this incident that affected many scholars who were not planning to return to China, and even changed their original attitude of not returning.

But what could this accident be?

The turret was hit by a plane?

Melody's head was exploded?

Li Mei BBQ has reopened?

From the fact that there were only over a hundred people returning home, it is easy to see that the scope of this change must not be large, and it is unlikely to be a policy issue targeting the Chinese people - otherwise the number of people returning home would have to be at least a hundred times greater.

But at the same time.

If so many scientists can return to China, the impact of this change must be considerable, and it has a high probability of happening in the physics world.

However, Xu Yun and Qian Wushi were puzzled and couldn't figure out anything that could fit this unexpected situation.

Looking at the two people with confused faces, Qian Bingqiong stretched out his palm and pressed it down, signaling them to calm down:

"Hey, don't worry, you have to give me a chance to speak, right? - I'm not like Xiao Xu who likes to break things up."

Xu Yun:

"????"

Then Qian Bingqiong paused and continued:

"Didn't I just say that among the scientists who returned to China, many have won world-wide honors."

"For example, the Bell Prize, the Kalinga Prize, etc., there are even two Nobel Prize winners, and..."

Xu Yun kept listening and nodding while Qian Bingqiong was talking, but soon he noticed something was wrong:

"Wait, Comrade Bingqiong!"

He interrupted Qian Bingqiong's introduction and stared closely at the big boss:

"What did you just say? Two Nobel Prize winners?"

Qian Wushi and Lu Guangda on the side also locked their sights on Qian Bingqiong. If Xu Yun hadn't spoken, they would have interrupted Qian Bingqiong's words.

Qian Bingqiong nodded calmly:

"That's right, you two."

Xu Yun's breath suddenly stopped.

In his future life.

A total of 11 people of Chinese descent have won the Nobel Prize, namely:

Li Zhengdao, Yang Zhenning, Ding Zhaozhong, Li Yuanzhe, Zhu Diwen, Cui Qi, Gao Xingjian, Qian Yongjian, Gao Kun, Mo Yan and Tu Luming.

There were also two Peace Prizes awarded to two sand dollars, which I won’t go into details here.

At the same time, Mr. Wu Liande became a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935, becoming the first Nobel Prize candidate in the Chinese world.

And at this time.

There are only two Chinese Nobel Prize winners.

One is Mr. Yang, whom Xu Yun is very familiar with. Now he should be called Xiao Yang or Mr. Yang. Xu Yun knew about his return to China in advance.

The other one was one Xu Yun had never considered

Think of this.

Xu Yun couldn't help but take a deep breath and said a name to Qian Bingqiong:

"Comrade Bingqiong, could it be that the other Nobel Prize winner who returned to China is Mr. Li Zhengdao?"

"."

Qian Bingqiong was silent for a moment and nodded slightly:

"That's right, it's Zhengdao."

After receiving Qian Bingqiong's reply, Xu Yun's eyes suddenly became a little dazed.

be honest.

In his previous expectations, he did consider the possibility of some future Nobel laureates returning to China.

For example, Ding Zhaozhong.

Although he was born across the sea, he returned to China with his mother two months after he was born, and he still attended elementary school in Sichuan Province.

Originally, Ting Zhaozhong was an obvious pro-China faction in history. When he won the Nobel Prize, he delivered his acceptance speech in Chinese. This was the first time in the entire history of the Nobel Prize and even physics.

The reason why Ting Zhaozhong stayed on the opposite side of the sea was not because of political issues, but after careful consideration, he believed that only by staying on the opposite side of the sea could he have the conditions to study high-energy physics.

In the end, time proved that his choice was correct, and he won the Nobel Prize for his "J" particle.

If Xu Yun's memory is correct.

At this time, Ding Zhaozhong should be studying for his final year of Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. He may or may not return to China - after all, his studies are not over yet.

Another example is Cui Qi.

In many love stories, we often see a plot:

A pair of lovers were interested in having a concubine, but due to reasons such as being separated from each other, they couldn't get together. When they finally met, they could only sigh.

Cui Qi's situation is somewhat similar to this situation.

Cui Qi was born in 1939. He went to study across the sea just four years ago, and he wanted to return home after completing his studies.

As a result, when he graduated from the undergraduate program, the XX missile crisis broke out, and international students were strictly prohibited from returning to China across the sea.

So Cui Qi thought about it and decided, let’s continue studying for graduate school.

But when he graduated with his master's degree, the rabbits' first atomic bomb exploded again, and it was naturally impossible for him to go back across the sea.

Cui Qi can only continue to study for a Ph.D.

This time he studied like crazy and studied hard. It took him more than two years to graduate with a doctorate. He thought he could always go back at this time, right?

The eagle shook his head when he heard this. He said, "The rabbits' hydrogen bomb has just exploded successfully."

Later, the rabbits entered certain special periods and completely blocked access to the outside world.

So under various pressures, Cui Qi had no choice but to apply for citizenship across the sea. Unfortunately, she was separated from her motherland.

Later, the Rabbits began to contact the world. Cui Qi immediately returned to China to give lectures and introduced the international cutting-edge research hotspots to the Rabbits.

At that time, he suggested that the rabbits should study in the direction of two-dimensional electronic system physics. Now, decades later, the study of quantum transport properties of two-dimensional electronic materials has become a very important direction in the field of condensed matter physics.

And in this timeline.

I don’t know if it’s fate.

After learning that Chen Shengshen and others were returning to China, he immediately expressed his willingness to return with them. For this reason, he even stopped studying as a graduate student at the University of Chicago.

In addition to the above two, Xu Yun also considered some other people.

For example, Steven Chu, a 13-year-old kid whose theoretical probability of returning to China was even less than one in 10,000, had made some assumptions, but he had never thought about Li Zhengdao.

after all

As the second youngest Nobel Prize winner after Prague, Lee Tsung-dao can now be said to be very proud.

According to the original historical trajectory.

Lee Tsung-dao will become a Chinese-American naturalized overseas next year.

And it is different from Chen Shengshen, who was originally scheduled to be naturalized in December last year.

The main reason for Chen Shengshen's naturalization was that he served as the director of the Institute of Mathematics of Academia Sinica in logistics and the first academician. If the rabbits' letters had not specifically mentioned him, Chen Shengshen would not have dared to come back anyway.

Li Zhengdao's naturalization was more of a matter of course. Although there were inconveniences in life, Li Zhengdao's own resistance was indeed not obvious.

Of course.

This does not mean that Li Zhengdao is a sincere supporter of the party. His feelings for China must be very complicated, otherwise he would not have been naturalized across the sea for more than ten years.

Actually.

The real reason that made Xu Yun ignore him was that

The conflict between him and Mr. Yang.

The two had a huge quarrel over the signature issue of the paper, and they even stopped talking to each other until they died. Even if the big names in the scientific community from China and across the sea tried to make peace, they still failed to succeed.

To know.

In 2023, for the two rogues, the rabbit and the eagle, there are really not many things that can make both sides of the scientific community fail at the same time.

Now that Mr. Yang is one of the leaders of the third batch of returning overseas students, you ask Li Zhengdao to echo Mr. Yang’s call?

This is obviously unrealistic.

But who would have thought that Li Zhengdao would actually return to China?

Looking at Xu Yun, Qian Wushi and others who looked shocked, Qian Bingqiong also said with emotion:

"Although I don't know what Masado was thinking, after he learned about this incident, he did find Comrade Sheng Sheng to express his willingness to return to the country."

"It is precisely because of the appeal of the two Chinese Nobel Prize winners Zhengdao and Zhenning that so many top talents are willing to return to China with them."