Chapter 358: Nobel recommendation

When a theory has been articulated sufficiently clearly, when a report has won such a large applause in the speech session, the questioning session seems a bit redundant.
Of course, there are still many people standing up to ask questions during the questioning session.
For these questions, Lu Zhou also answered each one in detail.
This is undoubtedly an inspiring improvement compared to an M conference without hands.
This at least shows that the audience was real, and he listened to his theory, not just to cover his ignorance with applause.
After the report came to an end, several doctors from Humboldt University ran to the podium and excitedly asked Lu Zhou for his signature, saying that it was to commemorate this moment that might be loaded into the history of chemistry.
Although it is not believed that history would record such trivial matters, Lu Zhou still fulfilled their request and scribbled their own names in their textbooks.
From the front desk to the background, Professor Eitel came to Lu Zhou and said in a serious voice.
"Whether or not the Nobel committee agrees with the value of your theory, I will recommend your name to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences."
Lu Zhou froze slightly, then laughed.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome," Professor Eite also smiled comfortably as he looked at Lu Zhou. "Thank you, thank you, and thank you for bringing this report to Berlin. I haven't heard such an excellent report for a long time. .Although I can't guarantee that you will win the Nobel Prize, I think that at least the honor of being nominated by the Nobel Prize belongs to you. "
According to the Nobel Prize selection rules, former Nobel Prize winners are eligible to recommend candidates.
However, there is nothing to be excited about. After all, there are usually 1,000 to 2,000 candidates selected each year. After two rounds of screening, only one can win the Nobel Prize.
In principle, the recommender cannot be disclosed, and the nomination information is strictly confidential for 50 years.
However, in the initial recommendation, this requirement was not strictly adhered to.
According to a Nobel Laureate's testimonial, at least in the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine there is a joke like "Hey, I have recommended you to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences", and the ridicule usually reads in restlessness The longest year of my life, until the final result of October was revealed.
Of course, the Peace Award and Literature Award need not be mentioned.
Even bookmakers can "guess" the nominee's list in advance, and open before the list is announced, these two awards have long been ruined.
Lu Zhou joked: "You shouldn't tell me, so there will be no surprises for me."
Etterhaha smiled: "It's just a nomination, don't get too excited. It will be nice to be able to take home Nobel's medals when you reach my age."
Lu Zhou made a helpless expression.
"It's ... too terrifying."
Winning the Nobel Prize with a novel theory is indeed unrealistic, and many things take time to test.
But he felt that, even so, he probably didn't have to wait that long ...
...
For the Nobel Prize, Lu Zhou was not in a hurry, and did not have any anxiety due to Professor Eitel's recommendation.
He felt that for himself, the medal was a recognition of his research results, but it was not the motivation that prompted him to engage in a certain research.
He is still young and has a long way to go.
Do your own research with peace of mind. When the fate is reached, it should be his thing, sooner or later.
Regardless of how Lu Zhou viewed his theory and the medal over his head, almost the entire theoretical chemistry community became a sensation almost after the end of the report.
This sensation was far stronger than when Lu Zhou's paper was first published in JACS.
Like the millennial problem in mathematics, there are also urgent problems in the chemical community.
It is just that these problems can not be summarized in simple language like mathematical conjectures, and even the question of "who is more important" is controversial among various college schools.
However, even if controversy exists, the international theoretical chemistry community has reached consensus in some places.
For example, as one of the four major problems of chemistry in the 21st century, how to establish accurate, effective and universally applicable time-dependent multibody quantum theory and statistical theory is one of them.
This seems to be a bit of a mouthful. It is described in popular language, how to accurately calculate the rate of chemical reactions? How to determine the path of a chemical reaction? How do I determine which catalyst to use?
And how to stand on the theoretical level and answer all these questions.
The theoretical model of the electrochemical structure interface corresponds to a certain type of problem in this proposition.
An inappropriate but very vivid metaphor. The establishment of this theoretical model for the "four centuries-old problems in the chemical industry" is probably equivalent to Hardy-Littelwood theorem in the Riemann conjecture.
"Hardy-Letterwood Theorem" determines "the number of non-trivial zeros of the Riemann function in a certain interval is not less than KT", and "theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure" determines "microchemistry of a certain type of chemical reaction Reaction theory. "
Immediately after Lu Zhou ’s report, the German Max Planck Institute for the Promotion of Science established an interdisciplinary research group on
theoretical models of electrochemical structural interfaces
and announced its support for the theory.
What's more interesting is that just after Max's stated position, Professor Martin Caprath, who had previously published a scientific review in Nature and was optimistic about the theory, was almost immediately following in the chemical world. A paper was published in the top issue "JACS".
In the thesis, Professor Caplas quoted Lu Zhou's previously published paper in "JACS" and gave a clear explanation of the zero charge potential of polycrystalline metal electrodes from a theoretical perspective.
Before this, this was regarded as a classic problem in the fields of electrochemistry and theoretical chemistry.
Although the existence of "zero-charge potential of polycrystalline metal electrodes" is unquestionable, there has been no conclusive conclusion as to its formation mechanism and chemical substance under microscopic conditions.
However, in the framework of "theoretical model of electrochemical interface structure", it seems not to be difficult to solve this problem. At least, it is much easier to study this issue than from the perspective of "first-principles calculations".
Obviously, the Nobel Prize-winner had already pinpointed that this theory could eventually succeed two months ago, so he "bet" it early. Therefore, this paper can be issued in such a timely manner.
It now appears that he was obviously right.
Www.EbookFREE.me, which is interested in this new theory, is not just Martin Caplas.
With the end of the report, more and more colleagues in the theoretical chemistry community, and even researchers in the field of application, have shown great interest in this theory.
Compared to the "Kohn-Sham method" and "density functional theory" where the calculated results differ greatly from reality, this theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure is simply tailored to study the electrochemical quality of the material surface It has a strong guidance for the research of polymer field.
Especially for PhDs in computational chemistry and computational materials science, the emergence of this new theory is undoubtedly a gospel for them.
At least, their boss now has another reason to keep them in the research team.
Just when outsiders speculated whether the landing boat would become the youngest Nobel laureate because of this theory, the German Chemical Society had made a silent decision.
In recognition of the outstanding contribution of this theoretical model to chemistry, the German Chemical Society, after discussion, decided to award the founder of this theory a remarkable medal ...