Chapter 441: Troubles of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

If the problem of controllable nuclear fusion can really be solved, a research institute is really nothing, and even more exaggerated treatment can be considered.
After all, China is a flexible country, and the introduction of cutting-edge international talents is always one of the focus of talent work.
Regardless of the reaction of the domestic academic community.
As the distance from October gets closer, it is not only the physics community that is suffering because of the name Luzhou. The Nobel Prize Committee for Chemistry, which is far away in Stockholm, is also suffering from the name.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is located in a quiet corner of the Institute building.
Olof Ramstrom, who has just concluded an internal meeting of the Nobel Committee on Chemistry, is sitting at his desk and looking at the paper in his hand.
"Physics? You are really involved in a wide range." Professor Peter Brzezinski, who also looked at the paper in the hands of his colleagues, also attended the meeting, raised his eyebrows and was very interested.
"I'm not studying physics, but this paper seems to have caused a lot of sensation in the physics community recently. I heard several professors discussing it, so I asked an acquaintance I knew to help get a copy.
For the mathematical formulas listed in the thesis, Olof must not understand, after all, the majors are not the right ones.
But this does not prevent him from combining the "Physics Review Letters" at hand and referring to the comments of professionals to understand what is outstanding about this paper, or what problem has been troubling the physics community for many years.
Peter stared at the dissertation for a moment, and asked in an uncertain voice, "Lu Zhou?"
"That's right, this guy with a headache," Olof continued in a joke tone, "maybe we can still see him on the Nobel Prize in Physics nomination next year."
Olof Ramstrom is a professor of mechanical chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the 18th Nobel Chemistry Prize jury.
Peter Brzezinski, who stands next to him, is a big ox in the field of biochemistry from Stockholm University. He is also a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and a member of the jury of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
During the month, the name Lu Zhou contracted over half of the Nobel Committee's controversy, so much that they held several meetings without reaching a consensus on the topic of the name.
What is more interesting is that the focus of those debates is not on the results of the selection itself. After all, whether it is the "shuttle effect" of lithium-sulfur batteries or the problem of lithium negative electrode dendrites, they are quite level of research results.
And it's not just applications.
Just last year, the "theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure" he established caused a lot of sensation in the field of computational chemistry, surface chemistry and even condensed matter physics, and won the honor of the Huffman Medal.
However, after all, the Nobel Prize is not a general honour, and it is not only a matter of a certain aspect or area that needs to be considered.
It is true that he has made excellent results, but there are also a few outstanding results that are still outstanding.
Many people haven't even been selected for decades, and some people have even been ranked from their prime to the soil and have just been judged ...
The opinions of the Nobel Prize committee for chemistry are very different. Some people think that he and his research results are too young, but some people think that young people cannot be a reason to ignore the importance of the results.
For example, Professor Olof is one of the proponents of the latter opinion.
In his view, the modified PDMS material and HCS-1 may have to be considered. After all, although these two achievements have broad prospects for industrialization, they have not reached a significant level in terms of their contributions in the chemical field. However, in his opinion, the theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure has undoubtedly reached a prominent level.
In the past year, many scholars have made quite valuable achievements around the theoretical model he has established.
It is no exaggeration to say that the theoretical model he has established has redefined the discipline of surface chemistry and opened up new research ideas for computational chemistry.
"The chemistry award in 2017 has been awarded to cryo-electron microscopy, and the 15-year award-winning research on DNA repair mechanisms is even something that Karolinska Medical School should consider. Seriously, if we don't consider chemistry in the true sense anymore As a result, our Nobel Chemical Prize jury can be renamed as the Biological Prize Jury. "
Hearing this sentence, Professor Peter, who is engaged in the research of biochemistry, gave a slightly awkward cough.
"Don't do this to my friend. Biochemistry is also part of chemistry ... and cryo-electron microscopy is not exactly a result of biology, but it can also be considered a methodological study in analytical chemistry, right?"
Olof shook his head. "This word game doesn't make any sense. We all know whether it changed biology or chemistry."
Someone has done an interesting statistic. Among the five secondary disciplines of chemistry, the most awarded by Nobel Prizes are polymer and biochemistry, accounting for even one-third, of which biochemistry has taken 26 chemistry Awards, 6 times for structural biology.
In contrast, in the true sense awarded to chemists, organic synthesis methodology has only won 12 awards, as for inorganic chemistry is even worse ...
If DNA is regarded as a large molecule, then the choice of the Nobel Judging Committee is indeed flawless and logically justified.
However, everyone knows that this is unfair to chemists.
After all, in addition to the chemistry prize, the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine is the place that biologists should go.
Even cryo-electron microscopy has now won awards. If chemists have no opinion at all, it is impossible.
Glancing at his old friend, Peter sighed softly.
"I can understand your mood. His work in the field of surface chemistry is indeed outstanding enough ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Although I have not seen the lecture in Berlin, I have communicated with many professors of the Max Planck afterwards , And their views are very high without exception ... but I must say that this result is too young. "
Olof asked, "What does this matter? When we give awards for the design and synthesis of molecular machines, is it a different consideration that this technology may make in the future?"
"So the awards were indeed controversial and surprised many people. But what we are saying is not really the point. The key is that he is too young," Professor Peter shook his head. "A 24-year-old nominee ... if he is awarded the Nobel Prize, he will no doubt be the youngest winner. "
Prior to that, the youngest Nobel laureate was 25-year-old Lawrence Prague.
Although Nobel's will does not stipulate how many years old the winner must be, not everyone is willing to break the rules and set a record in history.
Unless, he is really good.
However, this subjective problem is quite difficult to judge, unless the scholar who happens to be in the direction of surface chemistry in the Nobel Prize Committee can better describe his work from an objective perspective ...
But unfortunately, among these members, there are no scholars studying the direction of surface chemistry.
In fact, Olof himself was very hesitant about what he insisted on.
But he just felt that this year's Nobel Prize should consider work in the purely chemical field.
Or in other words, they should award a theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure.
After all, in the 21st century, it is too difficult to make such an important achievement in the field of theoretical chemistry ...
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