Chapter 209: Arrive in California

On December 11, a major event happened in the academic circle.
But it's not happening on the math side, it's the medical world.
Just three days ago in the afternoon, Professor Tu Yi delivered a Chinese speech on the theme of
The Discovery of Artemisinin: A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World
at Karolinska Medical College in Sweden. At the award ceremony, received the "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine" medal!
Also winning are William Campbell and Omura Omura, who will share a prize of SEK 8 million (approximately US $ 920,000).
As a result, the first Chinese Nobel Prize winner besides the Peace Prize was finally born!
In addition to being happy for the academic community of China, Lu Zhou was also impressed.
The first Chinese Nobel Prize has been born, and it is time to work harder on the Fields Prize.
However, it is interesting that just a few days after the Nobel Prize was awarded, an article entitled "Apocalyptic Patent Apocalypse Revelation" was published on the official website of the State Intellectual Property Office, telling the story behind this Nobel Prize .
Although due to the reasons of the times, at that time, there was no intellectual property system in China, and the public publication of research results in international journals was the only option, but later, the compound
Artemisinin
developed by Hua Guo Military Medical Academy based on artemisinin The patent right is also not in the hands of China, but is used by Novartis in Switzerland to establish patent barriers.
There are many reasons for this, but in the final analysis, the neglect of patent issues.
It is obviously something invented by himself, but in the end it is subject to restraint, which makes people regret.
What is even more embarrassing is that although the Nobel Prize winner was Tu Xuan, the research results have nothing to do with the elderly. There are many related technical materials in many departments. Everyone is rushing to cooperate with foreign investors, but she does not have her. thing.
The highest reward for this hero is only a second prize in the National Invention Award in 1979, with a prize of 5,000 yuan, which is only 200 yuan divided into her hands.
In contrast, Omura, who won the same year, has accumulated nearly 30 billion yen in personal wealth through various patent fees in the field of microbiology. At the age of 80, he now has both fame and fortune, and even no longer engages in scientific research, but fiddles with his collected art and spends his old age.
Obviously, the importance of intellectual property protection.
Because of his recent concerns about patents, Lu Zhou happened to see this article on the official website of the State Intellectual Property Office.
For him, it was a wake-up call.
...
The academic conference at the end of the year was finally set a week before Christmas.
In the early morning of the 18th, a flight landed at a California airport.
Leaving the airport with a suitcase, Land Cruise took a taxi to the University of California, Berkeley.
The annual end-of-year academic exchange conference hosted by the Federal Mathematical Society will be held at Berkeley.
At that time, the Cole Prize will be announced at the opening ceremony.
Although his winner was spoilt by two months in advance, he didn't even know that he had won the prize before the official written documents were found, but the excitement of advances is certainly not as good as holding medals and checks. It was intense for a moment.
Disembarking at the entrance of Belik campus, Lu Zhou met Brother Luo who was waiting for him.
When he met, he gave him a warm hug. Brother Luo smiled and said, "Why don't you call me in advance? I'll pick you up directly at the airport."
Lu Zhou said with a smile: "Your car is on the East Coast. It's better to take a taxi with me than to come with me."
Before coming to the United States, he did not notify anyone in advance. He only called Brother Luo after getting off the plane.
As a member of the Federal Mathematical Society, Edward Witten will not miss such meetings. Luo Wenxuan was reading blogs under Witten, and it was reasonable to follow him. Lu Zhou guessed this without even asking.
Looking at his watch, it wasn't too early to see, Brother Luo said, "Let's go, I'll take you to where you live. This time the organizer prepared a five-star hotel for us ... Although it is called five-star Level, but I feel like it is about four stars. "
Lu Zhou: "Compared to the Princeton Hotel?"
Luo Wenxuan grinned: "The Princeton Hotel? You say the one opposite Palmer Square? The living conditions here are better than that, but the academic atmosphere is much less."
Berkeley is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, the second largest metropolitan area in California after the Greater Los Angeles area. Compared to Princeton in a quiet town, the atmosphere here is undoubtedly more impetuous.
Walking on the road, the two talked about what happened a while ago, and Brother Luo couldn't help feeling emotion for a while.
"Okay, Brother Lu, we haven't finished this year yet, so I made you a big force before the end of the year."
Lu Zhou coughed softly and said in a low-key, "What pretends not to pretend, can you call pretend to be academic?"
"Yes, your tone is becoming more and more old-fashioned," Brother Luo sighed, paused, and continued, "Well, as the winner of this year's Cole Number Theory Award, I would never ask Lu Mr. Zhou, how do you feel now? "
"No thoughts, the character hasn't been left alone."
Although the award will be presented in a few days, the email said that it should be kept secret. Lu Zhou felt that he still needed to do something.
However, Brother Luo saw it through at a glance, didn't believe his set at all, rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, okay ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Don't pretend, it's time to come down in written notice one month ago, you must have Got it."
Lu Zhou: "Well ... I did receive a written notice, but it was also stated in the email that it needs to be kept secret until the award is officially presented."
"OK, OK, I won't talk about it everywhere," Brother Luo patted Lu Zhao's shoulder and smiled. "When you get the bonus, remember to invite me to drink!"
Recalling the last unpleasant experience, Lu Zhou hurriedly said, "Drinking is fine, but this time we go to a normal bar."
Brother Luo waved his hand and said with a smile: "Rest assured, this is near the university, the bars around it are very regular, and many professors will come. By the way, did you fix that beauty last time? Can you still contact me now? "
Lu Zhou froze slightly, not understanding what he was saying: "... what a beauty?"
Brother Luo saw the response from Lu Zhou and hesitated: "Just at CERN ... No, it's less than half a year, you should forget others."
When thinking of that, Lu Zhou was speechless.
"You said that? I didn't do anything to her."
Brother Luo squeezed his eyebrows: "Wait, I don't quite understand what you mean ... you mean, you dragged her into the room, covered her with a quilt, and left without doing anything?"
Lu Zhou looked at him silently: "I didn't cover the quilt, I closed the curtains ... what else could you do? Wait for her to wake up?"
Staring at the landing boat for a while, Brother Luo was silent for a while, and suddenly sighed.
"Master ..."
Lu Zhou: "... What's wrong?"
Brother Luo sighed and continued: "My brother thought that there was nothing left to teach you. I didn't expect that there was nothing to teach you, but that you had to learn from scratch ..."
Lu Zhou: "...?"