Perhaps because of the age problem, Lu Zhou always felt that the distance between himself and the students was very small. In particular, Qin Yue and Hardy were one year older than him, and there was no gap in age.

It may be the same in the eyes of his students. He is also a "boss" who deserves respect but does not have much majesty.

In order to convince Lu Zhou, Hardy even came up with the absurd statement that "this is the tradition of Princeton." Lu Zhou lived here for so long, and it was the first time that I heard that Princeton had a prize to celebrate the tradition of party celebration.

Obviously, this is compiled by Hardy Hu.

However, in his enthusiasm, and other students are also very interested, Lu Zhou is also by him.

The location of the party is naturally in the boat house of Lu Zhou. As for the number of participants, there are tentatively six people.

However, in the end, the scale of this party was beyond the expectations of Lu Zhou.

Originally, he only intended to celebrate with his students. As a result, I did not know who passed the news of his award, and then there were more than one person to celebrate.

First of all, Luo brother and his current girlfriend expressed their return. Later, the teacher Tudor Edward Witten heard the news and followed.

Then there was Deligne, although the Belgian old man did not like to go to many places, but still came to the party with a bottle of whiskey.

Then there are friends who Lu Zhou met at the Ivy League Club, and professors and researchers who have good relations with him in the Pagoda...

Fortunately, Lu Zhou has prepared a lot of champagne and food in advance, otherwise it will not necessarily cope with it.

On the day of the party, the lawn in front of the cottage was filled with the fragrance of barbecue and beer.

Standing next to the long table, Lu Zhou and his former mentor were chatting on the issue of calculating materials.

Unlike Lu Zhou’s view, Deligne does not think this is a very meaningful job, thinking that he is wasting his time.

"...Mathematics is pure, it is more like an art than tools. What mathematicians should think about is how to build this building. As for how to apply it to other fields, it is a physicist or chemist. Things."

Taking a sip of whiskey, the bright-eyed old man, his eyes are as sharp as ever.

"My dear Professor Delini, I can't agree with you," Witten, a quarter of Witten, suddenly inserted the topic and plausibly said, "Mathematics is a great tool, but it is only a field of mathematics. The study cannot at all show its greatness, only when it is applied to more realistic areas, can it exert its greatest value...such as physics."

"I can't see that your m theory has even any practical significance," De Lini asked him to close his mouth, then looked at Lu Zhou, silent for a while, and raised his goblet.

"In any case, this is a glory that can match you, congratulations."

Lu Zhou and his own mentor touched and said with pleasure: "Thank you."

"And me, congratulations." Witten grinned and touched Lu Zhou, saying in a relaxed tone, "Maybe the Princeton Institute of Higher Education should open a calculation material."

De Ligne said with a slap in the face: "Impossible."

Witten shrugged: "Well, I just made a joke, when I didn't say it."

The original intention of the establishment of Pugao was to establish a Platonic Institute of pure theoretical research. In addition to a biophysical professor, the seven full-time researchers of the Natural Science Research Institute are studying theoretical physics and astrophysics.

As for the Institute of Mathematics, there are many research directions, but all are pure mathematics.

After all, there are enough people studying applied science, and there must be a group of noble people to continue to explore in the field of theory.

What is the use of this?

Before the birth of semiconductor technology, no one could understand the usefulness of relativity and quantum mechanics.

......

Everyone at the party was very happy to play, and Lu Zhou was quite happy.

For him, the Adams Chemistry Prize is undoubtedly an unexpected surprise.

He originally thought that his first cross-disciplinary medal would be born in the field of theoretical physics, but he did not expect to bring him this surprise.

The $10,000 prize is not expensive. In fact, almost all the winners are not interested in this meager bonus.

Scholars who study chemistry are more affluent than scholars who study mathematics and theoretical physics. As long as you pay a little attention to the issue of intellectual property, you can easily achieve financial freedom.

In accordance with established practice, in addition to receiving the award, Lu Zhou will also give a speech at the Organic Chemistry Symposium held in San Francisco in April this year.

This speech can be academic or non-academic, depending on personal choice.

However, although there is no need to submit a draft in advance, Lu Zhou is still planning to prepare carefully.

Coincidentally, on the third day of his return to Princeton, Professor Sarrot made a video call with him and reported on the progress of the research during this time.

"... According to your request, we have done 200 sets of experiments, the relevant experimental data has been sent to your mailbox. But I must tell you an unfortunate news, we were not observed in the reaction room that you predicted Cage-like molecular molecules. In my opinion, the use of carbon nanotubes to modify fullerene materials, which sounds interesting, is not a good research idea."

When he said this, Sarrot looked tired.

He has been busy with this for a month, controlling reaction temperature and reaction time, and doing a lot of experiments. Regrettably, however, there was no surprise at all except for the pile of complex and useless carbon ash.

Sitting on the office chair and turning the ball-point pen on the boat, the face appeared thoughtfully.

“Is nothing?”

"That's not the case," Sarrot shrugged. "Although I didn't get what you wanted, according to the experiment you designed, we still found a lot of samples that we have never seen before in the by-products of the experiment... ...although I am not going to determine what is useful."

Lu Zhou’s heart moved slightly and said: “You will send some of those by-products.”

Sarrot: "Okay, send it directly to your office at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies?"

Lu Zhou thought for a moment and said, "Send it to the Frick Chemical Laboratory. The name is written by me. I am not sure that the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies' reception desk will not receive the package containing the chemical information."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Zhou opened the computer and pulled out the email that Sarrot sent to himself.

The product information, quality analysis test results and other data are listed in the mail.

The experimental report was carefully seen. Finally, Lu Zhou took a sigh of relief and leaned back on the office chair, and fell into thinking.

From the macroscopic data, the π-bonded carbon nanotubes and fullerene materials did not recombine under the thermal reaction conditions as he expected.

Although this is theoretically feasible, from a practical perspective, countless side reactions make this operation difficult to achieve.

It’s just that he still didn’t expect it, even even a microgram of samples were not collected.

“It seems to have to redesign the experiment!”

The ballpoint pen was lightly lit on the desk, and Lu Zhou thought in his heart.