Time passed by and soon entered April.

With the arrival of the spring break, the students who had been squeezed by the heavy school for one semester finally ushered in a brief liberation. In this less than two-week holiday, they can enjoy life without thinking about academic matters.

Even the busy Princeton campus has been dyed in many relaxed colors.

"I am going to Fort Lauderdale. If you have time, you can go with me." In the dining area on the first floor of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies, Mr. Luo, who was sitting together to eat, invited Lu Zhou.

The sea and the beach are usually the first choice for spring breaks. Compared to Hawaii, the price of Fort Lauderdale is relatively close to the people. Since 1934, it has become a holy place for American college spring breaks. At this time of the year, there is a lot of people there, so that it is not only American college students, but also overseas tourists who come here.

However, for Lu Zhou, this is a strange place name.

Lu Zhou hesitated for a moment and asked: "Where is Fort Lauderdale?"

"In Florida, Venice in North America... You don't even know where Fort Lauderdale is? How did you come over this year?" Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou incredulously.

Lu Zhou made a helpless expression.

"My PhD has been read only for a few months, and it has ended without letting go of the spring break."

The atmosphere is a little subtle.

Luo Wenxuan coughed softly: "Can we not mention the doctor's degree?"

Lu Zhou: "... amount, sorry."

He almost forgot, when he was studying undergraduate, Luo brothers studied for a doctoral degree at Edward Witten. Now that his doctoral degree has been obtained, Luo brother has not graduated successfully...

It’s really not good to mention such sad things on this happy day.

However, Luo’s mental capacity is still quite strong. After all, at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies, where the world’s most talented brain is gathered, it’s enough to be genius and not have a strong inner heart.

After all, there is a gap between genius and genius.

Soon after adjusting his mood, Luo brothers continued to return to the previous topic and continued to talk about the topic of spring break.

"Spring break is a good opportunity, or do you want to be single for a lifetime? If you don't know how to chase a beautiful girl, I can teach you how to talk, which is actually very easy."

Lu Zhou looked at him unexpectedly, but the focus was not on the skill of the conversation, but on...

"Are you going to change your girlfriend?"

"In fact, it has changed." Luo Wenxuan coughed softly, and his expression seemed to be somewhat uncomfortable to discuss this topic. "The reason for this is a bit complicated, so don't ask."

Lu Zhou: "..."

If he remembers correctly, probably in February, at the party celebrating the Adams Chemistry Prize, this guy still wandered in front of himself with his girlfriend.

It took less than two months to return to being single.

The speed of this change of girlfriend is almost faster than the speed of his paper.

“The rhythm of life here is like this, you have to learn to adapt,” he noticed Lu’s speechless expression. Luo Wenxuan explained, “If you often touch the circle of international students, you will find that this is actually a very common thing.”

"This is the problem," folded the sandwich's wrapper into a small stack and threw it on the plate. Lu Zhou sighed and said, "I often feel out of place because I am too fucked."

As soon as I heard this, Luo Wenxuan was not happy.

"What you said, it seems that I have no exercise."

Lu Zhou: "Is it not?"

Luo Wenxuan: "..."

......

In fact, Lu Zhou is still curious about what Mr. Luo said.

Is Fort Lauderdale in the spring break really like the ones in the movie, full of youthful atmosphere and pungent alcohol?

If there is nothing else, he does not mind going to marry Brother Luo.

However, the premise is that if you are not busy...

On the first Saturday of April, Lu Zhou gave his students a week of small vacations. After more than three months of intense study, they also need time to rest and adjust their status.

However, for Lu Zhou himself, there is no such leisure.

On the first day of the spring break, he took the plane and went to San Francisco on the west coast to attend the seminar on organic chemistry held by the American Chemical Society.

There, he will take away the glory that belongs to him, and leave a speech about 60 minutes or so.

Although the scale of this conference is not as large as the top conference of the material sciences, but its influence is not inferior, it is also one of the top conferences in the field of organic synthesis.

After all, the influence of the American Chemical Society is much greater than that of the Materials Society. The former is not only older than the latter for a century, but has an indispensable influence on industry and even politics.

After several hours of flight, the plane landed at the airport in San Francisco.

Picking up at the airport is Sarrot, the once-famous Cornell University professor, who now looks radiant.

An iron-clad suit, a vintage oil head, and a beard on the face were also cleaned a lot. I don’t know how much better than a few months ago.

It must be said that the thesis is the life of scholars.

The weight of a Science, although not enough to completely change the status quo, has somewhat restored his position at Cornell University.

If you say that when you first sold the research institute, there are still some flaws in his heart. I often ask myself "Is it really worth it?"

Now, he has no doubt at all how wise he is to make choices.

"Welcome, my dear friend, welcome to San Francisco!" The face greeted with a smile, and Sarrot extended his right hand from the distance. "Congratulations, Roger Adams Award, you are from Stockholm again." One step."

Shaking hands with Sarrot, Lu Zhou joked: "I have already gone to Stockholm once."

"Then go again, this time will be the hall of Nobel!" Sarrot said with a smile. "I heard the familiar professor talk about this, the award committee is discussing whether the modified pdms material should be given. Nomination."

Lu Zhou smiled and didn't speak.

Sarto's optimism is as unreliable as his scientific intuition, especially when he cites words that others have never said before, which makes it difficult to distinguish between true and false.

In addition, if the Nobel Prize is so good, it will not be regarded as the crown of the scientific community.

Do not say anything else, even the father of lithium-ion batteries, the legendary "good enough" Mr. (john·b·goodenough), have been ranked for more than 30 years, and have not yet reached. I want to rely on the technology of lithium anode material, and it is not difficult to take this crown.

However, Lu Zhou is not in a hurry.

He is still young and his research career is still very long.

Whether it is modified pdms material or hcs-1 material, or the Adams Chemistry Prize just in front of him, it is only a beginning for him...