Chapter 243 The Youngest and Oldest Nobel Prize Winners (Asking for Monthly Votes)
As Xu Chuan appeared, the cameras of the media and the eyes of the crowd moved quickly, locking onto the figure walking in front.
Accompanied by his parents and sister Xu Xiao, Xu Chuan walked out of the hotel along the red carpet prepared by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Countless flashes came towards him, dazzling in the dark night.
However, Xu Chuan was accustomed to this and walked forward with a smile.
He scanned the crowd on both sides of the passage and saw a familiar beautiful figure and a camera with a familiar logo.
After nodding to the other party with a smile, Xu Chuan continued to walk forward.
In the crowd, the CTV reporter and the media guy who looked at Xu Chuan showed excited expressions on their faces.
However, they did not forget their job. The cameraman carefully moved the camera to perfectly record Xu Chuan's handsome face in the live broadcast room.
The beautiful reporter holding the microphone introduced to the netizens in the live broadcast room with an excited and proud tone:
"The Nobel Prize award ceremony has begun. This year's Nobel Prize winners are preparing to leave from the Stockholm Grand Hotel, and the one walking in front of us is Professor Xu Chuan, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics."
"At the age of 21, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, breaking the previous historical record and becoming the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history."
"Not only that, Professor Xu Chuan also won the highest honor in mathematics in August this year, the 'Fields Medal', becoming the first scientist in history to win both the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal."
"Let's congratulate him with warm applause!"
Outside the temporary isolation line, the beautiful reporter of CTV introduced excitedly. At this exciting moment, many people were as excited as she was.
Whether it is for individuals, for the country, or even for other people in this country, it is a thing worth celebrating that compatriots have won the highest honor award on this planet.
For a country, a Nobel Prize in natural sciences means that a certain scientific or scientific research field of this country has entered the forefront of the world.
This is undoubtedly a great stimulus to the development of science.
For example, the physics award won by Xu Chuan means that the extended application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem will officially become a separate discipline.
Astronomical mathematics will become the learning goal of major universities, and the re-observation and calculation of celestial bodies such as stars, galaxies, and nebulae in the distant universe, as well as the search for planets suitable for human survival, will also become the goal of the astronomical and astrophysical communities.
As the creator of this method, Xu Chuan will also become a veritable ancestor, just like Newton pioneered calculus and Riemann pioneered algebraic geometry.
Along the passage, Xu Chuan took his family to board the special car waiting at the door of the hotel.
Perhaps it was because of his age, or because his achievements were too dazzling, in short, he was the first Nobel Prize winner to come out of the hotel.
When other Nobel Prize winners and their families boarded the special car, the huge convoy slowly moved forward and headed for the award ceremony venue.
As in previous years, at 4 o'clock on time, after all the personnel were in place, in the Stockholm Concert Hall, with the singing of the Swedish royal music "The King's Song", the 2018 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony officially kicked off.
The award ceremony was grand and simple, with men wearing tuxedos or national costumes and women wearing serious evening gowns.
Ten flower baskets were placed on the stage of the Stockholm Concert Hall. The flowers in the flower baskets were airlifted from San Remo, Italy.
Because Mr. Nobel spent a long time there in his later years and passed away there.
As the solemn music sounded, Xu Chuan walked onto the stage from behind the scenes under the leadership of the neatly dressed Swedish female college students. Sitting next to him was Professor Arthur Ashkin, another winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.
Among a group of elderly people with an average age of more than 65 years old, the 21-year-old Xu Chuan stood out from the crowd.
Especially compared with Professor Arthur Ashkin next to him, he didn't feel like a person from the same century.
This old man was born in 1922 and is 96 years old this year.
Fortunately, he looks healthy and can sit on the stage to complete the award ceremony (in fact, the old man did not attend the event for the 18th Nobel Prize due to health reasons, and his son accepted the award on his behalf. The article has been slightly modified.).
Yes, sitting on the stage.
Except for the winners who have to go to the center of the stage to receive the gold medal and certificate from the King of Sweden, the winners of the Nobel Prize ceremony are basically sitting throughout the whole process.
There is no way, you have to consider the age of the winners.
Among the group of winners with an average age of over 60, many winners are in their 70s, 80s or even 90s before they get the medal.
It is obviously unrealistic to ask them to stand for several hours to complete the award ceremony.
As for those who won the Nobel Prize in their twenties like Xu Chuan, looking back at the history of more than 100 years, you can count them on one hand.
After all the Nobel Prize winners took their seats, Carl-Henrik Helding, chairman of the Nobel Foundation, dressed in a tuxedo, calmly stood up from his seat and walked up to the podium.
In the exciting opening speech, President Carl expressed his welcome to the guests as usual, and said that science is the language of the times and can build bridges between countries and cultures.
The importance of research is not limited to the generation of new knowledge, but also can play a role in popularizing (science) and provide a common basis for interaction among all mankind.
At the same time, on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, he praised the winners as monuments of human mind, role models for the world, and authorities in their respective fields, calling on people to learn from them.
At the same time, he also hopes and wishes the winners to make greater scientific discoveries in their respective fields in the future, write better works, and contribute to world peace.
With the end of President Carl's opening speech, the most important part of the award ceremony also came.
According to convention, the first award is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine selected by the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute.
Thomas Perlman, Secretary General of the Nobel Prize Committee, took the stage to announce that for their contributions in the field of tumor immunity (PD-1 immunotherapy target);
American scientist Professor James Allison and Sakura scientist Professor Honjo Tasuku jointly won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The two scholars first proved that antibody blocking of T cell inhibitory molecules (called CTLA-4) can lead to enhanced anti-tumor immune responses and tumor rejection.
And this concept of blocking T cell inhibitory pathways as a way to release anti-tumor immune responses and bring clinical benefits has laid the foundation for the development of other drugs targeting T cell inhibitory pathways. These drugs have been labeled "immune checkpoint therapy".
To date, drugs made based on this method have saved countless patients, or extended their lives, not just cancer.
With the award of the Physiology or Medicine Prize, it is the turn of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
General Secretary Thomas Perlman stepped down, and Professor Anders Ilbak, the chairman of the Nobel Prize Selection Committee for Physics, took the stage.
"For this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences made a bold choice, which broke many historical records."
"For his great contributions in the field of astrophysics and the creation of a new method for accurate calculation of distant celestial bodies, Professor Xu Chuan from China, and Professor Arthur Ashkin from the United States, who made great contributions in the field of lasers and created optical tweezers and their applications in biological systems, jointly won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics."
"Let us congratulate the two great scholars with warm applause."
In fact, there was no need for Professor Anders Ilbak to remind that the quaint Stockholm Concert Hall was already filled with waves of applause.
Anders Ilbak, chairman of the selection committee, was right. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics broke many historical records.
Whether it was the record of the youngest winner broken by Xu Chuan, or the record of the oldest winner broken by Professor Arthur Ashkin, or even the distribution of the physics prize to two completely different fields; they were all unique in history, or unusual.
Especially the former, at the age of 21, directly pushed back Lawrence Bragg's record of 25 by four years.
This record is estimated to be difficult to break.
Of course, the latter won the Nobel Prize at the age of 96, which is probably also difficult to be broken.
Amid thunderous applause, Xu Chuan stood up and looked at the old man Professor Arthur Ashkin beside him. The two looked at each other, smiled, and walked towards the center of the stage at the same time.
The Nobel Prize, as the highest honor in the scientific community, is the greatest praise and encouragement for a scholar in the academic community and even the world.
At present, no award can compare with the Nobel Prize in terms of influence. In this regard, even the Fields Medal in mathematics is much inferior.
For a Nobel Prize winner, winning a medal brings far more than just the prize money and honor.
As Master Carl said, they are already the authority in their respective fields by winning this medal!
In the center of the stage, under the gaze of pairs of eyes and the gaze of media journalists from all over the world, Xu Chuan bowed slightly and let the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf in front of him wear the golden and glittering medal and took over the red certificate.
Holding Xu Chuan's hand, Carl XVI Gustaf said with a smile on his face: "Congratulations, the youngest winner in history."
Xu Chuan smiled and nodded in greeting: "Thank you."
Carl XVI Gustaf smiled and stood on the stage with Xu Chuan and Arthur Ashkin facing the audience.
Offstage, applause once again resounded in the Stockholm Concert Hall.
And in the distant Eastern Hemisphere, applause also rang out in front of mobile phones or computers, and countless people witnessed this great scene through the screen.
[Chuan Shen is awesome! ]
[It's awesome, a 21-year-old Nobel Prize winner, just one word, awesome! No need to say it twice! ]
[It can be said that they are all the pinnacle of human mind to receive awards on this stage! Except for the Peace Prize (funny)]
[It's terrible, at the age of 21, he won both the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal at the same time. I dare not imagine how much he can grow in the future? At that time, what kind of award can be given to him? ]
[He no longer needs awards to prove himself. If there is any award, it must be named after the word ‘Xu Chuan’! ]
[Twenty to forty is the golden age of a researcher or scholar. He has just started, but he has already reached the peak and overlooked the world! ]
[Chuan Shen: That year, I put my hands in my pockets and didn’t know what an opponent was! ]
[Even if I carry the physics world and need to suppress mathematics, I, Xu Chuan, am still invincible in astronomy! ]
[This kind of person is probably the kind of giant in history who can promote the development of society and technology, like Newton and Einstein. ]
[6, I am the same age as Chuan Shen. I really want to see what our world will change into in a few decades. ]
In a barrage of festive congratulations, most people are congratulating, exclaiming, and teasing.
But the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds.
For Chinese people who won the Nobel Prize, there are always some people with low IQ who like to show off their pitiful brain capacity.
Or the sour taste overflows the screen, or they simply can't stand seeing a Chinese person win the Nobel Prize, or they are holding the red flag to oppose the red flag.
[It's just a rubbish foreign award, is it worth you being so happy? Maybe after getting it, he will turn around and immigrate to the United States. The same thing happened to the guy named Yang before, who immigrated to the United States after winning the Nobel Prize. And what kind of rubbish method is it for studying alien planets? Even if you find a planet like the earth, can you live with it? ]
[? ? ? ? ? ? ]
[Fuck, did the person upstairs grow up eating shit? So smelly? ]
[What kind of person is looking for scolding when he is full? ]
[Did you study all the nine years of compulsory education into a dog's stomach? ]
[Dog: I won't take the blame for this, okay! ]
[This is definitely 500,000, right? Where is the network administrator of the live broadcast room? Hurry up and check the IP. ]
[Is there money to be made? Take me with you, forget it, I can't cheat on this money. 】
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For the whole society, there will always be a group of people who make similar remarks.
Fortunately, most people have normal values, and soon, this barrage was drowned in the criticism of countless people in the live broadcast room.
As for Xu Chuan, who is far away in Sweden, he doesn't know these.
Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care. The root of human inferiority is impossible to eliminate, no matter in which era, no matter when.
Instead of wasting time on this, it is better to read more books or think about your own research.
PS: Thank you for the reward from Sugui, there will be another chapter in the evening.
Dear friends, Yawei asks for some monthly tickets. Can you get 2,000? I dream of a lottery. If I can draw a lottery, I will set up a group next month. If I win, I will send red envelopes in the group and give half to everyone\(￣︶￣*\))
Thank you for the reward from Sugui, thank you.
PS: For the heroine, please forgive Yawei for not being good at writing emotional scenes. If you don't like it, you can skip it directly. Emotional scenes are not the focus of this book.
(I feel wronged. I want to say something. For most people, starting a family and building a career is a destiny, even for scientists. In fact, the more outstanding a person is, the more attention they will attract from the opposite sex. Given the protagonist's excellence, it is normal for some people of the opposite sex to be attracted to him. If there is no one, that would be really abnormal. Of course, my writing skills are not strong enough to support the emotional drama, and I need to hone my skills in this area.)