Chapter 313 Academician Candidates

"I'll trouble you, Mr. Peng and Professor Han, for the personnel and equipment matters."

"If you have any questions, you can contact me by phone or email. If it's urgent, you can contact my driver Zheng Hai directly. He can contact me directly."

After chatting for a while and arranging some things, Xu Chuan also got up and said goodbye.

After all, the controlled nuclear fusion project has just been established, and both parties are very busy and have a lot of things to do.

Peng Hongxi nodded and smiled: "Don't worry, although I am an old man in my eighties, I can still do something."

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Mr. Peng, you are still strong and not inferior to the past."

Peng Hongxi laughed and said: "Go and do your own things. I can do some chores, but I can't help you much. The burden of the controlled nuclear fusion project still falls on your shoulders."

Here, Xu Chuan is busy with the controlled nuclear fusion project.

On the other side of the country, in Beijing, the Huake Institute and the Academy of Engineering, which belong to the State Council, are holding meetings and carrying out intensive work.

After a two-year interval, the election of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering has started again.

For Chinese people, academician is the highest honorary title that a scientist or scholar can get, and it is also one of the authoritative symbols of China's scientific and technological community.

The selection of academicians requires candidates to have made outstanding academic achievements in the fields of natural sciences, engineering technology, agricultural sciences, medicine and health. It is also necessary to have a doctoral degree or research results equivalent to a doctoral degree, and to have made outstanding contributions in their own research fields.

Of course, scientists or scholars who can be nominated for the list of academicians must have no problems with these basic conditions.

To borrow a sentence from Mr. Mei Yiqi:

"The so-called university is not a place with big buildings, but a place with masters."

Under today's education system, academicians can also be understood in a similar way.

Director Wen Hongwen, who is in charge of the recent election of academicians in the Office of the Work Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is flipping through the list in his hand.

Whether for him, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, or the entire China, the election of academicians of the two academies every two years is undoubtedly one of the most important things in the country, and it also involves the attention and eyes of countless people.

Just when Wen Hongwen was busy working, someone knocked on the door of the office several times, and then an old man walked in slowly.

Wen Hongwen looked up, put down the pen in his hand, and stood up to greet the old man with a smile.

After personally pouring a cup of tea for the visitor in front of him, he smiled and said, "Why did Mr. Pan have time to come to me today?"

Pan Deming took the teacup and took a sip, saying, "What else can I do for?"

Hearing this, Wen Hongwen smiled and asked, "Is it for Professor Xu's matter?"

Pan Deming sighed and said nothing.

The biennial academician selection activity is a grand event for both the Huake Academy and the Academy of Engineering, but it is also a headache.

For a superpower with a population of more than 1.4 billion, academicians represent not only glory and authority, but also various scientific research resources and connections.

In many places in China, an academician represents a discipline, or even a school. The flow of academicians will also drive the flow of resources in the entire discipline. The significance to universities involves all aspects, and it is difficult to simply summarize.

In other words, in China, as long as you get the title of academician, it means multiple gains of power, status, reputation, and resources; it also means that you can walk sideways in China.

Therefore, every time at this time, candidates who are qualified to nominate academicians will compete for the limited number of places, even the factions and connections behind them.

It is common for people to turn against each other and expose each other's shortcomings. Sometimes, they even forge materials to frame each other.

On the opposite side, Wen Hongwen smiled indifferently, reached out and picked up a document from the table, handed it to Pan Deming, and said, "Why don't you take a look at this first, Mr. Pan?"

Pan Deming glanced at Wen Hongwen, took the material and read it.

[List of candidates for the 14th academician election of the Department of Energy and Mining Engineering in 2019]

[Li Ning, Exploration and Development Research Institute of China National Petroleum Corporation]

[Shu Biaoyin, China Huadian Group Co., Ltd., .]

[.]

[Xu Chuan, .]

In the candidate list, a familiar name appeared in Pan Deming's pupils.

He raised his head, looked at Wen Hongwen, and asked in surprise: "He has also been nominated as a candidate by the Academy of Engineering?"

Wen Hongwen smiled and nodded, saying: "Several experts in the nuclear energy and battery fields jointly recommended the "Nuclear Energy β Radiation Energy Concentration and Conversion of Electric Energy" project, which was accepted in June this year. Mr. Pan should have heard of it. This technology can be said to be the greatest liberation of nuclear power productivity."

After a pause, he continued: "So it's not just us who are worried, the Academy of Engineering is the same."

Hearing this, Pan Deming smiled and said: "It's the first time in history that he was selected as a candidate by the Huazhong Academy of Science and Technology and the Academy of Engineering in the same year?"

Wen Hongwen nodded and said: "Yes, so this is quite troublesome, the nomination of academicians of both academies, plus his age is still so..."

For this year's election of academicians, neither the Academy of Engineering nor the Huazhong Academy of Science and Technology expected such a situation to occur.

For the Huazhong Academy of Science and Technology, the selection of Professor Xu is a foregone conclusion.

After all, the brilliance of the two world-class awards, the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal, is too dazzling.

From the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem to the Xu-Hodge conjecture, from the extended application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem to the discovery of inert neutrinos, any one of this great man's achievements is enough for other scholars to be nominated as academicians of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

On the other hand, for the Academy of Engineering, the achievements of this great man are also not to be underestimated.

The artificial SEI film solved the problem of lithium dendrites, allowing China's lithium battery industry to take off directly and lead the world.

The "Nuclear Energy β Radiation Energy Concentration Conversion Electric Energy" project solved the problem of nuclear waste, not only greatly alleviated the pressure on energy, but also exchanged a large number of scarce technologies and equipment for the country from other countries.

For the Department of Energy and Mining Engineering under the name of the Academy of Engineering, whether it is the problem of lithium dendrites or the problem of nuclear waste, any one of them is enough for nomination.

So several big cows in the fields of nuclear energy and batteries jointly recommended this great man.

And now, they are the ones with a headache.

After hearing what Wen Hongwen said and seeing the materials, Pan Deming felt relieved.

He took a sip from his teacup and sighed with a smile: "Before, we were still arguing whether to let him be selected as an academician of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology this year. Some people thought that he was too young and could wait a few more years, or consider it after he turned 30."

"After all, even Academician Lu, the youngest academician in China who was selected in 2003, was 38 when he was elected, but he was only 23 years old, and he will not be 24 until the end of this year. Many people hold on to this point."

"Now it seems... Tsk tsk"

Pan Deming sighed twice, and then said: "I'm afraid what we should consider is not whether he can be selected as an academician of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology this year, but which of the two academies should be given to him this year."

Wen Hongwen smiled gently and said: "Why can't we give him both?"

Compared to Pan Deming, as the director of the General Office, he knows more and knows the views and support of the superiors on this young professor.

Hearing this, Pan Deming was stunned for a moment, and hesitantly said: "Both, in the same year?"

Although there are scholars who are academicians of both the Chinese Academy of Science and Engineering, but in the same year, is it a bit too exaggerated to award the academician quotas of both academies to one person?

You know, there are only a few academician quotas, and there are many candidates waiting for each selection.

Not only are there many professors with seniority, but there are also many professors who have made major research achievements or contributions. If he is allowed to take two, it may cause a lot of criticism. After all, a tall tree attracts the wind.

Wen Hongwen picked up the teacup and blew the tea, drank a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then said: "Don't forget, that person also has a Morning Star Medal on him. ”

That is a medal specially made for that person. It is not only an honor, but also has a very deep meaning.

Hearing this, Pan Deming was stunned for a moment, then he understood and was completely relieved.

To be honest, before coming here today, he had quarreled with others in the Department of Mathematics and Physics many times.

He just wanted to fight for a place for Xu Chuan as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Although Peking University had a grudge against him before, nothing can be dissolved.

What's more, a Nobel Prize + Fields Medal winner cannot get an academician in China. What do Chinese people think of this list after it is announced?

However, after coming here today, he is not so worried.

From what Director Wen said, this year's election of academicians may be interesting.

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