Chapter 129 A New High, Three "Nature" Articles!

Great Britain, London.

"Nature" magazine headquarters.

"I really didn't expect that this young scholar from China would submit three such important papers to us at once."

Ning Chen's name was not unfamiliar to them, because a few months ago, Ning Chen published a paper as the first author in their journal.

Being able to publish a paper in Nature at such an age is a very rare thing in the entire history of the magazine.

And this time, Ning Chen's move of submitting three papers at once became an important talking point for the entire Nature magazine.

However, after preliminary review by the journal editor, the editor believed that these three papers were of high academic value.

In these three papers, Ning Chen discovered as many as nine new types of superconductors, unified these superconductors into an iron-based superconducting system, and used detailed theories to explain the superconducting mechanism.

Such a result will be very heavy news whether it is placed in the materials science or physics circles.

Of course, journal editors are only responsible for the preliminary review of papers, and more professional review work must be left to experts in the industry for review.

At this time, an editor from Nature magazine suddenly thought of something and said:

"Ning Chen, I always feel like I've heard the name somewhere else?"

"Listening to what you said, I also feel that it seems a bit familiar. By the way, the name of the scholar who successfully solved Qiu Chengtong's conjecture seems to be Ning Chen."

"Yes, and he is also a young scholar from China."

After talking about this, everyone felt that this matter was too much of a coincidence.

"Wait a minute...these two scholars, both named Ning Chen, can't be the same person, right?"

They know that in China, it is easier for people with two characters to have the same name.

China has a population of up to 1.4 billion, and some very common names are even used by 300,000 people.

"This possibility is too low. The scholar who solved Qiu Chengtong's conjecture before won the Simons Scholar Award for this result, which is a very top achievement in the entire mathematics world. These three articles about supernormal The academic value of the paper he directed is not much lower than that of solving Qiu Chengtong’s conjecture.”

Because these two achievements were of very high value in their respective fields, he subconsciously felt that they were not made by the same person.

In contrast, it is more likely that two people have the same name.

"It's not impossible. Newton, for example, could achieve great achievements in the research of mathematics and physics at the same time. The various Neo-Confucianisms are inherently connected."

"This kind of example is too rare. Even Einstein's mathematics is only at a relatively average level."

At this time, another editor came over and said:

"No need to argue, these two Ning Chens are actually the same person."

After hearing this man's words, everyone couldn't help but cast their eyes over him.

"What, you just checked?"

Because the editors of Nature Magazine usually focus on the fields of natural science and applied science, they have only heard a little bit about the news in the mathematics world.

"Previously at the Simons Scholar Award Ceremony, Professor Simon Donaldson personally asked Ning Chen about this matter and received a positive reply. A friend of mine also attended that award ceremony, so this news is You can’t go wrong.”

Many of the editors of Nature magazine have very extensive connections, and it is very normal for them to know big figures in various academic circles.

Listening to what he said, everyone knew that this news should be relatively accurate.

"Hey, just look it up directly. These papers will have unit information."

An editor still had some doubts about this matter, so he decided to confirm it himself.

But after he looked up the information about these three papers from the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society", he said in confusion:

"Strange...these three papers did not indicate any delivery unit, but were delivered in the name of individuals."

This kind of delivery method is not common in the entire academic world, and only a few scholars who are still doing research after retirement will submit papers in this way.

This result makes the conclusion that was almost certain become confusing again.

"There is no need to check anymore. I have a friend from the Simons Foundation. I can just ask him directly."

Soon, the editor received a reply.

"Confirmed, this Ning Chen is indeed from Shengzhou University in China, but the three papers proving Qiu Chengtong's conjecture were not delivered through the school's units for some reasons. Now, it can be confirmed that these two Ning Chen Chen is actually the same person."

After hearing what he said, everyone finally had no objections to this matter.

Maybe there will be two people with the same name in the same university.

But if we say that these two people have achieved world-class results in their own fields, the possibility is close to 0.

After all, there are very few such talents in the world.

…

After a period of review, the reviewers responsible for Ning Chen’s three papers on superconductivity successively gave their review opinions.

Without exception, they all gave high recognition to these three papers and gave suggestions for journals to accept the papers.

After all, these research results not only discovered some new superconductors, but also completely constructed a new superconducting system, and the various theories in it are also very complete.

In terms of the quality of the papers, these three papers are even much higher than the average level of the regular papers in Nature.

After receiving review comments from several reviewers, Nature Magazine also decided to accept these three papers by Ning Chen.

In order to better reflect the influence of these three papers, Nature Magazine even postponed the publication time of some papers so that Ning Chen's three papers can be published simultaneously in the next issue of the journal.

After confirming this arrangement, Nature Magazine responded to Ning Chen via email.

After receiving the email reply from Nature Magazine, Ning Chen was naturally very excited.

First of all, the school's reward for these three "Nature" articles alone reached 1.5 million yuan.

Because Ning Chen serves as the corresponding author and first author of these three papers at the same time, all bonuses will belong to Ning Chen.

But after receiving bonuses many times, Ning Chen's need for money is no longer as strong as before.

At the age of twenty, with a fully paid-up house and a seven-digit deposit, Ning Chen didn't think he would have any financial problems.

You must continue to make money, but making money is just a casual thing.

This sense of accomplishment brought about by scientific research cannot be bought with any amount of money.

Ning Chen first told Xu Zhou the news, and Xu Zhou was very happy for Ning Chen after hearing it.

"Three papers...that's 1.5 million! Ning Chen, how many meals do you have to treat me to in the cafeteria this time?"

"I've paid for a year's worth of meals, to be honest." Ning Chen said with a smile.

In fact, Ning Chen told Xu Zhou before that he hoped that one of the papers could be shared with Xu Zhou, because Xu Zhou provided Ning Chen with some very important directions in the process of Ning Chen's research.

But Xu Zhou still firmly rejected Ning Chen's proposal because Xu Zhou felt that he just said it casually.

If all of these can be shared as one work, then to put it more seriously, it would be considered academic fraud.

Ning Chen felt that what Xu Zhou said did make some sense. Anyway, with Xu Zhou's ability, he would definitely be able to publish many first-author papers, and he would not be short of this one.

Soon, the news that Ning Chen’s three papers were successfully published spread among the teachers in the School of Materials Science and Technology.

Ning Chen once again became a hot figure in the entire School of Materials Science, and Liu Xu also came to the laboratory to congratulate Ning Chen in person.

"Ning Chen, I really didn't expect that you would be able to publish three papers in Nature at the same time. Our Shengzhou University's one-year quota has been exceeded by you alone."

According to the level of Shengzhou University in previous years, it would be difficult to publish three papers in the main issue of Nature in a year.

Being praised by Liu Xu in person, Ning Chen couldn't say anything and could only keep a polite smile.

At this time, Xu Zhou said:

"Dean Liu, don't rush to a conclusion yet, this year is not over yet."