Chapter 332 Royal Academy of Sciences
When Arthur saw the technical experts from various European countries, he smiled from time to time.
All the European powers have provided thousands of technical experts to Australasia.
These technical experts cover almost many aspects, including military industry, warships, chemicals, medical care, and even talents in physics and chemistry.
After this transaction, Australasia's high-level talent pool has become richer, and Australasia's foundation has become closer to the European powers.
There are so many talents that the Royal Physical Research Association alone can no longer manage them. After discussing with Einstein, Stella and others, the Royal Academy of Sciences of Australasia was officially established at the end of October 1912.
As the name suggests, the Royal Academy of Sciences will win over all the top talents in Australasia. No matter which aspect, as long as you have outstanding contributions and achievements in your field, you can join the Royal Academy of Sciences of Australasia and become a member of the Academy of Sciences.
According to the Royal Academy of Sciences, the rank of the Academy of Sciences is divided into two levels, starting from the lowest level, the first-level academician, to the second-level academician, the third-level academician, the honorary vice-academy, the vice-academy, the honorary president, and the president.
The academician level is theoretically equivalent to the mayor, the vice-academy level is theoretically equivalent to the governor, and the president level is theoretically equivalent to the cabinet minister.
Of course, these are only theoretical administrative levels. Although the academicians of the Academy of Sciences have such administrative status, they certainly do not have the actual power of the mayor, the governor, or even the minister.
The reason why Arthur gave these experts and talents a higher administrative status is actually to improve the status of all scientific researchers in the private sector, so that scientific researchers have become the goal that everyone in Australasia wants to become.
Science and education can make a country prosperous. If Australasia wants to maintain its status as a great power, or even to challenge the status and strength of the top powers, then the reserve of Australasia's top talents, as well as the attention paid by the country, the government, and even all Australians to scientific researchers and technology, have become a very important foundation.
In Australasia today, there are almost three ways to successfully obtain a title.
The first is to join the army. In a war that concerns the country's major interests or even the survival of the country, you can make a vital role and contribution. Such merits can naturally obtain a title.
In addition, the second method is to join the army of scientific researchers. As long as you can research a technology that can change a certain industry in Australasia, or the technology you research has important strategic significance for Australasia, you may also get medals and titles.
In addition, the third method is suitable for all non-military and scientific researchers. As long as you make a major contribution to the royal family and the national government, the medal is not enough to make up for and reward, and the title you get is a matter of course.
In addition to these three methods, there is another way to get a title, that is, to be born into a good family and become Arthur's children.
As Arthur's children, William and Anna must get a title, but now because the two little guys are still very young, Arthur has no intention of granting them a title for the time being.
Among the three ways that ordinary people can get a title, the first one is definitely the most dangerous.
In any case, the army of this era is definitely not less dangerous in war.
Whether it is the heavy machine guns and artillery bombings of World War I or the tanks and planes of World War II, they are all powerful weapons that can easily harvest the lives of soldiers.
In order to obtain a title by virtue of military merit, in addition to having extraordinary abilities, you must also have relatively strong luck. Not only must you avoid the artillery and machine gun fire on the battlefield, but you must also avoid the stray bullets that fly from time to time during the war.
The remaining two are very difficult, but becoming a scientific researcher is slightly less difficult.
Of course, this does not mean that it is easy to develop a technology that can change Australasia.
In fact, the real reason is that it is difficult for ordinary people in Australasia to contact Arthur at ordinary times, and there is no way or method to make major contributions to the royal family and the government.
In comparison, as long as you graduate from university and become a scientific researcher, you can invest in scientific research and development in related industries.
As long as you have enough ability, it may not be impossible to develop powerful technology.
In addition to the status they should have, all members of the Royal Academy of Sciences will also receive extremely generous benefits.
In theory, members of the Royal Academy of Sciences can work part-time in various universities and have their own independent research projects.
In addition, the salary of the Royal Academy of Sciences is also very high. After the original Royal Society for Physical and Chemical Research was expanded into the Royal Academy of Sciences, the salaries of the academicians of the Academy of Sciences have also increased.
The basic salary alone is 1,200 Australian dollars for the first-level academician, 1,800 Australian dollars for the second-level academician, 2,800 Australian dollars for the third-level academician, 3,800 Australian dollars for the honorary vice president, 4,000 Australian dollars for the vice president, 5,500 Australian dollars for the honorary president, and 6,000 Australian dollars for the president.
Judging from the basic income of scientific researchers alone, the income of the academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Australia is not much different from that of experts in European countries.
If the income from various research and part-time jobs is included, the income of the academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Australia may not be lower than that of famous European experts.
Among the 1,607 technicians sent by Europe, more than 100 are research talents engaged in various scientific research work.
These talents are scattered in many fields such as physics, chemistry, medicine, and technology, but they are all talents that Arthur and Australasia urgently need.
These more than 100 talents were not surprisingly pulled into the Royal Academy of Sciences by Arthur, which also made the scale of the Royal Academy of Sciences exceed 200 people, to be precise, 221 people.
Among them, there are 155 first-level academicians, 58 second-level academicians, 6 third-level academicians, 1 vice president, and 1 president.
The president of the Royal Academy of Sciences is naturally Einstein, the former president of the Royal Physical and Chemical Research Association, and Tesla is the vice president of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Mainly, among the 221 talents of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Arthur is more familiar with and the most famous, that is, Einstein and Tesla.
Although others also have a certain degree of fame, they are still much inferior to Einstein and Tesla.
Of course, there are still many channels for promotion in the Royal Academy of Sciences. In addition to producing scientific research results that people recognize, the contribution to the Academy of Sciences and the royal family, and the profits brought to the Academy of Sciences and the royal family by the research results can make the academicians' level go further.
However, after the Royal Society for Physical and Chemical Research was upgraded to the Royal Academy of Sciences, the number of members doubled, which also means that the annual research funding of the Royal Academy of Sciences will also increase a lot.
Theoretically, although the number of members has doubled, because most of them are first-level academicians, it can also be calculated according to the previous research funding of 30,000 Australian dollars per person of the Physical and Chemical Research Society.
In this way, the annual research funding of the Royal Academy of Sciences is about 6 million to 7 million Australian dollars, which is a large expense.
Although Arthur's royal consortium can afford this expense, it cannot allow these technical experts to obtain these scientific research budgets without restraint.
In order to cope with the upcoming surge in the research budget of the Royal Academy of Sciences, after discussing with Einstein and Tesla, Arthur decided to implement a policy in the Royal Academy of Sciences.
First, the research budget of the academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences is divided according to the current academician level.
According to the level of the academicians, the first-level academicians can apply for a research fund of no more than 10,000 Australian dollars per year, the second-level academicians can apply for 20,000 Australian dollars, the third-level academicians can apply for 30,000 Australian dollars, and the honorary vice presidents and vice presidents can apply for 50,000 Australian dollars.
As for the highest-level honorary deans and vice deans, they can apply for research funds of no more than 100,000 Australian dollars.
Of course, academicians can also apply for research funds according to the research projects. According to the estimated research time required for each research project, one month to two years of research funds can be applied for.
This also means that if the first-level academicians apply for research funds according to the project, they can apply for a maximum of 20,000 Australian dollars.
Although in theory, academicians' applications for research funds will basically not be rejected. But if the research of the previous year or the previous project fails, the research funds for the next year or the next project will be cut by half until the project research is successful.
This can also ensure that the research funds of the Royal Academy of Sciences are used in the right way. For technical experts who are not very sure about the research projects, they should also consider whether their research funds for the next year or the next project will be cut because of their reckless behavior.
Arthur is not afraid of these experts spending money, but Arthur does not want these experts to become lazy because it is too easy to obtain scientific research budgets, or even affect the progress of scientific research.
Although the research budget will be cut to a certain extent, for truly capable talents such as Einstein and Tesla, the research budget will not be affected.
The most affected should be the first-level academicians who have the largest number of people in the Academy of Sciences, that is, ordinary scientific research experts in Europe.
However, even for the most ordinary first-level academicians, the annual research budget of 10,000 Australian dollars is equivalent to 5,000 pounds and 25,000 US dollars, which is actually not a small amount.
It's just that Arthur's family is big, so in Arthur's view, this 10,000 Australian dollars is nothing.
Looking at the whole of Australasia, there are definitely no more than 1,000 people with an annual income of more than 10,000 Australian dollars.
Even if the royal family is not counted, it is estimated that the only people with an annual income of more than 10,000 Australian dollars, except for the top officials of the government, are the top capitalists in Australasia.
But unfortunately, in Australasia, whether it is the top officials or the top capitalists, the number of these people is very small, and it is definitely not more than 200.
In this comparison, the research budget of 10,000 Australian dollars for the first-level academicians is definitely not a small amount.
The money they spend every year is even a huge sum that an ordinary Australasia family can only earn back in 50 years.
If you take into account the food, clothing, housing, transportation and other expenses of a family, I am afraid that this 10,000 Australian dollars will take a family hundreds of years to earn.
Of course, although the research budget of ordinary scientific researchers has been reduced to a certain extent, for middle and upper-level scientific researchers, this budget reduction is actually not important.
After all, the projects that these academicians study alone are mostly small projects. The expenses of these projects are not too large in theory, and it is no problem to save 10,000 Australian dollars.
For those large projects that involve dozens of academicians, Arthur has also set up special large-scale project research funds.
In theory, a second-level academician can apply to join other first- and second-level academicians to study a medium-sized scientific research project.
The research budget for medium-sized scientific research projects is generally around 50,000 Australian dollars. If there are special circumstances, it can be increased appropriately.
Starting from the third-level academician, you can apply to cooperate with other academicians to conduct research on large projects.
The third-level academician can apply for a maximum of 100,000 Australian dollars for large projects, and the vice-dean level can apply for a maximum of 200,000 Australian dollars for large projects. As for the dean level, you can apply for 500,000 Australian dollars.
Of course, these research funds are only theoretical values. The actual situation is different, and there will be a certain degree of increase based on the theoretical research funds, but it will not double at most.
In addition to the above, after the successful research of the project, the academicians will also receive rewards of varying amounts according to the level of the Royal Academy of Sciences for the project review.
If it is an ordinary project, the reward generally ranges from one thousand to several thousand Australian dollars. If the project is more important to Australasia, the reward funds are generally around 10,000 to 30,000 Australian dollars.
As for those projects with extremely important strategic value that can change an industry in Australasia, there is no theoretical valuation for the reward funds for these projects. It depends on Arthur's mood at the time.
But no matter what, once such an extremely important project is successfully studied, the reward will definitely not be less than other projects, and even various medals and titles are not impossible.
Because of these various reward policies, the salary of the academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences is much higher than the basic salary.
This is also a gift prepared by Arthur for scientific researchers. As long as they work for Australasia, they are important talents in Arthur's mind, and they must be rewarded.
Of course, in addition to the above various funds and policies, all academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences will receive a villa near the Royal Academy of Sciences and a Benz One produced by the Benz car factory.
If the academicians can't drive, the employees of the car factory can come to the door for personal training, or they can ask the Royal Academy of Sciences to hire a driver for them.
Anyway, the salary of a driver is only fifty Australian dollars. For the Royal Academy of Sciences, allowing an academician to quickly travel between his residence and the Royal Academy of Sciences and better devote himself to work is much more important than these tens of Australian dollars.
The first update of 4,000 words, please vote for the monthly ticket and support!
Today's daily number is 10,000, and 4,000/10,000 have been updated. Please give me your monthly votes and support!