Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

Thank you notes from Johns Hopkins are of course rarely sent.

No professor would be free to write a paper and write a bunch of thank-you letters at home. A paper often has a dozen or even dozens of references. If you have to thank the authors of the references every time you write a paper, the efficiency of scholars is too low.

The four professors who participated in the experiment wrote the thank-you letter at the same time. This situation is even rarer. In essence, they are actually forced to.

Because the repeatability of the experiment is too high, not to mention using Yang Rui's concept, the experimental method and experimental steps have to be adopted in the end.

They used so many things from others, and published "Cell". If the research team of Hopkins University did not write a letter to explain, they would inevitably be criticized.

Half of Peking University professors who can understand the thank-you letter have already guessed the purpose of the thank-you letter.

It's just an embarrassing description and explanation, with a kind of "we did use your method, we appreciate and acknowledge your contribution, but this is our result" ventriloquist.

The four professors at Hopkins University did not hide this fact.

Although the top journals need to be pioneering and demanding, the results are also very important to the top journals. The British chemist David used electrolysis to prepare the five elements of sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, and strontium. His reputation broke the table, but as early as Twenty years ago, the French scientist Moissan made fluorine by this method.

It would obviously be unfair to say that David's research has no merit, but people have a lot to say if they need to criticize David.

Today, times are different. Scientific research is getting deeper and deeper, and there are more and more categories and fields. Scientists can completely spread out to study their own things. Therefore, there are actually much fewer cases of hitting the wall.

In this case, the requirement of originality is often raised higher.

However, the result is always decisive.

The research team at Johns Hopkins University has been doing research on potassium ions and other aspects, and they are very concerned about the research of hot spots in the field. Therefore, after Yang Ruiyu published his first paper, they started theoretical reserves, so that they can be in the field. After Yang Rui published a big paper on cell, he quickly followed up.

However, a series of steps such as mutagenizing genes, identifying mutant genes, and cloning genes are indeed difficult. There are thousands of key points in the middle. Four people and more than a dozen scientific research dogs have been busy for half a year, but they still cannot get the final result. conclusion.

Faced with multimillion-dollar spending and relentless competitors, even the Hopkins team was forced to bow to reality.

Of course, they were not prepared to fully replicate Yang Rui's research at the beginning. However, when their own path was blocked, they really lacked other options.

Scientific research has always been a job with a very low fault tolerance rate. It is too expensive. No matter whether the investor is a country or an individual, no one will easily give the loser a second chance.

And the more research institutions like Hopkins University, the more brutal the scientific research competition.

The winners among them can easily get millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars in funds.

However, once failure comes, once the winner becomes a loser, the cuts in funding will not be reduced to hundreds of thousands, millions, or tens of millions. It is almost as good as nothing.

life of lab poison,

It's much harder than life with box office poison.

If the professors at Hopkins University have a year or two, they probably don't need to use Yang Rui's experimental method, but they don't have a year or two.

In fact, most researchers don't have a year or two to delay.

If considered in this way, it seems likely to see more twin papers in the foreseeable future.

The professors who thought of this had different expressions.

"Do you have the original letter?" the principal asked as he put down the copy.

"I borrowed it temporarily." Professor Cai took it out with a smile and handed it to the principal.

The headmaster was also a person who had studied abroad, so he read it again and said, "Leave it to the External Propaganda Department, and find a way to publish it."

Professor Cai came to his senses in an instant, quickly said "Yes", and then smiled: "This is really interesting."

"It will be big news." Principal Pang said sourly. Before that, he was a supporter of Richard, Yang Rui's rival in scientific research competition. In order to cooperate with the University of California, Berkeley, President Pang even provided funds to Richard.

However, Richard spent a lot of money, but lost the scientific research competition, and had to go back to China in despair, and he still hasn't gotten up now.

In contrast, Yang Rui won without the support of the school and the government, and now he has received praise from many parties. Principal Pang's face is very ugly.

Fortunately, he is still the vice-principal, and normal people would not bring this up in front of him, but the loss of prestige is inevitable.

Professor Cai didn't even pay attention to him, and just said with a smile: "Just use the Hopkins professors as a foreshadowing, help them promote it, and let everyone know about Johns Hopkins University."

To publicize the victor, the best way is to publicize the strength of the enemy. For example, the publicity of Chen Jingrun has an indirect effect of publicizing Goldbach's theorem, and even attracted the attention of countless folk mathematicians.

Johns Hopkins University has almost no reputation in China. Presumably, this situation will be improved after a round of publicity.

Thinking about the professors at Hopkins University with their yellow beards and their dissatisfied writing papers, and being known to the Chinese people, everyone felt inexplicably excited.

As the top scholar in China, everyone's understanding of Hopkins is relatively objective.

To put it simply, the research team of Hopkins University dare not say that it is the strongest on Earth, but it is also the strongest on Earth. Everyone in the meeting couldn't figure out the weight of "having to fully adopt Yang Rui's plan".

"Scholars at Johns Hopkins University recognize the research and teaching level of our Peking University." Professor Cai brought the topic back again, and hit the rails: "We can't drive people out by ourselves."

This time, even those who had objections were speechless, and the headmaster nodded slightly.

"Exchanging an independent laboratory for a high-level scholar is also profitable, right?" Professor Cai took advantage of it and teased everyone by the way.

The professor of the physics department said weakly: "Then he must stay at Peking University."

"There are still three years until graduation..." Professor Cai chuckled twice, saying nothing.

"Then it's settled." The headmaster finished his deliberation and finally made a decision.

Professor Cai clapped his hands and said, "We must run this independent laboratory well."

"The expenses this time are all extra funds, and it must be done well." The principal silently calculated the expenses, feeling a little pained, and added an additional size.

Professor Cai patted his chest with a smile, but in fact he was a little worried and said: "Yang Rui has already prepared the project, but applying for funding is time-consuming. Please also allocate the school's funding as a priority."

"Who dares to block Yang Rui's project now." Principal Pang said in a strange way, but that was all. A short sentence like $150,000 and the US ambassador to China is as sharp as a dagger.

In just two days, the school's first batch of 50,000 yuan in funding was given out, an absolute priority channel, and it was directly sent to Yang Rui's personal account.

It seems a bit illegal to say it, but in fact, until the end of the 1990s, scientific research funds were in such a model. It was difficult to apply for it, but once the application was approved, it was difficult to supervise how to use it. Without strict discipline , not only the researchers find the public account troublesome, but also the financial personnel of the unit find the public account troublesome.

With people shouting "invoices and invoices" in every railway station across the country, the process supervision is naturally useless. In most cases, it can only be allocated in stages, and then the results are seen in stages. In the final analysis, it is the results.

If you spend 5,000 yuan, you have to make something worth 5,000 yuan; if you spend 50,000 yuan, please make something worth 50,000 yuan; Yes, please make something worth 500,000 yuan; if you spent 5,000,000 yuan, please make something worth 5,000,000 yuan!

As for what kind of things are worth 5,000 yuan and what kind of things are worth 5 million yuan, in the final analysis, it depends on the paper and its impact factor.

However, this time, Yang Rui didn't use the 50,000 yuan himself, but transferred it to the department for the biology department to decide.

On the one hand, he has a bright future, and he is unwilling to be contaminated with black, gray and white funds. On the other hand, rights and obligations are equal. Schools and departments rely on funds to survive. If researchers don't submit donations, how can such a scientific research system be maintained? run?

No system in the world is perfect. Yang Rui is not a politician, and he has no intention of fighting against and changing it. It is better to let the departments make their own decisions and allocations.

50,000 yuan is dispensable to Yang Rui, but it is a huge sum of money to most people in the university who earn a salary of one or two hundred yuan.

The appropriation of this money has also been publicized as a matter of course: Yang Rui, a first-year student in the school, will independently preside over the ion channel laboratory of the Department of Biology, with a preparation fund of 250,000 yuan and a research fund of 180,000 yuan...

In less than half a day, all the teachers and students in the school knew about it.

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