From all-round academic master to chief scientist

Time passed quickly.

"Has it been classified as a confidential theory? Okay, I understand, thank you, Director Ma."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Xiao had a slight smile on his face.

His set of equations passed the approval of the superiors and became the technical principle of national confidentiality. In the future, this set of equations will continue to provide more assistance to the development of their country.

Of course, the state will naturally compensate him for his efforts, and these compensations will naturally be placed in his research institute.

Well, the funding simply increased by several hundred million.

Although compared to the billions they still have on their research institute's books, these hundreds of millions are almost a fraction, but compared to the fact that the country has to support so many research institutes across the country, approving several hundred million for him is still considered a fraction. Not an easy thing to do.

In addition, the state has not completely included all his theories in confidential projects. Among them, the purely mathematical theory of "submodular form" can be published because it does not involve key areas in the theory. It is just for Lin Xiao's sake. It is just a new method created to verify the relationship between strings, interference and diffraction.

As for the parts related to interference, diffraction and strings, they cannot be published, because as long as the physics community also discovers the relationship between these three, although the possibility of deriving the final system of partial differential equations is relatively low, unless like Lin Xiao has extremely strong mathematical and physical abilities, but this does not rule out that others will still deduce it over a long period of time.

In this way, Lin Xiao can also gain a certain reputation by publishing theories.

After all, the submodular form is also a relatively important theory, because it is almost equal to the modular form, so it will also have a very extensive role in mathematics.

If it can be used to promote the development of the mathematics community and does not involve key theories, Lin Xiao is still happy to publish it.

"Maybe I can even use it as a topic for a speech at the International Congress of Mathematicians."

Sitting in front of his computer, Lin Xiao, who had just finished sorting out the theory of submodular forms, couldn't help but think of this.

Then, he submitted the paper to the "Annals of Mathematics".

The submodular form is enough to be published in this top mathematics journal.

However, after publishing the past, Lin Xiao felt a little regretful.

There is no top journal in the world that belongs to China.

There is nothing you can do about it. If you want to pursue internationalization, you need to use the most widely used English.

Damn it, the sun never sets. Why didn't Zheng He think of a way back then? It was during the Hundred Years' War between England and France, and then he took advantage of it and directly occupied the British Island?

He muttered something in his heart. Of course, Lin Xiao is a peace-loving person, so he would only admit that these words were said by another Lin Xiao.

Of course, although there is no way to break this situation for the time being, it does not prevent him from starting his own journal in the future and then publishing all his papers in it.

However, there is no need to worry about this matter for now, let’s talk about it later.

After submitting the paper, Lin Xiao found a list of people who were going to interview materials researchers at their institute recently. This time he planned to recruit five people, all in computational materials science. With these five people, he could The research on crystal materials has officially begun.

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Time passed quickly, and nothing major happened in China recently. It was probably the end of the National Day in October, and the last holiday of the year was over.

In addition, domestic scientific researchers are also preparing to participate in the National Science and Technology Awards Conference to be held next month, while model aircraft, aircraft, and military enthusiasts are preparing to participate in the Zhuhai Air Show next month.

However, there is one thing that attracts people's attention internationally.

That's when the Nobel Prize Committee announced this year's winners.

Among them, there are three winners of the Physics Prize. Two of them won the prize for a model that predicts global warming. The other one is George Parisi. This George Parisi was the one who was responsible for reviewing Lin Xiao before. The physicist who wrote the paper on multidimensional field theory.

Among the three people, Lin Xiao's name, which many people thought should be there, did not appear. This caused a lot of discussion. Many people thought that Lin Xiao should be there. His multi-dimensional field theory has received many verifications. There are also his contributions to the Standard Model, the root search method that has provided great help in high-energy physics research, and various other theories, which are of decisive significance to world physics.

As a result, it was awarded to three other people this year?

Let’s not talk about George Parisi. This person at least studies theoretical physics and has indeed made many important physical theories, enough to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. But the other two who study climate actually also Got a prize? This was something no one expected.

Even if it is awarded to a few eighty or ninety-year-old physics prizes who have been waiting in line, it is more in line with the usual principles.

This caused a lot of discussion.

The most important thing was that the gamblers who were betting on who would win the prize started to curse.

This year's winner, George Parisi, also said in a subsequent interview: "To be honest, I feel a little embarrassed to have won the Nobel Prize before Lin. Lin's achievements definitely exceed my achievements by a lot." , he deserves this award even more."

As the winner of this year's Nobel Prize, he still said such words, which naturally caused more people to start discussing this matter.

As the protagonist, Lin Xiao naturally received greetings and comfort from many foreign friends.

However, of course he didn't care whether he won the award or not. As he said before, even if he won the award, he would not go unless there was peace in the world or China could suppress those who were ready to move and escort them safely. He went to receive his prize and returned safely.

Of course, this incident did not cause a sensation, but only caused people's discussion. More people believed that Lin Xiao could certainly win the Nobel Prize in Physics, but he had to wait in line. He was not awarded this year, and the Nobel Committee just Because he was too young, those who thought the Nobel Prize had lost its impartiality simply disappeared.

Time passed quickly.

October was uneventful, but during this period the Dingguang Institute welcomed five new computational materials researchers, including an intern researcher, an assistant researcher, an associate researcher, and two researchers. The researchers were all recruited by Lin Xiao from the country's top materials research institute. Anyway, his research institute had money and the conditions offered were high enough. Plus Lin Xiao's name was here, of course these researchers were happy to go.

After there were people, the research on new crystal materials began in earnest.

In addition, Lin Xiao also passed interviews and confirmed his graduate students after the semester starts in the second half of next year. The three graduate students who were successfully selected by him were naturally overjoyed. After all, these graduate students chose to study at the School of Mathematics at Peking University. In order to become Lin Xiao's graduate student, in the end, the three of them finally stood out.

Of course, the time to formally listen to Lin Xiao's teachings will have to wait until the second half of next year to enroll in school in the fall. Therefore, the most important thing for these three people is to write their graduation thesis for the next year and write it beautifully. , However, since they were selected by Lin Xiao, the academic abilities of these three people are naturally excellent. It is impossible for someone to find a ghostwriter on a certain fish, and then use the mechanism of a certain fish to blackmail the ghostwriter when the time comes, and finally be It's something like ghostwriting for exposure.

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Just like that, time has entered November.

At 10:20 am on November 3, the National Science and Technology Awards Conference was officially held in the Great Hall of the People.

The conference started with the majestic national anthem, and then with warm applause, medals and certificates were first awarded to the two academicians Gu Song and Wang Zhongyuan who had won the highest science and technology award. Then the leaders and the two winners of the highest science and technology award jointly Certificates are issued to representatives of the National Natural Science Award, the National Technological Invention Award, and the National Science and Technology Progress Award.

The first award was the National Natural Science Award, first prize.

The host of the conference solemnly announced: "This year's National Natural Science Award, a special prize will be set up."

Special prize? !

At this time, everyone below was surprised.

The National Natural Science Award actually established a special award?

Didn’t there only be first and second prizes in the past?

Why is there a special prize set up this year?

In the past, people would fight over each other even if they were competing for the first prize, because the first prize was more like a prize. As for the second prize, it was more like a consolation prize, because the first prize was usually only awarded to one person. Two people, and the second prize is awarded to more than 40 people every time. Although it is very rare to win the second prize, compared with the weight of the first prize, it still seems a little inadequate.

But for such a valuable first prize, there is an extra special prize this year, to top it?

Whose award is it?

Many people looked around, and some who knew some inside information could only sigh in their hearts.

At this time, the host of the conference had also spoken out to announce the winner of the special prize.

"The winner of the special prize is Lin Xiao!"

When the name was announced, everyone was stunned.

It turns out to be him!

The surprise gradually subsided, and then they all turned their gazes to the young man who stood up.

Being young makes people jealous.

But he didn't say anything, because in their society where qualifications hold a lot of weight, this young man used his most dazzling achievements and his most amazing talents to outweigh his qualifications.

Warm applause rang out, and Lin Xiao, who was dressed in formal attire, also walked up amidst the applause, and then received a carefully customized medal and a certificate.

Later, Lin Xiao shook hands.

They smiled at each other, then faced the camera and took a group photo.