Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 272 The Nobel Prize
After asking Shi Menglin a few more questions, Zhou Ming continued to chat with Shi Mincai.

This meeting with Shi Menglin's father, Shi Mincai, was just a small episode in Zhou Ming's life, just like other small episodes that he occasionally encountered in his life.

However, as time continued to pass, among these small episodes in Zhou Ming's life, there was a not so small episode inserted.

This not so small episode is the most famous award in the world today - the Nobel Prize.

A few hours before the Nobel Prize Selection Committee informed the outside company of this year's Nobel Prize winners, Zhou Ming received a call from the Nobel Prize Committee in advance, informing him that he had won this year's Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

There were five awards originally established according to Nobel's will in [-], namely the Physics Prize, the Chemistry Prize, the Peace Prize, the Physiology or Medicine Prize, and the Literature Prize. A Nobel Prize in Economics has been established for eight years. The purpose of establishing these six awards is to honor those who have made the greatest contribution to mankind in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine, literature, and economics.

And Zhou Ming was informed this time that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine he won was won by a Chinese person as early as four years ago. The first time Zhou Ming met that old man was when he went to the capital to participate in the National Science and Technology Award Conference. , when I personally received the first prize of the Huaguo Natural Science Award from that person in the Great Hall.

At that time, Grandma Tu and Zhou Minghe had a chat about the extraction of traditional Chinese medicine, and after the future smart technology company made some progress in this area, the old man who was the first to win the Nobel Prize in Science even made a special trip. Luzhou learned about the situation.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was first awarded in 100, and it has been more than [-] years.

Speaking of the announcement of the Nobel Prize, it is also a bit particular. It does not announce all the awards at once, but announces them day by day, so take your time.

Generally, based on the experience of previous years, people can guess the time and order of the Nobel Prize winners for the next year. Usually, it starts from the Monday of the first full week in October of that year and ends on the next Monday. One award is announced every day. The winner of the award, the weekend in between is a rest day, and the winner of the award will not be announced.

The order in which the Nobel Prizes are announced is normally the Physiology or Medicine Prize, the Physics Prize, the Chemistry Prize, the Literature Prize, the Peace Prize, and finally the Economics Prize.

The first five awards are announced one day in order from Monday to Friday, and the economics award is not the award that should be awarded in the will left by Nobel, but the Central Bank of Sweden when the Nobel Prize was established. was established more than half a century later,
Therefore, the announcement time of this economics award is usually the same as that of physiology or medicine awards, and the winners are announced on Monday, but the two Mondays are not on the same day.

Of course, sometimes there will be changes due to other circumstances, and the order and time of announcement may not be so accurate.

A few hours after Zhou Ming received the call from the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize Selection Committee officially announced the news to the outside world.

Regarding the fact that he won the Nobel Prize, Zhou Ming always felt that even though he had experienced so much before he learned that he had won the Nobel Prize, he would definitely be a little excited if he really learned that he had won the Nobel Prize for the first time. of.

But when Zhou Ming actually received the award notification from the Nobel Prize Committee, he was not as excited as he had expected.

Maybe it’s because I’ve won too many awards in the past few years, or maybe it’s because I’m obsessed with these various awards, whether they are prestigious or less prestigious, or maybe it’s because I used a life simulator before. , I have seen the situation where I won the Nobel Prize several times, and everything has become bearish.

In short, Zhou Ming's heart was very peaceful from the beginning to the end.

Zhou Ming is calm, but there are many people who are not calm.

Although Zhou Ming is not the first Chinese to win a scientific Nobel Prize, the reputation of the Nobel Prize is there after all. Even the Nobel Prize in Literature will attract a lot of attention.

"Wow, has anyone figured out how many times this is Zhou Shen's award?"

"Isn't it too late for this Nobel Prize? When Academician Zhou researched the 'Super Bean', I thought he was going to win the Nobel Prize. Who knew there was no movement in Sweden."

"That's right, what achievements Academician Zhou has made in the past few years can't win the Nobel Prize? I think many people in smart technology companies in the future will be able to win the Nobel Prize for their strength, but they just don't want to publish it."

"Upstairs, you have received money from Future Biotechnology Company, right? You can brag like that? Why don't you say that you can also win the award?"

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In fact, if this matter was placed a few years ago, its popularity would definitely be much greater than it is now.

However, Zhou Ming's reputation has grown enormously over the past few years. Coupled with his achievements over the years, in many people's eyes, it is only a matter of time before he wins the Nobel Prize.

Coupled with the continuous advancement of science and technology in Huaguo in recent years, the level of science and technology is getting closer and closer to the top fields of other countries in the world, including some fields such as biotechnology and artificial intelligence, which have even surpassed other fields in this field before. A country at the top level.

For these reasons, many people in China do not regard many overseas awards as sacred as they used to, let alone regard them as unattainable things, even the Nobel Prize.

If I really want to say anything, I can only blame the Nobel Prize for awarding Zhou Ming too late.

But no matter what, this is still the Nobel Prize after all. It has been more than a century since the award was first awarded in [-], and it still represents the highest honor in the scientific community.

So after the Nobel Prize Selection Committee officially announced to the outside world that this year's Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine was Zhou Ming, many people who knew Zhou Ming also sent messages of congratulations to Zhou Ming.

Huaguo University of Science and Technology, Jinling University of Technology, Nankai University, and Zhou Ming's high school, junior high school, and even elementary school also hurriedly put up banners and posted official websites. He emphasized that the Chinese who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine worked in their school or had studied in their school.

"Congratulations, you have won the Nobel Prize."

As the dean of the School of Life Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology, the Nobel Prize Zhou Ming won this time is a prize in Physiology or Medicine that is closely related to life sciences. In addition, Zhou Ming is also a professor of the School of Life Sciences, Zhang Mingjie After learning that Zhou Ming was the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he rushed to Zhou Ming's office immediately to congratulate Zhou Ming.

The time when Sweden announced the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today was around nine o'clock in the morning Swedish time, but since Sweden was six hours later than Luzhou, the current background on China's side It was about three o'clock in the afternoon.

Zhou Ming happened to be in the office at this time today, so Zhang Mingjie didn't miss out.

"December's award ceremony, have you decided who to bring?" After Zhou Ming and Zhang Mingjie had a few polite words, Zhang Mingjie asked Zhou Ming again.

However, after seeing himself ask this sentence, Zhou Ming did not answer himself immediately, so Zhang Mingjie took another look at the expression on Zhou Ming's face.

The moment Zhang Mingjie saw the expression on Zhou Ming's face, Zhang Mingjie thought of the titles given to Zhou Mingan by netizens on the Internet, such as "award-rejecting madman", "a good man who is diligent and thrifty, and a good man who manages the family" and "true scholars never come to the stage to receive awards". Asked Zhou Ming: "You...won't it be the same this time as before, refusing to go to Sweden to accept the award?"

The title of "Award Rejection Maniac" is naturally because Zhou Ming has rejected dozens of awards, big and small, over the past few years.

And "a good man who is diligent and thrifty" is because many netizens jokingly said that Zhou Ming does not go to the stage to receive awards, especially those foreign awards regardless of size, because he wants to save money for air tickets to support his wife.

This is also everyone's ridicule. In fact, many people know that many awards can be reimbursed for round-trip transportation and accommodation expenses, and Zhou Ming doesn't need to save money on air tickets to raise his wife.

As for the title of "true scholars never accept awards on stage", it is because at the beginning, when Zhou Ming rejected a certain award, some media directly reported it before he could figure out the situation, and the content of the report did not say that Zhou Ming refused. The specific reason for accepting the award is that Zhou Ming refused to accept the award.

But for some awards, even though Zhou Ming did not come to receive the award on the spot, they would have a live broadcast with him to present the award to Zhou Ming, so that Zhou Ming would also receive the award.

As soon as the news that Zhou Ming won a certain award was reported, it formed a reversal from some media reports that Zhou Ming rejected the award. This reversal also made more people take the initiative to understand the ins and outs of this matter.

In this way, many people also know that Zhou Ming refused to accept the award in some media. The truth is that Zhou Ming has no time to go to the scene to receive the award, but if the awarding official says that Zhou Ming does not need to go to the scene, we can also present the award to you online. If so, then Zhou Ming will still accept the award.

More importantly, such oolongs have occurred more than once or twice.

Therefore, in the end, some netizens gave Zhou Mingan the title of "True scholars never go on stage to receive awards".

Zhang Mingjie asked Zhou Ming who he was going to bring to the award ceremony in Sweden. In fact, there was an interesting fact behind this that restricted the Nobel Prize winners from bringing people to watch the ceremony.

It is said that in the past, when Nobel Prize winners accepted the award, they could bring an unlimited number of relatives and friends to the awarding site to watch the ceremony.

But then in 68, Spanish writer Camilo José Serra, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature that year, took a group of [-] relatives and friends from the village to the awards ceremony. It really shocked the organizing committee at that time.

After that, the Nobel Prize Organizing Committee hastily amended the rules, limiting the number of Nobel Prize winners who can bring relatives and friends to the awards ceremony. Now they can only bring up to [-] relatives and friends to watch the ceremony.

"Well, yes." Under Zhang Mingjie's surprised gaze, Zhou Ming nodded calmly and replied to him.

"But... But, why? You are not as busy as you were when you were studying the 'evolution' of genetic medicine last year?"

After getting the confirmation from Zhou Ming, Zhang Mingjie was also puzzled, because in his opinion, since Zhou Ming researched "evolution" and shifted his research focus from the field of biology to the field of artificial intelligence, although he is still busy every day. , but I am not as busy as I was when I was studying "evolution". It stands to reason that I must have time to go to Sweden to participate in the Nobel Prize award ceremony.

At this time, Zhang Mingjie finally understood Li Mingzhi's mood when he learned from Zhou Ming that he would not go to the Fields Medal presentation site to accept the award.

In fact, after getting along with each other in the past few years, although Zhou Ming has achieved so much, in daily life, Zhang Mingjie and Li Mingzhi always regard Zhou Ming as their back, as their children and grandsons.

With this kind of mentality, they also entrusted Zhou Ming with the achievements they could not accomplish in this life. Although they were not as outrageous as some biological parents, they now heard Zhou Ming say that he would not go to the Nobel Prize presentation site to receive this year's award. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but Zhang Mingjie still doesn't understand
"It's been several years, don't you know? Do you really think he rejected those awards because he was busy?"

Just when Zhang Mingjie looked at Zhou Ming with a puzzled face, hoping to get a reason he could understand from Zhou Ming, a voice came out from outside the door.

Zhang Mingjie didn't even have to turn his head, he knew it was Li Zhizhi who was speaking as soon as he heard the voice.

Although Zhou Ming didn't win an award in mathematics, Li Mingzhi would definitely come here to find out about such a major event as Zhou Ming winning the Nobel Prize.

In fact, when Li Mingzhi came to Zhou Ming this time, what he wanted to know most was whether Zhou Ming would go to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden to receive the award in December this time.

To be honest, Li Zhizhi actually hoped that Zhou Ming would not go to Sweden this time as usual this time.

After all, Zhou Ming had previously refused to go to the awards ceremony of the Craford Mathematics Prize and the Fields Medal, and he did not go to the mathematicians conference held every four years. The Physiology or Medicine award went to the scene, which more or less made Li Mingzhi feel unfair for mathematics.

However, fortunately, he hadn't even entered Zhou Ming's office this time, so he already knew what he wanted to know this time.

(End of this chapter)