1900: A physics genius wandering around Europe

Chapter 97 Nobel Prize Ceremony, the World is Watching!
After dealing with the matter of conferring the knighthood, Li Qiwei had not yet started to relax because the Nobel Prize ceremony was about to begin.

According to the schedule, he will deliver a physics-themed speech at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on December 12.

Then on December 12, he accepted the award from King Oscar II of Sweden and attended the celebration dinner.

Therefore, Li Qiwei planned to set off early and arrive in Sweden on December 12 to familiarize himself with the environment.

This time, Li Qiwei plans to take everyone with him and treat it as a trip.

It is estimated that after a round trip, there will be little left of the only 1000 pounds left.

As for the prize money of the Nobel Prize in Physics, after being divided equally among the three, he will get 5 Swedish kronor, which is about 3300 pounds.

However, he planned to donate all his prize money to Cambridge University to gain favor and increase his chances of being knighted.

So, after returning from Sweden, Li Qiwei became a real pauper.

He couldn't bring himself to ask his father for help, as that would be too embarrassing for the senior time travelers.

At that time, it will depend on whether Gerrard can give him a surprise.

On November 11, Li Qiwei and six others officially set off for Sweden.

A group of seven people boarded a luxury cruise ship from London and crossed the North Sea.

Then we will cross the Skagerrak, along the Danish coastline, and then cross the Kattegat into Denmark.

After replenishing in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, the ship entered the Baltic Sea, sailed north, and finally docked in Stockholm, Sweden.

It was already December 12st, two days earlier than Li Qiwei had expected.

After he checked everyone in, they went to visit this Nordic city together.

Stockholm is the largest city in Sweden and a famous tourist destination.

But in later generations, it seems that apart from the Nobel Prize, people have no impression of this city.

This is mainly because Sweden itself has little presence in world history and few important events have been recorded.

At this time, neighboring Norway was still under the rule of Sweden, forming the so-called Norwegian-Swedish alliance.

Norway did not gain independence until 1905.

The five Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, are famous for being depressed countries in later generations.

The sun is rarely seen throughout the year, and the weather is always gloomy and a little cold.

Moreover, this country is located at a high latitude, with a vast area and a sparse population, so people in this country are prone to bad moods and depression.

Fortunately, the exotic atmosphere dispelled the cold weather, and several people visited various characteristic buildings in Stockholm with great interest.

Among them are Stockholm's Concert Hall and City Hall.

The Stockholm Concert Hall, also known as the Stockholm Blue Concert Hall, is a building with a blue exterior wall.

Viewed from the front, the concert hall is simple and majestic, with ten towering pillars extending from the ground to the eaves, and a famous statue of Orpheus in front of the concert hall.

Stockholm City Hall is a unique and exquisite building built on the shores of Lake Mälaren in the city center.

The main body is built with red bricks, with a tall bell tower on the right.

According to the arrangement of the Nobel Foundation, the award ceremony will be held in the concert hall at 12 pm on December 10.

After the event, everyone will move to the City Hall and attend the celebratory dinner in the Blue Hall inside.

Finally, they came to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Looking at the red building in front of him, Li Qiwei felt deeply moved. The smartest minds in Sweden gathered here.

They are not subject to government regulation and seek out and review the world's most amazing scientific achievements.

Everyone here is a knowledgeable academician who plays a leading role in their respective fields and is truly a priceless treasure.

In contrast, in the Qing Dynasty at that time, no matter whether you were a professor or an academician, you were all considered a craftsman and were only fit to build roads and bridges.

As for the country's scientific and technological policies and the areas it aims to tackle, I'm sorry, the craftsmen cannot participate.

Those were the jobs of the officials who read the Four Books and Five Classics, and it was not the job of the peasants to give instructions.

This attitude towards scientific talents is the key to determining whether a country can prosper over the long term.

The demise of the Qing Dynasty was inevitable, and closing the country to the outside world and suppressing Western learning talents were definitely important factors.

Li Qiwei secretly made up his mind at this moment that he would also promote the establishment of a similar institution in China in the next few years. If it really didn't work, then it could only be placed in the City of Science.

In the next few days, many people from foreign countries came to Stockholm every day.

They all came to witness the grand ceremony of the first Nobel Prize awarding ceremony.

According to rough statistics from the Swedish government, as many as 800 people are expected to attend the ceremony.

Because there are four awards in Sweden: the Prize in Physics, the Prize in Chemistry, the Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the Prize in Literature.

The Peace Prize was held simultaneously in Oslo, the capital of Norway.

On average, there are about 200 participants for each award.

This was an unprecedented award ceremony in 1901 in every sense of the word.

And those who came to participate included politicians, writers, scientists, aristocrats, gentry, prestigious people, etc.

They are basically elites from all walks of life. They are truly great scholars and have no ordinary friends among them.

In addition to these 800 people, all the world's famous newspapers sent people to interview and record this event.

The Times, Daily Mail, Paris-Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, New York Times.
Not only these major newspapers, but also dozens of tabloids also came to get a piece of the pie, trying to interview some exclusive news, even if it was just gossip about scientists.

It can be said that from now on, every move of the first Nobel Prize award ceremony will be watched by the whole world.

The processes, personnel, ceremonies, speeches, everything will be reported in newspapers and become a topic of conversation for people in the future.

Because of Li Qiwei's appearance, the previous Nobel Prize was brought to a height that it did not belong to and became a world-renowned existence.

On December 12, Thomson, Wilson and other Cambridge personnel also came to Sweden, with a group of about twenty people.

Including Professors Cardwell and Case, as well as several people from the Cavendish Laboratory.

Soon after, Roentgen, Planck, the Curies, Becquerel and others arrived one after another, each with their own students and colleagues from the school.

Then came Einstein, Lorentz and others.

As for Rutherford, Millikan and others, they did not come because the journey was too far.

This was a ceremony, after all, not a physics discussion meeting.

If it were in the future, it would only take a dozen hours by plane to get there, but now, it takes too much time to go back and forth.

Basically, the first Nobel Prize in Physics invited the world's most important physicists today.

This is a hundred times more grand and spectacular than the last London Quantum Conference.

Everyone is waiting for Li Qiwei's speech, hoping that he can make another earth-shaking statement.

Since he won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, some people have carefully summarized his deeds and came up with two words: intuition and self-confidence.

He always relies on his intuition to discover the most core problems and solutions in physics.

Moreover, he has extreme confidence in his theory, and even if the whole world opposes it, it will not shake him at all.

When these two qualities are combined in a physicist, the person born is either a madman or a genius.

Obviously, Li Qiwei belongs to the latter.

But even a genius would be stumped by tomorrow's speech.

Ridgway even asked Einstein, Wilson and others.

Unfortunately, they all smiled and said, “Bruce, that’s your own business.”

So he locked himself in the room and asked Wang Luyao and others not to disturb him.

I kept writing and drawing on paper, thinking and revising it over and over again.

On December 12-7, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Karolinska Institute of Medicine, and the Swedish Academy of Letters each held keynote speeches by Nobel Prize winners.

Among them, Ridgway will give a speech at the Royal Academy of Sciences together with Roentgen, Planck and others, as well as Chemistry Prize winner Van't Hof.

This time, Ridgway will go beyond the limits of physics.

Officially send out your own voice to the world, the voice of China!

For the needs of the plot, the location of the Nobel Prize was changed. In real history, the concert hall and the city hall were not built until 20 years later. The early Nobel Prizes were all held in a big hotel. But it would be too low-class if it was written that way. So I hope everyone understands that the author is not making it up.

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