Chapter 532

No one repeated Yang Rui's paper on potassium channel, which has always been a thorn in Professor Cai's heart.

Yang Rui is too young, and the temptation of cell is too great. On the long and lonely mountain road of scientific research, there are too many people who can't stand the hardship or the temptation, and no one can guarantee that thesis fraud will not happen.

Maybe it's not comprehensive fraud - it's also easy to identify. The most hidden danger is that the big part is true and the small part is false.

Every pioneering paper, even a small paper, may have hundreds of key points, some of which are even too small for ordinary people to imagine. For example, should the small box with experimental objects in the instrument be flat bottomed or round bottomed? The small can't make any small difference, but the result will be very different.

If the project cannot break through the key points for a long time, or there is a lack of funds, the temptation of fraud will be greatly enhanced.

Yang Rui's paper on potassium channel has clear and logical design, which is an advantage. But the key point is, did he break all of them in half a year? Nobody knows.

Professor Cai is a scholar. He is a scientist in his favorite words. Scientists are scientific and rational, not sentimental.

Only repeated experiments can prove Yang Rui.

The more excellent repeated experiments, more and more repeated experiments, is a more powerful proof than the paper itself.

And the repeated experiment of potassium channel really made Professor Cai wait for a long time.

Of course, in terms of absolute time, it's not too long. For those non hot papers, sometimes there are no repeated experiments at all. Even if there are, it's not surprising that they are delayed for several years.

Yang Rui's paper is very novel, so that people rush to do repeated experiments. However, it takes a long time for this thing to kill. It's too slow.

Now it can be done. Yang Rui was also surprised and asked, "has it been published? Where is it? "

"It's still a 17 page article published in cell." Professor Cai chuckled and added: "it can only be on cell, and the design is basically the same as yours."

Professor Cai said and laughed.

Someone had been listening to their conversation for a long time. At this time, someone unconsciously came to congratulate Yang Rui: "repeated experiments have been published in cell, and your next paper will also be published in cell."

"Thank you." Yang Rui can't argue with them about their privacy.

80 People in the s didn't have this concept. When you quarreled in your bedroom, someone eavesdropped on the wall with a glass. It was Hopkins University that did the repeated experiment of potassium channel.

If Harvard University is the big brother in the field of education, Hopkins University is the big brother in the field of research.

As the first research university in the United States, Hopkins University has spent the most money on research in the United States for 33 consecutive years. Of course, its output is amazing. Dozens of Nobel laureates only represent its cutting-edge level. More than 3000 faculty members work hard for research, which is its most terrible place.

It is not polite to say that the research strength of a Hopkins University in the 1980s exceeded that of a third world country. For example, in Malaysia in the 1980s, the level of scientists in its National Academy of Sciences was not as good as that of second-line professors in Hopkins University, and its research funding, paper output, number of patent applications, the number of patents, the number of patents, the number of patents, etc Awards and so on, also inferior to Hopkins University.

Many people may not know or care about the existence of Hopkins University among the people, but in the research field, especially in the strong research fields of Hopkins University, such as medicine, health and biology, countless people pay attention to its every move.

The professor of Hopkins University repeated Yang Rui's paper and published it in cell. This news is no less than a heavy award.

"Our reward, it's time to cash it." At the university level meeting, Professor Cai was very energetic.

This semester is definitely a brilliant one for biology department.

The leaders of other departments have nothing to say. Hopkins University has acknowledged Yang Rui's thesis, and they have no sufficient reason to stop Professor Cai's attack.

After taking the opportunity to show off a few words and say two more gossips, Professor Cai coughed and said, "I have a proposal. Please discuss it."

"For the students of biology, it's up to the biology department to decide for themselves."

"It's not easy for our biology department to make a decision for the university level laboratory." Professor Cai said with a smile: "before I decided to give Yang Rui a separate independent laboratory. I've been dragging on like this. Now it's time to fulfill it.""School level laboratory? Is it necessary? " The Department of physics has always consumed resources, and the competition for resources is also quite active.

Professor Cai said seriously: "it's necessary. Yang Rui's research team is now under the Tang centralized laboratory. If anyone goes to the laboratory building, you can see that under the brand of Lao Tang's laboratory, there are the brands of the cooperative laboratories of Tokyo University and Stanford University in Japan. Is the brand of our university's laboratory more powerful than that of Tokyo University and Stanford University? I don't think so. "

In the past, Professor Cai did not dare to fight for it. He was just waiting for the feedback of Yang Rui's paper.

This is always the case in the academic circle. From Nobel Prize to professional title, everyone has the habit of waiting for proof.

Even if the proof comes, not everyone will be rewarded.

It was Yang Rui who published the top journals that got extra attention.

The principal thought about it for a moment and said, "do you want to increase the funding for the university level laboratory?"

Professor Cai said: "yes, initially it can be 180000 yuan a year."

20 Wan Tai was so exciting that he reduced the amount by 20000. This is the basic money that we have to give every year. The so-called school level laboratory requires the school to pay for it. If it is upgraded to become a provincial laboratory, the province will give more money, but the money of the school is generally not less; If it's a ministry level laboratory, which Ministry will put up the brand and which Ministry will pay for it again. If it's a national level laboratory, such as the one applied by Tang Jianli now, the central government's annual funding will exceed one million, and it will increase year by year, and the support of schools can't be less.

Universities and scientific research are such a big gold gobbler, and they will never stop. It can be said that this is an industry that can not be given enough money.

Headmaster noncommittal way: "this year's construction budget is not much left."

Professor Cai said with a smile: "we are going to rebuild an old warehouse. In addition, we can use a little money to accumulate. After that, the school will give us another two or three hundred thousand."

This is a necessary expense for a new laboratory, but it is definitely an extra expense. The director of the physics department listened anxiously and said, "if your biology department wants to do a laboratory, you can do it. If you want the school to pay for it, you should wait until the end of this fiscal year and do it next year!"

When he started, someone immediately said, "it's better to set up the framework of the laboratory first, and then grade it after next year's evaluation. At that time, the school level will be the school level, and the provincial level will be the provincial level."

"That's no good. It's not graded. How can we determine the framework of the laboratory?" Professor Cai doesn't give a chance to make trouble.

In China, rank is a very important identification code, just like the rank in the army. The rank may not be 100% accurate, but its accuracy is more than 50%.

Although the university level laboratory is a very low-level laboratory, its significance is different. In particular, the university level laboratory of Peking University can deceive a lot of people when it is taken out. Its basic equipment and other conditions can also be guaranteed. If it is well done, it can move along the provincial and ministerial level laboratory, core laboratory, National Laboratory and other aspects.

Without the prefix of "school level", this independent laboratory will not be very different from the laboratory of a city or county or a middle school in essence, and it does not even have the qualification to evaluate the advanced laboratory.

In other words, whether there is a school level prefix means whether the laboratory has growth.

The principal was silent.

Others saw this and said: "the reward is the reward, but Yang Rui is not a teacher in our school, and there is no establishment. Let him independently preside over a school level laboratory. What's the matter? Maybe it's going to be rejected. "

"You say that Yang Rui is not a teacher in our school, but he is not a professor in Hopkins University." If Professor Cai had not prepared his mace, he would not have been full of confidence.

With these words, Professor Cai opened his briefcase and said: "in Hopkins University, the scientific research group that has repeated the experiment of potassium channel has specially sent a letter praising Peking University and Yang Rui. I have made several copies for you to see."

What he took out was a thick stack of dozens, which made people smell a strong sense of showing off.

It's really worth showing off.

Because it's a text full of positive energy and praise.

A total of four people in the Hopkins University research group, after elaborating their original intention to repeat the experiment, said a lot of good things.

Handwritten letter of praise, hundreds of words, all good words, also admirable.

They praised the logic and delicacy of the experiment designed by Yang Rui and called it "an exquisite experiment comparable to Cavendish torsion scale"; They also praised Yang Rui's strictness and fault tolerance in his experiment, claiming to have obtained similar or even the same results many times. While complaining about "interfering with our experiment", they also congratulated Yang Rui for having few laboratory staff, otherwise "our experiment would be meaningless"; Finally, the corresponding author of this paper, Professor Wollaston of Hopkins University, highly praised Peking University, calling it "a first-class university that has cultivated first-class scholars"!Professor Cai feels that his vanity has been satisfied to the greatest extent. If you look at other people's expressions, what you understand is about the same satisfaction. If you don't understand, you have to look at other people's expressions and pretend to be satisfied.

The letter of thanks from Johns Hopkins University in the United States is no better recognition for the gentlemen of Peking University.

Comrade president is also shaking his head to see the way his eyes turn. Obviously, he has seen it more than once.

"Yang Rui's experiment is very difficult." After the principal was satisfied, he began to explore the story behind the letter of thanks.

Professor Cai said with a smile: "it's very difficult. The research group of Hopkins University originally designed a new method. As a result, the new method encountered too many problems. In order to catch up with the progress and compete for the second place, they had to adopt Yang Rui's plan in the end."

Exclamation and light laughter, happened to ring.

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