Chapter 533

Thank you letters from Johns Hopkins are, of course, rare.

No professor is free to write a thesis and write a pile of thank-you letters at home. A paper often has more than ten or even dozens of references. If you write a paper, you have to thank the author of the references, then the efficiency of scholars is too low.

Four professors who participated in the experiment wrote thank-you letters at the same time, which is even more rare. In essence, they were forced to do so.

Because the repeatability of the experiment is too high, we have to use Yang Rui's idea, not to mention the experimental methods and steps.

With so many other people's things and the publication of cell, the research group of Hopkins University can't help being criticized if they don't write to explain it.

Half of the Peking University professors who can read the thank-you note have guessed the purpose of the thank-you note.

I'm sorry for the explanation and explanation, with a kind of "we did use your method, we thank you and acknowledge your contribution, but this is the result of our achievements".

The four professors at Hopkins University did not hide this.

Top journals need to be innovative and demanding, but the results are also very important for top journals. David, a British chemist, used electrolysis method to produce sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium and strontium, which has a great reputation. But as early as 20 years ago, French scientist Maupassant used this method to produce fluorine.

It's obviously unfair to say that David's research is worthless, but if people need to criticize David, there are a lot to say.

Now, the times are different. With more and more in-depth scientific research, there are more and more categories and even fields, and scientists can fully open up to study their own things. Therefore, there are fewer cases of hitting the wall.

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

However, the outcome is always decisive.

The research group of Hopkins University was originally doing research on potassium ion and other aspects, and they were very concerned about the research of hot spots in the field. Therefore, after Yang Rui published his first paper in JMC, they began to reserve theory, so that they could quickly follow up after Yang Rui published his big paper in cell.

However, it's really difficult to mutate genes, identify mutated genes, clone genes and so on. There are thousands of key points in the middle. Four people and more than ten research dogs have been busy for half a year, and they can't get the final conclusion.

Faced with millions of dollars in funding, as well as fierce competitors, even the Hopkins research group has been forced to succumb to reality.

Of course, they didn't plan to copy Yang Rui's research completely at the beginning. However, when their own road was blocked, they also lacked other options.

Scientific research has always been a kind of work with low fault tolerance rate. It is too expensive. No matter 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 fierce the research competition.

The winner of them can easily get millions, tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of dollars.

However, once the failure comes, once the winner becomes the loser, the reduction of funds will not be gentlemanly. It will become hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions. It is almost like nothing.

The life of laboratory poison is more difficult than that of box office poison.

If Hopkins professors have one or two years, they may not need to use Yang Rui's experimental method any more. However, they don't have one or two years.

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

If we think about it in this way, we may see more twin papers in the future.

Professors who think of this have different expressions.

"Is the original letter with you?" The headmaster put down the copy and asked.

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

The headmaster, who was also a student, read it again and said, "give it to the foreign publicity department and find a way to publish it."

Professor Cai awoke in an instant, said "good" and said with a smile, "this is interesting."

"It's going to be big news." Principal Pang came sour. Before that, he was a supporter of Richard, Yang Rui's research competitor. In order to cooperate with Berkeley University of California, President Pang even provided funds to Richard.

However, Richard spent a lot of money, but he lost the competition in scientific research. He had to go back to China in frustration, and now he has not got up.In contrast, Yang Rui won without the support of the school and the government. Now he has won praise from many sides. Principal Pang's face is very ugly.

Fortunately, he is still the vice principal, and normal people will not mention this in front of him. However, it is inevitable that his prestige will be damaged.

Professor Cai didn't even pay attention to him. He just said with a smile, "it's just the right time to use the Hopkins professors as a cushion to help them make a good publicity and let everyone know about Johns Hopkins University."

The best way to publicize the winner is to publicize the strength of the enemy. For example, Chen Jingrun's propaganda indirectly publicized Goldbach's theorem and even attracted the attention of numerous folk mathematicians.

Johns Hopkins University is hardly famous in China. I think this situation will be improved after a round of publicity.

Think of the professors at Hopkins University, who are writing papers with yellow beards and sad brows, and are known to the Chinese as a result. They are inexplicably excited.

As China's top scholars, we all have a relatively objective understanding of Hopkins.

To put it simply, the research group of Hopkins University dare not say that the earth is the strongest, that is also the strongest of the earth. The weight of "having to fully adopt Yang Rui's plan" was beyond the imagination of the participants.

"The scholars of Hopkins University recognize the research and teaching level of Peking University." Professor Cai pulled the topic back again and took the hot train: "we can't drive people out by ourselves."

This time, even if there were objections, they could not speak, and the headmaster nodded slightly.

"An independent laboratory for a high-level scholar, also earn, right?" Professor Cai got a bargain, and by the way, he teased everyone.

The professor of Physics Department said feebly: "that also requires him to stay in Peking University."

"There are still three years to go before graduation..." Professor Cai chuckled twice and said nothing.

"That's settled." The principal's consideration is over. It's a decision.

Professor Cai said: "we must have run this independent laboratory well."

"All the expenses this time are extra funds, which must be done well." The headmaster calculated the expenses by himself. He had a slight pain and added a yard.

Professor Cai patted his chest with a smile. In fact, he was a little worried and said, "Yang Rui has prepared the project, but it takes a lot of time to apply for funds. Please give priority to the school funds."

"Now who dares to take advantage of Yang Rui's project?" Headmaster Pang came in a strange way, but that's all. 150000 dollars and short sentences like the US ambassador to China are as sharp as daggers.

In just two days, the first 50000 yuan of funding from the school was sent to Yang Rui's private account, the absolute priority channel.

It seems a little illegal, but in fact, until the end of the 1990s, scientific research funds were in such a mode that it was difficult to apply, but once the application came down, it was very difficult to supervise how to use it. Without strict discipline, not only the researchers but also the financial personnel of the unit found it troublesome for the public accounts.

In the state of people calling for "invoice" in all railway stations across the country, process supervision naturally does not exist. In most cases, we can only allocate funds by stages, and then look at the results by stages. In the final analysis, it is the results.

If you spend 5000 yuan, you have to make 5000 yuan; If you spend 50000 yuan, please make 50000 yuan; If you spend 500000 yuan, please make 500000 yuan; With 5000000 yuan of funds, please make 5000000 yuan of things!

As for what kind of thing is worth 5000 yuan and what kind of thing is worth five million yuan, in the final analysis, it depends on the paper and its influencing factors.

However, Yang Rui didn't use the 50000 yuan this time. Instead, he transferred it to the Department and let the department decide.

On the one hand, he has a bright future and is not willing to be contaminated with black and white funds. On the other hand, his rights and obligations are equal. Schools and departments depend on funds to survive. If researchers do not submit their contributions, how can they maintain such a scientific research system?

No system in the world is perfect. Yang Rui is not a politician, and he has no intention to confront and change it. It's better to let the departments make their own decisions and distribution.

5 Ten thousand yuan is dispensable to Yang Rui, but it's a huge sum for most of the college students with a salary of one or two hundred yuan.

The allocation of this money is also naturally publicized: Yang Rui, a freshman of our school, will independently preside over the ion channel Laboratory of the Department of biology, with a funding of 250000 yuan and a research funding of 180000 yuanIn less than half a day, the whole school knew about it.

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