Chapter 678 "Nature" Magazine(2/2)
Throwing some obviously funny manuscripts into the trash can, Archie Heywood's face was full of disgust. His daily work was more like cleaning up the trash than reviewing manuscripts, removing those that were obviously nothing.
Papers with scientific research value will be rejected.
I read a lot of papers in succession, and soon the trash can, which was not even a small one, was filled with all kinds of emails.
He has gradually lost patience.
Anyone who deals with this kind of garbage every day will lose patience.
Opening an email again, the label from the ancient Eastern country cheered him up.
"It's actually an email sent from Xia Kingdom? There's actually a postman there? It's really strange. Doesn't it mean that they can't even afford food? Can they still do scientific research?"
In this era, both the official and the private sector are trying their best to exaggerate a stereotype about the Xia Kingdom - for example, the people there have braids, for example, it is still a slave society, backward, barbaric and ignorant...
Archie Heywood simply couldn't imagine that in such an isolated place, someone was actually doing scientific research. He couldn't even imagine how the letter traveled across the ocean from Xia Kingdom to his hands.
With a bit of ridicule and contempt, Archie Heywood casually opened the paper in his hand.
"A single-layer graphene structure prepared by micromechanical exfoliation? Oh, there are at least thirty laboratories around the world studying graphene. We have the most advanced equipment and the best talents in the world, and I have never heard of anyone preparing it.
Without graphene, why does your Xia country..."
With the intention of exposing the other party's lies, Archie Heywood continued to read with a mocking expression on his face.
Then he stopped laughing
The shocked expression stayed on his face for a long time. When he finally came to his senses, he immediately called his colleague Andrew Miller.
"Andrew, come here. You are from the Physics Department. Take this manuscript and take a look at it. I think there is something wrong with this."
Soon, a bearded man ran over. When he saw the postmark of Xia Guo, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "From Xia Guo?"
He picked up the manuscript and read it from beginning to end, and was immediately shocked.
This is graphene, a material that only remains in theory, and now someone has actually made it?
Simply incredible!
"It's unbelievable that Xia Guo's scientific research team is ahead of the rest of the world!"
Hearing Andrew Miller's comments, Archie Heywood couldn't help but ask: "Is there no problem?"
Andrew Miller said in a very positive tone: "There is no problem at all! This paper is too important and must be handed over to more influential experts and scholars for appraisal."
Since Andrew Miller said so, Archie Heywood chose to believe his judgment and then suggested: "How about leaving it to Professor Andre? He is the backbone of the Physics Department of the University of Manchester, regardless of academic status.
Regardless of professional ability, he is the most suitable candidate."
University of Manchester, Department of Physics.
In the office, Professor Andre was sorting out his files, while his assistant was cleaning the office and complaining to him: "Bruno Jewett is really too much. Not only did he steal our experiments
He also took away the experimental funds that should have belonged to us."
Andre sighed and said: "Bruno Jewett is conducting a secret research and has received strong support from several school directors. As for our space and funding, we can only apply to the school again."
As a scientist of furbear origin who is engaged in academic work in England, it is completely normal to feel a little aggrieved occasionally.
The assistant was still unwilling to give in and wanted to continue scolding, but then a phone call suddenly came from the guard room to inform: "Professor Andre, there is your email in the duty room."
Andre was a little confused: "Give it to me? Are you sure?"
"certainly."
"Okay, I'll ask my assistant to pick it up right now."
Soon, the assistant took the mail back. When Andre saw the postmark on it and found that it was from the editorial department of "Nature" magazine, he felt even more surprised.
After reading the paper inside, Andre was so excited that he couldn't help himself: "Someone has actually isolated the single-layer structure of graphene! And it's a scientist from Xia State! This is simply a miracle!"
As a physicist, he is very familiar with graphene!
And it was precisely because of his familiarity that he understood the value of this paper even more.
What shocked him even more was that this paper was written by scientists from Xia State. It was Xia State scientists who first developed a method to peel off the single-layer structure of graphene!
Countries with advanced technology such as Europe and the United States used the world's most advanced equipment and recruited the world's best talents to conduct research on graphene materials one after another. In the end, Xia Guo's team of scientists took the lead?
This is unbelievable!
In the email sent by Nature magazine, the editor requested Andre to conduct a preliminary verification of the methods in the paper to determine the authenticity of the paper.
Of course Andre would not refuse this request, and he himself couldn't wait to use the method in the paper to try to extract the single-layer structure of graphene.
Andre immediately found the school, explained the request of Nature magazine, and then applied for the school's laboratory to conduct verification research.
With the endorsement of Nature magazine, the school naturally gave Andre the green light.
This incident quickly alarmed the entire physics department.
That is graphene, a two-dimensional carbon material that has only remained in theory before. Countless people are curious about this imaginative material.
Of course Bruno Jewett also knew the news.
He knew that everything in the paper was true without any verification.
Looking at the busy people in the laboratory in front of him, he suddenly felt irritable for no reason.
In the end, it was the group of Xia people who did it first.
He hurriedly hurriedly during this period, and even went to Xia Kingdom to poach people. All of this seemed to be meaningless all of a sudden.
However, he soon remembered something else.
This paper is now in Andre's hands!
It has not been published in Nature magazine yet!
In other words, no one in the world knows that anyone has isolated the single-layer structure of graphene.
Then, just get rid of Andre and let him hold the paper in his hands...
Thinking of this, Bruno Jewett turned and walked towards Andre's laboratory.
Chapter completed!