The second week after the interview, the latest edition of Time magazine was released.
The person interviewed for this issue was quite special.
Because the person being interviewed wasn't a political leader, a movie star, or an entrepreneur in the capital market. Instead, it was a scholar.
Compared to other professions, this profession was undoubtedly far away from the public. An interview about a scientist or a scholar was often labeled as boring and rarely received attention.
However, surprisingly, after Julie Drake's interview came out, it still attracted a lot of attention.
When Lu Zhou received this magazine, he was on a flight from New York to Berlin. Because he had been busy with the report some time ago, he had almost forgotten about this after the interview.
It was an unexpected surprise for him to suddenly see this magazine while waiting in boredom.
Even though he didn't care much about the public's evaluation of him, Lu Zhou was still curious about what a world-class newspaper would say about him.
Lu Zhou flipped to the title page and read the text.
[… Three years ago, he didn't have any outstanding research results, and he didn't have the dazzling medals he has today. He didn't have countless young scholars and students visiting the Jin Ling University library just to sit in the chair he once sat in, hoping to borrow his ideas and ideas.]
[But now, three years later, not only did he have all of this, but he also used mathematics to describe a completely different world for everyone.
[Standing on the stage of the Stockholm Concert Hall, when he received the Crafoord Prize medal, not only did he receive recognition from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but he also received recognition from the entire world. Because the Goldbach's conjecture, which had troubled countless scholars, was finally solved by him.
[Now, his new achievements in the field of materials have turned lithium-sulfur batteries from a beautiful vision into a reality. Any consumer who uses electronic products is directly or indirectly enjoying the convenience brought by his research results.]
[In the academic community, there are very few scholars who can reach such heights at such a young age. After achieving success, they are not bound by fame and fortune. They still maintain the spirit of progress and transcendence, climbing the new Mount Everest on the road of science. There are very few such scholars in the world, even outside the boundaries of academia.]
[After all, sailing into unknown waters requires more than just the courage to accept failure.]
[Recently, he was invited by the Max Planck Institute to go to Europe to attend a report specifically for him. At the report, he will present his latest research results to the academic community, which is the theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure.]
[As he promised, he will redefine science with mathematics. Whether this is a successful attempt or not, he has fulfilled his original promise.]
"He's not just a person. He's a symbol."
[This symbol belongs to the new generation of scholars. It also belongs to this ever-changing era.]
[May our science be young forever, and may our future be even better.]
[Time Magazine International Edition, Julie Drake]
Lu Zhou looked at the international edition of Time Magazine in his hand and smirked.
Time magazine didn't make a positive evaluation of every interviewee, and there were many satirical articles. However, there was no doubt that this article about him was obviously positive.
Of course, what he was most satisfied with was the photo on the cover.
Whether it was the dense lines of formulas and letters on the blackboard, or the books and documents piled at the corner of the table, they all emphasized his identity as a mathematician. However, none of this made him look like an old-fashioned pedant or a nerd who was criticized by mainstream North America.
On the contrary, he was wearing his favorite plaid t-shirt. He looked no different from an ordinary science and engineering university student, not even a professor.
He held the unfinished piece of chalk in his right hand, and his left arm was raised like the captain of a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. However, instead of a parrot perching on his arm, it was the "little guy" from the Princeton drone club.
That's right, the name of the quad-rotor drone was "little guy".
Perhaps the editor of Time Magazine wanted to use the constantly rotating four rotors to symbolize his never-ending thinking.
Of course, Lu Zhou felt that all of this could actually be abstracted into one word.
As for what it was, he didn't need to explain it at all. Anyone who saw this photo would have the same idea.
Yeah, that's right.
The pronunciation of the word shuai was pronounced four times.
…
After a few hours of flight, a bright silver flight slowly landed at Tegel Airport in Berlin.
Lu Zhou carried his suitcase down the gangway. Shortly after he got off the plane, he was immediately warmly welcomed.
A group of people surrounded him. An old man with gray hair reached out his right hand from a distance and walked toward him with a smile on his face.
"Hello, Mr. Lu Zhou, welcome to Berlin."
Lu Zhou let go of the suitcase and shook hands with him. He smiled and spoke.
"Hello!"
Even though Lu Zhou didn't speak German, it didn't affect their communication.
After the routine greetings, the old man introduced himself and the scholars behind him to Lu Zhou.
"Please allow me to introduce myself, I am the president of the Max Planck Society, Martin Stratmann." Professor Stratmann paused for a second and looked at the person closest to him. He said, "This is Professor Klaus von Klitzing …"
Even though this was the first time they met, Lu Zhou had heard of Professor Martin Stratmann.
This big shot, who was the president of the Max Planck Society, was once the director of the famous Max Planck Institute for Steel Research. He was also an expert in the field of surface chemistry.
In his research field, the Kelvin scanning probe invented by him was widely used to study the hidden interface in corrosion science. It revealed the stability mechanism of the metal-polymer interface, and it achieved outstanding research results in the electrochemical properties of metal surfaces covered by ultra-thin electrolytes.
When Lu Zhou was researching computational materials science in the Firestone Library, he had read his thesis before, even though it was an English translation.
As for Professor Klitzing, there was no need to mention his achievements. Whether it was theoretical physics or condensed matter physics, as long as one studied quantum mechanics, his name would more or less appear in textbooks or literature.
Among his many research results, the most famous was the quantum Hall effect, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1985.
In addition to Klitzing, there was also Professor Ertl, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry, as well as Professor Faltings, who Lu Zhou had met before.
There was no change from last year. This old-fashioned and arrogant Germanic old man still had the same temper, and he always had the same expression that made it hard for anyone to get along with him.
"Hello."
"Oh, hello."
"We meet again."
"… Yeah, we meet again."
Lu Zhou thought that it would be more friendly to meet his "peer", but after a few short sentences, the two stopped talking.
However, for this arrogant old man, since he had appeared at the airport, it could be considered as his unique way of expressing his recognition of him, right?
After all, there weren't many people that this big shot would show respect to.
There weren't many people in the mathematics world that could do this.
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