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Chapter 938 - 355 Nobel Physics Prize Announcement Day - Part 2

"What, Qiao really won the Nobel Prize?" Zhang Zhou immediately leaned over.

At this time, Gu Zhengliang had already opened his phone. It was a push notification from the browser, but seeing that the news source was the central media, the two could basically be sure it was true.

"According to a report by our correspondent in Sweden: Just now, the chairman of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Huaxia mathematician Qiao Ze, Huaqing University physics professor Yang Xuanqing, and American mathematical physicist Edward Witten have won this year's Physics Prize.

Professor Qiao Ze's award reason is to thank him for solving the Yang-Mills Equations and the mass gap problem, and for proposing the quantum theory of containment, predicting the existence of containment graviton and providing a method for verifying its existence.

Professor Edward Witten and Professor Yang Xuanqing's award reason is that the team they led successfully found evidence of the containment graviton."

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"Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, he actually won the Nobel Prize! A twenty-year-old Nobel laureate! Qiao is awesome!" After quickly scanning the brief news, Zhang Zhou blurted out a curse word.

No matter how much Qiao Ze downplays the award, it's still the Nobel Prize after all.

For ordinary college students, even if the Nobel Prize really becomes a trivial award in the future, at least right now it's not something they can dare to imagine.

Not to mention that the predecessors have already researched the slightly simpler things.

The things left for future generations are super difficult. Just learning the knowledge left by predecessors has already drained many people, let alone to go further based on the predecessors' work.

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and announce this good news in the group."

Gu Zhengliang said as he quickly opened WeChat, only to find that they were already late to the news.

Although it was only 5:59 in the afternoon, considering Swedish time is six hours ahead of Huaxia time, it had only been fourteen minutes since the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the news, but the group chats of several classes were already lively.

Whether it was the basic class group chat or the Qiao Class group chat, both were enthusiastically discussing this news.

Especially in the Qiao Class group chat, even Dou Dou was @mentioned to join the discussion.

"Professor Qiao won the Nobel Prize, so strong."

"Isn't it expected? When Professor Qiao released the general solution of the Yang-Mills Equations, there were already academicians saying it belonged to the Nobel achievement."

"No, Nobel achievement is one thing, but the Nobel Prize is another, okay? After all, it's the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences reluctantly giving the award to Professor Qiao."

"Exactly, Professor Qiao is formidable."

"Doesn't anyone want to discuss Professor Witten and that Professor Yang? I feel like their Nobel Prize was just picked up on the way. @Dou Dou, I remember you posted those contents on Weibo before, didn't Professor Qiao already give suggestions on how to verify it?"

"Haha, that's right. But those suggestions were just general directions, actually designing experiments and verifications still need some brainstorming. Besides, it's just a Nobel Prize, look at how unambitious you all are. Let me tell you, since you all got into Qiao Class, you'll be candidates for awards like the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize in the future as well.

So these are not important, if one of you becomes a Qiao Ze Natural Science Award winner in the future, then that's the world's strongest scientist, so keep working hard. Friendly reminder, the National Day holiday is almost over, have you finished your homework? (side eye)"

"Dou Director is awesome!"

"Dou Director has such a high perspective! Learn from Dou Director."

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Looking at the flattery in the WeChat group, Gu Zhengliang glanced at the unfinished papers and then looked up at Zhang Zhou, instantly not daring to speak up in the group anymore.

After all, they really hadn't finished their homework.

But the flattery in the group gave Zhang Zhou an idea: "I'm going to congratulate Qiao and Su Committee Member."

This is where the two of them are more privileged than others.

As Qiao Ze's former roommate, they have Qiao Ze's WeChat, but they rarely contact him without a reason, mostly for fear of interrupting Professor Qiao's research. But today's situation clearly qualifies as special circumstances.

Gu Zhengliang just shrugged and said: "Qiao is getting married on October 10th, and October 5th, he got the Nobel Prize announcement. How to say, the Swedes are quite polite."

"Damn, that's a strange angle, but it makes sense. Isn't this setting up a difficult situation for us? The Swedes have sent such a big gift, do you think it's appropriate for us to go to the wedding empty-handed?"

"Cut, do you think Qiao would care about the little gifts from us?"

"Wow, look online, lots of people are saying Edward Witten and that Professor Yang from Huaqing are just riding Professor Qiao's coat tails for the Nobel Prize. Haha, look at this comment, I bet Professor Witten never thought he'd win the Nobel Prize in this way. Indeed, those followers in the physics community can't deliver, can't even verify one M-theory, bad review!"

Gu Zhengliang looked speechlessly at Zhang Zhou's plump smiling face...

Really, should we be distracted by these trivial matters at this time?

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Time rewinds to half an hour ago.

"Congratulations, Professor Witten. You have won this year's Nobel Prize. Looking forward to meeting you in Stockholm next March."

In fact, Edward Witten was a bit dazed earlier, and hadn't come around when he received the call.

He really didn't expect the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to award him the Nobel Prize in this manner this year.

Unlike Qiao Ze, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences notified him about the award via a call before the official announcement.

That was customary.

Perhaps they didn't call Qiao Ze because after everything that had happened between both parties, it would be awkward to make that call.

From the perspective of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, adding two more people to this year's Nobel Prize winners was also due to the pressure from the Qiaoze Natural Science Award.

Because it was the first year of awarding, and the Qiaoze Natural Science Award had no age restrictions, many scientists who had made significant achievements in the past were on the ranking list.

Especially many scientists from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Speaking of which, Princeton and Qiao Ze have a good relationship.

Their connection started with Qiao Ze's first paper on the preliminary nature of the Yang-Mills Equations, so they have maintained relatively close communication and contact. In such a case, many scholars at Princeton naturally didn't mind having their names listed and scored on the Qiaoze Natural Science Award's official website.

For the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the pressure was relatively large.

Especially in the case of someone like Edward Witten, a well-known physicist who has already won the Fields Medal. If he never got the Nobel Prize and it turned out M-theory was proven correct in the future or even partially correct, how would later generations view the Nobel Prize?

So they took the opportunity to award this year's Nobel Prize to Qiao Ze, and since one of the winning reasons already involved the discovery of gravitons, they also awarded it to Edward Witten.

As for Yang Xuanqing, he was also on the recommended list originally, and since Edward Witten collaborated with Yang Xuanqing for the discovery of gravitons, and the papers published at CERN were co-authored, according to the usual award rules, it was straightforward to award Yang Xuanqing as well, handling it smoothly and flawlessly.

Previously, wasn't it said that our Nobel Prize is unfair? That it's too rare to award people from the East? Now seeing two Huaxia scientists win the prize, there shouldn't be any more complaints, right?

Yes, for the Royal Academy of Sciences, they have considered this very carefully to protect their reputation.

Moreover, having three laureates a year for an award is normal, no one can say anything.

They really balanced things well, taking everything into account.

One can only say that competition indeed brings change.

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