Ultimate Scholar

As Ding Cheng's self-introduction ended, Li Mu said: "I have already read your information. Your past results are very good, and you have become an associate researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 29. You can indeed be called It’s quite excellent.”

"So, for this reason, why should you choose our Sheshan Research Institute?"

A very common question in interviews, why are you here?

Especially for someone like Ding Cheng who had a great time in his last place.

Facing this question asked by Li Mu, Ding Cheng was filled with resentment.

Of course, his anger was not directed at Li Mu, but at Zhao Shaocheng.

If it weren't for Zhao Shaocheng, why would he come here?

As a result, more than half of the projects he had already completed had to be handed over to another person.

Even if Zhao Shaocheng said that he would give him a better project after he returned, he also promised to approve more funds for him and guaranteed that he would be promoted to a full researcher.

But he is already 29 years old, so how can he not see that this is just trying to make a fool of himself?

When he really goes back, how much project funding will be available, maybe if he develops well in the past few years, he will probably have to apply for almost that much funding by himself.

As for those who are full-time researchers, with his ability, it is only a matter of time that he stays for several years.

According to statistics, the average age for promotion to associate researcher is about 34 years old, while that of full researcher is 40 years old. He has now become an associate researcher five years early, and it is no problem to become a full researcher a few years earlier.

But now, what he has lost is at least two years of time to produce results.

"Mr. Ding?"

Li Mu's voice woke up Ding Cheng.

He hurriedly said: "Oh, sorry, Professor Li, I came to Sheshan Research Institute mainly because the research environment here should be better, and I have seen the relevant plans of the Research Institute before and have a general understanding. This will become a purer scientific research unit in the future.”

"This is one of the reasons why I want to come here. After all, we scientific researchers like to devote all our attention to pure research."

Hearing his words, Wu Mengyuan next to him couldn't help but smile: "You mean, the physics institute you stayed at before was not pure enough."

Ding Cheng was stunned and waved his hands quickly: "No, no, it's just that Professor Li is the dean of Sheshan Research Institute after all, and I believe in Dean Li."

Of course, in his heart he fully recognized Wu Mengyuan's words. After experiencing this incident, the research institute had become impure in his heart.

Li Mu smiled. He knew the truth. He knew almost everything about what Ding Cheng was thinking.

Of course, he didn't point it out directly, and then said: "Thank you for your trust, then the next question."

Next, there are more professional questions, of course, they are also about the questions in the last written test.

As for Ding Cheng, he chose condensed matter issues during the written examination.

The problem Li Mu had at that time was related to superconductors.

Under the guidance of his superconducting theory, some people who specialize in superconductivity in condensed matter physics have lost their direction, while others have begun to try to study how to synthesize better superconductors based on his superconducting theory, and even There are also some people trying to synthesize room temperature superconductors.

But even with Li Mu's theory of superconductivity, the probability of synthesizing a room-temperature superconductor is as low as winning a 5 million lottery ticket in a row.

Of course, in order to achieve success, many people are still trying, hoping to become the lucky one.

And Ding Chengcheng is one of them.

In this way, after a few questions, Ding Cheng's professionalism was recognized by Li Mu and Wu Mengyuan.

This is indeed a real talent.

The amount of knowledge is very solid.

"very nice."

Li Mu nodded and said, "It can be seen that you have studied my superconducting theory very deeply."

"You have a good way of researching and understanding these things."

A sincere smile appeared on Ding Cheng's face: "Dean Li is the scholar I admire most, and I study condensed matter, and I also do a lot of research on superconductors. Your superconducting theory is a must for me." watch."

Li Mu nodded.

"That's good."

Putting down the information in his hand, Li Mu asked with a smile: "Your interview is over. You can go back and wait for news."

Ding Cheng nodded: "Okay, thanks for your hard work, Dean Li and all the academicians."

He bowed procedurally, but just as he was about to leave, Li Mu suddenly said, "By the way, what do you think of room temperature superconductors?"

Ding Cheng was stunned. He turned around when he was about to leave and faced Li Mu again. After thinking for a moment, he said: "I thought normal temperature superconductors were impossible in the past. However, now with your guidance on superconductivity theory, Theoretically speaking, room-temperature superconductivity does exist, but if you want to combine electron pairs in a room-temperature environment, the conditions are a bit harsh, and you may need to develop a new material structure to achieve it."

"Of course, personally, I still firmly believe that room-temperature superconductors can definitely be developed. After all, we who engage in scientific research always have to have dreams."

Li Mu smiled and nodded, "Okay."

Ding Cheng bowed again and left the conference room.

Seeing that there were many interviewers outside, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It really deserves to be Li Mu’s research institute.

Although he doesn't know if he can pass, thinking back on his answers during the interview just now, they should be pretty good. The only problem is that he was distracted for once, which may leave a bad impression.

By the way, he seemed to have praised Li Mu several times just now. Will he be regarded as a flatterer?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel worried.

However, his flattery is only subconscious. I believe no one can remain indifferent when facing Li Mu, right?

It was definitely not his intention.

But soon, he smiled bitterly and shook his head. Why should he care about Li Mu's opinion? If he really couldn't pass the interview, it wouldn't be what he wanted?

Shaking his head, he left here.

In the conference room.

"This Ding Cheng is indeed quite good."

Wu Mengyuan said to Li Mu after Ding Cheng left: "Compared to those people who blew you away before, he is relatively restrained."

Li Mu laughed and shook his head.

He was completely immune to Ding Cheng's words that praised him, because after this interview, there were many such people.

They all understood that maybe some people did this intentionally to try to win Li Mu's favor, but in fact, more people did it from the bottom of their hearts.

So it's hard for them to say anything about this kind of thing.

"However, this kid came from the Institute of Physics and is a subordinate of that old guy Zhao Shaocheng. Could he have an ulterior motive?"

Wu Mengyuan said after looking at Ding Cheng's resume again.

In this regard, Li Mu just said: "It doesn't matter. If so, I would like to thank Zhao Shaocheng for sending me a talent."

"That's right." Wu Mengyuan nodded and smiled: "This person admires you so much, he might even become your person when the time comes."

Everyone present laughed.

The interview continued.

And the next interviewer, a beautiful figure walked in.

It was Li Ruyu.

She has already graduated, and she also graduated with a Ph.D. It only took her three years to get from a master's degree to a Ph.D.

After all, with Chen Shanping's resource allocation and her own hard work, it would not be difficult to complete her doctoral degree ahead of schedule.

In addition, Chen Shanping himself left Beijing University and came here, so of course she followed him.

However, although Li Mu could arrange for her to come in directly, Li Ruyu himself requested to go through the process to avoid being said to have used the back door.

Just... take a look now.

The dean is his brother, and the director of the biology department is his former mentor.

How to lose?

Rather than going through the back door, it's better to go through the back door.

However, in order to prevent this "back door" from being established, Li Mu specifically asked Li Ruyu a bunch of difficult and explosive questions during the questioning process, so that in the end, Li Ruyu looked at him with some resentment in his eyes. \b

Of course, no matter what, as someone who can publish "Nature" on her own and has become a rising star of the younger generation in domestic biology, she still answered these questions in an orderly manner.

She, Li Ruyu, will never give in!

…

Time passed quietly.

The ten-day interview was finally over.

After a period of screening, Li Mu finally identified only 90 people.

Although he said he wanted to recruit 100 people, he also preferred to have fewer people than too many, so even if he didn't recruit enough 100 people, he wouldn't ask for more.

In this way, it took more than two months to complete the recruitment of the first batch of researchers, and then the official start time was determined.

The day after the Lantern Festival in 2024!

…

"The people I arranged went in, but only one person got in, and the other four people didn't get in."

"Only two of the people I arranged came in."

"None of my people got in..."

There are still the same people in the conference room, and they are summarizing how many people they arranged to go in after this interview.

Obviously, at present, the situation is somewhat unsatisfactory.

There are too few people who pass the interview, right?

"The guy said he was recruiting 100 people, but in fact he only recruited 90 people in total, which was 10 short of the quota."

"But he doesn't plan to start a second recruitment now. He may be planning to wait until the spring recruitment next year to continue."

"In addition, he just hired the two people who I think have the best potential. "

"Same here."

"Same here."

…

For a moment, they were all silent.

It seems that the best talents under their command were all selected by Li Mu, while those who were slightly worse did not get in?

Finally, someone waved his hand and said, "Forget it, don't think too much about it. After all, the resume and everything are placed in front of Li Mu. He can see the talent. This is quite reasonable. Let's not think too much about it."

"And since they are all talented people, they might be able to take charge of some more important issues in the future."

"I hope so. "

They comfort themselves like this.

"When the time comes for their spring recruitment, we will just arrange some more people, and then the conditions should be lowered."

"Um."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

For a moment, they all seemed to see the Sheshan Research Institute, gradually growing from its current high-rise building to entertain guests, to its final collapse.

…

After the interview is over, the Spring Festival of 2024 will also arrive.

Li Mu, who has not been home for the Chinese New Year in two years, feels the atmosphere of home again during this Spring Festival.

After some persuasion, my parents were finally willing to put down their original jobs and start enjoying themselves.

Their family also moved into a single-family villa with a beautiful and quiet environment, which can be regarded as a high-end villa area in Qin'an.

Li Mu also bought a house in the community for his grandparents.

Rich and willful.

Of course, it was also because he and Li Ruyu probably couldn't go home often, so the two generations were allowed to live closer.

As for his grandparents, they were in other provinces, so they didn't come to Qin'an.

On the balcony of the bedroom, Li Mu was sitting here, admiring the winter scenery outside, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand and drinking it.

This year can be considered a success, but calculating the time, as the dean, he has to return to the Research Institute five days early, so he can only stay at home for three more days.

I closed my eyes and my mind sank into the simulated space.

"Based on previous results, the method of using zinc chloride will not work. However, what if I try using zinc oxide as a catalyst..."

"Zinc will be formed during the catalytic reaction of zinc oxide, and then zinc oxide will be re-formed... The boiling point of zinc is 903°, and that of zinc oxide is more than 2,000 degrees. That is to say, at more than 900 degrees, zinc It will turn into steam, and then... Although the last thing to participate in the reaction is zinc, because in the process of catalytic reaction to precipitate zinc, the rate of zinc production just meets the theoretical requirements, and the temperature and pressure also meet the theoretical requirements. It should be possible to request..."

Although Li Mu mainly needs zinc vapor, the LSC superconducting alloy has extremely strict requirements on the internal structure, and there must be almost no mistakes. Otherwise, the electrons in it will easily not form electron pairs due to stress, and It can't be superconducting.

Therefore, zinc vapor is not important. What is important is how to integrate zinc into the alloy completely according to the rhythm.

"Try it first..."

With this thought in his mind, Li Mu started to do it.

Zinc oxide can serve as a catalyst for many reactions, but he needs to find a reaction that can proceed at a temperature of more than 900 degrees.

This condition is relatively harsh, but it does not trouble Li Mu.

Soon, he designed a new experiment, and then, "The 1824th experiment officially began."

Li Mu's eyes were observing the industrial assembly line designed by him.

Molten copper, iron, and necessary niobium.

Of course, there is also the zinc vapor reaction that was finally changed by him.

Yes, he also designed the industrial preparation process.

In this way, the reaction begins. Under the acceleration of time, in the final shaping tank, the molten slurry water gradually cools and shapes.

Then, a metal with the same luster as LSC superconducting alloy appeared in front of him.

At the same time, the system in his mind sounded.

"Congratulations to the host for completing the mission [The Miracle of Normal Temperature Superconductivity]!"

"This mission brought 35,000 energy points to the upgrade. The current upgrade progress is 115,725/100,000."

"The energy value has met the upgrade requirements. Do you want to upgrade? Note: You cannot downgrade after upgrading."

Li Mu was stunned for a while when he heard the sound of the system.

This sudden news made him unable to recover for a while, until he finally came to his senses...

Finally, he synthesized the legendary normal temperature superconductor?