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

No professor is going to be idle and write a bunch of thank-you notes at home when he writes a paper. A paper often has a dozen or even dozens of references, and if you have to thank the author of the reference for every time you write a paper, then the efficiency of scholars is too low.

It is even more rare for the four professors involved in the experiment to write thank-you letters at the same time, and in essence, they are actually forced to do so.

Because the repetitiveness of the experiment was too high, not to mention Yang Rui's concept, the experimental methods and experimental procedures had to be used in the end.

After using so many other people's things and publishing "Cell", the research team at Hopkins University will inevitably be criticized if they do not write a letter to explain it.

Half of the Peking University professors who read the thank you letter have already guessed the purpose of the thank you letter.

It's just embarrassing explanations and explanations, with a ventriloquism of "we did adopt your approach, we appreciate and acknowledge your contributions, but it's the result of ours."

The four professors at Hopkins University did not hide this either.

The British chemist David used electrolysis to prepare five elements of sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium and strontium, which broke the prestige, but as early as 20 years ago, the French scientist Moissant used this to produce fluorine.

It would be unfair to say that David's research has no value, but there is much to be said if one needs to criticize David.

Today, times are different. Scientific research is getting deeper and deeper, and there are more and more categories and even fields, and scientists can completely spread out to study their own things, so there are actually fewer cases of hitting the wall.

In such cases, the requirements for originality are often raised higher.

However, the result is always decisive.

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

However, the series of steps such as mutagenic genes, determining mutant genes, and cloning genes are indeed difficult, and there are thousands of key points in the middle.

Faced with millions of dollars in funding and rivals catching up, even the Hopkins research team has been forced to resign itself to reality.

Of course, they were not prepared to fully replicate Yang Rui's research in the first place, however, when their own path did not work, they really lacked other options.

Scientific research has always been a job with a low tolerance for error, it is too expensive, whether the investor is a state or an individual, no one will easily give a second chance to losers.

And the more research institutions like Hopkins, the more brutal the competition for scientific research becomes.

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

However, once the defeat comes, once the winner becomes the loser, the reduction of funds will not become hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, and it is almost the same as having nothing.

The life of a laboratory poison is much more difficult than the life of a box office poison.

Hopkins professors probably wouldn't have needed Yang Rui's experimental methods if they had a year or two, but they didn't have a year or two.

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

If you think about it this way, it seems likely that we will see more twin papers in the future in the expected time frame.

The professors who thought of this had different expressions.

"Is the original letter with you?" the headmaster asked, putting down the copy.

"I borrowed it temporarily. Professor Cai smiled and took it out and handed it to the principal.

The principal, who is also a person who has studied abroad, read it again and said, "Submit it to the External Propaganda Department and find a way to publish it." ”

Professor Cai woke up instantly, quickly said "yes", and said with a smile: "This is interesting." ”

"It's going to be big news. Principal Pang said sourly. Prior to that, he was a supporter of Yang Rui's rival in the scientific research competition, Richard, and President Pang even provided funds to Richard for cooperation with the University of California, Berkeley.

However, Richard spent a lot of money, but he lost the scientific research competition, and had to return to China in disgrace, and now he has not gotten up.

In contrast, Yang Rui did not have the support of the school and the government, but won the victory, and now he has been praised by many parties, and Principal Pang's face is very ugly.

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

Professor Cai didn't even pay attention to him, but just smiled and said, "It's just a good time to use the Hopkins professors as a foreshadowing to help them promote it and let everyone know about Johns Hopkins University." ”

To publicize the winner, the best way is to publicize the strength of the enemy, such as the propaganda of Chen Jingrun, which indirectly promoted Goldbach's theorem, and even attracted the attention of countless folk mathematicians.

Johns Hopkins University has little reputation in China, and I think this situation will improve after a round of publicity.

Thinking about the professors at Hopkins University with yellow beards and frowning to write papers, and because of this, they are known to the Chinese, everyone has an inexplicable sense of excitement.

As China's top scholars, everyone's understanding of Hopkins is relatively objective.

To put it simply, the research team at Hopkins University did not dare to say that the earth was the strongest, that is, the earth was the strongest, and the weight of "having to fully adopt Yang Rui's plan" was heavy, and the participants were a little unable to figure it out.

"Scholars at Hopkins University are very impressed with the quality of our research and teaching at Peking University. Professor Cai pulled the topic back again, and took the hot railway: "We can't drive people out by ourselves." ”

This time, even those who had objections were speechless, and the headmaster nodded slightly.

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

The professor of the Department of Physics said weakly: "Then I have to let him stay at Peking University." ”

"There are still three years to go before graduation...... Professor Cai laughed twice, and everything was silent.

"Then it's decided. "The principal thinks about the end, which is considered a clapper.

Professor Cai clapped his hands and said, "We must have done a good job of this independent laboratory." ”

"This time it's all extra money, and it has to be done. The headmaster silently calculated the expenses, and with a slight pain, he added a yard.

Professor Cai patted his chest with a smile, but in fact, he was still a little uneasy: "Yang Rui has prepared the project, but it is very time-consuming to apply for funds, so please give priority to the school's funds." ”

"Who would dare to card Yang Rui's project now. Principal Pang said in a weird way, but that's all. Phrases like $150,000 and the US ambassador to China are as sharp as a dagger in themselves.

In just two days, the school's first batch of 50,000 yuan was sent down, an absolute priority channel, and it was directly sent to Yang Rui's private account.

It seems a bit illegal to say, but in fact, until the end of the 90s, scientific research funding was such a model, although it was difficult to apply, but once the application was made, how to use it was difficult to supervise, in the absence of strict discipline, not only researchers feel troublesome to the public account, but also the financial personnel of the unit feel troublesome to the public account.

In the state that people shout "invoice invoice" in various railway stations across the country, the process supervision is naturally useless, and in most cases, it can only be allocated in stages, and then look at the results in stages, in the final analysis, that is, the results.

If you use 5,000 yuan, you will have to make 5,000 yuan, if you have 50,000 yuan, please make 50,000 yuan, if you have 500,000 yuan, please make 500,000 yuan, and if you have 5,000,000 yuan, please make 5,000,000 yuan.

As for what kind of things are worth 5,000 yuan and what kind of things are worth 5 million yuan, in the final analysis, it depends on the paper and its impact factor.

However, Yang Rui did not use the 50,000 yuan himself this time, but transferred it to the department and let the biology department decide.

On the one hand, he has a great future and is unwilling to be contaminated with black and gray funding, and on the other hand, the rights and obligations are equal, and schools and faculties depend on funds to survive.

There is no system in the world that is perfect, Yang Rui is not a politician, and he has no intention of confronting and changing it, it is better to let the departments make their own decisions and allocations.

50,000 yuan is dispensable for Yang Rui, but it is a huge amount of money for most people in the university who have a salary of one or two hundred yuan.

The allocation of this money has also been publicized as a matter of course: Yang Rui, a first-year student of this university, will independently preside over the ion channel laboratory of the Department of Biology, with a preparation fund of 250,000 yuan and a research fund of 180,000 yuan......

In less than half a day, all the teachers and students of the school knew about it.

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