Chapter 392: Visiting Su
The Nobel Prize Committee is very good at marketing and knows how to expand and maintain the influence of the award, so they do not announce all the awards of the year at once, but announce one award a day.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is announced on the first day, the Nobel Prize in Physics is announced on the second day, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is announced on the third day, the Nobel Prize in Literature is announced on the fourth day, and the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize are announced on the last day. In the future, the Nobel Prize in Economics will also be added.
In this way, the Nobel Prize can maintain its popularity around the world for up to five days, and major media will give it prominent coverage during every award season.
It will happen again when the awards are presented in December. Every year the Nobel Prize will be a hot topic for two months. Coupled with the speculation before the award, the popularity will be maintained even longer. This is also the key to the Nobel Prize maintaining its influence.
Zhang Xingjiu thought about the current time and immediately knew what award he was going to receive.
Sure enough, the Norwegian consul immediately confirmed his guess. "The Second World War, which just ended a few years ago, caused great harm to all mankind. At this time, people are paying more attention to the importance of peace. The treaty prohibiting the use of biological and chemical weapons that you advocated at the Solvay Conference has made a great contribution to reducing casualties caused by war. In view of this, the Nobel Prize Committee has decided to award you this year's Peace Prize!"
He was happy about the first few awards, but he felt that this medal was meaningless because there were too many inexplicable winners in later generations. This award, like the literature award, had become a tool for Western society to achieve its political goals.
However, the Nobel Prize money is still considerable. It is worthwhile to waste this money. Now that the war in the north is in full swing and the establishment of New China has entered the countdown, this precious foreign exchange will come in handy.
"So, will you go to Oslo to receive the award?" The Norwegian consul asked a little nervously. Now that Norway has become independent from Sweden, Zhang Xingjiu would go to Stockholm to receive the award every time he won an award. If he does not go to Oslo this time, Norway will lose face.
Considering that the reason for awarding this award to me was to ban biological and chemical weapons, I can say that I deserve the award, which is different from those people in later generations. So Zhang Xingjiu agreed, "I am very honored to receive this award. If possible, I would like to go to Oslo to receive the award."
Before he could be happy for long, Zhang Xingjiu gave him another difficult question, "But I have promised my son that I will accompany him to attend the Nobel Prize in Physics ceremony in Stockholm, and you will hold the award ceremony in Oslo on the same day. I don't want to miss the glorious moment of his life."
"Uh, this." The Norwegian consul was suddenly stuck.
The announcement time of each Nobel Prize is not the same, but the award ceremony is held on the same day - December 10th of each year, the day Nobel died, and the award ceremony is also held in a different place.
The Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature prizes are presented by the King of Sweden in Stockholm, with a dinner following; the Peace Prize is presented by the King of Norway in Oslo.
This is a bit troublesome. Zhang Xingjiu has to accompany his son to Stockholm to receive the award, so he definitely won't be able to show up in Oslo.
The Norwegian consul could only persuade Zhang Xingjiu to give up going to accompany his son to receive the award.
Zhang Xingjiu refused without hesitation, "I have won the Nobel Prize several times, and it is no big deal to receive one less. But this is the first time for my child to receive an award, and I cannot miss this occasion."
The Norwegian consul had no choice but to go back to discuss the matter. After several rounds of communication, Zhang Xingjiu's attitude remained firm, and they had no choice but to postpone the award ceremony for one day.
In this way, after Zhang Xingjiu accompanied Zhang Guosheng to receive the award in Stockholm and attended the dinner, they returned to the hotel to rest for a night, and took a special plane to Oslo early the next morning, so they could make it in time for the second award ceremony.
Zhang Xingjiu then agreed and immediately began to arrange his work after leaving. The fighting in the north was raging and it would not be long before the Guo Party was driven out of Shanghai. When that time came, Zheng Sanfazi would definitely persuade him to run away with them.
Therefore, it would be better to leave China and go to a foreign country to find some peace and quiet. Besides, leaving would divert Zheng Sanfazi's attention and make it more convenient for the teachers and students of the school to welcome the arrival of the People's Liberation Army.
Zhang Xingjiu has been in charge of Aurora University for more than 40 years and has already trained a large number of backbones with outstanding abilities and reliable character. Even if he leaves, they will be able to complete their tasks well and hand over Aurora University to the new government as intact as possible.
After spending a month to explain various things, Zhang Xingjiu took his family to leave Shanghai and took a ship to Europe. When passing through Hong Kong, he got off the ship and stayed for a few days, met with Zhang Guosheng's family, returned the two children to them, and then told him what to do next.
The first stop after arriving in Europe was naturally Paris. Zhang Xingjiu's house had suffered some damage during World War II, but the main structure was still intact and only needed a little cleaning.
He went to the tombs of Professor Lippmann, the Curies, Lang Zhiwan and others to pay their respects, then went to the university in Paris to give several lectures and met with several overseas students who had not had the chance to return home.
They then went to Stockholm to receive the award. The academic community was amazed by this father and son pair. They were different from the Bragg father and son who had won the award before. The Bragg father and son were doing the same research, but Zhang Xingjiu and Zhang Guosheng achieved their winning achievements independently, and both won the Nobel Prize in Physics alone.
After the award ceremony, many scientists who attended the ceremony invited them to visit their own countries for academic exchanges. Considering that he had not been abroad for exchanges for a long time and that it was not the right time to return home, Zhang Xingjiu agreed.
"I am very honored to accept your invitation. Then I will go to Moscow first. After visiting Moscow, I will go to the UK and then cross the Atlantic to visit the United States."
Zhang Xingjiu estimated that after such a trip, Shanghai should be full of People's Liberation Army soldiers, and it would be just the right time to go back. He would also meet many Chinese students along the way, and if there were suitable ones, he could continue to persuade them to return home.
The next morning, Zhang Xingjiu and his family landed in Oslo on a special plane and immediately went to the royal palace to receive his sixth Nobel Prize. Now Zhang Xingjiu has won the Physics Prize, the Chemistry Prize, the Biology or Medicine Prize, and the Peace Prize, and the only thing missing is the Literature Prize.
If he wanted to get it, he could definitely get it, but he just had no interest in it.
After spending a few days in Oslo, Zhang Xingjiu flew to Moscow.
(End of this chapter)
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