Free Web NovelChapter 721: Chapter 396: The Wolf Prize in Physics
At the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Convention, Zhao Yi repeatedly mentioned ’speculation’ in his presentation, and explained that it was based on ’feeling’, which puzzled the medical researchers present. They mostly relied on experience rather than ’feeling’.
In the end, they just chalked it up to sheer talent.
"Zhao Yi truly is talented!"
"Geniuses are indeed different!"
"No wonder he could achieve such results, the ’Tianqing Protein’ is even more promising, pity, it’s too hard to get our hands on."
"The Wucheng Pharmaceutical Factory will surely provide some of the ’Tianqing Protein’ for research, right?"
"In a short amount of time, it would be difficult..."
The presentation on the 2CV-Bing Hydrogen molecule was just the ’opening act’. The Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Convention lasted for two days, had a lot of content to get through, and was set to last for two days.
Zhao Yi also attended the two-day conference, mostly to broaden his knowledge. Many of the medical results and research reports were very niche, and hard to understand without a basic knowledge of the subject.
The subsequent ’conference’, discussing domestic and international infectious disease issues, wasn’t much to talk about.
That topic wasn’t very relevant to him.
Even before the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Convention was over, related news had already appeared in the media. The content was all about Zhao Yi’s presentation. If one were to ignore Zhao Yi himself and these achievements, ordinary people would hardly care about similar medical conferences.
Hence, the media coverage still focused on Zhao Yi.
Contrary to the viewpoint of the medical researchers, Zhao Yi’s ’feeling theory’ portrayed in the media was translated into ’reasonable hypothesis’, ’bold inference’, ’imaginative discovery’.
And so on.
With these phrases, the ’feeling theory’ suddenly looked a lot grander and more credible.
The outside world was filled with praise, "Zhao Yi was born for scientific research, no matter whether it’s mathematics, physics, or whatever."
"After reaching the top of mathematical research, Zhao Yi has continued to expand into the field of biomedicine and has achieved top groundbreaking results!"
"First was the 2CV-Bing Hydrogen Molecule, which hasn’t been reported on much. However, the even more anticipated ’Tianqing Protein’ is on the way. Humanity’s arch-enemy--AIDS, is about to be solved."
"However, I’ve always had a doubt: why is it called ’Tianqing Protein’? "
"Usually, it’s like this. There must have been an AIDS patient named ’Tianqing’. He bravely fought the disease but ultimately died in his hospital bed... "
"Maybe Zhao Yi knew this person, or maybe the Biomedical Research Institute knew this person and that he might have made some contribution to the study (like volunteering for experimental studies). So, in memoriam of his bravery, they named the protein ’Tianqing Protein’."
"..."
The last comment got widespread acknowledgement. Who knew which bored netizen even wrote an entry about the ’Tianqing Protein’ and made up a little backstory about the name. The backstory was written very well and even added more details. Surprisingly it passed the review process.
The Biomedical Research Institute found out about this soon after.
In the central laboratory, Chen Zhigang excitedly said, "Open your browsers and search for ’Tianqing Protein’, there will be an unexpected discovery!"
"Really? Let me take a look."
Han Hui, who was sitting in front of his computer, did exactly that. Soon, he couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
Dai Tianqing walked in and asked, "What’s so funny?"
"See for yourself." Han Hui pointed at the screen and said, "Congratulations, you’re famous now."
"What’s going on!"
Dai Tianqing walked over to take a look. His face turned black instantly when he saw the backstory, which read, "Tianqing was a researcher at the Biomedical Research Institute. He was brave enough to sacrifice himself for the experiments, often using his own blood. But during one AIDS research project, he unfortunately contracted AIDS due to an accident while drawing blood."
"He did not despair, nor did he give up the hope for survival. Instead, he persisted in fighting the disease, and dared to sacrifice himself for the research..."
"In the end, Tianqing unfortunately died in the laboratory, but he made a huge contribution to the research on marking HIV proteins. To commemorate his contribution, the new protein that effectively detects HIV was named the ’Tianqing Protein’..."
Dai Tianqing stared at the screen for a long time, his face dark, and couldn’t help but curse, "What the fuck..."
Everyone in the lab laughed.
Then he suddenly changed his tone and continued, "...I’ve decided! From now on, I will absolutely not use my own blood for any experiments! Nor will I use the blood of anyone else in the lab."
The lab immediately fell silent.
Chen Zhigang sympathetically added, "I’m not going to use it either. This story is too scary and too realistic!"
"If I hadn’t read this story, I wouldn’t truly be worried, but we’ve been researching AIDS lately and drawing blood..."
"It might really happen."
"Yeah––!"
...
With the decreasing hype around Zhao Yi’s research report, many people started to really pay attention to the follow-up of the results, namely, the development of the 2CV-Bing Hydrogen Molecule drug and the ’Tianqing Protein’ drug.
This mainly depended on pharmaceutical factories.
Wucheng Pharmaceutical Factory had been developing the 2CV-Bing Hydrogen Molecule drug for quite some time, although mass production hadn’t been realized. With the official publication of the results after the holiday, they quickly announced—
The 2CV-Bing Hydrogen Molecule drug had entered the approval stage and was about to go on the market officially!
For this, Wucheng Pharmaceutical Factory held a press conference to introduce the soon-to-be-launched 2CV-Bing Hydrogen Molecule drugs. They collaborated with the Biomedical Research Institute’s achievements to reduce the experimental production cost of the 2CV-Bing Hydrogen Molecule. However, the price still remained high for the average person.
Of course.
During the release of the new drug, they certainly couldn’t mention the downsides. They avoided discussing the issue of price, focusing only on the technical content and advantages of the new drug."We have found an anti-virus serum that, when used in combination with the 2CV-Bing Hydrogen Molecule drug, can very effectively inhibit the activity of free HIV viruses in the blood."
"If used for a long period, it can effectively restrict the spread and development of the AIDS virus."
"At the same time, the side effects of the drug are very minimal and can be neglected as long as it is not used in super high doses..."
"..."
At the press conference of Wucheng Pharmaceutical Factory, a lot was said about the effects of the new drug. Actually, they didn’t pay much attention to the launch of the new drug, because the new drug was just an opener for the ’Tianqing Protein’."
’Tianqing Protein’ is the core drug."
The currently released 2CV-Bing Hydrogen Molecule drug is only serving as a transition. Its drug effects would surely be better than reverse transcriptase drugs; its long-term usage would also be effective, but its hefty price would certainly be a drawback. When it actually hits the market, its prospects would not be too high.
Therefore, 2CV-Bing Hydrogen Molecule drugs still need gradual research and development and can only serve as ’assistant drugs’ for the time being.
Drugs primarily comprising ’Tianqing Protein’ are the core of Wucheng Pharmaceutical Factory.
They have also invested considerable research and development funds, and are cooperating with several domestic and international medical institutions, hoping to introduce relevant drugs as soon as possible.
These have little to do with Zhao Yi.
After the New Year.
The National Science and Technology Awards conference is about to be held. Even before the conference started, there were reports saying that Zhao Yi had once again won the First-class Award of Natural Science.
The achievement for which he won the award this time is ’the proof of the Goldbach Conjecture’.
It was not surprising that Zhao Yi won the award. What was pleasing was that his lab also won an award again. Their AIDS related project last year, the research on the VIF toxic gene, had attracted much international attention.
This project also once again won the ’National Science and Technology Progress Award’, but the award was just a second-class award.
"We’ll get a first-class award next year!"
Ai Lixin confidently said, "The discovery of 2CV-Bing Hydrogen Molecules will surely win an award."
"Not necessarily."
Zhang Wei had a different opinion, "Maybe it’s ’Tianqing Protein’; we can’t always be the ones receiving the awards."
Ai Lixin felt a little regretful, "If it’s ’Tianqing Protein’, then it would be our lab."
Liu Chengjie and Yan Yi also felt a little resentful.
If the award belongs to Zhao Yi’s lab, they could also share the glory. If it goes to the Biomedical Research Institute, they would be insignificant, and would not receive any benefits.
While they were discussing, a voice suddenly came from outside, "Where is Zhao Yi? Zhao Yi, you’ve won an award!"
It was clearly Dai Tianqing’s voice.
Dai Tianqing stood excitedly at the door, announcing the news of the award, "You’ve won an award, Zhao Yi!"
"The Natural Science Award?"
"No!" Dai Tianqing shook his head, "You certainly wouldn’t guess it; it’s an award in Physics."
"Physics?"
Zhao Yi was not able to guess.
Ai Lixin was astounded, "Could it be... the Nobel Prize in Physics?"
Dai Tianqing gave him a stern look.
Zhang Wei and Liu Chengjie both shook their heads, "Brother Ai, the nominations for the Nobel Prizes haven’t even started yet."
"Ha ha... I am just joking." Ai Lixin touched his nose and said with embarrassment.
"Old Ai always pretends to know everything without really understanding. You guys stop guessing, let me directly tell you," Dai Tianqing bluntly revealed the answer, "It is the Wolf Prize! The Wolf Physics Award."
"Wolf? How come I didn’t know about it?" Zhao Yi asked, puzzled.
Dai Tianqing answered, "Perhaps you didn’t check your emails? Or didn’t answer the phone? Anyway, the news is out now. It seems that you won the prize because of the discovery of the Higgs particle, but I’ve read several reports which said that your winning of the Wolf Prize is not good news."
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"Because it means you might not be able to win the Nobel Prize."
"Oh."
Zhao Yi responded indifferently. He did not mind the latter news, because he already knew that the discovery of the Higgs particle would not bring him a Nobel Prize."
The analysis in the media also said that the discovery of the Higgs particle could only create two and a half Nobel Prizes in Physics."
He was that ’half’."
Now that he could get a Wolf Physics Award, it seemed quite good - it was certainly better than not getting anything at all."
Zhao Yi looked up the news on the internet."
Dai Tianqing asked curiously, "Are you prepared to go and receive the award? The Wolf Prize is a major award. I heard that the prize money is one hundred thousand US dollars //
"Isn’t it one million?" Zhao Yi instinctively asked back."
"Huh?"
Zhao Yi shook his head and mumbled to himself, "Only a hundred thousand dollars, never mind. It’s too troublesome to make a trip to Europe. I’ll call them and ask later. If my personal presence is required to accept the prize, it’s better not to award it to me."
Dai Tianqing’s mouth was agape for a long time. He and Ai Lixin exchanged glances, unable to hold back the tears of poverty."
