The Second Day Without You, Missing You

Shen Qi had never expected that his raised hand would be ignored.

The reason he was ignored was that someone in front of him had stood up.

The man was very tall, blocking Shen Qi from view.

The tall scholar faced Irie Jack and said in fluent English, "Hello, Professor Irie. I'm Tachibana Masashi. May I ask my question now?"

Well, well, it's him... Shen Qi thought. Wasn't this the guy who'd asked him for his paper just now?

Didn't Mr. Tachibana know any manners?

Under normal circumstances, a scholar who wasn't particularly famous should introduce himself like this: "Hello, I'm so-and-so from so-and-so university, so-and-so laboratory, or so-and-so company..."

Take UC Berkeley, for example, which had long ranked among the world's best in chemistry. The university had many chemists.

Not every chemist who graduated from UC Berkeley or currently worked or taught there was famous. If you were affiliated with Berkeley but weren't especially well-known, you should mention your institution so that others could get a basic sense of who you were. Oh, this person did chemistry at Berkeley, so he probably wasn't a total lightweight.

Of course, throughout history, some scientists had been more famous than the institutions where they worked.

Einstein, for example. When he went to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the newly established institute wasn't yet a world-class academic center.

It was the arrival of Einstein and other big names that elevated the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study into a sanctuary of fundamental theoretical research in a short time.

In the modern day, when Shen Qi introduced himself, he could simply say, "Hello, I'm Shen Qi."

But not many people knew this Mr. Tachibana.

Irie Jack clearly didn't know him. Judging by his appearance and name, he concluded that Tachibana Masashi was Japanese.

And