Tsung-Dao Lee: I Want Some Fish

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At this very moment.

Inside the office.

After hearing Qian Bingqiong's explanation,

Xu Yun, Qian Wushi, and Lu Guangda were astonished, but traces of understanding finally appeared on their faces.

So that was it.

No wonder so many elite associate professors were willing to return to China together.

No wonder the total number of people boarding the ship was more than double what Xu Yun had expected.

No wonder Qian Fanglin and her husband were on the list of people returning.

The reason behind all these changes was that Tsung-Dao Lee had also chosen to return to Huaxia.

One had to know:

As the only two Chinese Nobel Prize laureates at the time, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang wielded tremendous influence among Chinese people Across the sea.

Although it was nothing like the near-saintly status Hideki Yukawa enjoyed in Japan, many of their choices had indeed become trendsetters for Chinese people Across the sea.

For example, in the year after the two won the Nobel Prize,

the number of Chinese high school graduates Across the sea who chose theoretical physics—in other words, incoming college freshmen—was three times higher than the year before.

Last year, Tsung-Dao Lee published an autobiography similar in nature to My First Half of Life. Its sales among Chinese people actually surpassed the perennial first- and second-place bestsellers, the Analects and the Bible.

Some fervent fans even imitated their clothes and hairstyles, behaving almost exactly like celebrity-obsessed fans in later generations.

One had to know:

Chen Ning Yang had plenty of hair, so imitating him wasn't difficult; all you had to do was change your hairstyle. But Tsung-Dao Lee actually had a bald patch.

Even so, plenty of fans still did it.

That showed just how tremendous the influence of Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao