"Unbelievable."
The word "unbelievable" alone was no longer enough to describe the shock in Professor Gerhard Ertl's heart at this moment.
At that moment, he sat in the director's office of the Fritz Haber Institute under the Max Planck Society, staring dumbfoundedly at the paper in his hands. For a long while, he could not say a word.
As the director of the Fritz Haber Institute and a Nobel Prize laureate in 2007, he stood at the very forefront of theoretical chemistry and computational materials science, especially solid surface chemistry. It had been he who wrote Lu Zhou a recommendation letter and recommended him to the Nobel Prize committee.
Professor Kliqing, who had been sitting in the office for quite some time and idly playing with the uniquely shaped ornament on the coffee table, looked up with interest in his direction.
"Looks like you found something interesting."
Although his field was not computational materials science but condensed matter physics, computational materials science itself was a discipline derived from research in condensed matter physics.
Especially when studying complex multiparticle systems, many computational materials methods, including First-Principles Calculation, relied on equations from physics.
From that perspective, this paper possessed not only outstanding academic value in materials science, but considerable research value in physics as well.
That was one of the reasons Professor Kliqing, director of the Physics Research Institute, had come here specifically.
Besides that, there was another matter that interested him: what exactly had piqued that man's curiosity so much that he had even resigned from his position on the IMCRC Council?
Compared with the former, however, the latter was merely an insignificant matter related to his personal curiosity.
"Interesting is an understatement." Professor Gerhard Ertl closed the paper in his hands and sighed. "What it demonstrates is simply beyond my