Sometimes, things just happened to line up that way.
If Lu Zhou had known what Chairman Switov was thinking at that moment, he probably would have gladly accepted the International Materials Research Society Alliance's nomination and entered the selection for the Alliance Annual Award.
Honor itself was secondary to him.
If he could make even a tiny contribution to the next ten or even twenty years of peace, stability, and cooperation between the two countries, he would not mind making a trip to North America.
After all, compared with the vast universe, the interests on Earth were truly insignificant.
Besides, it had been a long time since he had gone back to Princeton. Lu Zhou rather missed his old friends there.
Unfortunately, the International Materials Research Society Alliance had not hinted at any of that in its nomination email.
Thus, after Assistant Zhao brought the email before Lu Zhou, he merely glanced at it and said,
"Write back and decline it for me."
Thinking she had misheard, Zhao Huan froze for a moment and stared at Lu Zhou in disbelief.
"De-decline it?"
Lu Zhou said, "Mm."
Zhao Huan looked at Lu Zhou, at a loss. "B-but this is a nomination from the International Materials Research Society Alliance. That Alliance Annual Award should be pretty important, right?"
It came with a prize of one hundred thousand US Dollars.
Although she knew her boss was not short on money, Zhao Huan still felt a little pained on his behalf over all that money.
Lu Zhou replied casually, "Precisely because it's important, I hope they'll give more consideration to young scholars."
Although the Alliance Annual Award was quite prestigious, it was still far inferior to the Nobel Prize. With all the honors already surrounding him, even another Nobel Prize would not mean much,