[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-rise-of-the-empire-spain":3,"chapter-rise-of-the-empire-spain-rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-492":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Rise of the Empire: Spain",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2365420,4632,"Chapter 492: The Four Major Academies of Science","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-492",492,"\u003Cp>The development of penicillin is not that easy; even if Yu Kaluo is willing to invest a large amount of manpower, material resources, and financial capital, he still has to pray that these researchers possess enough luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In order to increase the possibility of Spain being the first to discover penicillin, Yu Kaluo even had the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Pharmaceutical Group hire the discoverer of penicillin, the British bacteriologist, biochemist, and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, several years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For those who do not know much about medicine, the name Alexander Fleming sounds quite unfamiliar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for those who have dabbled in medicine or are familiar with the history of human medical development, the name Alexander Fleming is absolutely thunderous and leaves a deep impression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the scientist who first discovered penicillin, Alexander Fleming ranked 45th in \"The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History\" written by the later American scholar Michael Hart, which also confirms his contribution to humanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although there are more anti-infective drugs in later generations, penicillin played a pioneering role among anti-infective drugs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Alexander Fleming had not been the first to discover penicillin, the time for humanity to possess anti-infective drugs would have been delayed by several years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And penicillin played a very important role in the Second World War; it can be said that the penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming saved millions of wounded soldiers and civilians in the Second World War, and such a contribution is indelible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The process of Spain inviting Alexander Fleming was almost a \"buy one, get one free\" deal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexander Fleming was born in 1881 and is only in his early 30s so far, which is considered quite young in the scientific community.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he is relatively young, Alexander Fleming could not obtain enough outside support to start his own research projects and could only serve as an assistant to his mentor, Wright, conducting some research he was interested in during his spare time while helping Wright with various studies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this regard, Fleming's teacher, Wright, was quite tolerant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although there were no strict regulations, the academic authorities of this era basically did not support their assistants in conducting independent scientific research according to their own interests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, this is because doing so would affect their own research progress, and on the other hand, it is because they did not want their research funds to be wasted on their assistants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Alexander Fleming could conduct research he was interested in during his spare time was already a quite rare thing for the scientific community of this era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the process of inviting Alexander Fleming to come to Spain, intelligence personnel also discovered the good relationship between Fleming and his mentor, Wright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering that Wright himself was also a well-regarded bacteriologist and microbiologist, the intelligence personnel simply went all the way and directly invited Wright's entire research team to Spain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they first received the invitation from Spain, both Alexander Fleming and Wright were quite surprised and astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, neither Alexander Fleming nor Wright were anywhere near as famous as they would be in later generations. Alexander Fleming was just an ordinary researcher who had qualified to open an independent clinic but had given up surgery to devote himself to bacteriology and microbiology, and his assistant's salary was among the lowest of all of Wright's assistants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Wright already had a considerable reputation, it was limited to the scientific research field within Britain and had not reached the level of being famous throughout Europe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the invitation from Spain was a bit hasty and sudden, after hearing clearly that the invitation came from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, neither Wright nor Alexander Fleming felt any contempt or disapproval toward this invitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>European countries all have organizations similar to the Royal Academy of Sciences; Britain has the Royal Society, Germany has the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences, France has the Academy of Sciences, and Spain naturally has the Royal Academy of Sciences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences was established relatively late among many European countries, because the Spanish royal family invested heavily in it, it also made quite a name for itself in Europe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coupled with the outstanding achievements Spain has made in the fields of airships, dreadnoughts, and electricity, the great name of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences has spread throughout Europe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, along with the British Royal Society, the German Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences, and the French Academy of Sciences, are known as the four major European academies of science, hailed as the four major official academic organizations with the densest concentration of talent and the most top-tier scientists in Europe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current Wright and Alexander Fleming were not qualified to join the British Royal Society, and they had never imagined that they could join the four major academies of science.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that they have received an invitation from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, after confirming that this invitation is real, it is hard for them not to be tempted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Alexander Fleming and his mentor Wright are both British, Europeans of this era did not place that much importance on nationality itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immigration was already a very common thing in this era, population movement between European countries was very frequent, and taking up a position at an academy of science in another country was not a difficult thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when Wright and Alexander Fleming learned of the conditions offered by the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, they immediately turned from being tempted to being excited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no help for it; the conditions offered by the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences were simply too generous, leaving them with no way to refuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the academic research institution that Yu Kaluo values most, the degree of importance the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences receives in Spain is even enough to rival the defense department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only difference is that the military budget of the defense department is provided by the government, while most of the research and development funds for the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences are provided by the Spanish royal family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Royal\" in the name of the Royal Academy of Sciences is well-deserved; the Spanish royal family also has a share in the research projects developed by the many scientists of the academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many scientists naturally understand such regulations, and they do not reject them. If there were no financial support from the Spanish royal family, a large portion of these scientists would not even be able to continue their own scientific research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Spanish royal family has a share in every discovery and invention after providing funding, isn't this also a form of insurance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the final discovery or invention does not yield significant results or profits, the entire research project will most likely lose money.\u003C\u002Fp>",1152,"2026-06-25T09:27:15.200Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","b436f93aa630922cf3bca1323e9f072235cf0ddaffd5c9bae8ab70c5a247c0ed","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-493","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-491",493,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Frise-of-the-empire-spain-cover.jpg"]