How many steps does it take to become a professor at one of the world's top universities of science and technology?
The first step is to meet a man who has won a Nobel Prize,
The second step is to marry him.
This is the successful experience of Qian Lulu, a female doctor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and it is also the experience she has accumulated over the years.
From an ordinary student to a professor at the world's top university of science and technology, others can't reach the height, Qian Lulu only took 12 years to complete,
And all of this stems from the 4 men behind her...
Capture the hearts of the "big bulls of science"
In 2019, the California Institute of Technology announced that it would appoint Qian Lulu, a Chinese female doctor, as a tenured professor in the Department of Bioengineering.
This year, she was just 38 years old.
You know, if you can become a professor at the world's top universities at this age, you must be a world-class scientist with extraordinary achievements in your field.
Moreover, among all the Chinese compatriots, in addition to Qian Lulu, who can hold this position at the California Institute of Technology, there is also Qian Xuesen, the "father of missiles" on the mainland.
Therefore, as soon as the news spread, the academic circle instantly exploded.
People flock to use their various channels to inquire about everything about Qian Lulu, and desperately want to know that the same surname is Qian, so who is Qian Lulu? Where did she come from? How did you get to where you are today?
In the era of such developed network information, everyone's information is as transparent as it is, and it is not long before Qian Lulu's husband Eric Winfree first entered everyone's field of vision.
Eric Winfree is a well-known computer scientist and bioengineer in the United States, and a professor at the California Institute of Technology, who has made many achievements in the field of DNA computing and DNA nanonumerization, and has won the Nobel Prize, and is a person with a rich resume on Baidu Encyclopedia.
So how do the two of them, one of whom is a big cow in the scientific community, and the other is just a female doctoral student from Shanghai, China, so communicative?
In fact, the two had a long connection, when Winfree invited Qian Lulu to California Institute of Technology as her assistant teacher, and the two began to have more and more close exchanges.
Qian Lulu was originally very famous in academic circles, she was very smart, and she knew how to use her charm to capture the hearts of her targets, and this is how WinFree fell.
As the relationship between the two heats up, Winfree can't wait to propose to her "love of life" Qian Lulu.
After marriage, winfree, as a partner, also hopes that her wife can get a better development platform.
You know, big cattle like Winfree, major universities are scrambling to get it. So he seized on Caltech's weakness and threatened it to either give his wife a reasonable position or take her with him to develop another way.
Sure enough, WinFree was right.
In this way, Qian Lulu got the position that had been coveted by countless people, although it should not have belonged to her.
At this point, this story sounds like a very complete, a transnational couple, after all kinds of difficulties, can finally work together, live together, and go to the peak of life together, just like an idol drama, but what is the real situation?
In fact, in order to achieve this goal, Qian Lulu has been working hard for nearly twelve years, and during this period, she has used 3 men as stepping stones and successfully "ascended" step by step.
What's even more unexpected is that all three men were once her husbands.
Entanglement with three husbands
Turn back the clock to 1998.
At that time, Qian Lulu, like many ordinary students, participated in the most important college entrance examination in her life, and her academic performance had always been at the top of the class, but as a result, she played abnormally in those days, resulting in a very unsatisfactory final score.
In the end, Qian Lulu was still admitted to Nanjing Railway Medical College.
This is a very ordinary university, and it did not make much waves in Qian Lulu's life, she went to class as usual every day, hung out with her classmates after class, and occasionally received love letters from male classmates.
If things follow this trajectory, Qian Lulu will complete her ordinary life like an ordinary person. However, in April 2000, a new turnaround arrived.
Under the influence of the policies and other aspects at that time, the well-known "985" University Southeast University suddenly wanted to merge the Nanjing Railway Medical College, so the students of this school also "got the way" and enjoyed the good teaching conditions brought by the school's efforts.
Perhaps unwilling to spend her life like this, the sudden "upgrade" of the school made Qian Lulu realize that she had to seize this opportunity, and she made a major decision for this - to go to graduate school.
However, just as she was about to work towards this goal, a boy suddenly stepped into her field of vision.
This boy is a well-known bully in the school, and his appearance is also very handsome, and there is no shortage of suitors, but he only has a special love for Qian Lulu. Soon, the handsome man and woman developed a crush on each other and married and started a family.
In the early days, the two husbands and wives were always sweet and sweet, and with the selfless support of xueba's husband, Qian Lulu did not have to do housework or consider the matter of having children, and could concentrate on studying at home.
After experiencing many failures, finally, the kung fu paid off, Qian Lulu was successfully admitted to the science department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and at the same time, she also began a long-term life with her husband.
It is said that long-distance love can best test whether the feelings between lovers are strong, and it is a pity that Qian Lulu failed to stick to it.
After entering the wider campus and recognizing more powerful characters, she deeply felt that the gap between her and her husband had opened up, and the two did not have any common language.
And during this period, the more and more beautiful and mature Qian Lulu became the school flower of Jiaotong University, she looks beautiful, has a good figure, and usually walks on the road and has a super high return rate.
Qian Lulu is a beautiful and self-aware type, she knows her charm well, so she also had the idea of entering the entertainment industry.
At that time, the crew of "Dream of the New Red Chamber" was selecting the right role, and Qian Lulu took the initiative to sign up and wanted to play Lin Daiyu, but because the competitiveness was too great, she finally failed.
A momentary failure was nothing to Qian Lulu, and soon she continued to devote herself to academic research, and as a result, it was not long before her new "peach blossom luck" quietly came again.
At that time, Qian Lulu was already preparing for the master's and doctoral examinations, and she also knew many excellent boys, including a brother who launched a strong offensive against her.
This brother is different from other boys, he has already been admitted to the doctorate, and he is still a school grass, and his appearance is very handsome. Usually, as long as Qian Lulu encounters a problem that he does not understand, he will carefully help to answer it, and he is very attentive.
After a long time, Qian Lulu also began to waver, her husband could not accompany herself for a long time, and there was such a handsome and intelligent man around her who took the initiative to approach, she was also a little moved, but her married identity was also well known.
Just when she was upset because of this problem, Brother Shi told her affectionately: "I don't mind!" ”
So it didn't take long for the two to make up their minds, and Qian Lulu also called her husband to file for divorce.
Knowing that his wife's heart is no longer here, in order to be decent, the husband did not entangle too much, but chose to break up peacefully and be safe, just like this, Qian Lulu and his brother happily entered the marriage hall.
The two who become husband and wife, the life model is more like a partner, because Qian Lulu is busy with the things of the exam most of the time, she has no experience, and many things have to rely on the help of the master and brother.
Like encountering difficulties in the laboratory, the brother will teach by hand; the paper does not know what topic to write, where to find the clue, the brother will also guide the whole process; when reading the doctorate, do not know which direction to choose, the brother will still give the most pertinent advice.
It can be said that it is precisely because of the help of her brother that Qian Lulu's road to the Ph.D. has been reduced to many obstacles, and in the end she has really successfully been admitted to Jiaotong University with a doctorate in biology, and has also become a student of a well-known biologist in the mainland.
Reaching such an achievement, Qian Lulu has become more and more dissatisfied, she wants to pursue higher goals, so a third man appears.
At that time, Qian Lulu was studying a new topic, which was related to the DNA computer, and she was very interested in it, and once it was successfully developed, it would inevitably bring a sensation to the scientific and technological community.
Just as she was immersed in her research, another excellent senior appeared beside her.
The other party has considerable experience in this area and has also made achievements, and with his leadership, it is bound to be more effective with half the effort.
Qian Lulu admired this senior, and after that, the two often cooperated, and every day they got along day and night, and there was more tacit understanding between the two, and they also began to have feelings different from those of friends.
The adult world does not have so many twists and turns, after determining her own intentions, Qian Lulu used the way she solved her first husband before, and divorced her second husband, and in the end, the two chose to break up peacefully and not disturb each other.
At this time, Qian Lulu no longer cared whether she was married three times, nor did she mind the gossip of others, because she was close to achieving a goal that others could not reach, and she would go farther and farther.
With the help of her third husband, Qian Lulu quickly wrote a paper called "Map of China assembled by DNA" and published it in a domestic scientific research journal, which became famous for a time.
The success of this paper allowed Qian Lulu to successfully graduate as a doctoral student, and also gave her more opportunities to be favored by top scientist Eric Winfree.
Although the two are in different countries, they are interested in the same topic and have become connected.
Noticed by such a big bull in the technology industry, Qian Lulu was very flattered, so when the other party proposed that she come to the United States to study and would bear all the costs, she did not think too much, packed her bags and ran to the other side of the ocean, becoming Eric Winfree's teaching assistant.
At that time, walking on the campus of the California Institute of Technology every day and feeling the strong academic atmosphere here, Qian Lulu would feel that her knowledge had been greatly improved.
It's just that in a foreign country, it is inevitable that there will be times of homesickness, and the only thing that accompanies her at this time is Eric Winfree.
This man is young and promising, his appearance is also very handsome, and he also has a little more sense of calmness, which makes Qian Lulu silently change from adoration to admiration.
Eric Winfree's attitude towards Qian Lulu is also as admirable as ever, he always feels that the woman in front of him is full of charm and very intellectual, and the two have entered the ambiguous stage.
During this period, because of eric Winfree's help to tie the line, Qian Lulu had the privilege of meeting the "father of DNA computers" Ryan Adelman, who is also a "god" in the technology industry.
With his help, Qian Lulu's research project was quickly recognized, and finally she received a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from Shanghai Jiaotong University.
After becoming famous, Qian Lulu also began to consider her new feelings, she wanted to stay in the United States, wanted to stay with Eric Winfree, after thinking, she made a transoceanic phone call to her third husband and cruelly proposed to break up.
The two quickly went through the divorce procedures, and Qian Lulu was able to achieve her wish and obtain a certificate with Eric Winfree.
As for the next thing, there is no need to say more, with this "big cow" in the scientific and technological industry as a husband, Qian Lulu's academic achievements have taken a big step forward, until she became a tenured professor at the California Institute of Technology.
For Qian Lulu's "ascension" road, the outside world's disdain is greater than approval.
Some people think that she is too ambitious, some people think that she is too means, others think that she has no real ability, all rely on men, and even some people call this type of person "academic self", and do everything to consider their own interests.
But everyone despises academic self, but everyone wants to be an academic self, if you can experience Qian Lulu's life, will you make the same choice with her?