Before entering the Physics Department of Tokyo University, Kantaro Nagaoka studied the ancient history of science in China in order to find out whether East Asians also have the ability to make original contributions to science. For a young middle school graduate living in the early Meiji period, the natural science he is about to devote himself to is completely western. If he (as an East Asian) is doomed to fail to finish the original work, Kantaro Nagaoka will not want to spend his life here.
However, after carefully studying China's classic works, Nagaoka Kantaro was convinced that Asians were also gifted in natural science. The ancient people in China studied the Northern Lights, accurately recorded the movements of celestial bodies, and invented the compass, all of which gave Nagaoka Kantaro the confidence to make a breakthrough in the field of natural science. In addition, Kantaro Nagaoka has realized that natural science is a standard for measuring culture and can be used by both the East and the West. Still a set of competition rules, Asians and Europeans compete in the same arena. Obviously, Kantaro Nagaoka regards China people as cultural compatriots with East Asian traditions, rather than competitors like westerners.
In a letter to Tanakadate Altltu, a senior on June 7th, 888,/kloc-0, Kantaro Nagaoka's idea of competing with westerners was obvious: "At work, we must have a broad vision, keen judgment and a thorough understanding of things, and we can't give in and relax at all. Those who seem to be absorbed in their work are actually absent-minded. Any little thing will make them stop to watch, listen, chat and even go out to buy things. Don't let them disturb the work in our workshop. White people have no reason to be so ahead in all aspects. As you said, I hope we can beat those white people in 10 or 20 years: I don't want to see the victory of our descendants through a telescope in hell. "
Both Tanakadate Altltu and Kantaro Nagaoka believe that Asians are superior to westerners in moral integrity, although their countries are still poor and weak materially. They encourage each other and are determined to work hard at home and abroad, hoping that one day they can really defeat the "white people" in knowledge.
If science is a competition and its rules are formed in Europe, then western scientists are likely to play better than Japanese scientists in this battle. In order to compete and become well-trained athletes, Japanese scientists must master western rules and strategies. The first generation of Japanese scientists enthusiastically studied European languages, and Kantaro Nagaoka's letters were all written in English. However, in order to master the skills and win, it is not enough just to learn the language. In order to have a deeper understanding of western culture, some people began to believe in Christianity. Others suggest that Japanese men marry white women.
Western scientists, on the other hand, pay little attention to the enthusiasm and energy invested by the Japanese. Kantaro of Nagaoka and Ai Ju of Hotan Library both found that their research did not attract the attention of western scientists. Perhaps Kantaro Nagaoka's most famous work is his Saturn-type atomic model, which includes "a large number of particles with the same mass are arranged in circles at equal angular intervals, and the repulsion between these particles is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them", and "a particle with huge mass attracts other particles around it with the same inverse square law". In the Journal of Philosophy of 1904, Kantaro Nagaoka published his model. Seven years later, Rutherford published his more famous atomic model, whose core theory is very similar to that of Nagaoka Kantaro. But in Rutherford's first report on his atomic model, Kantaro Nagaoka was not mentioned.
19 1 1 year, in a letter to Kantaro in Nagaoka (191March 20th/year), Rutherford said that he had long known there was such a Saturn model: "You will see the atomic model I adopted. Although I didn't read your article at that time, I remember that you did write an article in this regard. " It was also in this year that Rutherford first mentioned Hantaro's early work in a monograph in the Journal of Philosophy. Until 40 years later, when celebrating the first Nobel Prize, Kantaro Nagaoka wondered why Rutherford didn't see his monograph on Saturn model in the seven years after the publication of the paper. In fact, many scientists near Cambridge did not pay attention to the Nagaoka Kantaro model. In the letter 19 1 1 in March, Prague asked Rutherford to consult Kantaro's paper in Nagaoka, but Rutherford thought it was just "Japanese work" and ignored it.