What is a master?

The early 20th century was an era when many disciplines were in their infancy. At that time, you did not need to be very advanced, but as long as you made your first job in a certain direction in a field, you could even develop A field, then you can be called a "master" by future generations. Although their works are of a very high standard now, if their names were omitted, they might be dismissed as "shit". But now there are no new fields opened up, and of course there are no masters. Not to mention our country, in fact, it is the same abroad. Do you think there are any "masters" in their thirties or forties abroad in the past two years? I would like to use Landau's famous saying as a footnote: "At that time (around 1930), any second-rate physicist could do first-rate work. Now, first-rate physicists can only do second-rate work."

Author: Jian Xiaodong.

Source: Zhihu