But no matter what, they had cracked the case!
Who could have imagined that a scientific award that many of them had never paid attention to could affect so many Fortune 500 traditional manufacturing companies and even possibly cause them losses of hundreds of millions, or even tens or hundreds of billions of US dollars?
That was just an estimate of the cost; if you considered the money they could have earned, it would be even more.
My goodness, countless people were literally shouting "my goodness."
A single Crafoord Prize, with a total prize money of only half a million US dollars, directly affected trade orders amounting to hundreds of billions or trillions. Once the potential connection was discovered, who wouldn't be flabbergasted?
So the phones and emails of some people started getting busy at the same time.
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Sweden, Stockholm.
In the bedroom, an old man was staring at the phone in a daze.
That was already the third call he had received.
