A student in the laboratory of physicist Rutherford (187 1- 1937) worked very hard. One night, Rutherford met him and asked, "Do you work during the day?" The student replied proudly, "Yes", thinking that he would be praised. Rutherford was surprised and asked, "But when will you think?"
Ordos, a mathematician of Hungarian descent, has published mathematical papers, the number of whom is unknown, but he has not necessarily met them, but just corresponded with them. Or, even if he has met, he may not remember people. Once, he met a mathematician and asked him where he came from. The man said, "Vancouver". Eldosh said, "Really, then you must know my good friend Elliot Mendelssohn." The man said, "I'm your good friend Mendelssohn."
Once, a student at MIT blocked john von neumann, a Hungarian-American mathematician, in the corridor. "Er, excuse me, Professor Neumann, can you help me with an integral problem?" "Well, young man, as long as it is able to make a problem quickly. I am very busy. " I have some difficulty in doing this integral problem. "Let me see." (Look at the question) "The answer is there, young man, it is 2π/5". "I know the answer, Sir, the answer is behind the topic. But I don't know how it was derived. " "Well, let me see." (See the question) "The answer is 2π/5." The students are a little at a loss. "Well, sir, I know the answer, but I just don't know how to deduce it." "Young man, what do you want? I solved this problem in two different ways. "
Albert Einstein can play the violin, and once he participated in the rehearsal of Haydn's string quartet. However, when he entered the second movement, he made four mistakes in succession. At this moment, the cellist looked up at him and said, "Albert, your problem is that you just can't count."
One day, the German chemist Justus von Liebig (1803- 1873) saw his assistant running excitedly and said that he had just discovered the universal solvent. Justus von Liebig asked, "What is a universal solvent?" The assistant said, "This is a solvent that can dissolve everything." Justus von Liebig said, "So, where do you keep this universal solvent?"
1902 Fisher, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, once met the novelist Herman Sudarman. Sudhaman thanked Fisher for discovering Flora (a sleeping pill). "You know, it's so powerful that I don't need to take medicine at all. Just a glance at Flora on the bedside table is enough to fall asleep. " Fisher said, "What a coincidence! If I can't sleep, I will pick up one of your novels. In fact, I just need to glance at any wonderful novel on your bedside table, which is enough to fall asleep. "
The famous German physical chemist Nernst (1864- 194 1) developed an electric lamp called "Nernst lamp", and the sales of this technical product brought him a lot of considerable income. One of his colleagues asked him jealously whether the next development project was to make diamonds. Nernst said, "no, I have plenty of money now. I can afford diamonds." I don't need to make diamonds. "
Shortly after the appearance of civil aviation, Hilbert, a great mathematician, was invited to give a lecture on mathematics in other places, and the topic was decided by him. Therefore, it will be named "Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem". Sure enough, the audience flooded. However, the content of the speech has nothing to do with Fermat's last theorem. Later, someone asked him why he chose a topic unrelated to the content of the speech. He said, "The proof of Fermat's last theorem was prepared in the case of a plane crash."
Colleagues of Austrian physicist Pauli (1900- 1958) all know that this clumsy person should not be allowed to do experiments. As long as he does the experiment, there must be something wrong. Colleagues dubbed it "Pauli effect". One day, a very important experiment went wrong again, the reason could not be found, and Pauli was not there, which was puzzling. A few days later, people found that when the accident happened, Paulie's train happened to pass by the experimental building.
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