What Great Scientists Did When They Weren

Perimeter Institute

愛好通常被認為是那些過著安靜、輕松生活的人們的活動。然而，生活充實、忙碌，甚至壓力大的人更需要愛好。一起來看看加拿大圓周理論物理研究所發布的文章吧，我們會明白即使是最聰明的頭腦也需要放松。

Einstein， Curie， Feynman， Bohr—their names are 1）synonymous with scientific breakthroughs that forever changed our understanding of the universe and ourselves. But even the most brilliant minds need to 2）unwind. Here's how 10 of history's greatest physicists recharged their intellectual batteries.

Nikola Tesla fed pigeons every day in a park near his lab. Noticing one pigeon with a broken leg and wing， he spent $2，000 building a device that supported the bird's body while its bones healed.

Marie Curie， two-time Nobel Prize-winner， was an 3）avid long-distance cyclist. She and husband Pierre spent their 1895 honeymoon pedaling around the north of France.

Max Born， quantum pioneer， was a lover of music， but he died just before the pop music stardom of his granddaughter： Olivia Newton-John.

Albert Einstein taught himself to play the violin. He sometimes played 4）duets with Max Planck， the “Father of Quantum Theory” and an accomplished pianist.

Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was， among other quirky things， a semi-secret artist under the 5）pseudonym “Ofey.” His works drew critical acclaim and were shown at exhibition.

Werner Heisenberg， whose “uncertainty principle” became a hallmark of quantum mechanics， was an avid skier and mountaineer.

Erwin Schrodinger， who famously devised a thought experiment involving an alive/dead cat， made tiny dollhouse furniture with textiles woven on a miniature loom.

Enrico Fermi， whose work on 6）radioactivity earned a Nobel Prize， played tennis with what one friend called “considerable ferocity”.

James Clerk Maxwell， who unified electricity and 7）magnetism， was an accomplished poet. His poems， such as A Problem in Dynamics， were often playfully mind-boggling.

Before his Novel-winning work in quantum theory， Niels Bohr was a goalkeeper for the Danish football team AkademiskBoldklub. His mathematician brother Harald was the real sporty one， though—he played for the Danish national football team at the 1908 Olympics.

愛因斯坦、居里夫人、費曼、玻爾——他們的名字是科學突破的代名詞，他們的科學成果永遠地改變了我們對宇宙和我們自己的理解。但即使是最聰明的頭腦也需要放松。一起來看看 10 位歷史上最偉大的物理學家如何為他們的智力“充電”。

尼古拉·特斯拉每天在他實驗室附近的公園里喂鴿子。他注意到其中一只鴿子的腿和翅膀都斷了，于是花了 2000 美元制作了一個裝置，該裝置能讓鴿子的骨頭愈合時支撐它的身體。

兩次獲得諾貝爾獎的居里夫人是一位狂熱的長途自行車手。她和她的丈夫皮埃爾在 1895 年度蜜月時曾在法國北部騎行。

馬克斯·玻恩是量子力學的奠基人，同時也是一位音樂愛好者。但當他去世不久后，他的孫女奧莉維亞·紐頓 - 約翰成了一名流行音樂歌手。

愛因斯坦自學拉小提琴。他有時與“量子理論之父”且頗有成就的鋼琴家馬克斯·普朗克共同演奏二重奏。

理論物理學家理查德·費曼是一位筆名為“阿飛”的半秘密藝術家。他的作品廣受好評，并在展覽中展出。

維爾納·海森堡的“不確定性原理”成為量子力學的標志，他是一位狂熱的滑雪和登山愛好者。

設計了一個著名的涉及活 / 死貓的思想實驗的歐文·薛定諤，他用微型織機上編織的紡織品制作了微型玩具屋家具。

恩里科·費米因為在放射性方面的工作而獲得了諾貝爾獎，他打網球的方式被他的一位朋友認為“很兇猛”。

將電和磁結合起來的詹姆斯·克拉克·麥克斯韋，也是一位多才多藝的詩人。他的詩歌 A Problem in Dynamics 令人贊嘆！

在他的量子理論獲獎之前，尼爾斯·玻爾是丹麥足球隊 AB 哥本哈根足球俱樂部的守門員。不過，他的數學家兄弟哈拉爾德是真正的運動健將——他在 1908 年以丹麥國家足球隊成員參加了奧運會。