10 jobs 10 outstanding minds of mankind

Original author: BEC CREW
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If a cluttered table means mess in the head, then what does an empty table mean?



These words belong to Albert Einstein. Most likely, this saying was justified in justification of its disorganization, rather than summed up any mass observation of the human psyche. The truth is that the fact that the workspace is organized can tell a lot about its owner. According to old studies, people who receive high salaries cannot boast of the perfect cleanliness of their workplace. In 2013, scientists from the University of Minnesota conducted a similar study: as a rule, cluttered jobs belonged to risky and creative personalities, but individuals who, in life, followed schedules and rules clearly organized their workspace.

“Random jobs, it seems, inspire, give impetus to the emergence of new ideas,” the researchers concluded.

Here is another story of a study conducted in the same 2013. College students were encouraged to come up with as many ball application options as possible for Ping-Pong. At the same time, various workspaces were created for work - neat and messy. Interestingly, students working in the “chaos office” were able to offer more creative options for using balls. Of course, all this is a generalization that requires more detailed studies, if the table is dirty - this is not a fact, it is not a fact that a genius is sitting at it! In the article, for example, the working spaces of the brilliant minds of world science are collected. This is the environment in which they created, created and made discoveries.

1. Albert Einstein's desk on the day of his death in 1955




Photographed by Ralph Morse for LIFE Magazine, this image of Einstein's table, untouched and left just like the day he died, became iconic. Morse was instructed to document the events of the day when the greatest of minds left. Morse told how, on the way to the Institute for Advanced Study, he went into the store for scotch tape.

“I knew that people are usually reluctant to talk, but many are happy to take a bottle of booze, not money, in exchange for help,” said Morse. “So, I got to the building, found the Superintendent, gave him tape and voila: the office is open.”

2. Super Charger "amplifying transmitter" Nikola Tesla. 1899 year




The famous image above was captured inside the Tesla laboratory in Colorado Springs in 1899, but the photo does not all depict the tricks of the photographer, “photoshop” of that time. The photo was taken by Dickinson V. Alley for an advertising campaign, in the image of Tesla it looks very relaxed next to the working giant "amplifying transmitter" - a high-voltage generator. It is logical that Tesla knew better than anyone what such an energetically powerful neighborhood is fraught with.

To create a photograph, Dickinson V. Alley first captured the massive sparks of a car in a darkened room, then inserted the photographic plate back and photographed Tesla sitting in a chair with the car turned off. In his notes on Colorado Springs, Tesla admitted that the photograph was “made to order”: “Of course there was no discharge during my photographing, this was done only for the spectacle and the imagination!”

3. Jane Goodall records his field notes in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania




If you want to study primates, you won’t do it with individuals locked in the laboratory, the famous primatologist Jane Goodall knows from experience. More than 50 years ago, Goodall, leaving her place as an assistant to the renowned anthropologist Luis Leakey, went to work in the wilds of East Africa to study chimpanzees and what she observed in Tanzania in the Gombe Stream National Park revolutionized our understanding of primates.

But, as Alison Maloney writes for The New York Times, what might seem like a dream for every aspiring biologist was not really that simple:

“The history and the successful result of her work with chimpanzees in Gombe were so glorified that it is easy to forget in these beams how she, being a young girl with burning eyes, was forced to dwell in the forest in an old ex-army tent, in which spiders and scorpions were teeming and snakes. She shared her workspace with her mother Margaret. ”

4. NASA scientists with a blackboard, 1961




This is how they worked before computers appeared. The board photographed for LIFE magazine in 1961 was most likely created to look very scientific and impressive in the photo. The blog “Rare historical photographs” noted that it does not have any calculation equations.

“Let's be honest, it was the middle of the space race, and they would not have published anything other than general equations in the LIFE magazine.” This photo is of course staged, but perhaps the work of scientists behind closed doors looked something like this. To solve complex equations, NASA scientists each worked on their “mathematical batch”. The scientist owned one part of the equation.

5. Stephen Hawking’s desk at Cambridge University, 2012




One of a series of portrait photographs was commissioned by the London Science Museum to celebrate Hawking's 70th birthday, January 8, 2012. In this image, the British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking at his working "not empty" table. Many strange things from the whole Hawking office were staged on the surface of the table in order to get into the field of view and demonstrate to the public what the greatest mind was working on.



Among the objects that can be seen are a 2 kilogram bronze statue of a pope, a Simpson figure of a Hawking, a space shuttle model and a crystal ball displaying a map of the world. In the second photograph of the same series, a portrait of Marilyn Monroe hangs over Hawking.

6. Former NASA astronaut May Carol Jamison aboard the Endeavor spacecraft




American physician and NASA astronaut May Jamison became the first Afro woman to travel into space, entering orbit aboard the Endeavor space shuttle in 1992. It was her only space flight, Jamison joined five other NASA astronauts and for eight days the team conducted research as part of the Spacelab Japan mission. Now she is the president and founder of two technology companies. By the way, May even played in the astronaut's Star Trek series, though the role was episodic.

7. Buckminster Fuller and his desktop, which is littered with geodesic domes




The American architect, theorist, inventor Buckminster Fuller, was immortalized in the name of molecular compounds, which are a closed sphere consisting of sixty carbon atoms - fullerenes. Famous geodesic domes of Fuller were built on this principle.



Although these structures were first invented by a German engineer 30 years earlier than Fuller, it was the American scientist who received the United States patent. So why not surround them with your workspace?

8. Marie Curie in her laboratory, 1898




If you imagine a picture with the caption “no fuss”, then it can be embodied in a photo that depicts the French physicist Maria Curie, who was born in Poland, in her incredibly bright laboratory in the Sorbonne, Paris. It was 1898 and she had no idea that she would become the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize twice: the first and only woman, and indeed the only person who twice became the Nobel Prize laureate.

“Quiet, dignified and unpretentious” - all this is about her, and the modest pacified workspace in which she worked makes her incredible achievements even more significant.

9. NASA computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, photographed with the source code for the Apollo on-board control computer, 1969




In the picture she is only 29 years old, Hamilton was responsible for the on-board software for the Apollo 11 computer. In 1969 - it was this moment that was captured in the photo above - she and J. Halcombe Lan developed the operating system for the Apollo space program, which prevented possible disruption to the moon.

Here is what Hamilton said in an interview for Datamation, 1971:
The computer was programmed for more than just recognizing erroneous conditions. The software provided a complete set of recovery programs. In this particular case, the reaction of the software was to suspend the work of low-priority tasks and restart (re-establish) the most important ones. If the computer did not recognize this problem and did not take restoration measures, I am not sure that Apollo 11 would have successfully landed on the moon

10. Thomas Edison dictates to the employee a new type of voice recorder “Telescribe”, 1929




Thomas Edison considered the time spent on sleep to be empty, so he practiced polyphase sleep (alternating wakefulness and short sleep). He slept no more than 3 hours a day, so to see him sleeping at his workplace in various parts of the laboratory was not a curiosity.



Such different work spaces are characteristic of some scholars and prominent personalities. It will be true that he will nevertheless be guided by his feeling of comfort, creating an atmosphere in his workplace, unless management allows, and the “design” of placing things and tools on the table in Feng Shui will not violate the office dress code.

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