Timeline for What do we know about working times of great living scientists?
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| S Jan 12, 2014 at 13:13 | history | bounty ended | StrongBad | ||
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 11:38 | answer | added | Leonid Petrov | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 10:19 | answer | added | Nick Stauner | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Dec 1, 2013 at 2:35 | comment | added | Xiaolei Zhu | @user6818 In theoretical chemical physics, because the nature of theoretical sciences, most professors go home and stay with kids and family at 6pm and never come to lab on weekends. However, they do read papers on weekends and if you email them, you get rather quick replies any time as long as he/she is not asleep. And of course nothing can stop them from going over equations in their head while playing with their kids. The only exception seems to be during football games. So, it is really difficult to count hours. | |
| Nov 30, 2013 at 23:48 | comment | added | user6818 | @XiaoleiZhu Can you give some representative numbers? (I am typically thinking of theoretical physics and mathematics) | |
| Nov 30, 2013 at 15:41 | comment | added | Xiaolei Zhu | this would vary too dramatically between disciplines and even between different directions. the number would not be very useful if you do not specify the area of study. for quickly developing areas, great minds are competing fiercely. most leading scientists would not sleep much, (except those that already won a nobel prize and turned their attention to non-research instead) otherwise they will inevitably fall behind. | |
| Nov 29, 2013 at 19:43 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/406508722073387009 | ||
| Nov 29, 2013 at 9:22 | comment | added | Shane O Rourke | I was thinking of the following line. "...my ability to do any serious mathematics fluctuates greatly from day to day; sometimes I can think hard on a problem for an hour..." Of course you may have been thinking of another line (in another post). | |
| Nov 29, 2013 at 0:43 | comment | added | user6818 | I don't see it there. Can you kindly quote the line where he talks of this concentration time? | |
| Nov 28, 2013 at 23:29 | comment | added | Shane O Rourke | I think the Terry Tao blog post you have in mind is terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/on-time-management. | |
| Nov 28, 2013 at 22:31 | history | asked | user6818 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |