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Nobel Prize Winner Got Free House and Free (as In Beer) Beer
slashchuck writes "Niels Bohr is one of the greatest scientists who ever lived and a favorite of his fellow Danes when he lived in Copenhagen. Apparently, after he won the Nobel Prize in 1922, the Carlsberg brewery gave him a gift – a house located next to the brewery. And the best perk of the house? It had a direct pipeline to the brewery so that Bohr had free beer on tap whenever he wanted."
See how Denmark did this, world? Neils Bohr assembled a scientific network centered in Copenhagen that vastly increased the speed and dissemination of discoveries. Quantum mechanics and nuclear physics were all born in his backyard. Scientists came from all around the world to debate with him. Why? Because he had free beer.
If you want flying cars and starships, perhaps we need to buy Stephen Hawkings a brewery. Scientists are still human, dammit!
The headlines have never really been very good. Just be glad when they have any relation to the story whatsoever.
So the blog cites as a source, another blog. If you look in the comments for that blog, the author says you should google it, and links to a reddit page. That, in turn, links to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okJnQIjELY4#t=2m55s
It's a nice story, but I'd like to actually hear it from someone who can actually supply details. Bohr's got a lot of cool stuff - like how his lab was used to hide smuggled Nobel medals from the Nazis (by dissolving them: http://www.archive.org/stream/adventuresinradi01heve#page/27/mode/1up ).
I'm sure there's more to the story than just 'he had free beer on tap'.
But the cat with the message collar just showed up now, for some reason.
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Europe: they give you a house next to the brewery, and fresh, free beer for life. :/
The US: they give you an alias.
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To be honest I thought the headline was funny =/
This was actually the very first story ever posted on Slashdot, back in 1922. It seems that the story tape has looped on itself- someone tell Timothy he needs to change to the next tape before he posts another re-run.
And no two beers could be in the same state at the same time.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
And no two beers could be in the same state at the same time.
Which begs the question, If i have an unopened 12 pack, are the bottles empty or full?
I think it's about time to collapse some wave functions, cheers!
"Niels Bohr is one of the greatest scientists who ever lived"
Indeed, and at almost seven feet of his stature, you would be ill-advised to argue with this great Dane. *ducks*
Ezekiel 23:20
Although they probably should have mentioned that Bohr was a great Dane.
"Nobel Prize Winner Got Free House and Beer Beer"
..get one of the most awesome products of chemistry ever? I wonder what a chemist would get? Maybe the most awesome product of biology ever?
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So they took one of the greatest minds in a generation, and attempted to kill it with large amounts of alcohol. What were they worried about?
Given the fact that this is Denmark we're talking about, you're making the rather large and stupid assumption that large amounts of beer did not directly contribute to creating one of the greatest minds in a generation.
Some countries are proud of their beer and heritage, and respect it so, as do their drinkers.
Others invent NASCAR in an attempt to make a heritage to pin to their shitty beer, and instead master the art of the DUI and hangover.
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Uh, Denmark, dude. Let's not set up the fight between the Dutch and the Danes like what happened in Springfield (Little Orphan Millie).
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To explain the joke:
If the beer is not run for long enough, the beer sitting in the pipe will become warm. To get to the fresh, cold beer, you would have to run the tap for a few seconds to flush out the warm beer that had been sitting. This is, however, a tragic waste of beer that could otherwise have been rechilled and drunk. Thus, he weeps for the lost beer.
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No, he got a 2nd Nobel in Belchology
And the third and final time that particular prize was awarded was when a young Albert Einstein, using just a chisel and hammer in his little shed, managed to split the Tasmanian beer atom and actually put bubbles in beer.
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This is how you promote science. Rewarding scientists who kick ass and make rock stars out of them. I can't name 5 Canadian scientists of the last 20 years yet I am willing to be that there are some seriously good ones. Who do we put on our money? Politicians and some woman who inherited her title. I am willing to bet that the counter argument from governmenty types would be that so and so was on a stamp. Stamps who the hell uses those anymore?
Where are the genuine North American scientists like Einstein or Feynman? I am not talking about famous science journalists but famous scientists doing science in North America. I can tell you more about Tom Cruise's kid than I can about the state of Canadian science. I am looking forward to Jack Reacher but would trade in the entire movie industry for nuclear fusion or a huge leap in stem cell therapy.
The Soviet scientist community offered him a home near Russian research facilities too. Bohr was the kind of guy that would walk up to the white house, knock on the door and ask to come in to talk to president about sharing atomic bomb information with the Soviets. Also, he would visit New Mexico and do the same to convince Oppenheimer the sharing of scientific advances in nuclear fission with the Soviets. Bohr was one of the only forward-thinking scientists at that time on the ramifications of developing the bomb and felt that by sharing the information there would be less suspicions by Soviet scientists thus quashing an arms race. He probably lit a fire under Oppenheimer to begin thinking seriously about ways to prevent Nuclear annihilation and proliferation. If anyone's interested more in this stuff I recommend reading American Prometheus which is an Oppenheimer BIO.
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the terms seemed to be used interchangably today.
Back in the day(USA):
geek - practicle intellegence. Generally sports a t-shirt, long hair, a beard and jeans. Works on things like computers, ham radios. The ubermensch form of a geek would be a hacker, or the elite skillwise of geek skills.
nerd - book smart, generally never seen without a buttondown shirt and slacks.(never too classy or current).
Hacker also has counter culture implications like punk rock, heavy metal, or outlaw biker does. Despite what anyone tells you, all geeks in the 1990s looked towards Hackers as inspirational, and almost universally revered and respected, and really held mainstream culture in disattain in at least some regard.
a "hacker manefesto", but lets be honest and changing a few words it applies to most recent counter cultures, for the same reasons.
http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
Nerds on the other hand, were at the epitome of conformity, usually had social views that centered around outdated models, and generally boring, bland, reactionary, and useless(despite being insanely smart). They were also stuck up. (prototypical preppies, albiet more socially awkward before being a preppy was cool)
I never liked nerds. I think this debate has been pointless for the last 15 or so years though.
edit: today, like most sub cultures, geek has been subverted by the mainstream media around the lines of consumer items, like other cultures before it.
Why do you preface that with "to be honest"? Are you trying to imply that the rest of the time you're lying?
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Why do you preface that with "to be honest"? Are you trying to imply that the rest of the time you're lying?
That is an outstanding question, one of the best I read on Slashdot. Let me get back to you, I should give you a response back in like 10 minutes.
And with free suds in the house for friends and frat boys alike... Neil almost certainly was no Bohr...
Considering what passes for news nowadays...... A 90 year old story is more newsworthy than 90% of 'news' today.
I am fairly sure that the pipeline is a myth. There certainly was no mention of it when I toured that particular Carlsberg factory (now almost dismantled).
The house does, however, come with free beer, but not by pipeline. Instead the workers would deliver the beer every day. I was told that when Niels Bohr first moved in, a worker came to the house and asked how much he wanted each day. Apparently he said "12". However, Carlsberg workers never count in single beer bottles, they count crates... At least there was enough beer.
Whether you believe THAT story is up to you.
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