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What is your favourite side project?

12 answers answered between 1932 and 2026 one of 3 in How I Work

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Richard Feynman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
I had nothing to do, so I start to figure out the motion of the rotating plate.  I discover that when the angle is very slight, the medallion rotates twice as fast as the wobble rate—two to one.  It came out of a complicated equation!  Then I thought, “Is there some way I can see in a more fundamental way, by looking at the forces or the dynamics, why it’s two to one?”
Recorded Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985 source ↗
Arthur Ashkin Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of optical tweezers
I'm making cheap electricity,
Recorded Hilary Brueck, Business Insider interview at Ashkin's home, 26 January 2019 source ↗
Ada Yonath Structural biologist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2009
I like reading, I like swimming.I go snorkeling if I can. But not because I’m stuck, but because I enjoy them. And when I am swimming or whatever, I find I have more time to think.
Recorded LW, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings source ↗

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