勤思多长寿 大器当早成

A thinker lives longer and a great scientist successes early

概述了物理学自古希腊时期到近代物理基本概念初步形成的1930年的主要成果,及对这些成果作出重要贡献的物理学家.通过分析这些物理学家的寿命以及他们取得重要成就时的年龄,我们发现,这些物理学家的平均寿命远高于他们所处时期的人类平均寿命;而他们取得重要成就的黄金年龄往往在中年以前甚至更年轻的时期;这一黄金年龄的平均值还在随着时代而变得更低.这一结果对当代青年科学工作者具有很大的启发意义.

The important achievements of physics and physicists who had made critical contributions to these achievements from the time of ancient Greek to the 1930＇s was overviewed in this paper. By analyzing the lives of these physicists, we have found that the average life-span of these physicists was much higher than the human life expectancy during their time, and the golden ageswhen they made the achievements were often before their middle ages or even younger.What＇s more, the average of these golden ages was still getting lower with time.Our conclution is instructive to young scientific workers today.