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Einstein, Newton and many other legendary scientists did groundbreaking work in their 20s. But if your hair has gone gray and no Nobel seems likely, don’t fret just yet. Because the age at which Nobel-winning work gets done has been going up. So says a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Benjamin F. Jones and Bruce A. Weinberg, "Age dynamics in scientific creativity"]
愛(ài)因斯坦、牛頓和很多其他的傳奇的科學(xué)家們?cè)谒麄?0歲的時(shí)候就有了突破性的成果。但是如果你等到頭發(fā)灰白，并且似乎諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)是沒(méi)有可能的，別煩。因?yàn)楂@得諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)工作的年齡在日漸上升。美國(guó)國(guó)家科學(xué)院匯刊上的一項(xiàng)研究這樣說(shuō)道?！綛enjamin F. Jones 和 Bruce A. Weinberg，科學(xué)創(chuàng)造力上的年齡動(dòng)態(tài)】

Researchers analyzed 525 science Nobel Prize–winners from 1901 to 2008. In the small sample before 1905, about two-thirds of Nobel winners did their major work before age 40. But by 2000 most laureates did their cited work after age 40.
研究人員分析了從1901到2008年的525名科學(xué)諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)的獲得者。在這個(gè)小的抽樣調(diào)查中，1905年之前，三分之二的諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)得主在40歲之前從事了主要的工作。但是到2000年大多數(shù)諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)得主在四十歲之后有了顯著成果。

The entire field of quantum mechanics was predominantly a young man’s game—which meant that as late as 1934, more than three-quarters of physics prizes were for work done by people under 40. But the more mature researchers have steadily increased their catch since then.
整個(gè)量子力學(xué)領(lǐng)域很顯然是年輕人的游戲----那就是說(shuō)，晚到1934年，四分之三以上的物理學(xué)獎(jiǎng)是為表彰那些四十歲以下人的工作。但從那之后更成熟的研究人員不斷地增長(zhǎng)了他們獲獎(jiǎng)的幾率。

The study authors note that a shift from theoretical to experimental work can account for some of the age change. It also takes longer to educate and train new contributors to now-mature fields. So keep plugging. Unlike the youthful Archimedes, your “eureka” moment may come in a bathtub with safety bars.
研究人員注意到，從理論工作到實(shí)驗(yàn)工作的轉(zhuǎn)變可以歸結(jié)于年齡上的轉(zhuǎn)變。將新的研究人員引入到已經(jīng)成熟的領(lǐng)域也需要更長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間來(lái)教育和培訓(xùn)。所以繼續(xù)鉆研吧。和年輕的阿基米德不同的是，你的“我找到了”這樣的時(shí)刻可能來(lái)自帶有安全棒的浴缸里。

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