Members are expected to take it easy and slowly ponder this and that, preferably on a sofa or in the bathtub. One of the more unusual and interesting early 20t

Members are expected to take it easy and slowly ponder this and that, preferably on a sofa or in the bathtub. One of the more unusual and interesting early 20th century physicists was Leo Szilard, whose daily 'work' routine involved soaking in the bathtub from perhaps 9am-noon, during which time he would think about nuclear physics among other things. Likely as a result of all this pondering, he realized that nuclear chain reactions were possible, if an element could be found that released two or more neutrons when bombarded with one neutron... six years before the discovery of fission. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/leo-szilard-a-traffic-light-and-a-slice-of-nuclear-history/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio... This is a useful anecdote to relate whenever anyone tells you to get out of the bathtub and get back to work.