Drink Coffee and Win a Nobel Prize
Today’s Nobel Prize winners in economics, chemistry, and physics claimed coffee to play a positive role in their successes, along with intellectual freedom and independent research. Drinking coffee stimulates the nervous system and allows for an alert, focused mind, something imaginative thinkers could not do without. Regardless, it was not the caffeine from the coffee that the Nobel Prize winners were praising, despite the extra hours of work a pot of coffee may have facilitated.
Read the full Examiner article, “Coffee credited with assisting Nobel Prize winners“. Posted 12/7/09.
OK, it’s not quite as easy as drinking a cup of joe, but coffee has been mentioned by nobel prize winners as helping out to a certain extent. Even though it may have been through indirect methods, such as during coffee breaks, this led to a conducive environment for unique thinking.
