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XX century. Daily life of a researcher

From 12 April to 12 August, you are invited to the exhibition “Daily Work Routine of a Researcher of the 20th Century” celebrating the 65th JINR anniversary. The objects of interest from the collections of the JINR Museum of Science and Technology and also from the Museum-Study of Bruno Pontecorvo (DLNP, JINR) are showcased at the JINR Museum. JINR researchers used these everyday-life pieces for their work in the 1950s—1990s. Here you will find documents, photographs, scientific instruments and devices.
19.03.2021
Dear friends! You are reading the last post of our Friday Column “The 20th century. Everyday life of a researcher” created to celebrate the 65th anniversary of our Institute.
12.03.2021
In our latest Friday column issue “The 20th century. Everyday life of a researcher” we wrote about wall newspapers at JINR laboratories. Our readers told us that DLNP also had its own wall newspaper Luch (Ray). One of its editors was Georgy Aleksandrovich Shelkov. Here is his story.  
05.03.2021
The holiday is coming. A good reason to remember folk art which was in full swing in laboratory rooms on the eve of holidays and anniversaries when employees created real congratulation masterpieces for their colleagues.
26.02.2021
Today, it’s quite usual to meet a person with earphones. One can listen day and night to his favourite music, podcasts, and news from tens and thousands of radio stations of the world transmitted on the Internet.
12.02.2021
Arguments of e-book readers and adherents of good old paper books are gone. The war between “Little-Endians” and “Big-Endians” wasn’t declared. Someone reads only digital books, another one accepts only paper books, a third one buys both—anyway, a book is something more, an aesthetic pleasure.
05.02.2021
This curious headset from the past is an exhibit in the Museum-Study of Bruno Pontecorvo at DLNP. We assume that this device was intended for delegates of international conferences in order to listen to simultaneous interpretation.
29.01.2021
We can’t help sharing this beauty—handmade congratulatory (greeting) addresses. Now you simply download the greeting card background and appropriate rhyme lines from Yandex, choose the font, fill in the greeting form, and print it.
22.01.2021
And again, writing this column, we collaborate with the JINR Museum of Science and Technology. Since we want to tell you about the ways of calculation in science of the 20th century. Or rather, about large and complicated computations in design and construction of facilities, data processing etc. Mental calculation and column multiplication are not of great value here.
15.01.2021
The post is written in collaboration with the JINR Museum of Science and Technology. The quote in the heading is about a computer! Do you think it is about a novel smartphone of a popular brand? Not at all. About the “Aldan-3”, a fictitious computer from Strugatsky brothers’ novel “Monday starts on Saturday” (1964—1965).
25.12.2020
Dear friends! Next Friday we will enter the new year 2021, and that is, the today’s issue of our column is the last one!
18.12.2020
If your parents and grandparents worked at JINR in the last century, you surely happened to hear about fascinating and creative activities kept humming in the scientific community outside work. As we see it, the distinctive feature was that in the absence of gadgets, YouTube, and quizzes with professional hosts, they had to organize their leisure time using their own resources. Physics are lyrics? Yes.
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