Sleepy opening

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Mesrop Mashtots, the creator of the Armenian alphabet, argued that the alphabet in a dream showed him an angel. 9th
Descartes once dreamed of an open book. In the dream, the spirit of Descartes convinced that his life is meant to prove that mathematical principles are useful in the study of nature and can benefit tremendously. 8th
German chemist Friedrich Kekule dreamed of a snake biting its own tail itself. After this dream Kekle proposed structure of the benzene molecule.
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Frederick Burdach dreamed idea of ​​circulation. 6th
Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize winner, dreamed of nervous transmission of cardiac impulses.
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There are memories of Niels Bohr about his dream about the structure of the atom - the nucleus and electrons dreamed of him in the form of the solar system with the planets revolve.
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Son of Frederick Banting of the experiment, which he conducted at the time, led to the discovery of insulin. 3rd place
The greatest mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in India claimed that all his discoveries came to him in a dream of the Hindu goddess Namagiri (one of the incarnations of Lakshmi). In his dreams, she wrote the equation. 2nd place
Soviet aircraft designer Oleg Antonov had a dream and after waking sketched the shape of the tail of the aircraft giant "Antaeus." 1st place
Elias Howe, who created in 1845 the sewing machine, before this long suffered, not knowing how to place the eye of the needle so that the thread clung to the opposite side of the fabric. Once he dreamed that he was surrounded by a dance of savages, who took him prisoner. They danced around him, brandishing spears, and he noticed that the spears are just below the ear tip. Waking up, he moved the eye of the needle to the opposite end of the needles - to the tip, and the problem was solved.

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