Puzzle/AnnaWorried
From SarahConnor
Puzzles
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Anna's Worried
Unsolved
- So, in this blog post on Enitechlabs.com, a single picture (link) was posted of Anna Kies at her work station, with a view out the window of the parking lot.
- Against the window lies a sheet of paper with a symbol, numbers and letters, which looks like a puzzle begging to be solved. (the letters also appear to be graphically edited, indicating it is in fact a puzzle to be solved)
Steps taken (spoilers below, if you want to solve yourself):
- the letters "otbktzgy kdiuraoyyk bozgs pabgz vkx gxzky" are actually ROT-20
- decoded, the letters spell "inventas excoluisse vitam juvat per artes"
- in corrected order, this is the latin phrase "Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes"
- the latin phrase appears on the three Swedish Nobel prize awards - Physics and Chemistry, Medicine or Physiology, and Literature
- the latin phrase literally translated means "Inventions enhance life which is beautified through art"
- loosely translated as "And they who bettered life on earth by new found mastery."
- the corresponding numbers when placed in the corrected order of the latin phrase become
- the letters "otbktzgy kdiuraoyyk bozgs pabgz vkx gxzky" are actually ROT-20
Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes 75 39 98 97 7 44
Speculation...
- Given the discovery of the Dyson Trust website's secured section requiring a login and password for project members, the fact that both Frank Bentley and Anna Kies are listed as project members on the Trust's projects page, it's believed this sheet of paper may hold Anna's login and/or password to the secure section.
- Anna's bio may hold additional clues to her password, if this is the correct path.
- It's possible that the numbers may represent 2-digit years (in the 1900's?). They may be pointing to winners of certain nobel prizes in order to produce a letter for each number (for example - the first letter of the first name of all Nobel physics awards winners in the years listed in order of the number sequence). See the table below.
Nobel prize Laureates
listed by year, prize, first and last name, in aligned columns
YEAR PRIZE FIRST NAME LAST NAME 1975 Chemistry, John Cornforth Chemistry, Vladimir Prelog Economics, Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich Economics, Tjalling C. Koopmans Literature, Eugenio Montale Medicine, David Baltimore Medicine, Renato Dulbecco Medicine, Howard M. Temin Peace, Andrei Sakharov Physics, Aage N. Bohr Physics, Ben R. Mottelson Physics, James Rainwater 1939 Chemistry, Adolf Butenandt Chemistry, Leopold Ruzicka Literature, Frans Eemil Sillanpää Medicine, Gerhard Domagk Physics, Ernest Lawrence 1998 Chemistry, Walter Kohn Chemistry, John Pople Economics, Amartya Sen Literature, José Saramago Medicine, Robert F. Furchgott Medicine, Louis J. Ignarro Medicine, Ferid Murad Peace, John Hume Peace, David Trimble Physics, Robert B. Laughlin Physics, Horst L. Störmer Physics, Daniel C. Tsui 1997 Chemistry, Paul D. Boyer Chemistry, Jens C. Skou Chemistry, John E. Walker Economics, Robert C. Merton Economics, Myron S. Scholes Literature, Dario Fo Medicine, Stanley B. Prusiner Peace, International Campaign to Ban Landmines Peace, Jody Williams Physics, Steven Chu Physics, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Physics, William D. Phillips 1907 Chemistry, Eduard Buchner Literature, Rudyard Kipling Medicine, Alphonse Laveran Peace, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Peace, Louis Renault Physics, Albert A. Michelson 1944 Chemistry, Otto Hahn Literature, Johannes V. Jensen Medicine, Joseph Erlanger Medicine, Herbert S. Gasser Peace, International Committee of the Red Cross Physics, Isidor Isaac Rabi |