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...says he also selected the story as a tribute to Holton and his scholarship on Albert Einstein. "Holton is one of the leading historians on Einstein," Herschbach says. "And Stern, some call him the first pupil of Einstein...
...almost a law in publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
...soon De Jong was also convinced. That night he spoke with Albert Osterhaus, chairman of the virology department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where virologist Eric Claas had analyzed the suspect virus using a panel of reagents derived from flu strains isolated and maintained by Webster. Claas had first determined that the virus was H5N1, well before the CDC and Mill Hill. At the outset even he did not believe it. An H5 infection in humans was unheard of. He too assumed the H5 was a contaminant...
Every day, it seems, a celebrity's something-or-other is on the block. A year ago, Albert Einstein's love/hate letters to his first wife Mileva Maric were sold at Christie's. A Christie's spokesman explained why he thought Einstein's relativity-theory manuscript went for more money than the letters. "I think Einstein will be known as a scientist," he said...
Andrew Grove's genius is the result of superior intellect, discipline and the fulfillment of opportunities available in the U.S. A heart-wrenching question, never to be answered, is how many Albert Einsteins, Arthur Rubinsteins and other Andrew Groves has the world been deprived of by the Nazis' slaughter of Jews during World War II? SID SKOLNIK West Hollywood, Calif...