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After 1915, Albert Einstein continued to rely on his good friend Heinrich Zangger, a professor of forensic medicine in Zurich, to serve as mediator between him and his estranged first wife, Mileva. These three letters to Zangger, published here for the first time, allow us to track Einstein's fitful relationship with his elder son, Hans Albert, and his anxiety about the health on his younger son, Eduard (Tete), whom historians believe was suffering from the early stages of schizophrenia...
...ALBERT SUKOFF, resident of Berkeley, Calif., after the city council agreed to put to voters a symbolic measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney because of Iraq...
...Much like this past year’s decision to keep Lamont open all night, the 1956 campaign was a direct result of a lack of study space for students who wished to do work after 10 p.m., according to Albert B. Levin ’56, who was the president of the Student Council...
9/19: 1,125 freshmen register at the College, 296 register for Radcliffe. Harvard decides to institute a $10 application fee to decrease the number of applications.9/26: Richard L. Dodds ’55 resigns as student council president. Albert B. Levin ’56 unanimously elected.9/29: Prescott Street apartments will house 200 college students. Overseers report calls College expansion “unavoidable,” need for larger faculty, three more houses.10/2: Holly Carleton is chosen as Miss Radcliffe ’59. WHRB, the undergraduate radio station, wins approval of football broadcasts a day later.10/5: School...
...marriage partner to her career choices, Marina von Neumann Whitman ’56 has always known what she wanted.Growing up in the household of a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study—a leading research center in Princeton, New Jersey—meant having Albert Einstein as a frequent dinner guest and a childhood focused on high intellectual standards.“I was my father’s only child, which means all his expectations were focused on me,” recalls Whitman, whose Hungarian father, John von Neumann, is known as the creator...