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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Einstein's position as one of the great popular idols of the 20th Century is a historic phenomenon of hero worship. Few of his millions of admirers understand his relativity theory, fewer still have any notion of how it might benefit mankind. He has been called atheist, radical, many another hard name. Yet Manhattan's famed Riverside Church has already enshrined him in stone among the great scientists of all time, and conservative heads of state delight to honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genius at Home | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...rifles outside his hideaway on the English seacoast. At Manhattan's gilded Metropolitan Opera House, audiences have been known to rise to salute his entrance in the midst of an aria. Marianoff tells of overhearing a mother say to her small son in a city street: "There is Albert Einstein. Don't ever forget that you have seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genius at Home | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...elevator company called Dr. Abraham Flexner, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study, whom Einstein had given as a reference, and announced that it had an order to install an elevator in Einstein's two-story Princeton house. Exclaimed Flexner: "In heaven's name, Albert, what would you do with an elevator?" Replied Einstein: "I do not know, but the man who came to interest me in it-I liked him so much, I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genius at Home | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...Albert M. Gibson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Nominees | 7/18/1944 | See Source »

...researchers: Albert Milzer, Ph.D., Franz Oppenheimer, Ph.D., Sidney O. Levinson, M.D., Howard J. Shaughnessy, Ph.D., John L. Neal, Ph.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: End of Infantile Paralysis? | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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