Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finances able youngsters in medical schools, in research laboratories. He gets them paying fellowships, good hospital appointments. To celebrate his 60th birthday in 1932, former pupils wrote special scientific articles for a homage volume. They got learned colleagues and friends to contribute: Nobel Prizemen Alexis Carrel and Albert Einstein, Dr. George Richards Minot (who later received a Nobel Prize), the late great Dr. William Henry Welch (1849-1934). The salutes to Dr. Libman filled three Libman Anniversary Volumes. Dr. Welch, who wrote the introduction, needed ten epithets for his hero: "Teacher, investigator, writer, skilled physician, exemplar and promoter of scientific...
Died. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, 67, famed Jewish neurologist, founder of the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, Nazi exile since 1933; in Nice. Unkempt and walrus-mustached, he was called "the Einstein of Sex," had heard the confidences of 30,000 sexually maladjusted people. He believed that absolute sexual normality is rarer than abnormality, crusaded for candor, removal of restrictive sex laws and customs. Said he: "If a man wants to understand a woman, he must discover the woman in himself, and if a woman would understand a man, she must dig in her own consciousness to discover...
...Einstein Confirmation. Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (1915) contained two statements based on the premise that light had mass. One was that starlight passing close to the sun should be bent by the sun's gravitational field. That was confirmed in 1921 by Dr. Robert Julius Trumpler of California's Lick Observatory, who produced photographs taken during a solar eclipse showing stars near the sun's rim appar-ently displaced from their true position. The other statement was that light moving against a gravitational field should be "stretched" by the strain-i. e. suffer...
...hearers for a ride on the Second Law, got the Universe into an even worse state than Eddington's featureless mass, finally resurrected it. In Dr. Swann's vague soup there was not a particle of matter, all of it having been turned into radiation according to Einstein's sinister little equation, E = MC 2 . His thermodynamic-equilibrium Universe was therefore a vast sea of electromagnetic vibration, nothing more...
...Recently floored by a complex problem in chemistry, a witty Princeton graduate student telephoned Dr. Einstein who almost instantly solved the problem, gave the answer with a chuckle...