Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mathematical front, the work is being done mainly by European theorists working alone. In splendid isolation at the top stands Albert Einstein. From his special theory (1905) and general theory (1915) spring a line of relativity logicians who include notably Max Born (currently a refugee from Nazi Germany) and Belgium's Abbe Georges Lemaitre. At the other end of theoretical analysis, Denmark's Niels Bohr has taken the quantum principle advanced by Germany's Max Planck and used it to describe the possible energy states of orbital electrons...
...copies in Great Britain, 39,000 in the U. S. The Nature of the Physical World by Sir Arthur, a fatter and costlier tome, has sold 20,000 copies in Britain, 33,000 in the U. S. Both books have been translated into a half-dozen languages. Aware that Einstein considers Eddington the foremost exponent of Relativity, many an impartial appraiser is inclined to give Eddington a slight edge over Jeans as a pure scientist. But the difference between Jeans's influence on the lay world and Eddington's is not in any small disparity of scientific reputation...
...55th birthday Albert Einstein filled out a Federal income tax blank as a nonresident alien, mailed it with his check from Princeton to the Collector of Internal Revenue for the First New Jersey District...
Scientist Albert Einstein who spends his spare time fiddling, received a letter from one Sigismund Alexander, jobless Jewish violinist, asking help. Professor Einstein replied: "I live a very, very quiet life here in Princeton and could not help you directly to find job. But your letter was very interesting to me-so much so that I promise herewith to write an autographic letter of thanks to anyone who gives you a job for at least a month...
Sirs: ...Is not Doktor Einstein's language German? JUDSON S. HUBBARD Denver, Col. President Roosevelt speaks German but not so fluently as he does French and Italian. Frau Doktor Einstein translated to speed up the talk...