Word: einstein
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Princeton's courtly Physicist Eugene P. Wigner, though his name is not a household word, ranks high among the pioneers who led a nervous world into the age of the atom. In 1939, he was one of the five farsighted scientists* who wrote a letter for Albert Einstein to send to President Franklin D. Roosevelt suggesting that "it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power would be generated." He was present at the University of Chicago's secrecy-shrouded squash court under...
...fact is that human group behavior is complex and variegated. Lay language often does not do justice to this quality. Popular translations of sociological literature can frequently be compared to the difference between Disney's exploding pingpong balls on mousetraps and an original essay in fission by Albert Einstein...
While William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, talked engagingly about the evolution of stars and the significance of "E equals MC squared bit worked out by Einstein," the visitors sweltered in the near-astronomical temperature that prevailed in the lecture room...
...path of the shadow, which slips between Montreal and Quebec, cuts Maine in two, and grazes the southern tip of Nova Scotia, scientists will deploy their strange instruments. They will photograph the moon-covered sun in every available way, shoot rockets into the shadow. A German group will check Einstein's theory of relativity by photographing stars that appear to be close to the sun to see how much their light is bent by the sun's gravitation. Distant radio telescopes will bombard the moon with radar waves so that observers in the path of totality...
...arti est of arty photographers. In his darkened studio, the temperature has to be just right-a steady 68° to 72°. He insists that subjects stretch out and relax for 15 minutes before the first picture is snapped. But Dr. Gershon-Cohen, a radiologist at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, is the extremely careful scientist, not the temperamental artist. Borrowing a technique space researchers use to take temperature readings of Venus, he photographs the human body's surface heat with a novel infra-red camera...