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EDWARD TELLER had a longer and more intimate acquaintance with nuclear weapons than any man in history. During World War II, the brilliant, Hungarian-born physicist, fearful that Hitler was building an A-bomb, was among those who got Albert Einstein to nudge F.D.R. into starting what became the Manhattan Project. After the war, Teller pushed for the "super"--the H-bomb. The rabid anticommunist became a scientific pariah in the 1950s for implying that his former boss, Manhattan Project head J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a security risk. Teller was considered the model for Dr. Strangelove, the bomb-loving scientist...
Roscoe Dullich, an English professor who teaches “Chaucer, Henry James, and Einstein,” is actually Justin Kaplan, the editor of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, while Professor Gresham was played by a doctor who went to Yale...
...Laser Long before the laser was invented, Albert Einstein reckoned that excited molecules hit by photons would produce an amplified signal. In 1960 Theodore Maiman built the first working laser (short for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), a coherent beam of electromagnetic energy produced by light waves traveling the same path. Today the devices are ubiquitous: guiding rockets for the military, cutting steel, unclogging arteries in the O.R.--and playing your favorite Radiohead...
From then on, his life took a different path from what one might expect of a Dean or a Maitland. He chose Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, a school known for its hands-on, community-based approach to teaching medicine. It was at Einstein that Dean met Judith Steinberg, a studious Princeton grad from Roslyn, N.Y., a precinct of Long Island somewhat less tony than the ones Dean knew well. After a long courtship, he and Steinberg were married by a judge at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Manhattan on a winter night...
...Princeton, N.J., as a small, Ivory Tower refuge for leading scholars to study in an environment without formal courses or curriculum. The IAS is widely known as the oldest and most prestigious institute, boasting four schools, extensive resources and a cadre of famous former members—including Albert Einstein...