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...Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club takes on nuclear physics this fall with student director Mike Donohue’s production of this Cold War comedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. During a stay at a mental hospital three men who claim to be (and may in fact be) physicists Newton, Einstein, and Mobius, become involved in a web of murder, madness, and feigned identity—not to mention international espionage. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office $12, $8 for students. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Thursday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. Loeb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Headline | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...Einstein vs. Bohr: Atomic Showdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unified Comix Theory | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...DIED. MAXIME A. FAGET, 83, NASA engineer dubbed the "Einstein of manned space flight," whose design of the Mercury space capsule made it possible for men to return from space; in Houston, Texas. Early needle-nosed spaceships were almost impossible to protect from the heat of reentry. Faget designed a blunt nose for the Mercury, which created a shock wave that deflected the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...ALBERT EINSTEIN REMARKED IN 1932 THAT "THERE IS NOT THE slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable." Thomas Edison thought alternating current would be a waste of time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt once predicted, when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that airplanes would never be useful in battle against a fleet of ships. There's nothing like the passage of time to make the world's smartest people look like complete idiots. So let's look at a few more. In 1883 Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society and no mean scientist himself, predicted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecasting: FORWARD THINKING | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...humans are gamblers by nature, incorrigible ones, but we're not stupid gamblers: we need to know what the odds are and when the fix is in. So let's extend our posthumous thanks to poor fools like Albert Einstein--as well as to Einstein's high school teacher, who once made the following immortal prediction to Einstein's father: "It doesn't matter what he does--he will never amount to anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecasting: FORWARD THINKING | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

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