Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princeton this week, the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists met under the chairmanship of Albert Einstein to consider what they had accomplished in the year since their organization was founded. They were unhappy...
Several immediate explanations are available for the limp, unenthusiastic manner in which the nation's press yesterday handled the recommendations of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists which met at Princeton with Professor Albert Einstein as chairman. Possibly it was felt that these suggestions could be roughly lumped under a "World Government" label and were, as such, old stuff. And that the mention of Professor Einstein's name, which once could inject palpitating interest into any news story, has lost its striking edge through his previous pronouncements on the subject. The press is also not always proff against the frame...
...black and multicolored robes filed across the "front campus" before famed old Nassau Hall. There, 6,000 spectators, seated in shadows under Princeton's elms ("An adorable place, is it not?" Woodrow Wilson used to say), cheered whenever they recognized a celebrity. There were, besides Home-Towner Albert Einstein, Selman Abraham Waksman, the discoverer of streptomycin...
Three matching bits of evidence in a row were more than coincidence. While the Fellows of the Royal Society watched intently, Blackett wrote down an equation* which may become as famous as Einstein's law, E-mc². It looked like the physical hybrid which science had been searching for so eagerly. On one side of the equation was magnetism, an electrical effect; on the other were basic gravitational quantities...
Among others with whom Lanny is on good terms: Pierre Laval, Albert Einstein (they play Mozart sonatas for piano and violin), Winston Churchill, Harry Hopkins ("May I call you Lanny?" says Harry), OSS Chief William J. Donovan, Admiral Darlan. Lanny is also, believe it or not, friendly with Hermann Goring and Adolf Hitler...