Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other bouquets went to the Rev. Dr. William Howard Melish of Brooklyn, chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, to members of N.C.A.S.F. and half a dozen allied groups. Among them: retired Harvard Professor Ralph Barton Perry, ex-Ambassador to Russia Joe Davies, Atom Scientist Albert Einstein, onetime California Attorney General Bob Kenny (now national vice-chairman of the Progressive Citizens of America...
...reaction of those blessed was mixed. Pastor Melish was highly gratified by this "unsolicited" tribute. Albert Einstein refused to comment. In California, Bob Kenny tried to laugh it off. Said he: "I imagine Vishinsky is responsible for my inclusion. I saw him frequently at Lake Success and we remarked that we were both in the same business." In case anyone had forgotten Vishinsky's part in the huge Communist purges of the '303, Kenny explained: "Vishinsky is also a former prosecutor...
...Check on Einstein. An old question is Einstein's Theory of Relativity. One way to check on Einstein is to measure how much a star's light rays are bent by gravitation when they pass close to the sun. These measurements can be taken effectively only during a solar eclipse...
Thus far, observations during eclipses have confirmed Einstein. But the exact amount that a star's light bends has varied from eclipse to eclipse because of changes in the density of the upper atmosphere. This year, the scientists, with their passion for precision, will study the atmosphere right up to its top, with airplanes and radiosonde balloons...
...from all over the world, some 50 to 60 "members" come to the Institute. Most of their work there is individual research-in mathematics and physics, economics and history, or the humanities. Institute members have tea and talk together every day in Fuld Hall's "common room." Albert Einstein is the best-known faculty member (though emeritus), and the other 17 are also eminent in their fields...