Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, from nonscientific Dublin, of all places, came news of a man who not only understands Einstein, but has bounded like a bandersnatch far ahead (he says) into the hazy, electromagnetic infinite. Austrian-born Nobel Prizewinner Erwin Schrödinger, of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, claims to have generalized still further Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. If so, he has scored a scientific grand slam: mathematical physicists (including Einstein himself) have been trying to do this, without success, for the last 30 years...
...Einstein's Relativity explained (to the serious students who understand it) the gravitational field which extends throughout space. But it did not explain the electromagnetic field, which is quite as big a subject. Physicists have plotted some minor electromagnetic laws. Engineers know some rules of thumb: they deal with electromagnetics in nearly every piece of electrical apparatus they touch. But no one has come forward with one acceptable theory to explain both the gravitational and the electromagnetic fields...
Schrödinger believes that his new theory "should express everything in field physics." It should also, he says, reduce Einstein's theory to a special case, just as Einstein's theory reduced Newton's laws of motion. Like all such high-flown scientific theories, Schrödinger's consists of a complex equation expressed in mathematical symbols. To the nonscientific, it looks like incomprehensible doodling (see cut of theory in Schrödinger's own hand...
...street had the last word. Unasked, one N. H. Partridge of Thornton Heath, Surrey, put three names in nomination: Henry Wallace, "the man who faced America"; Albert Einstein, "for trying"; and Anon., "a child born recently who will be the last survivor of Europe, which . . . will have become a vast, slightly radioactive wilderness, entirely devoid of human life...
...Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mohandas Gandhi, Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Dwight Eisenhower, Charles Chaplin, Jean Sibelius, Benedetto Croce, Augustus John...