Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eddington & [Sir James] Jeans, Interpreters of the Universe." Shy, neat, reed-nosed Sir Arthur looked precisely like the British university don he was, and he discoursed on his cosmic subject with a wit and clarity rare among scientists. He set down in brook-clear language a masterly simplification of Einstein's theory of relativity, spent most of his life explaining the enigmas of abstract science for the benefit of laymen (The Nature of the Physical World, The Expanding Universe). He enlivened these lessons with attempts to calculate such incalculables as the heat of the sun (ten to 25 million...
...dissonances could kill-and be beamed 3,500 miles-the halls of Berchtesgaden would ring with Adolf Hitler's death yells. Last week the Albert Einstein of music, sad-eyed Composer Arnold Schönberg, took artistic revenue on the man who in 1933 swept him and his cryptic music from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revenge: a recitation based on the booming rhetoric of Byron's Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with string orchestra accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic...
Died. George David Birkhoff, 60, famed Harvard mathematician, proponent of the "Perfect Fluid" four-dimensional theory of gravitation (alternative to Einstein's); of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass...
...Physics-Otto Stern, 56, a bald, stocky, mustached German, old friend & associate of Albert Einstein, who quit the University of Hamburg when the Nazis came to power, is now a U.S. citizen and research professor at Carnegie Tech...
...faults-an overextended first act, an undernourished last one, some rubbishy minor characters, some razzle-dazzle farce-are pretty well buried underneath its fun. Underneath it, too, lies the hint given by many humorists that wackiness may be the last word in wisdom. Harvey, says Elwood, is greater than Einstein-Einstein did away with time & space, but Harvey does away with time, space-and objections...