Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current interests and projects were picked up quite by accident. She is teaching herself Japanese because she won a summer fellowship from the music department to study the culture of the tango in China, Japan and Taiwan. She brushes up on high school German to read the papers of Einstein, Bach, Mozart, and Brahms in their original German, and she is currently composing a piece for chorus and orchestra in Chinese because her mother happened to be "listening to a lot of Chinese music" when Lan went home to New York City to celebrate Chinese New Year...
...permanent faculty who work alongside the institute's approximately 180 visiting scholars, which Scott said sets it apart from the new Radcliffe Institute. Permanent faculty members receive a lifetime appointment at the institute, and stay for an estimated 20 to 30 years. Faculty members, whose ranks have included Albert Einstein, tend to be world-renowned scholars in their fields...
...intellectual triumphs of our century, which stems from what is called quantum physics, is the understanding of how very high temperatures can create matter. Temperature is inseparable from radiation. Even in empty space, radiation has energy, and thanks to Einstein's special theory of relativity we know that energy is equivalent to mass, or matter. Laboratory scientists have been turning electromagnetic radiation into mass since the 1930s. (The inverse of that process, turning mass into energy, makes nuclear bombs...
...meant by "empty space," which turns out not to be empty at all. There are also serious philosophical problems created by the Big Bang, which can be described but not explained. Worse, nobody has been able to reconcile quantum physics with the other great triumph of 20th century physics: Einstein's theory of gravitation. Until that is done, the true nature of our universe will remain beyond...
...Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity...