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...Germany and a professorship at the University of Kiel, and then--at the amazingly young age of 34--he was named full Professor of Philology back at the University of Berlin. Two years later he was elected to the exclusive Berlin Academy, at whose meetings he and Albert Einstein became good friends. In this city Professor Jaeger planned to stay forever...
...Hitler had other ideas. Despite the confidence of many Berlin scholars--including Einstein--that the Fascist rise to power in Italy "cannot happen here," Jaeger saw early that it was happening, and decided to leave the country. This he did by 1936, teaching first at the University of California, then the University of Chicago, and finally, in 1939, coming to Harvard as a University Professor...
...which had 92 protons and 146 neutrons, turned into Element 99 with 99 protons and 154 neutrons. To form Element 100 (100 protons and 155 neutrons), the U-238 captured 17 neutrons and lost eight beta particles. The scientists suggested that Element 99 be named einsteinium, after Albert Einstein, and Element 100 fermium, after Enrico Fermi...
Russell sat down and wrote a letter to Albert Einstein at Princeton, N.J., outlining his thoughts. Einstein replied, agreeing "with every word," and naming Russell the "dictator of the enterprise." Russell drafted a 1,500-word statement and sent it winging about the world for comment and signature. The world will not long remember Dictator Russell (or Sponsor Einstein) for anything that appeared in the statement, which was a dreary mishmash of gloom-laden clich...
...scientists asked to sign the statement, only nine (including Russell and Einstein) did so. Communist Curie signed only after making a reservation to the effect that revolutions should not be included in the renunciation. Among the scientists who refused to sign were eight Nobel Prizewinners, including Niels Bohr of Denmark and Arthur H. Compton and Harold C. Urey of the U.S., who apparently were devoting their interest to science...