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...harder doctors have tried to trans plant glands from one person to another, the more they have become convinced that their best chance is with the swift-growing tissues from an embryo or a very young baby. Last week Surgeon Julian A. Sterling of Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center reported that he had put this theory into practice and transplanted an entire thyroid gland, with its four tiny parathyroids attached, from an infant to an adult, and that the graft had worked well for five months. It was, he believed, the first case of its kind...
Reichenbach had been acclaimed by Einstein for his philosophical interpretation of the theory of relativity...
More than three years ago, Albert Einstein announced (in the third edition of his book, The Meaning of Relativity) that he had developed an overall theory to account for both gravitation and small-scale phenomena, such as the quanta of energy that are studied in atomic physics (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950). Hardly any theoretical physicists came to his support, though a "unified theory" is what many of them are looking for most eagerly...
This week (in the fourth edition) Einstein sounded less sure of his achievement. He thinks that he has improved his equations, and he still believes that gravitation (i.e., relativity) is the place to start when trying to explain the universe, but he admits that he does not yet have the whole answer. No one has found an experimental method of proving his unified theory. "Nevertheless," he says hopefully, "I consider it unjustified to assert, a priori, that such a theory is unable to cope with the atomistic character of energy...
...Princeton, N.J., science's Grand Old Man Albert Einstein forsook his comfortable, baggy sweater and slacks and dressed up in a neat grey suit to meet the press for a 74th-birthday conference. To reporters, he patiently explained some of the aspects of his lifelong project: the unified-field theory (an attempt to integrate the phenomena of gravitation, magnetism and electricity into one law). He then recalled a simpler discovery made a long time ago: the moment that decided his future as a scientist. It was, he said, the sight of an ordinary compass at the age of five...