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Organizer requested such personages as Albert Einstein, Dean Sturgis of Yale Law School, and Eleanor Roosevelt to serve on a committee to present the plan to the Governor. But the plaque-backers were way of asking a Harvard official because President Lowell had been a member of a three-man board which reviewed and approved the sentences of Sacco and Vanzentti 1927. Presumably either in deference to Lowell or to alumni pressure, a Harvard official would decline to serve. Nevertheless someone approached Provost Buck, and to the Committee's surprise, he accepted. The proposal, however, never got any further than...
...coordinate systems." His solution to a problem that was first propounded in 1900 by the great modern mathematician David Hilbert, is expected to provide a unified field theory between the forces operating within the universe as a whole and the forces within the nuclei of the atoms. Dr. Albert Einstein has been seeking such a theory for the past 30 years...
...final figure, checked over & over, was almost too pat to believe. Einstein's theory predicts that a star whose light just grazes the sun should appear to shift its position by 1.75 seconds of arc.* The figure computed from Van Biesbroeck's photographs showed a shift of 1.70 seconds of arc. The Supreme Court of Observation had by unanimous decision confirmed Einstein...
...Einstein announced that one consequence of his theory would be that light should be bent slightly when it passes through a strong gravitational field. The only practical way to observe this effect was to photograph stars beyond the sun during a solar eclipse. Since their light passes near the sun and through its powerful gravitation, it should be deflected a little, making the stars seem to shift their positions. The amount of the shift could be measured by photographing the same starfield months later, when the earth's travel around its orbit had placed the sun in a different...
Such measurements were made soon after Einstein's announcement and several times thereafter. The star shift showed up all right, and Einstein was considered vindicated, but the amount of the shift never came anywhere near his prediction. Observational errors or weather difficulties during the eclipses always balled things...