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...three large sheets of parchment Dr. Albert Einstein had written a summary of his relativity theory to date. An anonymous donor bought it, valued at $25,000, presented it to Yale University. The presentation was formal, with Dr. Einstein present, at the Manhattan bookshop run by Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, daughter of the late Sportsman-tycoon Payne Whitney, and Mrs. Josephine Dodge Kimball, daughter of Marshall J. Dodge. Dr. Einstein forthwith sailed on the Deutschland for Germany...
COSMIC RELIGION-Albert Einstein- Covici, Friede...
...would appreciate your telling me where I can secure a pamphlet, treatise or book on Dr. Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. I am not interested so much in the proof submitted to substantiate the theory as I am in discussion of what the theory is. I am not particularly interested in holding a girl on my lap for an hour or sitting on a hot stove for one minute...
Ranked in scientific achievement with Newton and Einstein, Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, 78, last week began his final contribution to physics. Again and again delayed?by illness, the collapse of delicate machinery, minute improvements in apparatus?Dr. Michelson stepped up to his corrugated steel, mile-long test tube stretching along the valley near Santa Ana, Calif., pressed a button, started whirling the tiny 32-sided mirror that is to determine once and for all the exact velocity of light...
...invented the interferometre by which in the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 he split a ray of light in two and raced the fractions against each other. This single experiment disproved the theory of a drifting ether, broke down old scientific philosophy, triggered off Einstein's study of relativity, created a new conception of time, space, motion of reality itself...