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...manipulating the highly intricate mathematics of the string theory, physicists believe they can avoid many of the troubling discrepancies that have dogged all other TOEs. Some scientists are already comparing the idea of superstrings with the genesis of quantum physics, or even with the revolutionary work of Albert Einstein. Says Princeton Physicist Edward Witten: "It's probably going to lead to a new understanding of what space and time really are, the most dramatic [understanding] since general relativity...
...Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” a play by multi-talented actor Steve Martin (“Father of the Bride”), posits a strange, fictional meeting as the set up for its drama: Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein come together in 1904, when both are young and neither is famous...
Oppenheimer became the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, which was famous for hosting Albert Einstein, but he still faced the wrath of his enemies. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover urged his agents to dig up anything incriminating, and they returned with a far-fetched report that Oppenheimer “had homosexual tendencies.” The FBI wiretapped his phones. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) member Lewis Strauss rabidly pursued Oppenheimer’s downfall too after Oppenheimer humiliated him during a Senate hearing. And finally there was Teller, “the father...
...recognition of the Hitler regime. Moreover, although British universities boycotted the “Nazified” University of Heidelberg’s anniversary celebration in 1936, Harvard chose to participate in this Hitler propaganda festival, at which top Nazi leaders delivered virulently anti-Semitic speeches. Albert Einstein would not attend the Harvard Tercentenary because Conant’s guest list included Nazis. Conant’s well-known reluctance to offer prominent refugee Jewish scholars faculty positions was motivated by his own anti-Semitism, expressed in correspondences. Grynbaum ignores these cases of Harvard’s indifference to Jewish...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the 50th anniversary of his death. Both events are being commemorated by a bid to spark fresh interest in the Nobel-prizewinning physicist, who was named Time magazine's Person of the Century in December 1999. "Einstein was not only a brilliant physicist, but also a lateral thinker, pacifist, cosmopolite and visionary," says Gerd Weiberg, head of Germany's Einstein Year celebrations. Here are some highlights of Einstein-related happenings around Europe: Einstein, who was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany, in 1879, lived...