Word: erwin
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Einstein continued to work on the quantum idea into the 1920s but was deeply disturbed by the work of Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Paul Dirac in Cambridge and Erwin Schrodinger in Zurich, who developed a new picture of reality called quantum mechanics. No longer did tiny particles have a definite position and speed. On the contrary, the more accurately you determined the particle's position, the less accurately you could determine its speed, and vice versa...
...Erwin R. Rosinberg
...feet tall, 135 pounds, chip on his shoulder. Played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid and scrawled "Sic Semper Tyrannis" ?- the stale John Wilkes Booth motto ?- in his high school yearbook. Insisted on going by "August" because Benjamin sounded too Jewish, and told the cops once to call him "Erwin Rommel." Distributed racist and anti-Semitic literature at home and at school, had a girlfriend who does not remember him fondly. Scary? Sure. But he could have been on "Seinfeld," too. As a malcontent, Smith was little more than a caricature ?- until he set out in his light blue Ford...
According to Editor-in-Chief Erwin R. Rosinberg '00, the magazine used all of the submissions it received, rather than selecting only key pieces, as often occurs with some other campus literary publications...
...campaign against McCarthyism eventually brought him to HLS, then presided over by Dean Erwin Griswold, who was himself a noted opponent of McCarthyism...