Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulletin board in Fine Hall this elderly man was listed as "A. Einstein," occupant of Room No. 215. A small brick building with heavy-paneled doors and antique lamps glowing dimly in the linoleum-floored corridors, Fine Hall-houses the mathematical contingent of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. The Institute, which soon will have buildings of its own, is a group of distinguished scholars who are subsidized so that they may pursue their own researches without the distraction of giving courses, preparing examinations, grading papers. Many of the Institute's members are Jewish exiles from Germany. Directed...
...Fine Hall last week there were whispered conferences and quiet telephone conversations. A surprise party was being planned for A. Einstein and another member of the Institute, Dr. Leopold Infeld. The mathematicians made great efforts to keep the party a secret from Dr. Infeld. It was not so difficult to keep it a secret from Dr. Einstein. On the day of the party this week a book† will be published of which Drs. Einstein & Infeld are coauthors, the first "popular" book on physics to which Albert Einstein has ever lent his name...
...fourth dimension added to the three dimensions of space. The consequences of the theory, when worked out mathematically, are that absolute motion, absolute mass and absolute dimensions must also be shelved. When a body is in motion relative to an observer, he would see (if he had instruments fine enough) that its length in the direction of motion is shortened, that its mass is increased. The increased mass must be due to energy of motion; therefore energy and mass are the same. Light, which is energy, must be influenced by gravitational fields. All these pieces of the Theory of Relativity...
...year has looked after his bank account, his clothes and other things which to him are equally trivial. In the morning he works at home with his assistant, Dr. Peter G. Bergmann, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. In the afternoons he goes to his office in Fine Hall. In the evenings he goes to concerts whenever possible, once in a long while to the cinema...
...Named for the late Henry Burchard Fine, famed Princeton mathematician...