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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Einstein continued to work on the problem in Berlin, undisturbed by domestic matters and largely unaffected by the war, until he finally found the right equations, in November 1915. Einstein had discussed his ideas with the mathematician David Hilbert during a visit to the University of Gottingen in the summer of 1915, and Hilbert independently found the same equations a few days before Einstein. Nevertheless, as Hilbert admitted, the credit for the new theory belonged to Einstein. It was his idea to relate gravity to the warping of space-time. It is a tribute to the civilized state of Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Relativity | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Although Jovin came to Yale from Gottingen,Germany, she was an American citizen. She had beenactive in community service, working as a studentleader of Best Buddies, a group that pairs Yalestudents with mentally disabled students in thearea...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Police Grill Yale Prof. In Senior's Death | 12/10/1998 | See Source »

Although Jovin came to Yale from Gottingen, Germany, she was an American citizen. A political science major, she had been active in community service, working as the student leader of Best Buddies at Yale...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yale Senior Stabbed to Death Near College Campus | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...grew up in Germany, attended Gottingen University in that country and said she considers herself thoroughly European...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: Striker Gives Final Philosophy Lecture | 5/2/1997 | See Source »

...hold accountable those responsible," says Theodor Meron, professor of international law at New York University Law School. He suggests that such trials "should deter those who envisage 'final solutions' to their conflicts with ethnic and religious minorities." Says Tilman Zulch, director of Germany's Society for Threatened Peoples in Gottingen: "I think we have to show that we've learned something. We have to show where genocide leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Rush to Judgment | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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