Word: holton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haloed professor's pronouncements seemed well meaning if naive; Life magazine listed Einstein as one of this country's 50 prominent "dupes and fellow travelers." Says Cassidy: "He had a straight moral sense that others could not always see, even other moral people." Harvard physicist and historian Gerald Holton adds, "If Einstein's ideas are really naive, the world is really in pretty bad shape." Rather it seems to him that Einstein's humane and democratic instincts are "an ideal political model for the 21st century," embodying the very best of this century as well as our highest hopes...
...University historian Robert Schulmann, director of the Einstein Papers Project, is much less impressed. He concedes that Zackheim's conclusions about Lieserl's fate are "as good as anything I could come up with, or anyone else. But," he emphasizes, "it's speculation." Harvard physicist and Einstein historian Gerald Holton is highly critical. "She worked very hard traipsing through all those Serbian cemeteries," he says of Zackheim's prodigious research effort, "and came up with nothing...
...Holton says, "I tried to get away from the idea that this is a Harvard or MIT journal. The people who have contributed are from all over the world...
Indeed, former contributors have included past presidents such as Kennedy and Johnson and various Nobel Prize laureates, Holton says...
Although Harvard professors authored six of the ten essays included in this anniversary issue, Holton says Daedalusis only connected to Harvard on a historical level. It was founded by Holton and originally housed in the Jefferson physics laboratories...