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Died. Leopold Infeld, 69, Polish theoretical physicist; of a heart ailment; in Warsaw. At Princeton during the 1930s, Infeld helped his friend Albert Einstein develop the general theory of relativity; with Einstein he also shared the work of writing The Evolution of Physics, a 1938 text so fascinating to laymen that it hit the bestseller lists. At the University of Toronto, Infeld did pioneer work on the unified-field theory of magnetism and gravitation; then, in 1950, he suddenly returned home to teach-and proved something of a problem to the Communists, often criticizing Warsaw's scientific censorship...
...with a touch of sadness that renowned Physicist Leopold Infeld, 63, a close collaborator of Albert Einstein, gave up his Canadian citizenship eleven years ago and returned home to Poland. After 17 years in the West, said Infeld at the time, "I have come to love and admire Canada's democratic spirit, its sense of fair play." Now chairman of Poland's Atomic Energy Commission, Infeld recalls these Western values-within the limits set by Poland's cultural commissars. In a semi-official magazine. Infeld dutifully asserts that freedom in the U.S. is diminishing, but adds...
...unnecessary. In the relativistic view there is no such thing as absolute motion, therefore no need of a fixed frame of reference, such as the ether. It became fashionable for scientific popularizers to make fun of the ether as a ridiculous, shivering jelly. When Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld wrote their book for laymen on the evolution of physics (TIME, April 4, 1938), they whimsically treated the ether as an unprintable vulgarism...
...EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS - Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld-Simon & Schuster...
...Cleveland, at the nine Burrows Brothers stores, the best-seller was The Yearling, closely followed by Einstein & Infeld's The Evolution of Physics...