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...least three leading experts-Mathematician Hua Lo-keng, Geologist Li Ssukuang and Dr. Wong Wen-hao-voluntarily returned to the mainland from the West. Without a shot or a kidnaping, the Communists quickly recruited an invaluable braintrust: 233 topflight scientists and 691 second-stringers. Ironically, 35 of the 50 most talented were educated in the West, 25 in the U.S. Only eight of these leaders were known to have any pro-Communist leanings, and only three were party members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Scientist in China | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

After graduation, Einstein settled in Switzerland, married Mileva Marie, a Serbian mathematician. With a family to support, he got a job as an examiner in the Swiss Patent Office. But "I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals. I turned aside from everything else." During working hours he would scribble his ideas down on scraps of paper. Evenings, he could be seen wheeling a baby carriage through the streets, halting now and then to jot down rows of mathematical symbols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Genius | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Albert Einstein, 76, the great mathematician and physicist; of a ruptured aorta; in Princeton, N.J. (see SCIENCE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...nothing more than it is built and told to do. Clerks are useful, valuable and often necessary, but their functions are not awe-inspiring. It is more important to ask the right questions than to obtain correct answers to the wrong questions. Further, the value of a mathematician is not measured by his arithmetical computing ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1955 | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Confirmed New Jersey Mathematician John Von Neumann as an atomic energy commissioner and Ohio's Republican Lawyer George C. McConnaughey as a federal communications commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: End of a Dream | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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