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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Whilhelm Ostwald, 78, German chemist, 1909 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, the "Monist Pope," founder of the influential Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie; at Grossbothen, Germany, whither he had retired (1906) from the University of Leipzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...gasped. He had demonstrated to them the newest equation in his latest theory, the Unified Field Theory upon which he has been working since he completed the General Theory of Relativity in 1915. For the past century physicists have been striving after scientific monism. Dr. Einstein has been a monist leader. Scotland's James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) correlated light and electricity. In 1905 Dr. Einstein announced that electricity and magnetism are two aspects of one world force. His General Theory of Relativity demonstrated that gravity is an other world force. His hope, realized in the Unified Field Theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unified Universe | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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