Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepted Einstein's genius while only the few-and they, of scientific training-adequately understood what he had contributed to knowledge. In person, Albert Einstein was diffident, almost childlike. As a man of scientific thought, he strode boldly with history's handful: Pythagoras and Archimedes, Copernicus and Newton...
...more than 200 years, science had accepted Newton's laws of motion as unalterable. In easily parsed schoolboy terms, they seemed to explain everything, from the behavior of gases to the nature of heat. But in the 1880s, more sensitive instruments were uncovering awkward phenomena, particularly in the physics of light. These phenomena operated in open violation of Newton's laws. To make Newton's physics work, scientists presumed the existence of a substance called ether, which they thought was necessary to carry light waves through space. But experiments soon proved that ether does not exist. Scientists...
...RICHTER Newton, Iowa...
...There is no question that Einstein is in the ranks with the very greatest, like Archimedes and Newton," I. Bernard Cohon '37, associate professor in the History of Science, said. He regretted that the complexity of one equation had obscured the public mind to the fact that Einstein's greatest achievement was to elucidate the elation between time and space, matter and energy...
Gerald Holton, associate professor of Physics, pointed out the importance of the theory of relativity and its applications. "Like Kepler, Galilee, and Newton, he felt that some of the important problems of physics could be linked to the problems of philosophy and that both must be solved together," he said...