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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Albert Einstein ended his recent visit at California Institute of Technology, he?with Drs. Richard Chace Tolman and Boris Podolsky of the institute?wrote a letter to The Physical Review. This letter, published last week, answers in a measure a persistent query: What good did Professor Einstein's U. S. visit do Science? In the letter he proved that the Past is as unascertainable as the Future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Past As Uncertain As Future | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Wilson Observatory, has been telling Dr. Albert Einstein what he has seen through his big telescope. He has carefully described the red shift in starlight which he is studying with his fellow astronomer, Dr. Milton La Salle Humason. At the same time, a neighbor, Dr. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist of California Institute of Technology, has been explaining his interpretation of Dr. Hubble's starlight news to Dr. Einstein. It appears to him that the Universe is not static as Dr. Einstein has asserted, but constantly enlarging in size, changing in shape. The nebulae seem to be shooting away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmology | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Einstein has really been going to school in Pasadena. He has attended lectures about the galaxies by Dr. Gustaf Benjamin Stromberg of Mt. Wilson Observatory. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist-mathematician of Caltech, has been giving him lessons in astrophysics. Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble of Mt. Wilson Observatory has promised to let him look through the Mt. Wilson telescope. One evening all the California scientists had a banquet, invited Dr. Einstein as guest of honor. He spoke to them in German, complimented the works of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson who is remeasuring light, Mt. Wilson's Dr. Hubble who measured...

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

...third period, however R. M. Gammere Jr. '34 evened the score on a penalty kick and in the final quarter, F.A. Gilbert '34, failed on a pass from L. C. Martin '34 Martin Gummere and Robinson started for the 1954 team. HARVARD EXETER Nicholas. g. g.. Tolman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SOCCER TEAM DEFEATS EXETER, 2 TO 1 | 10/31/1930 | See Source »

...Forbes '31, J. B. Garrison '31, L. N. Grimes '31, J. A. Holmes '32, A. W. Huguley '31, R. H. Johnson Jr. '31, F. H. Kales 3d. '32, J. L. Madden '31, Geoffrey Parsons '31, R. K. Safford '31, Marshall Stearns '32, P. M. Sweezy '31, and P. A. Tolman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAINER APPOINTS 25 SENIOR SPREAD USHERS | 6/12/1930 | See Source »

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