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After 1915, Albert Einstein continued to rely on his good friend Heinrich Zangger, a professor of forensic medicine in Zurich, to serve as mediator between him and his estranged first wife, Mileva. These three letters to Zangger, published here for the first time, allow us to track Einstein's fitful relationship with his elder son, Hans Albert, and his anxiety about the health on his younger son, Eduard (Tete), whom historians believe was suffering from the early stages of schizophrenia...
...believed the woman would complain about me outright; it's a matter of indirect influence on the emotions, by which women so often get the better of us. My relations with the boys have frozen up completely again. Following an exceedingly nice Easter excursion, the subsequent days in Zurich brought on a complete chilling in a way that is not quite explicable to me. It's better if I keep my distance from them; I have to content myself with the knowledge that they are developing well. How much better off I am than countless others, who have lost their...
...really think something of it. And even if you silently say to yourself that every [effort] is futile, send him anyway, so that my wife and my [Hans] Albert think something is being done against this evil. I am going to try to send 500 marks to Zurich. I would be very unhappy if I believed that I could have begotten valuable progeny with another woman. But if I look around among my own family and see the banal people, tolerably healthy though they are, then it seems to me that my contribution to this pitiful business mustn...
...example, in 1986 and 1987, at the very beginning of Armstrong’s tenure as director of research, two teams scientists from IBM’s research laboratory in Zurich, Switzterland won the Nobel Prize in physics in two consecutive years...
...three Zurich-based analysts at UBS Wealth Management Research believe they have hit on a pattern that will help you handily beat the market between now and the title match of the World Cup soccer tournament on July 9. "It began as a fun exercise," says Tim Gorle, who co-wrote a report on the pattern with colleagues Oscar Andreu and Hans Sanders. "But we got some very positive data, or we wouldn't have gone ahead...