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Einstein Rides Shotgun
In April 1955 pathologist Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy at Princeton (N.J.) Hospital on the cadaver of Albert Einstein. After determining that Einstein...
Books: Einstein Rides Shotgun
In April 1955 pathologist Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy at Princeton (N.J.) Hospital on the cadaver of Albert Einstein. After determining that Einstein died...
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Re-enter Einstein
Professor Albert Einstein, famed Jewish author of the relativity theory, accepted an invitation from the Council of the League of Nations to become once more...
Science: Einstein at a Loss?
More than three years ago, Albert Einstein announced (in the third edition of his book, The Meaning of Relativity) that he had developed an overall theory to...
Relativity: Gravitating Toward Einstein
The General Theory of Relativity that Albert Einstein published in 1916 pro posed nothing less than an all-embrac ing theory of gravity. Over the years, as...
Foreign News: Einstein Out?
In Germany, there were repeated reports that Professor Albert Einstein was about to leave the Fatherland, go to Switzerland, become a Swiss citizen. The Neue...
ISRAEL: Einstein Declines
Twenty-four hours after Chaim Weizman, Israel's first President, was laid to rest, the enterprising editor of Israel's evening Maariv, in a signed editorial,...
Music: Einstein Fiddles
Corona-haired Scientist Albert Einstein looks more like a concert violinist than most concert violinists do. To many a ruthless young mathematician, fiddling...
Science: Dr. Einstein to New Jersey
"Nice people, those Americans," commented Dr. Albert Einstein when he landed in Rotterdam last spring after three months at California Institute of Technology...
International: Einstein on Politics
Dr. Albert Einstein had his say about the atomic bomb last week. He was heard with respect: his classic E=mc² formula, announced in 1905, was the foundation of...
Science: Einstein Assisted
Last week, the Josiah Macy Jr. Fund, created six months ago by Mrs. Walter Graeme Ladd (of the rich New Jersey Macy family), established a fellowship to pay the...
Science: Einstein Improving
Dr. Norbert Wiener, mathematician of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, last week published in the Technology Review some remarks on Mathematician Albert...
Einstein and the Suicide Star
It’s one thing to discover a new star, quite another to find one that hurtles through space as if it’s in a hurry to get somewhere. But try this for a scientific...
Everything Really is Relative: Einstein’s Personal Papers Now a Click Away
A few months ago Shimon Peres, the octogenarian president of Israel, had the possibly brilliant, possibly ridiculous idea of building a museum in the shape of...
Einstein Was Right All Along: ‘Faster-Than-Light’ Neutrino Was Product of Error
The universe as we know it was saved today. The instrument of its salvation, and that of the very edifice of physics itself? A fiber-optic cable in a GPS...
The Physics Nobel: Why Einstein Was Wrong About Being Wrong
The research that leads to a Nobel Prize in physics can sometimes be a little obscure. In 1990, for example, three scientists got the nod "for their pioneering...
12-Year-Old Genius Expands Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Thinks He Can Prove It Wrong
Could Einstein's Theory of Relativity be a few mathematical equations away from being disproved? Jacob Barnett of Hamilton County, Ind., who is just weeks shy...
Dark Energy: Was Einstein Right After All?
You've probably never heard of a galaxy known as NGC 6264, and you've surely never given it a whole lot of thought. But the distant star cluster has just...
Einstein's Feet
It's hard to do your best thinking when your feet hurt. That's true even for geniuses. On a crisp fall morning back in 1952, Peter Hulit was tending to business...
Einstein's Repulsive Idea
Albert Einstein never did like the idea of antigravity. It wasn't that he had a problem with farfetched notions. After all, his special and general relativity...
