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The Great Purge (1933)
“If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — Adolf…
Apr 15, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Einstein's Emigration to America (1932)
In May of 1932, a viciously anti-Semetic illustrated brochure entitled Juden Sehen Dich An (“Jews are Watching You”) featured Einstein in its prologue…
Jan 6, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Best Books on: The Golden Age of Quantum Physics
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Dec 4, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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When Einstein met Churchill (1933)
When Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa left Germany in December of 1932, Einstein for a period believed that he might be able to return one day, but he…
Nov 5, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Golden Age of Quantum Physics (1927)
The “most intelligent photograph ever taken”, as it is sometimes known, was captured during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and…
Sep 3, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Bohr-Einstein Debate (1927)
The year is 1905. Newly graduated with a Ph.D. in physics, Albert Einstein publishes the paper Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes…
May 25, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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