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The Origins of Deutsche Physik (1910s)
“Just as the cubists had an inability to paint decently, so, here lies together the audacity and the inability the theoretical physicists want to impose…
Jan 6
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The Battle Line at Louvain (1914)
“Where they burn books, they will also burn people” — Heinrich Heine
Nov 15, 2024
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Sir Arthur Eddington's Grand Expedition (1919)
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) was quite a lucky man.
May 8, 2024
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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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The Einstein-Freud Correspondence (1932)
Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?
Apr 5, 2024
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The Birth of the Institute for Advanced Study (1930)
"A first-rate research institution with no teachers, no students, no classes, only researchers protected from the vicissitudes and pressures of the…
Aug 26, 2022
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The Best Books on: Kurt Gödel
Hi there A few mathematicians’ biographies are especially notable, both in terms of the mathematicians’ achievements and their personalities. Nash, von…
Apr 23, 2022
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The Beautiful Life of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr (1928-2015). was born in Bluefield, West Virginia in 1928. He died in a car crash in New Jersey on the 23rd of May…
Mar 23, 2022
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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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The Best Books on: The Golden Age of Quantum Physics
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Dec 4, 2021
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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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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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