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7. Jan. 2016 · A team led by Princeton University scientists has tested Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity to see if it holds true at cosmic scales. And, after two years of analyzing astronomical data, the scientists have concluded that Einstein's theory, which describes the interplay between gravity, space and time, works as well in ...
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Albert Einstein first visited Princeton University on May 9,...
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Die Princeton University, an der Einstein auch Vorlesungen hielt, zählt zu den bedeutendsten Hochschulen der Vereinigten Staaten. Auffallend viele Nobelpreisträger der letzten Jahre haben ihr Studium, vor allem in Physik und Mathematik, an dieser privaten Universität absolviert. Die Gebäude der Universität, etwa 3 km vom Institut entfernt ...
May 9, 1921: Albert Einstein, the most famous scientist in the world, stood on stage in McCosh 50, Princeton University’s largest lecture hall.
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I’ve wanted to teach this course for 15 years! Albert Einstein is the most renowned, and most recognizable, scientist of the 20th century — and possibly of all time. It’s astonishing how famous he was and remains. Every single student in this class not only has heard of Einstein, but they also know exactly what he looks like, and they know stories ...
As a historian of science, I’ve long been committed to trying to create courses where you have scientists learn something about culture and history, and you have humanists and social scientists learn that they can understand relativity theory, that that’s not a bridge too far. Having them both in the same class means that those students learn from ...
For the class, the era is basically his lifespan: from just after the unification of Germany to the early Cold War. From the fin de siècletransformations in science through World War I, World War II, and then a bit of the early Cold War and McCarthyism. This course starts with European history, until Einstein moves to the U.S. in the early 1930s, a...
When people write Einstein biographies, they spend a lot of time in the young period talking about science and a lot of time in the older period talking about politics — as though there was a scientific, non-political young Einstein and a totally political, non-scientific older Einstein. That’s just not right. In 1905, he published three papers — t...
Through the mediation of Paul Robeson. They had met in Berlin, but Robeson was from Princeton, so when Einstein moved to Princeton, they reconnected. This is part of why the FBI got interested in Einstein; they would have been interested anyway, but Robeson was a communist, and Einstein was comfortable speaking with African American communists. The...
Throughout his entire career, he was always tinkering and inventing — he invented a refrigerator, among other things. He continued to do that kind of work all the way through his life. But the main two areas he was heavily invested in from the 1920s onward were quantum mechanics and Unified Field Theory. And both of these were kind of disappointing...
His first visit to Princeton was to Princeton University in 1921, where he gave a lecture on relativity theory, but he was never on the Princeton faculty. He was one of the initial faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study, and IAS is not part of the University. There are of course collaborations, but they’re separate institutions. So he was hire...
He was very active in the town. He was well known by the residents — of course, he was the most famous person in the world at that time, and he was very visible. But a lot of the townspeople said he was very polite, and very, very kind. He especially enjoyed talking to children. In the late 1930s, he was heavily involved with refugee-related issues...
The Princeton University, at which Einstein held lectures, too, is among the most famous universities of the United States. A striking number of Nobel laureates of recent years have studied at this private university, especially physicists and mathematicians. The buildings of the university, which are located about 3 km away from the institute ...
