Scientific opinion remains essentially mutual; it is established between scientists, not above them.
Trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.
Two examiners, said simply that hardly anyone in Denmark was well enough informed on the subject to judge the candidate’s work.
A.E.G., the German General Electric, signed Szilard on as a paid consultant and actually built one of the Einstein-Szilard refrigerators, but the magnetic pump was so noisy compared to even the noisy...
About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941.727
Chamberlain moved again to concession. Appeasement was at that time a popular and not a pejorative word.
Fermi thought plutonium production needed an area a mile wide and two miles long for safety. Compton proposed building piles of increasing power to work up to full-scale production and was considering...
Mechanical proficiency and practical gadgets in America counterbalanced to an extent the beauty of Italy.
Out of the prospering but vulnerable Hungarian Jewish middle class came no fewer than seven of the twentieth century’s most exceptional scientists: in order of birth, Theodor von Kármán, George de Hev...
The Manhattan District bore no relation to the industrial or social life of our country; it was a separate state, with its own airplanes and its own factories and its thousands of secrets. It had a pe...
Then everyone began to wonder why he didn’t shut the pile off, Anderson continues. 1701 But Fermi was completely calm. He waited another minute, then another, and then when it seemed that the anxiety...
Violent actors act violently not because they are mentally ill or come from violent subcultures or are brain damaged or have low self-esteem but because they have different phantom communities from th...
Von Neumann at six joked with his father in classical Greek and had a truly photographic memory: he could recite entire chapters of books he had read.392 Edward Teller, like Einstein before him, was e...
A normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child.
Does not even try to give us complete information about the events around us—it gives information about the correlations between
Physicist James Franck, head of the physics department at Haber’s institute, who, like Haber and Hahn, would later win the Nobel Prize.342 So did a crowd of industrial chemists employed by I.G. Farben...
The end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a st...
Was slow to speak, but he was not, as legend has it, slow in his studies; he consistently earned the highest or next-highest marks in mathematics and Latin in school and Gymnasium. At four or five the...
A group of refugee scientists was gathered outside the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford the next morning discussing the Munich agreement when Frederick Lindemann drove up.937 Churchill had described the...
Bohr’s office, borrowed from Albert Einstein. It was spacious, with leaded windows, a fireplace, a large blackboard, an Oriental rug to warm the floor.1089
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