During the same period Szilard wrote Michael Polanyi he would stay in England until one year before the war, at which time I would shift my residence to New York City.896 The letter provoked comment,...
Chamberlain moved again to concession. Appeasement was at that time a popular and not a pejorative word.
About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941.727
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...
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...
The ordeal of developing new selves will not be seriously entertained, much less embarked upon, until [people] are forced into it by the partial destruction of their former selves.
The energy from each bursting uranium nucleus would be sufficient to make a visible grain of sand visibly jump.
Scientific opinion remains essentially mutual; it is established between scientists, not above them.
Notes, that the original unlicensed device was a ‘couch potato’–like remote control for radio receivers. So the 1939 Philco Mystery Control once again revealed its originality.) If all this bureaucrat...
It is possible to argue that some people are violent and mentally ill, but it is no longer defensible to argue that people are violent because they are mentally ill.
Found that scientists think about problems in much the same way artists do. Scientists and artists proved less similar in personality than in cognition, but both groups were similarly different from b...
With personal intervention on behalf of the principle of openness, which exposes crime as well as error to public view, Niels Bohr played a decisive part in the rescue of the Danish Jews.
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...
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...
The difference between the thinking of the paranoid patient and the scientist comes from the latter’s ability and willingness to test out his fantasies or grandiose conceptualizations through the syst...
The bow of the Carpathians as they curve around northwestward begins to define the northern border of Czechoslovakia. Long before it can complete that service the bow bends down toward the Austrian Al...
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...
Germany had been united in empire for only eight years when Einstein was born in Ulm on March 14, 1879. He grew up in Munich. He was slow to speak, but he was not, as legend has it, slow in his studie...
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
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...