Albert Einstein’s name is synonymous with “genius,” and his wild hair is a trope of its own for mad scientists and professors in popular culture. Einstein’s discoveries led to modern-day inventions ...
The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs Jürgen Renn and Hanoch Gutfreund Princeton Univ. Press (2023) German physicist Albert Einstein died in 1955, and yet he is much ...
Albert Einstein sent a letter in 1939 that helped convinced FDR to launch the Manhattan Project. But Einstein was not part of the secretive program run by J. Robert Oppenheimer to develop a nuclear ...
Albert Einstein in his study at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1951. Photo: Getty Images After Albert Einstein graduated from college in 1900, he struggled to find work as a teacher and took a job at the ...
Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...