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Re: Einstein, Hawking, and a myth about relativity



on 11/6/03 9:07 AM, Stephen Speicher at sjs@COMPBIO.CALTECH.EDU wrote:

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This story, and many others about Einstein, von Laue, and Planck,
is part of Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider's book which I referenced as
[1]. Note that Dr. Rosenthal-Schneider maintained a
long-standing relationship with all three of these greats of
physics -- primarily through correspondence -- but with Einstein
more closely, intellectually, than with the others.

In 1955, as an undergraduate at the University of Sydney, I was in a class
on the history of Science run by Dr Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. She took the
class on the day of Einstein's death and was visibly moved by what she had
learned that day. The memory of the depth of her relationship with her
teacher and her friend ring through from nearly fifty years ago.

About twenty years later, I spent an hour or so with Eric M Rogers (of
Physics for the Inquiring Mind fame). Eric was a friend of Einstein at
Princeton and he had many tales to tell of the fun the two of them had with
simple physics toys.

There are moments in life when one is quite privileged.

Brian McInnes


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