Re: Einstein, Hawking, and a myth about relativity

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 9:29 +1000 6/12/03, brian mcinnes wrote:
> 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.
Another well-known Princeton Professor, the chemist Hubert Alyea,
told a group that I was privileged to be part of, in 1985, of his
experience as a young asst. prof., being asked to sit in on a
discussion group that met periodically at Princeton, and often
included Einstein, as well at others like Pauli, and one one or two
occasions, Bohr. He was not there to enter the discussion, but in
some ancillary role, which I have forgotten. He said that he was
pretty much like a fly on the wall. The conversations went on as if
he wasn't there and he was privileged to hear some interesting
stories.

Einstein's death is one of those moments that most scientists who
were living at the time recall. I was an undergrad at Stanford at the
time, taking Nuclear Physics from Robert Hofstader. On the day of
Einstein's death, he devoted the whole class to a discussion of
Einstein and his contributions to modern physics. It may have been
the best lecture that Hostader gave that term.

Hugh
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