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Einstein on the Web
- Albert Einstein: Image
and Impact
- Another good site from The Center
for History of Physics. Sprinkled liberally with images, biographical
material, some physics, esoterica and other useful tidbits.
- "There was this huge world out there, independent of us human
beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least
partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation
of that world beckoned like a liberation." -- Albert Einstein
Wikipedia
:: Albert Einstein
- The Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia
is an exquisite result of the internet. This is a great Wikipedia
entry, full featured with plenty of encyclopedic hyperlinks and
additional resources.
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Albert Einstein (March
14, 1879
- April
18, 1955)
was a physicist
and mathematician
who proposed the theory
of relativity. He also made major contributions to the development
of quantum
mechanics, statistical
mechanics and cosmology,
and is generally regarded as the most important physicist of the
20th century. He was awarded the 1921
Nobel
Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric
effect and "for his services to Theoretical Physics";[1]
however, the announcement of the award was not made until a year
later, in 1922.
(The Nobel is something of an irony, in not only that Einstein
is far better-known for relativity, but that the photoelectric
effect is all quantum, and Einstein became somewhat disenchanted
with the path quantum theory would take.)
- -- Wikipedia
- Einstein Revealed
- A companion site to Nova's two-hour special presenting a penetrating
profile of Albert Einstein. The website contains articles, a timeline,
some interactive learning, and is appropriate for young readers. You
can also purchase
the video.
- "There is a parlor game physics students play: Who was the
greater genius? Galileo or Kepler? (Galileo) Maxwell or Bohr? (Maxwell,
but it's closer than you might think). Hawking or Einstein? (A
no-brainer, whatever the best-seller lists might say. It's Einstein).
But there are two figures who are simply off the charts. Isaac Newton
is one. The other is Albert Einstein. If pressed, physicists give
Newton pride of place, but it is a photo finish -- and no one else
is in the race." -- Thomas Levenson
- Albert Einstein
quotes
- An indexed list of quotes by Einstein on a variety of subjects..
- "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
-- Albert Einstein
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- Einstein
- Email received from a friend, correcting my
poor paraphrasing of an Einstein quote and expanding on the Hiroshima
A-Bomb theme.
- The Feng Shui of Physics
- A passing reference appearing in a defence of Feng Shui (reprinted
from Tan Wee Kiat's letter to The New Straits Times an English language
daily in Kuala Lumpur)
- Are you afraid of the dark?
- Here I discuss Tan Wee Kiat's reading of Einstein and Feng Shui
and of the relationship between rational and non-rational ways of
knowledge.
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