ALBERT EINSTEIN BIOGRAPHY
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"THE INTUITIVE MIND IS A SACRED GIFT We have created a society |
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Born March 14th, 1879 at 11:30 AM in Ulm, Germany Playing the violin, Einstein took a life-long interest in the arts.Children Who Study Music Are Smarter than children who don't, and the longer children study music the smarter they get. Click for your reward. After he had achieved international fame, his violin became a kind of trademark. Pictures of Einstein and his Violin |
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Einstein 08:02 Dr. Hausdoerffer, now ninety-four, meets Dr. Einstein back in 1954.
Einstein Part Two03:59 Bill continues talking about his visit with Albert Einstein
Bill concludes his story about Albert Einstein - Hilarious
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Examining Einstein's Human Side
89 Pictures of Einstein from Cal Tech
Yahooligans - How Smart Was He?
Science 'not for normal people'
Teenagers value the role of science in society but feel scientists are "brainy people not like them", research suggests. Story from BBC NEWS: Published: 2006
The Science Learning Centre in London asked 11,000 pupils for their views on science and scientists.
Around 70% of the 11-15 year olds questioned said they did not picture scientists as "normal young and attractive men and women".
The research examined why numbers of science exam entries are declining.
Big glasses'
Researchers Roni Malek and Fani Stylianidou are completing their research in April but have analysed around half the responses so far.
They found around 80% of pupils thought scientists did "very important work" and 70% thought they worked "creatively and imaginatively". Only 40% said they agreed that scientists did "boring and repetitive work".
Over three quarters of the respondents thought scientists were "really brainy people".
The research is being undertaken as part of Einstein Year.
Among those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: "Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family", and "because they all wear big glasses and white coats and I am female".
Keep positive
Dr Stylianadou said: "These results are worrying for UK science but also hold out hope. Young people see science as important and exciting. But they don't see themselves doing it.
"If we can keep young people positive about science but help them to see the full range of scientific careers, more of them may realise that a career in science can be satisfying - and for them."
Lord May of Oxford, president of The Royal Society, which promotes science, has said "proper targets" for the numbers of pupils opting to take science at GCSE and A-level are needed.
The number taking A-level physics dropped by 34% between 1991 and 2004, with 28,698 taking the subject in that year.
The decline in numbers taking chemistry over the same period was 16%, with 44,440 students sitting the subject in 1991, and 37,254 in 2004.
The number of students taking maths also dropped by 22%.
AUTHORS' PREFACE TO EINSTEIN ON RACE AND RACISM
More than one hundred biographies and monographs of Einstein have been published, yet not one of them mentions the name Paul Robeson, let alone Einstein's friendship with him, or the name W. E. B. Du Bois, let alone Einstein's support for him. Nor does one find in any of these works any reference to the Civil Rights Congress whose campaigns Einstein actively supported. Finally, nowhere in all the ocean of published Einsteinia -- anthologies, bibliographies, biographies, summaries, articles, videotapes, calendars, posters and postcards -- will one find even an islet of information about Einstein's visits and ties to the people in Princeton's African American community around the street called Witherspoon.
One explanation for this historical amnesia is that Einstein's biographers and others who shape our official memories, felt that some of his 'controversial' friends, such as Robeson, and activities, such as co-chairing the antilynching campaign, might somehow tarnish Einstein as an American icon. That icon, sanctified by Time magazine when it dubbed Einstein the 'Person of the Century,' is a myth, albeit a marvelous myth. In fact, as myths go, Einstein's is hard to beat. The world's most brilliant scientist is also a kindly, lovably bumbling, grandfather figure: Professor Genius combined with Dr. Feelgood! Opinion-molders, looking down from their ivory towers, may have concluded that such an appealing icon will help the great unwashed public feel good about science, about history, about America. Why spoil such a beautiful image with stories about racism, or for that matter with any of Einstein's political activism? Politics, they argue, is ugly, making teeth grind and fists clench, so why splash politics over Einstein's icon? Why drag a somber rain-cloud across a bright blue sky? Einstein might reply, with a wink, that without rain-clouds life would be very, very short. Or he might simply say that a bright blue sky is a fairy tale in today's war-weary world.
Yet, despite Einstein's clear intention to make his politics public -- especially his anti-lynching and other antiracist activities -- the history-molders have seemed embarrassed to do so. Or nervous. 'I had to think about my Board,' a museum curator (who doesn't want his name used even today) said, explaining why he had omitted some of the scientist's political statements from the major exhibition celebrating Einstein's one hundredth birthday in 1979.
When it came to how to handle Einstein's ashes or his house on Mercer Street, everyone involved meticulously adhered to his wishes. But when it involved his ideas, and especially his concerns about what he called America's 'worst disease,' the fact that Einstein wanted his views made as public as possible seems to have slipped past his historians.
Readers may judge for themselves how much of this oversight is due to forgetting and how much may be due to other motives (including, perhaps, disagreement with Einstein's point of view). It is not so much the motive for the omission, but the consequence that concerns us. Americans and the millions of Einstein's fans around the world are left unaware that Einstein was an outspoken, passionate, committed anti-racist. 'It is certain -- indeed painfully obvious -- that racism has permeated US history both as idea and practice,' as the historian Herbert Aptheker states. 'Nevertheless,' he adds, 'It always has faced significant challenge.'
Racism in America depends for its survival in large part on the smothering of anti-racist voices, especially when those voices come from popular and widely respected individuals -- like Albert Einstein. This book, then, aspires to be part of a grand un-smothering.
