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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Einstein continued to work on the quantum idea into the 1920s but was deeply disturbed by the work of Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Paul Dirac in Cambridge and Erwin Schrodinger in Zurich, who developed a new picture of reality called quantum mechanics. No longer did tiny particles have a definite position and speed. On the contrary, the more accurately you determined the particle's position, the less accurately you could determine its speed, and vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Relativity | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...installation continues with Portraits of Exile, a 1995 public project in Copenhagen. There, Attie submerged images under the city's main canal to commemorate the role Denmark played in rescuing the lives of its Jewish inhabitants. Many Jews were ferried to safety through fishing routes, so that water and light become working metaphors of representation and remembrance. The piece also thematizes the more recent and problematic immigration of refugees from the Balkans and former Soviet Union seeking asylum in Denmark. More personal is the series Untitled Memory (Projections), in which photographs of the artist's family and friends are cast...

Author: By Kirstin Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shimon Attie at the ICA | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

Experts today, as in the past, prescribe moderation. Noted. But you should consult Farouk's example in order to understand the weaknesses of moderation. When Farouk was dieting, trying to lose weight, he had 600 oysters a week flown in from Copenhagen. That was austerity--for him. Moderation tends to be subjective and loves to work on a sliding scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pox on Moderation | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...ROUTE] London-St. Petersburg-Copenhagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water Everywhere--and Plenty to Drink | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...addition to her work at Boston University, Sorensen has served as a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen in Norway...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Radcliffe Chooses New Center Director | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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