Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he has won several prizes for his past work, the National Academy Prize, in 1949, the first Einstein prize in 1951, a medal from Columbia in 1951 ("They were supposed to give me an honorary degree, but I was too young"), Schwinger believes that his present work will be the most significant. To a layman he can explain it only in generalities. The gist of his effort is to force modern physics to a showdown. The present physical theories are so complicated that they need an enormous amount of experimental work to check their validity. Schwinger aims to recast...
Says Bestor: "It is a curiously ostrich-like way of meeting life needs to de-emphasize foreign languages during a period of world war and postwar global tension, and to de-emphasize mathematics at precisely the time when the nation's security has come to depend on Einstein's equation...
Baron also emphasized the intellectual contributions of his race. He said, "Jewish pioneers of the brain such as Philo, Spinoza, and Einstein, were just as important as the pioneers of brawn who brought material advancement with them wherever they wandered...
With such attractions, the Institute has no trouble finding prospective members. To quote from the list of past members is blatant name-dropping: T. S. Eliot, Arnold Toynbee, Felix Frankfurter. Albert Einstein is a professor emeritus; George Kennan, recently returned to the Institute from Moscow; and the Director since 1947 has been Robert Oppenheimer, previously famed for his work in atomic energy...
...Each study room at the Institute is equipped with a large blackboard for equations and theorems; Eliot's was always blank. So he gave each character in his play a Greek name, Alpha, Beta, and so on, charting the plot on the board. If the resulting formulae baffled Einstein, so much the better. Eliot left his handiwork on the board for the rest of the year...