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...daily reading of The New York Times: it was the first time in four years at Harvard my coursework required attention to current events. This is not to suggest that the University could single-handedly defeat civic indifference merely by requiring all students to read The Crimson. But if Einstein is right and education is what remains after we have forgotten everything we learned in school, perhaps we should place more emphasis on the things we take from the Harvard experience that cannot be found in textbooks. Back in the summer of 2002, the first hints of a Harvard education...
...taken up as a graduate student,” he wrote in his autobiography on the Nobel Prize website.Until Wilson’s work in the seventies, the theories of particle physics had remained nearly unchanged for 50 years.However, the accepted quantum field theory developed by Bohr and Einstein half a century earlier was straining under the fact that many of its predictions seemed impossible.Quantum field theory describes subatomic particles as waves which derive their properties from the amounts of energy they carry.Before Wilson’s discoveries, many physicists thought quantum field theory had to be discarded, because...
...marriage partner to her career choices, Marina von Neumann Whitman ’56 has always known what she wanted.Growing up in the household of a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study—a leading research center in Princeton, New Jersey—meant having Albert Einstein as a frequent dinner guest and a childhood focused on high intellectual standards.“I was my father’s only child, which means all his expectations were focused on me,” recalls Whitman, whose Hungarian father, John von Neumann, is known as the creator...
...Baby Einstein vs. Barbie Overscheduled kids. Overprotective parents. They're hot-button media issues, but are they really the problems faced by most American families...
...President Lawrence H. Summers, whose tenure as president ends in just five weeks. In an interview yesterday, Summers said, the new school would be the first new school at Harvard in three and a half decades. “As I like to say, great scientific achievement is about Einstein, but it’s also about Edison,” Summers said. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...