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...seems fitting, somehow, that the night nurse who stood alone by the deathbed of Albert Einstein did not understand German, and that the scientist's last words were consequently lost to the world. For Einstein, besides being one of history's greatest thinkers, was a figure to revere and love rather than to epitomize in a few phrases in a dictionary of last words, such as the one published recently...
...Einstein, despite his personal "aloofness," was the most human of men. His kindness and humility, his deep, mystical piety, and his humanitarian political views all indicated that here was a scientist who kept in touch with the people to whom his science was dedicated. And the world realized this. It knew that Einstein, the Universe Maker, was still a warm human being--still the man who could take time to solve a geometry problem for a high school girl...
...this question is immediately answered by Einstein's famous letter of 1939, in which he urged President Roosevelt to initiate research on a nuclear weapon. Despite his pacifism, the scientist had faith in the fundamental good sense of man to use his discoveries wisely. He believed that in the long run the atomic bomb would be only an incidental by-product of Relativity. And the world, as it mourns Albert Einstein today, can do nothing more worthy than to make sure that his vision becomes a reality...
...bureaucrat if, in 1945, the government had not summoned him to go overseas and study penicillin production. Shuttling back and forth between Russia, Britain and the U.S., Borodin forgot his resolution to stay clear of the Moscow meat grinder. His chief, Andrei Tretyakov, seemed to be on the skids.* Scientists in all fields were being purged. In London, Scientist Borodin was ordered to attend a lecture just to make sure that a fellow scientist read a paper about "rotten and decadent Western pseudoscience" exactly as it had been okayed. Suddenly Borodin balked and left the hall, pretending...
...Robert Oppenheimer '26 will discuss his views on government regulation of scientific research and his own work as a scientist in a film of his interview with Edward R. Murrow, which was televised last fall. The 45 minute show begins at 8 p.m. in the Adams House dining hall, with no admission charge...