LOS ANGELES (JTA) – A famous photo of Albert Einstein, sticking out his tongue at a photographer and signed by the renowned scientist, has been sold for $125,000. The Nate D. Sanders auction house here, in announcing the sale Thursday evening, did not reveal the buyer’s identity. UPI (United Press International) photographer Arthur Sasse took…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Five letters written by Albert Einstein to quantum physicist David Bohm covering topics including God, McCarthyism and the new state of Israel will be auctioned off next week. The letters will be sold in a live auction with participation online by the Winner’s auction house in Jerusalem. They were put up for sale…
The new National Geographic series about Albert Einstein, Genius, has been promoted widely. My synagogue, Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia, has a tie in to this Jewish genius. KI, now celebrating it’s 170th birthday, has been home to many celebrity members, from the Gimbel family to the Rosenwalds of Sears fame, to William S. Paley. One…
More than six decades after his death on this date in 1955, Albert Einstein continues to inspire generations of students in the sciences. But let don’t the mop of white hair and distinguished mustache fool you. Einstein was “a stud muffin theoretical physicist,” according to Geoffrey Rush, who stars at the man himself in the…
On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein passed away. In the following days, the groundbreaking physicist’s death was met with grief on all fronts. Then-President Dwight Eisenhower eulogized the scientist, commenting “No other man contributed so much to the vast expansion of 20th century knowledge.” The New York Times, in an obituary, lauded Einstein’s moral courage,…
One person dressed as Albert Einstein is a lovable eccentric, two are liable to draw jokes about disruptions in the time-space continuum, and 404 are something to positively celebrate. The next Einstein competition happening @MaRSDD – will they break world record and come up with world changing idea? pic.twitter.com/09iPJWUPQc — Joanne Thomsen (@joannethomsen) March 28,…
According to an article in Mental Floss, the first time Albert Einstein came to America, he found himself caught up in a whirlwind of media frenzy – of prying reporters, flashing cameras, and an alternatively eager and dismissive public (one woman called Einstein’s achievements “highbrow bunk” – among the most quintessentially American phrases ever uttered). The year…
As many around the world worry about Donald Trump’s presidency and the potentially fascist future of the United States, it is worth remembering a little known anecdote about the famed mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel. You likely know Gödel’s name in relation to the “incompleteness theorems” – two theorems of mathematical logic dealing with axiomatic systems…
די ווילנער דאָקטוירים יעקבֿ וויגאָדסקי און צמח שאַבאַד זענען אויך געווען געזעלשאַפֿטלעכע טוער.
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