Albert Einstein and “The New York Times”
Associated Press
In 1904, Albert Einstein, then an obscure young man of 25, could be seen daily in the late afternoon wheeling a baby carriage on the streets of Bern, Switzerland, halting now and then, unmindful of the traffic around him, to scribble down some mathematical symbols in a notebook that shared the carriage with his infant son, also named Albert.
Out of those symbols came the most explosive ideas in the age-old strivings of man to fathom the mystery of the universe. Out of them, also, came the atomic bomb, which, viewed from the long-range perspective of mankind’s intellectual and spiritual history may turn out, Mr. Einstein fervently hoped, to have been just a minor by-product.
With those symbols Mr. Einstein was building his theory of relativity. In that baby carriage with his infant son was Mr. Einstein’s universe-in-the-making, a vast, finite-infinite four-dimensional universe, in which the conventional universe – existing in absolute three-dimensional space and in absolute three-dimensional time of past, present and future – vanished into a mere subjective shadow.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARCHIVES
The Scale of Einstein, From Faith to Formulas
By JANET MASLIN
In his confidently authoritative new book, Walter Isaacson deals clearly and comfortably with the scope of Einstein’s life.
April 9, 2007 BOOKSREVIEW
Now on the Web, a Peek Into Einstein’s Thoughts
By DENNIS OVERBYE
When Albert Einstein died in 1955 in Princeton, N.J., he left behind several thousand documents, including letters, scientific manuscripts, speeches and political writings. For the last four decades historians and physicists have been combing the world for more and laboriously publishing these papers under the auspices of the Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which owns the copyright to Einstein’s works.
May 20, 2003 TECHNOLOGYNEWS
First Citizen of the Space-Time World
By DENNIS OVERBYE
For the young Albert Einstein, a 26-year-old patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, 1905 was a very good year. After years of turmoil and tension he was living a middle-class life with his wife, Mileva, and a year-old son, Hans Albert. He was completing his Ph.D., and he published a spate of scientific papers that changed history. Among them was the theory of relativity, which gave the world E=mc2, clocks that speed up and slow down and too many bad jokes using the word »relative.»
November 15, 2002 TECHNOLOGYNEWS
Albert Einstein, Universe Maker
MICHAEL HOLROYD
For George Bernard Shaw, Einstein was the great destroyer of the notion of scientific infallibility. Shaw believed the theory of relativity to be a powerful antidote to the backward-looking fundamentalist doctrines of the 20th century. The most dangerous of these doctrines after World War I was Hitler’s Aryan philosophy.
March 14, 1991 OPINIONOP-ED
Einstein’s Papers, and Brain; The Physicist’s Legacy Remains Veiled to Millions
By NICHOLAS WADE
When Albert Einstein lay dying in Princeton Hospital, the nurse assigned to him spoke no German and the great physicist’s last words passed uncomprehended. Strangely, for a person of such interest and eminence, the rest of his legacy has long remained almost equally inaccessible.
July 27, 1987 HEALTHEDITORIAL
Einstein Letters Tell of Anguished Love Affair
By WALTER SULLIVAN
The story of an anguished love affair between Albert Einstein and the woman who would later become his first wife has emerged in newly disclosed correspondence between them.
Thousands of Einstein Documents Are Now a Click Away
By DENNIS OVERBYE
A mammoth effort is underway to digitally publish Albert Einstein’s letters, papers, postcards and diaries that have been scattered in archives, attics and shoeboxes.
December 5, 2014, Friday
By DAVID KAISER
Einstein thought not. But experiments suggest so.
November 16, 2014, Sunday
By DEB AMLEN
David Woolf challenges the laws of physics.
October 1, 2014, Wednesday
By MARK BULIK
Albert Einstein’s first appearance in The New York Times came, as might be expected, in connection with his theory of relativity.
September 18, 2014, Thursday
By MARK BULIK
This feature looks at the first time famous names or terms appeared in The Times.
June 19, 2014, Thursday
Paul Rudd to Play Einstein at World Science Festival
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
Mr. Rudd is to participate in a reading of “Dear Albert,” a play by Alan Alda that will open the five-day festival in New York City.
May 18, 2014, Sunday
By BROOKS HAXTON
Our son’s life at the poker table baffles us, but we know something about high-stakes bets.
April 27, 2014, Sunday
A New Home for Rare Books at Center for Jewish History
By ROBIN POGREBIN
The new David Berg Rare Book Room at the Center for Jewish History is to open Sunday.
October 1, 2013, Tuesday
In Belgium, a Museum About the People Who Left It
By TANYA MOHN
The Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, is focused on the people who sailed from the port city, including Albert Einstein and Golda Meir.
September 27, 2013, Friday
A Black Hole Mystery Wrapped in a Firewall Paradox
By DENNIS OVERBYE
A paradox around matter leaking from black holes puts into question various scientific axioms: Either information can be lost; Einstein’s principle of equivalence is wrong; or quantum field theory needs fixing.
August 13, 2013, Tuesday
ALBERT EINSTEIN NAVIGATOR
A list of resources from around the Web about Albert Einstein as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.
OTHER CONTENT
- Einstein Archives Online
- Digitized manuscripts and archives
- People and Discoveries: Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
- PBS profile
- NOVA: Einstein’s Big Idea
- His most famous equation explained
- «The Intimate Life of A. Einstein»
- Time magazine. July 9, 2006.
- Einstein: «An ideal of service to our Fellow Man»
- NPR. May 31, 2005.
- «The First Century of Albert Einstein»
- The New York Times. March 11, 1979.
- «The Year of Dr. Einstein»
- Time magazine. February 19, 1979.
- «Einstein Noted as an Iconoclast in Research, Politics and Religion»
- The New York Times. April 19, 1955.
- «Dr. Albert Einstein Dies in Sleep at 76»
- The New York Times. April 19, 1955.
- «Albert Einstein Speaks His Mind»
- The New York Times. May 28, 1950.
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