Oppenheimer’s visits to Israel and his advisory role at the Weizmann Institute do not make him a Zionist. However, two speeches that he gave indicate that he empathized with the Zionist enterprise.
Volume 17 contains an intriguing expression of Albert Einstein’s strong support for Zionism in the early 1920s.
Cohen’s favorite Einstein quote is 'have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.'
Eurovision, Einstein and the global politics.
Dr. Ruth Gottesman is making the donation from the fortune made by her late husband David "Sandy" Gottesman, a Wall Street financier and early Berkshire Hathaway investor.
Under current theory, the Big Bang explosion that initiated the universe should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. This, however, does not seem to be the case.
The letter reveals Einstein's desperate appeal to Scottish philosopher Sir William David Ross to aid in the rescue of a Jewish German philosopher targeted by Nazis.
Gravitational lensing has the practical effect of a magnifying glass, microscope, or binoculars, and enables scientists to observe celestial bodies that would otherwise be too distant to discern.
The letter is valued to be worth $125,000 USD (approximately 451,500 NIS). Other letters from the great scientist have fetched $3 million USD at auction.
The animosity between Strauss and Oppenheimer had probably several different dimensions.
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