by Gary S. Berger | Aug 28, 2023 | Original Essay
Albert Einstein published four ground-breaking papers in rapid succession in 1905 in Annalen der Physik. They are his “miracle year” papers. Einstein was a clerk 3rd class at the Swiss patent office in Bern at the time, having been unable to obtain an...
by Gary S. Berger | Jun 1, 2023 | Einstein Nobel Lecture, Einstein Nobel Prize
Einstein’s Nobel Lecture Centennial Albert Einstein gave his Nobel prize lecture entitled Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity on July 11, 1923. The centennial of this event is a reminder of the remarkable history of Einstein’s Nobel...
by Gary S. Berger | May 20, 2023 | Einstein Nobel Prize
Albert Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics a year late, in November 1922, “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.” It had taken almost two decades, and sixty-two nominations...
by Gary S. Berger | May 16, 2023 | Book Review Reposted
EINSTEIN – THE MAN AND HIS MINDBY GARY S. BERGER & MICHAEL DIRUGGIERO A biography examines Albert Einstein not only as a scientist, but also as a private man who held deep moral and philosophical convictions. As Berger observes in the preface, the indelible...
by Gary S. Berger | May 15, 2023 | Book Review Reposted, Book Review
“Einstein: The Man and His Mind” by Gary S. Berger and Michael DiRuggieroPosted on December 12, 2022 Reviewed by Jill Rey for Reader Views In the first true page of this book: the dedication, the authors and contributors make it clear that this book is dedicated to...
