Institute for Advanced Study Faculty: Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel, John Von Neumann, Wolfgang Pauli, Freeman Dyson, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback) - Paperback

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 102. Chapters: Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, Wolfgang Pauli, Freeman Dyson, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Atle Selberg, Edward Witten, Enrico Bombieri, John Milnor, André Weil, Vladimir Voevodsky, Robert Langlands, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Bernard Lewis, Shing-Tung Yau, Avishai Margalit, Clifford Geertz, Peter Paret, Hermann Weyl, Shiing-Shen Chern, Joan Wallach Scott, Abraham Pais, Scott Tremaine, Tsung-Dao Lee, Frank Wilczek, Herman Goldstine, Peter Goldreich, Chen Ning Yang, Armand Borel, Albert O. Hirschman, Lars Hörmander, Oleg Grabar, Michael Walzer, Bruce Gilchrist, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Erwin Panofsky, Hassler Whitney, John N. Bahcall, Patricia Crone, Dorian M. Goldfeld, David Mitrany, Eric Maskin, Pierre Deligne, Ernst Kantorowicz, Boris Podolsky, Amiya Chakravarty, Yve-Alain Bois, Jonathan Israel, Marshall Rosenbluth, Chaim L. Pekeris, Luis Caffarelli, John Elliott, Oswald Veblen, Bengt Strömgren, Tullio Regge, Ernst Herzfeld, Charles R. Alcock, Glen Bowersock, James Waddell Alexander II, Morton White, Linda Keen, Peter Sarnak, Jean Bourgain, Juan Martín Maldacena, Marston Morse, Arne Beurling, Lily Ross Taylor, Mark Jarzombek, Robert MacPherson, Marshall Clagett, Caroline Bynum, Kirk Varnedoe, Avi Wigderson, Phillip Griffiths, Nathan Seiberg, Harold F. Cherniss, Homer Thompson, Peter Goddard, Florian Pop, Deane Montgomery, Nils Aall Barricelli, Stephen L. Adler, Bruno Perreau. Excerpt: Albert Einstein ( ; German: ; 14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics. Near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. This led to the development of his special theory of relativity. He realized, however, that the principle of relativity could also be extended to gravitational fields, and with his subsequent theory of gravitation in 1916, he published a paper on the general theory of relativity. He continued to deal with problems of statistical mechanics and quantum theory, which led to his explanations of particle theory and the motion of molecules. He also investigated the thermal properties of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light. In 1917, Einstein applied the general theory of relativity to model the structure of the universe as a whole. He was visiting the United States when Hitler came to power in 1933, and did not go back to Germany, where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He settled in the U.S., becoming a citizen in 1940. On the eve of World War II, he helped alert President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany might be developing an atomic weapon, and recommended that the U.S. begin similar research. Later, together with Bertrand Russell, Einstein signed the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which highlighted the danger of nuclear weapons. Einstein taught physics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955. Einstein publ