Albert Einstein

Standard Name: Einstein, Albert

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Intertextuality and Influence Theodora Benson
Robert Browning 's poem to Emily Patmore , the original angel in the house, is quoted at the head of the first chapter. Unlike TB 's first novel, this is a romance with a consummated...
Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
One of her Spectator projects was an unsuccessful attempt to increase its coverage of developing scientific issues, such as the work of Einstein , Ernest Rutherford , and Niels Bohr .
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
69-70
Despite this failure...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ruth Fainlight
The thirteen poems here run from A Forecast (in which the poet imagines a time ten years hence when she will have forgotten the sensuous pleasure of her present life and become As urban and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Laura Riding
The volume was, says Elizabeth Friedmann , largely a response to the ideas of Wyndham Lewis .
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005.
114
LR sets out to free the poet from the restrictions imposed by the synthetic or collective notion...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Wyndham Lewis
He examines the work of Gertrude Stein (whom he counsels to get out of english) and popular writer Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), as well as Bergson , Einstein , Pound , Joyce , and others.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
313

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14 March 1879: Albert Einstein, formulator of the theory...

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14 March 1879

Albert Einstein , formulator of the theory of relativity, was born in Ulm, Germany.
“St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture”. Gale Databases: Gale Virtual Reference Library.

1905: Albert Einstein received his doctorate from...

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1905

Albert Einstein received his doctorate from the University of Zurich and published three ground-breaking papers, the second of which proposed what is now known as the special theory of relativity.
“Albert Einstein”. School of Mathematics and Statistics: University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Smith, Peter D. “’With fame I become more stupid’”. Guardian Weekly, 12–18 Sept. 2002, p. 16.
16

September 1914: The Manifesto of the 93 German Intellectuals...

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September 1914

The Manifesto of the 93 German Intellectuals to the Civilised World provoked outrage among British and French intellectuals and a counter document from Albert Einstein .
Shapin, Steven. “Tod aus Luft”. London Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2006, pp. 7-8.
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6 November 1919: Published observations of a solar eclipse,...

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6 November 1919

Published observations of a solar eclipse, made in Brazil and West Africa by two sets of British astronomers, confirmed Albert Einstein 's theory of relativity.
“Albert Einstein”. School of Mathematics and Statistics: University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Smith, Peter D. “’With fame I become more stupid’”. Guardian Weekly, 12–18 Sept. 2002, p. 16.
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23 December 1954: The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk...

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23 December 1954

The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk by Bertrand Russell : Man's Peril, about the threat of nuclear war and the need for action to avoid it.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
23 December 2009

18 April 1955: Albert Einstein, formulator of the relativity...

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18 April 1955

Albert Einstein , formulator of the relativity theory, died in Princeton, New Jersey.
“St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture”. Gale Databases: Gale Virtual Reference Library.

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