When the personal becomes the political, it can have a devastating effect on those feeling the sharp end of such a vicious ...

Albert Einstein was an exceptional scientist but also a highly unconventional thinker whose life defied academic norms. In 1905, at just 26 years old, while working at the Swiss Patent Office, ...

A new geometric approach revives this idea. Einstein already wanted to unify gravity and electricity into a single theory. Other researchers, like Hermann Weyl, attempted to follow this path. But ...

Albert Einstein was so impressed by his portraits made by Hermann Struck that he ordered several copies of one of it, proudly sending it as his gift to his friends. I am not surprised. There are ...

Isabel Rabey reviews Einstein’s Tutor: the Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Lee Philips ...

Hermann, it appeared, was searching for a path to the internal discovery of truth, rather like Einstein’s Gedankenexperimente. After Nelson died in 1927 aged just 45, Hermann stayed in Göttingen, ...

Einstein, however, had a question ... are doomed to fade away into mere shadows,” the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski declared in 1908. Other physicists had done calculations that ...