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.
The discovery was announced seven years after researchers announced that they had first detected the existence of gravitational waves generated by two distant black holes
Exactly a century after the great scientist visited the Hebrew University, the cornerstone is laid for a museum that will shine a spotlight on Albert Einstein.
Titled the Einstein House, the new museum would deepen the scientist’s longstanding ties with the university.
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