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Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives
The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem
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Gerald Holton
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English
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1982
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Based on papers presented at the Jerusalem Einstein Centennial Symposium in March 1979, this volume sets forth an articulated sequence of chapters on the impact of Einstein's work, not only in science but in humanistic studies and problems such as international security in the nuclear age.
Originally published in 1982.
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Historical Perspectives on Einstein's Scientific Contributions
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Reception of Einstein's Scientific Ideas
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Einstein's Impact on Scholarship and Twentieth-Century Culture
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Einstein and Developments in the Jewish World
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Einstein and the Nuclear Age
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Keywords for this book
Søren Kierkegaard; Thought; Scientist; Zionism; Albert Einstein; Nuclear weapon; Theory of relativity; Reality; Physicist; Simplicity; Theory; Relativism; Science; Result; Scientific theory; Newton's law of universal gravitation; Ernst Mach; Michelson–Morley experiment; Naturalness (physics); Epistemology; Philosophy of science; General relativity; Philosophical Fragments; Special relativity; Nobel Prize; Philosophy of physics; Enrico Fermi; Scientific revolution; Theoretical physics; Modern physics; Pacifism; John von Neumann; Statistical mechanics; Reason; Nazism; Atomic energy; United States Atomic Energy Commission; Academy of sciences; Nuclear chain reaction; Subject (philosophy); Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; Henri Bergson; Subjectivity; Quantum mechanics; Modern philosophy; Atomic physics; Concept; Ethnography; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Scientific enterprise; Isaiah Berlin; Explanation; Laws of thermodynamics; Karl Kraus (writer); Electromagnetism; Philosophy; Nitrogen; Mass–energy equivalence; Evolutionary origin of religions; Asymmetry; Psychoanalysis; State of affairs (philosophy); Unified field theory; Liberal internationalism; Militarism; Irony; Arabs; Level of consciousness (Esotericism); Woodrow Wilson; Pacificism
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
