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Many eminent persons have had children with serious mental problems and have had at least one child take his or her life. Robert Frost s daughter was committed to the state mental hospital and another daughter had a nervous breakdown. One of Albert Einstein s children was diagnosed as schizophrenic. Ambrose Bierce s oldest son committed suicide, and his other died of alcoholism at age 27. Thomas Edison had two children who became alcoholics, one of whom committed suicide. Alfred Stieglitz s daughter was psychotic and committed to a mental institution. James Joyce had two children. His son became an alcoholic his daughter went mad and, as discussed, was admitted to an asylum for schizophrenia. Numerous other examples demonstrate the frequent problems of geniuses children. Many of these children tried unsuccessfully to pursue careers similar to their eminent parents, but it is not clear if this played any role in their mental problems. 

In the previous section, we discussed the tale of Albert Einstein s brain, which was kept for years in a jar by a beer cooler. By now, a lot of people have heard that his brain was missing. But I find that most colleagues don t know that Einstein s eyes were also snatched from his face and hidden for 40 years in a bank vault in New Jersey. The physician who took the eyes visits them two or three times a year. Would you like to hear a few more details ... 

My fascination with people s DMT visions leads me to discuss DMT realities in great detail throughout this book. I also dwell on Marcel Proust and Albert Einstein, perhaps the ultimate expressors of creativity in literature and science. Just as termites are designed to make intricate mounds. Golden Orb Web spiders to weave tremendous webs, and bower birds to construct ornate nests decorated with colorful baubles including... 

In 1906 Albert Einstein (Nobel Prize, 1921) published his first derivation of an expression for the viscosity of a dilute dispersion of solid spheres. The initial theory contained errors that were corrected in a subsequent paper that appeared in 1911. It would be no mistake to infer from the historical existence of this error that the theory is complex. Therefore we restrict our discussion to an abbreviated description of the assumptions of the theory and some highlights of the derivation. Before examining the Einstein theory, let us qualitatively consider what effect the presence of dispersed particles is expected to have on the viscosity of a fluid. 

The theory of quanta has been a central preoccupation of the Solvay Conference since the first Solvay Conference on Physics, which took place in 1911. On that occasion, the fundamental discrepancies between classical theory and experimental data, which appeared at the beginning of the century, were discussed by major figures of modem science like Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Henri Poincare, and many others. 

Referring to the fundamental discussions between Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr, Wheeler writes ... 

The answers to these questions can be found in the work of Albert Einstein. As we discussed in Section 12.2, Einstein s theory of relativity showed that energy should be considered a form of matter. His famous equation,... 

In 1928, in Berlin, where he was a Privatdozent at the University of Berlin and a confidant and partner in practical invention of Albert Einstein, Szilard had read Wells tract The Open Conspiracy. The Open Conspiracy was to be a public collusion of science-minded industrialists and financiers to establish a world republic. Thus to save the world. Szilard appropriated Wells term and used it off" and on for the rest of his life. More to the point, he traveled to London in 1929 to meet Wells and bid for the Central European rights to his books. Given Szilard s ambition he would certainly have discussed much more than publishing rights. But the meeting prompted no immediate further connection. He had not yet encountered the most appealing orphan among Wells Dickensian crowd of tales. 

There was no point in talking to Groves, Szilard reasoned in March 1945, nor to Bush or Conant for that matter. Secrecy barred discussion with middle-level authorities. The only man with whom we were sure we would be entitled to communicate, Szilard recalls, was the President He prepared a memorandum for Franklin Roosevelt and traveled to Princeton to enlist once again the durable services of Albert Einstein. 

Albert Einstein was the first [1] to describe the cause of this motion in a comprehensive way that related the prevalent kinetic theory viewpoint with the random-walk theory-based description that was coming into vogue at the time. Quantifying the extent of Brownian motion provided an early proof of the existence of molecules and was also recognized as a way to model a variety of applications - for example, in stock markets and astrophysics - wherein an entity is subject to random interactions with its environment. In this entry, the theory, measurement, and applications of Brownian motion in a fluidic setting are described, and the current avenues of research - which probe beyond the canonical view - are discussed. 

Immediately following the invention of optical lasers in the early 1960s, all instruments used lasers as the light source. Acquisition of spectra from samples with arbitrarily high Rayleigh radiation required some spectrometer developments as well as implementation of low-noise detectors. Curiously, the physics on which both laser and photomultiplier operation are based is derived from work of Albert Einstein. Photomultipliers operate by using the photoelectric effect for which Einstein received the Nobel Prize for work done in 1905. Laser action was a demonstration of stimulated emission that was predicted by Einstein in 1917. A discussion of laser action will not be included in this chapter, but the reader can refer to a text on optoelectronics such as Ref. 17. 

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