Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Einstein Stamp 1966
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Abraham Pais (1918-2000)
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Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
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Laura Fermi:
<Atom in the Family>
Emilio Segre:
<Enrico Fermi, Physicist>
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Enrico Fermi was, of all the great
physicists of the 20th century,
among the most respected and
admired. He was respected and
admired because of his
contributions to both theoretical
and experimental physics,
because of his leadership in
discovering for mankind a
powerful new source of energy,
and above all, because of his
personal character.
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Edward Teller (1908-2003)
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J.R. Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
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C. N. Yang and Edward Teller (1992)
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Yoichiro Nambu (1921- )
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P.A.M. Dirac (1902-1984)
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Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
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you sometimes … want to climb some
peak but there is fog everywhere …
you have your map or some other
indication where you probably have to
go and still you are completely lost in
the fog. Then … all of a sudden you
see, quite vaguely in the fog, just a
few minute things from which you say,
“Oh, this is the rock I want.”
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In the very moment that you have
seen that, then the whole picture
changes completely, because
although you still don’t know
whether you will make the rock,
nevertheless for a moment you say,
“… Now I know where I am; I have
to go closer to that and then I will
certainly find the way to go …”
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So long as I only see details, as one
does on any part of mountaineering,
then of course I can say all right, I
can go ahead for the next 15 yards,
or 100 yards, or perhaps one
kilometer, but still I don’t know
whether this is right or may be
completely off the real track.
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W. Heisenberg
<Physics and Beyond>
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On May 4, when Colonel
Pash, leading a small US
detachment, came to take me
prisoner, I felt like an utterly
exhausted swimmer setting
foot on firm land.
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Snow had fallen during the night,
and as I left, the spring sun shone
down upon us out of a dark blue sky,
spreading its brilliant glow over the
snowy landscape. When I asked one
of my American captors, who had
fought in many parts of the world,
how he liked our mountain lake, he
told me it was the most beautiful
spot he had ever seen.
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What pains, what love, what
memories, what primitive
emotions he must have gone
through in crafting this
understated piece of literature
thirty years after the event!
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Abdus Salam (1926-1996)
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar(1910-1995)
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K. C. Wali:
<Chandra: a Biography>
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<Newton's Principia for the Common Reader>
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