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Nuclear museum to host virtual event on gay Manhattan Proposal scientist
Claude Schwob
What’s it about: Ibson will discuss “the influence that WW II and the McCarthy Era had on the lives of queer people in the 20th century.” His talk will highlight the story of Claude Schwob, an openly queer chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later at the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory in San Francisco and eventually became one of the foremost experts on radiation.
About the speaker:Ibson is an award-winning educator, historian, and author established for his attention on issues connected to masculinity and sexuality in the United States. His books include Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography; The Mourning After: Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men; and Men without Maps: Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall.
Further information: Additional information about the event can be obtained by emailing the museum.
Albert Einstein was many things: The father of relativity. The author of the world’s most celebrated formula, E=mc2. The breakout celestial body of Oppenheimer. One thing he was not, as far as history knows, is a homosexual man. But the internet has other ideas, thanks to a viral post about an entirely different historical figure.
The post shows a screenshot from Wikipedia, displaying three homoerotic sketches and the line, “There have been debates about Eisenstein’s sexuality.”
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But of course, the post was never about Einstein in the first place. Those sketches and speculation are from the Wikipedia page for Sergei Eisenstein, not Albert Einstein.
Eisenstein was a Soviet filmmaker, top known for his silent films like Strike and Battleship Potemkin, released in the 1920s. He and Einstein have similar names and were alive at the same time — but that’s about where the similarities stop.
Where Einstein was arguably a ladies’ man, having two wives (and several affairs). Eisenstein also marr
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Newly discovered diary chronicles Einstein's last years
By Steven Schultz
Princeton NJ -- Librarians at Princeton University hold discovered a diary written by one of Albert Einstein's closest friends, a woman who recorded the scientist's day-to-day thoughts and activities during the last year and a half of his life.
Albert Einstein and Johanna Fantova spent many enjoyable hours on Lake Carnegie. "Seldom did I see him so gay and in so light a mood as in this strangely primitive little boat," wrote the Princeton librarian, who kept a diary of their conversations. |
The diary, written by Johanna Fantova, a former Princeton librarian, relates Einstein's musings on subjects, profound and mundane, from physics and current events to the tribulations of growing old. Fantova, who knew Einstein for more than 25 years, chronicled their regular conversations in more than 200 diary entries.
In an introduction to the diary, Fantova wrote that she intended it to "cast some additional beam on our understanding of Einstein, not the amazing man who became a legend during his retain lifetime, not on Einstein the re
#735: Albert Einstein
Last week we talked about the Einstein probe. So this week it is only natural that we talk about the man himself, Albert Einstein. He revolutionized the field of physics, played a vital role in the early 20th century and struggled to unite the forces of the Universe at the end of his career.
Show Notes
- Albert Einstein’s Early Life and Education
- Einstein’s Relativity Theories
- Einstein’s Public Persona and Influence
- Einstein’s Later Animation and Philosophical Views
- Einstein’s Legacy
Transcript
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Fraser Cain [00:00:49] Astronomy Cast episode. 735. Albert Einstein. Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly reality based journey through the cosmos to help you realize not only what we know about how we realize what we understand. I’m Fraser Cain. I’m the publisher of Universe Today. With me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of Cosmic Quest. Hey, Pavel, how you doing?
Dr. Pamela Gay [00:01:09] I am doing well. We are recording this Thanksgiving week. I hold made a novel one.
Fraser Cain [00:01:16] Thanksgiving