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Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius

Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius

Silvan S. Schweber

Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics.
In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral ...

In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral ...

Silvan S. Schweber

By examining how Oppenheimer and Bethe--two men with similar backgrounds but divergent aspirations and characters--struggled with these moral dilemmas, one of our foremost historians of physics tells the story of modern physics, the ...
The Short, But True Story of How I 'Nearly' Found the Hidden ...

The Short, But True Story of How I 'Nearly' Found the Hidden ...

Baire Wain

... Joseph and the Nez Perce's Final War By Nate Schweber Published February 13, 2013 [Note the publication date after the publication of TTOTC in 2010] Montana native and New York Times Journalist Nate Schweber “The Nez Perce Creek ...
The Kaleidoscope of Science: The Israel Colloquium: Studies ...

The Kaleidoscope of Science: The Israel Colloquium: Studies ...

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For valuable comments and criticism onthese and other occasionsI am especially indebted to David Bloor, Donald T.Campbell, GeraldL. Geison, Patrick de Maré, J.B. Morrell and Sylvan S. Schweber. Peter Medawar, The Art of the Soluble ...
Florida Breweries

Florida Breweries

Gerard Walen

About a year after I started as editor of the site, I received a review copy of Indiana Breweries, by John Holl and Nate Schweber. Though I had not reviewed books on the site, it seemed like a good idea, seeing as how it directly related to the ...
Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators

Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators

Kathleen A. Hansen

Nate Schweber, a former Kaimin reporter and current intern at Rolling Stone magazine, dispatched this eye-witness account late Tuesday afternoon from the magazine's office in Manhattan. UM ALUMNUS RECOUNTS TUESDAY'S TRAGEDY ...
US Public Schools and the Politics of Queer Erasure

US Public Schools and the Politics of Queer Erasure

C. Lugg

Catherine A. Lugg and Autumn K. Tooms, Trouble in Toms river, Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 14 (2011): 15–25. Ibid. Ibid. Nate Schweber, Rutgers defendant wrote of “Keeping the Gays Away,” The New York Times, ( March 5, ...
How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains ...

How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains ...

Robert Kerr

Gabriel Sports Reunion, 2003). Oriard, Dreaming of Heroes, 189. Barry Switzer and Bud Shrake, Bootlegger's Boy (New York: William y Morrow, 1990), 16–18, 235. Kate Zernike and Nate Schweber, “Sayreville High School Arrests Divide a ...
School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and ...

School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and ...

Peter Langman

Manny Fernandez and Nate Schweber, “Binghamton Killer Kept His Fury Private, ” New York Times, April 12, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/ 04/12/nyregion/ 12binghamton.html?scp=1&sq=Until+a+Sudden,+Final+ Barrage&st=nyt&_r=0.
Fly Fishing Yellowstone National Park: An Insider's Guide to ...

Fly Fishing Yellowstone National Park: An Insider's Guide to ...

Nate Schweber

6 Shoshone Lake Bruce Staples Because giant Shoshone Lake is the largest backcountry lake in the continental United States—no roads, no buildings, no telephone poles, nothing—Bruce Staples has visited this high, cold place since the ...
A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come: Newark, Cory Booker, and ...

A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come: Newark, Cory Booker, and ...

J. Wharton

235. Lisa Fleisher and Barbara Martinez, “Christie Picks Newark Schools Chief,” Wall Street Journal,May 4,2011. 236. Winne Huand Nate Schweber, “For Next Chief of Newark Schools, Hard Choices,” New York Times, May 4, 2011. 237.

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