Albert Einstein Tops
With Local Teenagers
By ALICE JEAN HARRIS
The Jewish News has completed a survey to determine
who, in the eyes of Detroit Jewish teenagers, would be the ace
candidate for a Jewish Hall of Fame. Each nominee was born
a Jew and was outstanding in his own field.
The list of candidates included 30 prominent person-
alities, both men and women, of the past and present.
After questioning over 100 v
boys and girls, the tabulated re-
sults show that Dr. Albert Ein-
stein is their eminent choice.
Therefore we are publishing a
biographical sketch of Dr. Ein-
stein which will help to show
why he was chosen.
One of the distinguished scien-
tists of our day, winner of the
Nobel Prize, Albert Einstein is
best known for his theory of rela-
tivity. But in other branches of
physics he has also made a num-
ber of salient studies, and is
known as the god-father of the
atomic •age.
Born in Ulm, Germany. May
14; 1879, Albert was not like the
average youngster. When his
father bought him a compass,
meant to be a toy to amuse the
child, Albert shook as he gazed
upon the "magic" needle pointing
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war Germany. Einstein, finding
his name high on Germany's
black list, left, and with his math-
ematical formulas and his violin
he traveled around the world, fi-
nally arriving in the United
States in the early 30's, where he
found a land where all peoples
live together–in friendship.
A strong Zionist, he is very
much in favor of Palestine as a
Jewish national homeland. Ein-
stein is deeply unhappy over the
fact that there are still thousands
of displaced Jews suffering in
Europe who really should be
living in Palestine.
The storm broke in Berlin in
1933. Adolf Hitler had moved in
to take over German affairs. Beg-
ging Einstein to return, Hitler
said he would "overlook the fact
that lie (Einstein) was a Jew."
But the "Jew" refused and Hitler
An unsigned letter from the
Latrun detainees denied the Brit-
ish report that living conditions
in the camp were good. The let-,
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Tel ter complained of inadequate
municipality adopted a sanitary facilities, water and pro-
Aviv
resolution demanding that the tection from the mid-summer sun.
Palestine Government either
make public the charges against
Israel Rokach and the other Jews
New Year
detained at Latrun for the last
Greetings
two months or else release them
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immediately. The municipality
to
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This great man accepted a
firofessorship at Princeton and
became a citizen of the United
States.
Early in 1939 physicists began
to buzz with conversation of con-
verting atomic energy which pos-
sibly could have an explosive re-
action in the case of uranium.
Since the first clues had been dis-
covered in Germany, the physi-
cists decided to make the U. S.
north. Being so young he did not
understand the function of mag-
netism but he seemed to feel be r
was opening the door to an en-
chanting world.
DR. ALBERT EINSTEIN
On hearing music he would be-
come so excited that his hand he had made his most fundamen-
would tremble as he seemingly {: contributions.
stood in a trance. While at first Absolute truth can be round
he tired of practicing scales he only through the sum total of all
soon began to love his violin. Al- relative observations, since what
ready his life was shaped differ--; appears to be one thing from a
ently from yours or mine. i certain point of view is definitely
Children are usually interest - something else from another, Ehi-
zd in playing soldier, but not I stem taught. Not only did he
Albert. When one of the regi- bring out his original theory of
ments of soldiers passed thropgh relativity, but he also put forth
the town, instead of running to an explanation of the mystifying
the street to cheer, he ran to photo-electric effect, now used
his mother and begged her to for television, motion - picture
take him to a land where he sound tracks and the many appli-
would never have to see these cations of the "electric eye." For
"fighting monsters" he so des- this the Nobel Prize was awarded
to him in 1922.
pised.
Once more Einstein had arrived
His father worried about the
LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU
their headquarters for a secret
government project, fearing Hit-
ler might try to conquer the
world with the weapon. On Au-
gust 2, 1939, Albert Einstein
wrote to the late President Roo-
sevelt: ". . . Recent work . . .
leads me to expect that the ele-
ment uranium may be turned in-
to a new and Important source
of energy in the immediate fu-
ture . . . This new phenomenon
would also lead to the construc-
tion of bombs, and it is conceiv-
able . . . that . . a single bomb
of this type, carried by boat and
exploded in a port, might very
well destroy the whole port to-
gether with some of the surround-
ing territory."
The letter led directly to the
atom bomb project.
your geometry class.) °-
free, a citizen of the world.
A few years earlier Einstein
The father was alarmed at the
boy's lack of responsibility. He could not get a teaching posi-
hand too many eccentric ideas. tion and now he was accepted
But how could this lad, who at as a professor is Zurich, then
Prague and later Berlin. Soon
15 had mastered the works of
his work on the theory of rel-
Euclid, Spinoza, and Newton,
give up his mathematics and phil- ativity was proven true and he
'
osophy to become a tradesman? chuckled, "Germany will claim
No, his stubborness won out, but me as a German, and France
he took the entrance exam twice will declare that I am a citi-
at the academy at Zurich before zen of the world. Had any theo-
ry proved false, France would
he made the grade.
As the boy's mind matured, he have said that I am a German i
and Germany would have de-
began to prepare himself to teach
clared that I am a Jew."
mathematics and Physics. He
The professor suddenly be- ,
real every book he could find on
these subjects. But on receiving came famous throughout the
his teaching certificate, he faced world and "Einstein" was the i
the fact that he could get no ap- word on the people's lips. Ev- ,
eryone talked about him, nobody
pointment—he was a Jew.
understood him. He was besieged
Spare-Time Physicist .
With this disappointment , Ein- by the public with mail, fan let-
stein became a clerk in a Swiss tors, reporters. photographers. An
patent office and in every spare actor wanted him to be his inana-
moment he was calculating for- ger. A new brand of cigars was
Relativity, and an explor-
rnulas. These studies were not called
nonsense. They were a reality, a er asked his advice. He felt that
new key to the universe. The ed- people looked at him as a strange
itor of the "Annalen der Physik" new animal in the circus of our
world. But the professor did not
like all this attention, to be left
alone with science was all he
wanted; just a quiet peaceful life
was all he asked for.
Anti-Semitism now caught post-
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1947
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A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Heads Atomic Committee
Had he known Germany would
not succeed in inventing such a
bomb, Einstein would have done
nothing for it. Now he has come
out of his preferred seclusion to
head the Emergency Committee
reports from his son's teachers. at new conclusions. He found no of Atomic Scientists, hoping to
The boy was slow and unsociable. object "fell" as physicists be- secure peace so that human civ-
But yet Albert was keenly alive lieved, meaning they were pulled ilization may not end.
Albert Einstein is pleasant and/
in his dreams of his world of down by gravity. Instead, a body
wonder. He spent much time alone would follow the easiest reason looks to the future, 'neath that I
but somehow he was incredibly to assume absolute gravitational shock of hair which has long
force through space rather than to been white. with eyes that have
happy.
assume an absolute dimension of suffered great strain. as he con-
'Citizen of the World'
As he grew older he spent more time. tinually smokes his pipe in his
Mathematical Conclusion
darkened study.
and more time with his books in
But after a series of mathemat-
the secondary school because he
And, so you have the profile
was alone in Munich since his ical formulas were presented the of a man who gave much, had
father had moved his family to significant point is this: The fame hurled before him and. in
Milan, Italy, where he hoped to shortest distance between two spite of it all. asked for so little
the Detroit teenagers' choice
regain his former financial status. points is not a straight line, but
Albert visited Milan and found a curved line, since the universe to lead a Jewish Hall of Fame.
consists
of
a
series
of
curved
hills
that the atmosphere was adapted
to his dreams. He renounced his and all bodies in this universe
German citizenship, but to be- travel around the curved slopes
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motion
in
the
universe,
not
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sire either. He wanted to remain to
found room for Einstein's solu-
tion to the problem of space and
time in his paper, little knowing
the young author was to become
one of the greatest scientists in
the world. By the time he was - 24
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