The Man Who Stalked Einstein by Hillman Bruce J. & Ertl-Wagner Birgit & Wagner Bernd C

Author:Hillman, Bruce J. & Ertl-Wagner, Birgit & Wagner, Bernd C.
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2015-04-16T04:00:00+00:00

Finally, at the very end, so there would be no doubt where he stood, Oseen gilded the lily. “Its discovery to me appears to fully deserve a Nobel Prize in physics.”

Oseen’s mastery of mathematics and theoretical physics silenced Gullstrand, who most vigorously opposed Einstein receiving the prize. Arrhenius was won over by the idea that choosing Einstein might not only address the public mockery of the Academy but also aid the process of renewing international scientific relations. Oseen capitalized on the situation by proposing that the committee support Einstein for the reserved 1921 Prize and Bohr for 1922.

Gullstrand’s consolation was the 1923 Prize for the experimentalist Robert Millikan, whose exhaustive investigations had proven the accuracy of Einstein’s law. Admonishing the Lenard-led reactionaries who persisted in their senseless attacks on theoretical physics, Millikan acknowledged the reciprocal debt that theory and experiment owed, each to the other:

The fact [is] that science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. . . . Sometimes it is one foot that is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both—by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it on beyond, and so on in unending alterations.

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