Princeton in New Jersey

26 August 2019 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Universities, Colleges, Academies Reading Time:  6 minutes

Princeton University Boat House at Lake Carnegie © Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD/cc-by-sa-3.0

Princeton University Boat House at Lake Carnegie © Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD/cc-by-sa-3.0

Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, New Jersey, that was established in its current form on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township. As of the 2010 United States Census, the municipality’s population was 28,572, reflecting the former township’s population of 16,265, along with the 12,307 in the former borough. Princeton is roughly equidistant from New York City and Philadelphia. It is close to many major highways that serve both cities (e.g. Interstate 95 and US Route 1), and receives major television and radio broadcasts from each. It is also close to Trenton, New Jersey’s capital city, and Edison.   read more…

Portrait: Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist, pacifist, socialist and Zionist

21 November 2016 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Portrait Reading Time:  16 minutes

Albert Einstein in New York, during his first visit to the US in 1921 © Life magazine

Albert Einstein in New York, during his first visit to the US in 1921 © Life magazine

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). Einstein’s work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc² (which has been dubbed “the world’s most famous equation”). He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “services to theoretical physics”, in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory. Near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. This led to the development of his special theory of relativity. He realized, however, that the principle of relativity could also be extended to gravitational fields, and with his subsequent theory of gravitation in 1916, he published a paper on general relativity. He continued to deal with problems of statistical mechanics and quantum theory, which led to his explanations of particle theory and the motion of molecules. He also investigated the thermal properties of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light. In 1917, Einstein applied the general theory of relativity to model the large-scale structure of the universe.   read more…

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