Celebrate Einstein's Birthday: Two of his associates reminisce
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Einstein's Greatest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story

4:00 PM, The Graduate Center
Two of His Associates Reminisce
Speakers: Frederick Seitz and William T. Golden

Frederick Seitz is an eminent physicist and was a colleague of Einstein at Princeton. He is former president of The Rockefeller University and has served on countless committees, giving physics advice to industry, the military, and the president of the United States. ( Transcript of Frederick Seitz's reminiscences about Einstein and his contemporaries )

William T. Golden was an architect of U.S. science policy, a science advisor to President Truman, and influential in the creation of the post of Science Advisor to the President and the President's Science Advisory Committee. He also played a primary role in establishing the National Science Foundation. Mr. Golden is an honorary life governor of the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences and chairman emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History.

6:00 PM, Proshansky Auditorium
Einstein's Greatest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story
Speaker: Lawrence M. Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity, and neutrino astrophysics. He has investigated questions dealing with the nature of exploding stars and issues of the origin of all mass in the universe. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research and writing. Dr. Krauss was awarded the 1999-2000 Award for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Professor Krauss is also the author of several acclaimed general audience books, including The Fifth Essence: The Search for Dark Matter in the Universe (Basic Books, 1989), which was named Astronomy Book of the Year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific; Fear of Physics (Basic Books, 1993), now translated into 12 languages; and The Physics of Star Trek.