Albert Einstein

Not Everyone Agreed with Albert Einstein—Including Children, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg

Samuel Graydon on Three Moments in the Life of the Scientist

 
By Samuel Graydon  November 16, 2023
Aliens?

UFO or UF-No: What Would Take for Aliens to Visit Our Solar System?

By Adam Frank  October 24, 2023
Keen On

Benyamin Cohen on the Cultural Ubiquity of Albert Einstein, the World’s Favorite Genius

By Keen On  July 12, 2023
On Poetry

Mitchell Untch on Grief and Letting the Subconscious Direct His Poems

By Literary Hub  June 12, 2023
Astrophysics

How a Catholic Priest Discovered the Expansion of the Universe

By Dan Levitt  January 26, 2023
Physics

How Einstein Arrived at His Theory of General Relativity

By Michael Dine  February 10, 2022
Physics

Theory of Everything, Theory of Nothing: On Physics and Other Profanities

By Joshua Roebke  September 1, 2021
Astrophysics

Rediscovering the Scientist-Priest Who Radically Changed Our View of the Universe

By Guido Tonelli  April 19, 2021
The Hub

To celebrate scientists solving the black hole paradox, read this short tale of a tiny black hole.

By Emily Temple  November 9, 2020
History of Science

‘Something Like My Own Obituary.’ Albert Einstein on Skepticism, Reason, and Truth

By Albert Einstein  May 14, 2020
Mathematics

On the Sci-Fi Pioneer Who Brought Math to the Masses

By David Lindsay Roberts  November 19, 2019
Overlooked Women

On Being a Woman Who Loves Math

By Catherine Chung  June 25, 2019
History of Science

Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Science

By Matthew Stanley  May 22, 2019
In Conversation

On Historical Blurring and the Question of ‘What If’

By Literary Hub  April 18, 2019
Excerpts

How a Letter from Einstein Saved a Scientist from Nazi Germany

By Gerald Weissmann  March 15, 2018
Close Reading

How Much of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is in the Writing of Virginia Woolf?

By Gabrielle Bellot  August 10, 2017