Science: Physical Trio

U. S. physicists had much to talk about last week. They learned that six weeks hence three of the world's most famed physicists, all Nobel prize winners, were to meet in the U. S. at California Institute of Technology ("Caltech") in Pasadena for a scientific chat. One of the three, Dr. Albert Einstein, has a long way to travel. On Dec. 2, he, his wife Frau Elsa Einstein and his research assistant Dr. Walter Mayer (TIME, Oct. 27) will go aboard the Belgenland, have a month's boat ride to California via Panama....

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