SCIENCE 1929: Einstein's Field Theory

Einstein's Field Theory

As 24-cent copies of Albert Einstein's abstruse "Coherent Field Theory" reached the U. S. last week, the man himself, his wife and a daughter plodded about Wannsee, simply hunting rooms at that lake colony twelve miles from Berlin.

The man's face was yellowish. He looked haggard, nervous, irritable. He sounded querulous. An internal disease, which last summer he feared would kill him before he could complete his newest theory, has made him so. That diseaseĀ—plus the harrying visitors who buzzed and scraped about him the past fortnight, and years of indoor,...

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