Bad students often comfort themselves by this myth; after all, Albert Einstein, greatest physicist to have ever lived, failed maths too!… Or did he? In reality, young Einstein was everything else but stupid. Although he was generally less interested in sport and foreign languages than most o...
Did Einstein really say that? Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree...O'Toole, Garson
Did Einstein fail? Did William Prescott go to school? Did Claude McKay go to college? Was Huey Newton mentally ill? Was Albert Einstein good at math? Did Copernicus start the Scientific Revolution? Did Neil Gaiman attend college? Were Huey Newton and Bobby Seale Muslims? Did Nikola Tesla beli...
) Students are taught that Albert Einstein failed his math class (he didn’t, and was, in fact, a mathematical prodigy by the age of 12). They learn that Isaac Newton was hit on the head by a falling apple and “discovered” gravity (not true), Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a ...
Web Exclusive: Did Einstein Really Invent E = mc 2 ?Tony Rothman
The original aim of Cockcroft and Walton's experiment was to disintegrate Li7 with fast protons yielding alpha particles. Energy of 17.2 MeV was emitted. This experiment is regarded as the first confirmation of E=mc2. The theoretical re-analysis of data as given by Cockcroft in his Nobel ...