Thursday, January 18, 2018

Where To See Einstein Everywhere: on TV, Books and Magazines, USA, Germany, India, Israel, Taiwan and more


Einstein with Charlie Chaplin. Photo taken 1931. Public Domain. From Wikipedia.


 On a Singapore Airlines flight in January 2018 I watched an episode of a series of nine of a USA TV film series about Nobel prize winner Albert Einstein. All episodes were listed with a summary. 

The episode which I watched was about Einstein resisting attempts to get him to support the Hebrew university of Israel, before the founding of Israel. Very interesting picture of his strong second wife, Elsa. 

The film brings up all sorts of interests and controversies. Einstein and Judaism. Einstein and assimilation. Einstein and fund-raising. Einstein and communism. Einstein and Germany and being German before WWII. Einstein and America and being an American.

Einstein and the Atom Bomb
I also went to a Toastmasters meeting in Singapore where one of the speakers presented a defence of Einstein against accusation that he was the cause of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima (presented as a bad thing in The Times magazine in the USA in the 1940s). Makes me want to read books about Einstein’s life.

TV Series
Genius (This National Geographic series on Einstein had ten Emmy nominations)

Places to visit (Alphabetically:) 

CZECH REPUBLIC
Panoptikum, Prague.

GERMANY
Germany

INDIA
Science park, Kannur, Kerala. The city of Kannur is called the crown of Kerala, land of looms and lores (stories as in folklore).

ISRAEL
Bust in Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.


English: Robert Berks (US-american, born 1922): Albert Einstein Millennial Monument, Jerusalem, Israel Academy Of Sciences And Humanities, Albert Einstein Sciences Garden. Replica of the 1979 monument located at the US National Academy of Sciences. Photo author Eftib in Wikipedia commons.


JAPAN
Hiroshima, Japan

Spain
Statue of seated Einstein at the entrance to the Science Park and Museum in Granada, southern Spain.



TAIWAN
Juming Museum. Lovely white statue of Einstein carrying a brolly and a bag.

USA - see giant statue of reclining EInstein, near Academy of Science, on Independence Avenue NW, Washington DC, USA

For photos of statues and busts, nothing in Wikitravel and nothing in the aritcle on Einstein in Wikipedia. I eventually tracked down photos of statues in commons.wikimedia.org .

Useful Websites
EINSTEIN
wikipedia
Wikiquote

TRAVEL
Spain
http://www.parqueciencias.com/parqueciencias/ Einstein statue



Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

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