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Show Einstein exhibit open at SUSC The Albert Einstein 1879-1979 Centennial Exhibit is currently on display in the Southern Utah State College Science Building. Prepared by Princeton's Prin-ceton's Institute for Advanced Study, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute of Physics, the 18-panel exhibit depicts the life, work and impact of the great scientist from his birth in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, to his death in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1955. The exhibit will be on display in the science building foyer through Nov. 3. The show will be open weekdays, except Oct. 20, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. According to Dr. Steven H. Heath, chairman of the SUSC .physical science department, the Einstein Exhibit has been made available' to SUSC through the courtesy of Robert Dalton, coordinator coor-dinator of cultural affairs at Dixie College, and with the support of the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. "Everyone is invited to visit this free exhibit, to learn about one of the world's greatest scientists scien-tists and humanitarians," Dr. Heath said. Einstein, Heath said, became world famous with a series of papers published in 1905. The first dealt with photoelectric effect, for which he received the Nobel Prize in physics; the second with Brownian movement; and the third with the special theory of relativity. In 1916 he completed a formulation of the general theory of relativity, then spent the rest of his life searching for a unified field theory. Einstein, a Jew, came to the United States in 1933 because of the political unrest in Nazi Germany. His public life was marked by a deep concern for the freedom and dignity of man. In 1952 he was offered the presidency of Israel but he refused. |