Then, in the early 1920s, in a lecture which he was invited to give at Lorentz's university in Leiden, Einstein sought to reconcile the theory of relativity with his mentor's cherished concept of the aether.

Perhaps the most famous was Albert Einstein who gave his first public lecture on the Theory of Relativity on 2 June 1915.

Many institutions are celebrating by holding lecture series on Einstein, the history of special relativity and quantum mechanics and other public events surrounding the history of physics.

Bohr publicly introduced the principle of complementarity in a lecture he delivered on 16 September 1927 at the International Physical Congress held in Como, Italy, attended by most of the leading physicists of the era, with the notable exceptions of Einstein, Schrödinger, and Dirac.

Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921

And in his famous lecture Space and Time ( 1908 ) he mentioned Voigt, Lorentz and Einstein.

After the war ended, Einstein maintained his relationship with Leiden University, accepting a contract as an Extraordinary Professor ; for ten years, from 1920 to 1930, he travelled to Holland regularly to lecture.

One of the most iconic objects in the collection is a blackboard that Albert Einstein used on 16 May 1931 during his lectures while visiting Oxford, rescued by E. J. Bowen at the end of the lecture.

File: Einstein blackboard. jpg | Blackboard used by Albert Einstein in a 1931 lecture in Oxford

:" Tarski has stressed in his lecture ( and I think justly ) the great importance of the concept of general recursiveness ( or Turing's computability ).

His lecture notes and memoranda at Stellenbosch stressed that there were no biological differences between the big racial groups, and concluded that " this was not really a factor in the development of a higher social civilisation by the Caucasians.

In his Nobel Prize lecture, Hoffmann stressed that the isolobal analogy is a useful, yet simple, model and thus is bound to fail in certain instances.

Writing up his field notes for a now famous lecture at the Kreuzlingen sanatorium Warburg stressed the kinship of religious thinking in Athens and Oraibi.

This was filmed by Americans for exhibition outside the German-speaking world and was presented in special venues, not as a continuous film, but with the separate scenes interspersed with lantern slides, a lecture, and live choral numbers, to increase the running time of the spectacle to about 90 minutes.

Fudan University has a high-level research faculty of over 2, 400 full-time teachers and researchers, including 1, 350 professors and associate professors, 30 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, nearly 660 doctoral supervisors, 26 special professors and 2 lecture professors of " Cheungkong Scholars Program ", 3 distinguished professors and 10 special professors of Fudan University, 6 principal scientists of Project 973 and 25 " Young Experts with Prominent Contributions to the Country ".

A Center for Constructive Alternatives ( CCA ) special lecture taking place

Several invitational and special events brought artists and experts like Paul Davis, Milton Glaser, Gary Panter, Graham Nash, Edward Tufte, and dozens of others to lecture and teach.

Programs like the Landscape Visions lecture series and special Ask the Gardener hours further engage visitors with the art of landscape.

Built at a cost of about $ 148 million, it included 65 classrooms, about 450 computers on 13 networks, 7 pairs of escalators, various indoor sporting facilities, including two gymnasiums and a pool built to Public Schools Athletic League standards, a theater with acoustics and lighting to accommodate music and drama productions, two lecture halls with movable partitions, a skylit cafeteria overlooking the Hudson River, twelve science laboratories ( including a molecular biology lab and an analytical chemistry lab ) and special shops for instruction in ceramics, photography, wood, plastics, metal work, robotics and energy studies.

At the end of the Dada episode, Janco also took his growing interest in primitivism to the level of academia: in his 1918 speech at the Zurich Institute, he declared that African, Etruscan, Byzantine and Romanesque arts were more genuine and " spiritual " than the Renaissance and its derivatives, while also issuing special praise for the modern spirituality of Derain, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse ; his lecture rated all Cubists above all Impressionists.

Perimeter Institute's educational outreach activities include a monthly public lecture series, a two-week summer camp for the world ’ s top science students, a series of in-class resources, week-long professional development workshops for science teachers, cultural activities with local and international artists, an online archive of educational resources, an extensive network of science teachers to share content across Canada, and many other special events and science festivals.

Middle East Technical University Department of Mathematics organizes a special lecture session called the Cahit Arf lecture each year in memory of Arf.

The main entry is on the eighth level, which also contains a recital and special events auditorium with organ, lecture rooms, general and reserve libraries, offices, a domed theater, and a learning resource area.

The 38, 000 plus members of the Society for Neuroscience recognized the importance of neuroethics by inaugurating an annual “ special lecture ” on the topic, first given by Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science Magazine.

Large lecture hall in the entrance is utilized for conferences and special events.

She has appeared at the Smithsonian on several occasions honoring such distinguished artists as Cholly Atkins and Jeni LeGon, and a special lecture / performance entitled " Women in Tap.

In 1961, Taylor founded New York's Jazzmobile, which provides arts education program of the highest quality via workshops, master classes, lecture demonstrations, arts enrichment programs, outdoor summer mobile concerts, special indoor concerts and special projects.

Award recipients are provided travel, accommodation and registration expenses and present a special lecture on a topic of their choice during the meeting at which they receive the Award and medal.

There were special reading rooms for ladies and for children, a chess room, newspaper reading room, picture gallery, lecture hall, and on the third floor the Art, Historical and Scientific Association ( now called the Vancouver Museum ).

Many of the facilities such as the main atrium and the lecture hall can be rented for special events.

Teaching and learning come to pass in 34 classrooms and a variety of special rooms, counting a multi-media learning centre, an IT room, a computer room, a scouts room, 2 student activities rooms, 6 laboratories, 3 special rooms, a medical-inspection room, a library, a lecture room, a hall, a gymnasium and a swimming pool.

He is quite familiar with many of the interesting properties of the number 17, and gives a special lecture on the subject each summer.

A summary of Einstein's thinking about the aether hypothesis, relativity and light quanta may be found in his 1909 ( originally German ) lecture " The Development of Our Views on the Composition and Essence of Radiation ".

Mr Tompkins ' adventures begin when he chooses to spend the afternoon of a day's holiday attending a lecture on the theory of relativity.

Here, her interest in astronomy was sparked by Eddington's lecture on his 1919 eclipse expedition to Africa to photograph the stars near the eclipsed Sun as a test of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Though some regarded as a failure as a novel, considering it little more than a disguised lecture on Heinlein's social theories, some readers took a very different view.

Raeder took a great deal of pleasure in criticising Hitler's SS security because he had taken a loaded handgun with him during his lunch with Hitler, but was not searched ; after the lunch, Raeder produced the handgun, and then subjected Hitler's SS bodyguards to a lengthy lecture about their incompetence.

However, later stories and flashbacks that took place when Ben was still alive retroactively made the phrase one of Ben's many homilies he would lecture Peter with.

Through Walsh, Merton was introduced to Jacques Maritain at a lecture on Catholic Action, which took place at a Catholic Book Club meeting the following March.

At Basel Reuchlin took his master's degree ( 1477 ), and began to lecture with success, teaching a more classical Latin than was then common in German schools, and explaining Aristotle in Greek.

James took up the lecture circuit, while residing in Sherman, Texas.

" The lecture took place at York Minster and Short was introduced by the Dean of York, the Very Revd.

Various activities took place during the day, including a mock court trial, a performance of the music of Hugh Aston, a Tudor composer, a lecture by Patrick McKenna and a celebratory lunch and reception.

Lacordaire ’ s first lecture took place on the 8 March 1835, and was met with wide acclaim.

A founder of the Rochdale Literary and Philosophical Society, he took a leading part in its debates, and on returning from a holiday journey in the east, gave the society a lecture on his travels.

He took a teaching position at Lincoln University, a historically black college ( HBCU ), and continued to lecture.

After the lecture it took some years to return to Stonyhurst as an intermediary forgot to forward it.

In 1878, he was enlisted at the Marchian Folescu School, where, as he took pride in noting, he excelled in most areas, discovering a love for intellectual pursuits and, by age nine, even being allowed by his teachers to lecture his schoolmates in Romanian history.

After Alabama freed Roy Wright, the Scottsboro Defense Committee took him on a national lecture tour.

Ramón y Cajal then took the podium and refuted Golgi's conclusions in his lecture.

Large audiences came to hear Sharp lecture about folk music, and Sharp also took the opportunity to do field work on English folk songs that had survived in the more remote regions of southern Appalachia, pursuing a line of research pioneered by Olive Dame Campbell.

Adopting a more serious tone than his previous lectures, he took great pains to reveal the false reasoning and misrepresentation of evidence that marked subjects such as " Astrology and Alchemy ", his first lecture, and " Medical Delusions of the Past ", his second.

There he took every opportunity to speak in favor of the Nazi cause but after a hostile confrontation at a lecture he gave at the Russell-Lamson Hotel in Waterloo in May 1939, he hastily returned to Germany.

* October 7, 1877: The first telephone conversation on the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire took place, followed by a lecture of Doctor Roman Gostkowski.

The practice in the medieval university was for the instructor to read from an original source to a class of students who took notes on the lecture.

The first public demonstration of wireless telegraphy took place in the lecture theatre of the museum on August 14, 1894, carried out by Professor Oliver Lodge.

It was followed by a seminar on the lecture, which took place at Todtnauberg on September 11 – 13, 1962, a summary of which was written by Alfred Guzzoni.

Doyle took part in the lecture of Fawcett in Royal Geographic Society in 13 February 1911 and was impressed by the tale about the remote " province of Caupolican " ( present day Huanchaca Plateau ) in Bolivia-a dangerous area with impenetrable forests, where Fawcett saw " monstrous tracks of unknown origin ".