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Witnesses at the birth of a star - Financial Express.bd

lbert Einstein may have been the world's most famous thinker but he Was baffled by his own popularity. The genius behind the theory of relativity never understood why a concept so far removed from everyday experience and application should have conferred on him an almost mystical status among scientists and non-scientists alike.Today's boffins should be so lucky. A recent survey found British Teenagers were unable to name a single living scientist. The sample, admittedly, Was small. But some bright spark might have recalled Lord Winston or Steven Hawking -- if only from television appearances.EINSTEIN: A Hundred Years of Relativity Ed. Andrew Robinson Harry N. Abrams $35/£24.99, 256 pagesEINSTEIN 1905:The Standard of Greatnessby John S. RigdenHarvard University Press $21.95/£14.95, 192 pagesTHE INVISIBLE CENTURY:Einstein, Freud and theSearch for Hidden Universesby Richard PanekViking Adult/Fourth Estate$24.95/£15.99, 272 pagesA WORLD WITHOUT TIME:The Forgotten Legacy ofGodel and Einsteinby Palle YourgrauBasic Books/Penguin $24/£20, 210 pagesI suspect, however, that this cultural blind spot is not limited to the young. When the president of the US finds it difficult to accept hard evidence of global warming or the significance of stem-cell research, it is clear the scientist as superstar is no More. How times change: Einstein wrote to President - More available

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