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Einstein Lecture Dinner: Friends of Beckman Auditorium Event

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
6:00pm to 9:30pm
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This event is open only to members of The Friends of Beckman Auditorium. For information on this community-based support group for Caltech Public Events, including the many other benefits enjoyed by Friends' members, please see the Friends of Beckman web page.

Join The Friends for dinner at Caltech's Athenaeum, with historian Virginia Iris Holmes of the Einstein Papers Project, now housed at Caltech. Dr. Holmes researches the political aspects of Einstein's life.

Following dinner, we'll head over to the reserved section at Beckman Auditorium for the third of Caltech's four Einstein Centennial Lectures celebrating Albert Einstein's "miracle year" of 1905. Dr. Jürgen Renn, Executive Director of Berlin's Max Planck Institute, will present, Turning Classical Physics Upside Down: How Einstein Found Relativity Theory, in Beckman Auditorium at 8:00 p.m.

Cost:
  $47 per person, Contributing Members and above
  $87 per person, Participating Members
  ($40 tax-deductible, raises membership to Contributing)

Dr. Renn's Lecture
Einstein Papers Project
For more information, please phone (626) 395-6400 or email [email protected].
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