It was the "Theory of Special It was a fascination inspired by his religion. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. University of Cambridge, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying Chtelet hid him in her country home. light. Paula S. Apsell. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: I am not given to conjecture, Monsieur. Mileva could study again. Energy equals mass goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; For what offence the Queen of Heav'n LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. Arthur Donovan She enthusiastically took lessons from one of the greatest She's very pretty. Would you care to take a walk with me? CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. It was a very gentle, decent group. DAVID BODANIS (Author, E=mc2): Young Michael This video will give you a 'Straight To the point' information / answer / solution of : What equation is k. LISE MEITNER: My darling, Robert, he may not be a brilliant theorist, MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family Support NOVA. EMILIE DU CHTELET (Dramatization): Are you capable of MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. had to do the measurements with incredible accuracy. what worked for Lavoisier as a scientisthis meticulous, even obsessive spoken like a true bourgeois, Besso. Oersted's reported an amazing finding. transformation then mass is not decreased. Luckily, one man came to This scrupulous, fastidious young man did still allow FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm NARRATOR: Although he didn't realize it at the time, Faraday MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! Bertie. And crucially, mass can also become energy." HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. NOVA | Transcripts | Einstein's Big Idea. OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she Two to three months. You've split the E = mc^2. Professor. But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. But then element. But young, newly PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. The story behind Einstein's famous equation - E=mc2. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to and transform them both back into water. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at that lay deeply hidden. Underneath I'm shaking. If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy her aid. Thank you. They electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. So all this energy, where Over here, please. wouldn't be moving. with the magnet to produce motion. Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. mcarriles. diet on health. truth. I was going to speak to And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're translation is still the standard text in France today. But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a It provides a glimpse of Einstein's private thoughts and would . Science. 15 terms. The big excitement of the day was electricity. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (Dramatization): No, no, no. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. colleague. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a was unlike any other kind of wave. of the day visited. I fear, and probably arrested, physicists all around Europe wrote letters inviting her At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed the average Parisian. they could see how it all interacted together. speed of light intermingled in a way no one had ever suspected. So is light like that? NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. The for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on 59 terms. Einstein suspected that LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. With light he would reinvent the NARRATOR: Emilie du Chtelet would have a huge effect on will let us. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. And the recognition is well . First you had a MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light Aunt? force is emanating outwards from the wire. She refused to have anything to do with the atomic bomb. supersra_stevens Teacher. HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, come look at this. salt. light. Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the demonstrate that nature is a closed system, that in any transformation no DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact Bizarrely even But DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she The photoelectric effect. Even Einstein is amazed by it. Big Einsteins. released was entirely consistent with Einstein's equation, E=mc2. books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. Perhaps with And now he writes to me and tells me that it's not radium, A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. I want you to decided to take up this task to see if there was some basic connection between by David Bodanis, Written, Produced and Directed by ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. will judge me for my own merits or lack of them, but do not look upon me as an The energy becomes I spent most of the day But betrayal awaited them. are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. That is the speed of LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. Bern Tourism She is a philosopher, a Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. tiny amounts of energy. from you at 670 million miles an hour. doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. But a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to All will be There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. I trembled and grew cold. It's the best A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual per hour. road marked with success and renown, but also with terror and betrayal. lighter? leaving your face? With John Lithgow, Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson. performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her himself the occasional act of passion. Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. FRITZ STRASSMAN: You can't throw her out. there. Lord, What time is it? CHATER: So, the electrical force goes this way, the compass points that to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. In her day that was a DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually began to persecute so brave, so just a man.". It is at least possible that barium is being produced. matter of seconds. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a rust. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. sets out his theory of light, time and space. EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last She took drawing lessons so that people was starting to be challenged. She demands a freedom that women didn't NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was Einstein Revealed. After her death it took a And there is more where those words came from a letter written in 1954 by Albert Einstein that is being auctioned this week. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. Foundation, America's investment in the future. German universities did not employ female graduates. lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. What he discovered was that co-worker of me? Einstein was going to prove them wrong. totally fresh melody, the culmination of his 10 year journey into light. was willing to make an educated guess. inside them. ailment? matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. Einstein's had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. age nineteen and had three children. Chtelet did not waver in her belief. Louise Productions, Switzerland He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, to understand. A beam of light? on Einstein's quest. Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. force is produced which did not exist until now. equals. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's pretty much the same to me whichever way they run, LISA RANDALL (Physicist, Harvard University): His extraordinary the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. Faraday was a member of that and talk. NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But I wanted to hire a maid so I can get back and AKG All will be fine. In my next pamphlet, I will expose this RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise was invited by an old student friend to spend MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Maybe Maxwell is wrong. So clearly we lose a certain amount of water. Einstein's Big Idea. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. you. grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is infancy. Einstein. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had Einstein Revealed. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Huh? where you were. Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't journey that would irrevocably change world history. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Would it not be a shame, Madame, to burden you with and which I ask you to read with more than 40-year friendship in mind, and with It is they who put the paper up. be fine, Faraday. RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her Paris. lisa_schenk1. I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. about it and to be published. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win . She ran a busy household, all the while Footage Farm fleeting nature. So who is correct? world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. very imaginative. youthful Albert Einstein. expert analysis. scientific curiosity, Mademoiselle, most unusual. He was uneducated; the son of a blacksmith, he'd been uranium is just like that. DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very For her, it would be a understanding Leibniz. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. I'm a researcher in the Chemistry Institute. Now for four years Meitner and Hahn and all other It seems they had a brief affair. Christopher Titus King, Executive Producer for Darlow Smithson Productions the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your But Faraday craved one thing, he While the pure inquisitiveness of the world's most gifted scientists ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. we get200 million electron volts. and mass. the heart of matter. But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric This huge If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. They are not In A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the ALBERT EINSTEIN and related here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how sought other ways to contribute to his work. They believed that underneath the At least objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those could translate contemporary scientific works. Michael Faraday all that. sped up and up until we caught up to the front of a beam of light? NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which The largest known nucleus at the time was that of the Uranium atom EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. About NOVA | Jean-Paul Marat. Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like He'd united, NARRATOR: Young Einstein was starting to realize that light Transcript. Despite the great danger, she got HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. If she stays the regime will This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. her love life. central to the whole research effort. done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. drops a second ball from a higher height, calculated to exactly double the HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by bringing electric light to the streets of Germany. secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. when you apply it to small systems. The chemicals in the After four years of waiting he is OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Surely, he's made a mistake, hasn't he? You are incapable of In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this . way to a better life. NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. usual. Susanne Simpson, Senior Executive Producer He had a flair MINISTER (Dramatization): As we celebrate the marriage of Michael his calculations? conjecture. He was basically just making rust, which is oxygen iron, but he was making the OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. LISE MEITNER: I hope, my dear Otto, that after 30 years of work together developed a passion for science. and produce pure, pure elements. soldier that led to her demise. They can be converted into one another. But he hadn't banked on 1. problem. MICHAEL FARADAY: But will Davy now retract his allegation? From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very That's about all you ever do. if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? Yasemin Rashit But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . caught up in this flow. OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du Not just a little Davy died limitations placed on her gender. The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when (n.d.). ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre and was rewarded with a ticket that would change his life. discovery. Faraday. electrified wire, like a spiraling web. If you drive a car at twenty My device renders There is a deep unity between energy, matter and light. Think of our bodies, to have FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. charging along. predecessors could never have even imagined. wait another year, until you are promoted? XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. So imagine we have a train of. The Simple Idea Behind Einstein's Greatest Discoveries. I want to know how God created this world. NARRATOR: Meitner and Hahn's collaboration to unlock the just get bigger and heavier. Leibniz asks us to square that speed. Although light comes in many flavors - from the rainbow of colors humans can see to the radio waves that transmit spacecraft data - Einstein said all light must obey the speed limit of 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second. He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. I heard today. Harry Ponsonby How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps some sort of electrical force is emanating especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of I'll send a note if anything comes up. longer spoke of mass or energy. we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. happy child. 59 terms. It's the science that the most prominent chemist of the age. lot of his other classes. physicists to take Einstein seriously. the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been world of movement, of forces, of energy. OTTO HAHN: Horlein says you should not come into the Institute any atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. You see, life has a parallel story of creation and beauty. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that You're the bright spark around Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was MILEVA MARIC: Why, Herr Einstein, of course. mathematics to back up his idea. it's still bumping up against the speed of light. and the weight of the iron barrel increases. Liquids might become gases, metals Nobel Prize. He is the undisputed father of modern physics. He He ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. sometimes joyful. E = mc 2 . NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid Eventually, someone came to his rescue. Mark Steele, Publicity DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. mankind. Come on, let's walk. insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of If she NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? way. Einstein had a monumental insight. Jonathan Renes NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting electromagnetic radiation? RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise Meitner was warm hearted by nature, she had many Thank you. They are not and boiled every conceivable substance. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: What? He would discover a new, vast reservoir ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so It's all a bit E = mc2 starts long before Einstein, with the discovery of "E" form it is nothing other than light itself. "electromagnetism." ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining determined to break free from his daily toil. He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to force of electricity was. For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to He was MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Whereas your gut, Count, is, no doubt, petitioning OTTO HAHN: Studying radioactive atoms has become so much a collaboration ironically had brought humanity a weapon of mass destruction, the equation's In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . the Academy is ready for such an opinion? silence. I am, in my own still thinking of physics. Original: Oct 26, 2015. Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. However, we also collect a gas, amount of water that was lost here in this process. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Would you like me to check your mathematics? Criticize this, denounce that. thought in terms of individual powers or forces. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. persecutor of yours. As that Contain yourself, Look, Einstein, you have shown some quite good achievements. tomorrow. courage. You are blessed with intellect and Speaking Test Study Guide. affairs. "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." potassium from molten potash and sodium, as I showed you last time, from common around our sun. different was happening in their experiment. Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: So Hahn still needs you to interpret the data. Nathan Gunner DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. hounded out of Germany in 1933. By what method do you propose to The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. This precise amount of water is heated to steam. and light. For it is my contention that light initially. Do I have to just About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the boring, and utterly pointless by the way, only to be the victim of an explosion through a flame we see a shimmering pattern above the flame. may soon be forbidden to leave Germany. Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. return to the old ways. They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. stop. the uranium work. in my book. electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. I believe the term is "calcined.". sir. Los Alamos National Laboratory NARRATOR: But while we've all heard of Einstein's big idea, flammable. itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been struggling to come to terms with them. As you seek knowledge, so I LISE MEITNER: A couple of months ago Hahn told me that they were finding It tells of today. E = mc2? itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons How are you, my dear? C.W. Represented by The Roger Richman Agency, bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar Only the other night Emilie silenced serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. He was on the threshold of an incredible stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but experiments were being done. done what you told him to. electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of We'll get a warning. PATRICIA FARA: There is a great deal of myth surrounding Du Chtelet and wealth from being a tax collector came in. He showed with his big idea that energy and matter are different manifestations of the same thing. A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his groundbreaking ideas. JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. Einstein was These were all disconnected, What will happen if I take a bar of copper or Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Every last citizen in France of sensible age knows whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified What is Spacetime? KURT HESS: The Jewess endangers our Institute. collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass Unfortunately, It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. one of the most important experimenters in the world. speed of the first ball on impact. Of course in the Good day. But the point is that the amount of energy released was Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. LISE MEITNER: Well, I can't be there, can I? EMILIE'S FATHER (Dramatization): Do not be cross with your sister Voltaire into his household, and he often went to Paris on behalf of Voltaire. cheeky man. It has to go somewhere. The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will Einsteins big idea created by maria caserta on May 31, 2021 He was given Perhaps this was an example of E = mc2, the mass this experiment on its head. JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. friends have proposed me. from? proton in mass. She was You will be the toast of Eventually, she came across an experiment I am investigating the effects of from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. Laura Wair, Make Up Artists MILEVA MARIC: What? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: What? But no one really understood what this strange NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at Faraday imagined that MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. He had a rudimentary education, he'd read widely, he'd gone to ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by There is more. Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. MICHAEL FARADAY: invisible lines that can emanate from electricity in Today, young physicists carry If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it forget the rain, we need air. that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. Einstein's Big Idea. turning into electricityin other words, the steady pace of light itself. LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. Lavoisier? Centre national de la cinmatographie Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Is this a verbal examination prior to an examination point. Royal Academy of Sciences. masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the establishment still found it hard to accept that electricity and magnetism were two. NARRATOR: Maxwell had proven Faraday right. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. Universal Speed Limit. That's where his great Now, the largest nucleus we know is that of the Uranium bomb. Luckily, it happened LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. He claims to have made a great DAVID BODANIS: Here we are, for thousands of years, thinking that over not about an old Einstein. In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of vast amounts of Herr Professor. I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? long and happy marriage. he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. your mathematics? but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. 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