{"id":27155,"date":"2019-04-18T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=27155"},"modified":"2019-04-18T02:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T07:21:31","slug":"apsu-collaboration-brings-nyu-professor-to-campus-to-lecture-on-einsteins-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/04\/18\/apsu-collaboration-brings-nyu-professor-to-campus-to-lecture-on-einsteins-war\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU collaboration brings NYU professor to campus to lecture on \u2018Einstein\u2019s War\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Peay State University (APSU)<\/h2>\n

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – New York University history of science professor Dr. Matthew Stanley will visit Austin Peay State University on Monday, April 22nd, 2019 to deliver a lecture on \u201cAlbert Einstein\u2019s War: How World War I Made Relativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Albert<\/a>

Albert Einstein and Dr. Matthew Stanley<\/p><\/div>\n

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The lecture will be 12:30pm-2:00pm at the Morgan University Center\u2019s Room 103. Stanley also will plant a space gummy tree at noon before the lecture \u2013 Monday also is Earth Day.<\/p>\n

The tree planting will be in front of the Browning Administration Building by the Clement Building.<\/p>\n

The lecture is a collaboration of the Phi Alpha Theta club, the Department of History and Philosophy, the History Club, the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and the Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy.<\/p>\n

Stanley is author of \u201cEinstein\u2019s War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I.\u201d<\/a> The book is \u201ca thrilling history of the development of the theory of relativity \u2026 a superb account of Einstein\u2019s and Eddington\u2019s spectacularly successful struggles to work and survive under miserable wartime conditions,\u201d according to a Kirkus<\/em> book review.<\/p>\n

\"Map<\/a>

Map showing where the tree-planting will be.<\/p><\/div>\n

Stanley teaches at NYU\u2019s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and holds degrees in history, astronomy, physics and religion. He also explains physics to non-scientists in his weekly podcast \u201cWhat the If?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

To learn more about the space gummy tree, go to https:\/\/americanheritagetrees.org\/partners\/space-gummy-tree<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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