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Einstein Centennial
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On June 10, 2004, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring that 2005, the centennial of Einstein's breakthrough year of discoveries, be a global year-long celebration. UT Arlington is participating in the World Year of Physics with presentations by two Einstein scholars: Dr. Zdzislaw E Musielak, Professor of Physics at UT Arlington, and Dr. John S. Rigden, Honorary Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. The events, sponsored by the UT Arlington Physics Department and the UT Arlington Library, are free and open to the public.
Visiting Author Presentation About Dr. Rigden
Focus on Faculty
About Dr. Musielak
Brown Bag Lunch
Visiting Author Presentation
Physics Colloquium
Friends of the UT Arlington Library
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One hundred years ago young Albert Einstein published the five papers that marked him as one of the greatest scientists of all time. His work revolutionized our understanding of energy, light, and time - and in the process completely reordered the human conception of the physical world. This storm of creative inspiration was so profound that 1905 is widely known as Einstein's "miracle year."
Dr. John S. Rigden, received his B.S. from Eastern Nazarene College and his Ph.D. from John Hopkins University. Upon completion of his graduate work, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He is currently an Honorary Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. Rigden's scholarly work has been in the areas of molecular physics and the history of science, and his professional activities have been at the national and international levels. In 1987 he joined the American Institute of Physics, where he served as Director of Physics Programs. He is the author of numerous books, including his most recent Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness (Harvard University Press, 2005). He has many writing and editing credits to his name, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. He has served as the Director of Development of the National Science Standards Project at the National Academy of Sciences, and chairman of the History of Physics Forum of the American Physical Society. He has served on committees of the American Association of Physics Teachers, American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and National Academy of Sciences. He was an NSF consultant to India, the United States Representative to the International Science Exhibition in Rangoon Burma, and a Fulbright Fellow to Burma and to Uruguay.
Dr. Zdzislaw E. Musielak, Ph.D University of Gdansk, 1980, joined UT Arlington in 1999. As the 1997 recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Prize, he was recently nominated by three major German institutions for a Humboldt Prize Follow-up. Musielak spent the past summer conducting research at these three institutions - The University of Heidelberg, The University of Freiburg, and Kiepenheuer-Institut fur Sonnenphysik - and it was recently announced that he received the prize for 2005. The award carries cash prize of $20,000. Musielak's research interests include (but are not limited to) solar and stellar activity and winds, nonlinear dynamical systems and routes to chaos, quantum field theory and the physics of vacuum, and the origin of dark matter and dark energy.