Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1936 — Page 29
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For Curious Astronomical Test of Relativity
Mathematician Brings to Attention of Science Odd Discovery.
BY ROBERT D. POTTER
Science Service Staff Writer Copyright, 1976, by Science Service
WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—Anoththe human kindly Albert Einstein can the tale of how he cure Czechoslovakian to present some original to the world of doors were
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he credited R. first presenting to behind the technical want of information mentioned Mandl as no word and his bald head and put him beyond the “voung” stage. And for months, here in Washington and in New York, Mandl has lived a precarious existence dishwasher in thirdrate restaurants and “coffee pots.” He now tends a furnace for his room rent in a Corona (I.. I.) home. Pursues Odd Hobby last Dishwasher whose hobby is drawing geometric on eggshells, walked the offices of Science Service in the building of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington with a bundle of pieces of paper, covered with mathemati=cal symbols, clutched in his hand. His bald head gleamed in the sunlight and his baggy blue suit hung in folds. as he presented his heels in continental began a hurried speech English with relapses tive mother ‘tongue. Only the presence of a friend acting as semiinterpreter disclosed that Rudi
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| the offices of a newspaper or syndicate, Yes, he did have something! would show the astronomers & new | test for the Einstein theory of relativity that was so simple any person with a little six-inch telescope could check it himself, Visits Great Scientist | “You see,” he said, “the light | from a distant star will be bent as
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| it passes the nearer star and the | effect will be a great brightening that anyone can see with a small telescope.” And he talked on and on excitedly for some minutes.
| Would Science Service publish his discovery? The answer was at | first no, for all manner of cranks | present themselves monthly with [every kind of fantastic idea. But would he like to have his expenses paid on a trip to Princeton to enable him te see Prof. Einstein at | the Institute for Advanced Study? Clutching his papers and the money, he happily rushed off and went to Princeton. No one will | probably ever know exactly what took place at the meeting of the | dishwasher and the father of relativity. They talked for some hours in German and probably Mandl, with this added fluency, presented his case better, for on his return
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Dishwashing Attic Genius Wins Einstein Approval
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Rudi W. Mandl (left) washes dishes in an obscure New York while Prof. Albert Einstein (right) smilingly beams his approval. Mandl restaurant, but dreams of the highly complicated theory of relativity
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| Yoo much daydreaming over sinks | not, why not? (full of dishes in Washington res- Acting
| avocations to the larger and newer [ matter, | Prof. Binstein would himself check | fields of New York City. Finally a | German stated that the Mandl idea
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covers eggshells with geometric designs as a hobby,
He | his calculations and offer them for | letter came to Science Service ask- | was interesting and would be ready ing if and where Prof. Einstein had
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The report in Science for Dec, 4, 1936, in which Prof. Einstein begins intermediary, | with the specific statement, “Some | taurants made it expedient that! Science Service sent a letter to |time ago, R. W. Mandl paid me a Mandl transfer his vocation and 'Prof. Einstein asking about the | visit and asked me to publish the
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the results of a little calculation which I made at his request. This note complies with his wish,” {s the | oun of that promise.”
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It would be fine to be able to state that the theory and preliminary calculation of Rudi Mandl has upset or made a revolutionary
| contribution to the famous theory of relativity, but a close check of
another star is a very brief phenomenon, lasting only a few seconds at the most; so fleeting that Prof. Einstein doubts if it can ever be observed experimentally,
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if the dazzling light from the nearer star is disregarded.” But he goes on to say: “This apparent amplification of q by the lens-like action of the star is a most curious effect, not so much for its becoming infinite, with vanishing x, but since with increasing distance D of the observer not only does it not decrease, but even increases proportionally to the square root of the distance.”
Contribution Is Original
Rudo Mandl, dishwasher extraordinary, may not have set the world of science on fire as he hoped when he originally walked into Science Service's offices, but at least he has discovered what even such a great scientist as Einstein [calls a “most curious effect” and
the calculations by Prof. Einstein | shows that the supposed lens-like | | action of one star on the light of |
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thought. That thought might have been lost but for Pref. Einstein's generosity, A thumbnail biography of Rudi Mandl would include the follows ing: Born 42 vears ago in what 18 now Czechoslovakia , , . began edus cation at Technologisches Gewerbd Museum of Vienna in 1811 , .% fought in Austrian army on BEasteérfa front . captured and sent to Siberia fn 1015 , escaped 1018 ,. . returned Vienna and graduated in 1019 as electrical engineer , . » left for South America but res turned to Germany the next veap to manufacture an electric iron he had invented wiped out by yerman inflation of 10823 , , . came to America , . . for two vears was New York Public Library's most voracious reader worked as bushoy and dishwasher to obtain
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