description: The essence of Einstein’s profundity lay in his simplicity. - Banesh Hoffman There was nothing simple about Einstein, ever. His simplicity concealed an impenetrable complexity. - Fritz Stern Three Winters in the Sun: Einstein in California is an interactive DVD-ROM that presents a multi perspective portrait of Albert Einstein and emphasize the many contradictions he evokes. It looks at him through six lenses, each focusing on his relations with a different community with which he interacted while a visiting research associate at The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena: his household, science, émigrés, Jews, Hollywood and the FBI (which opened a file that eventually amassed over 1,400 pages on his political activities). Each lens enables us to explore a stream of narrative particles--brief episodes that highlight a different dimension of Einstein’s life. Some particles have links to other lenses, showing the close connections among these six interrelated communities. Although this portrait focuses on the winters of those three years that Einstein spent at Caltech (1931, 1932 and 1933), it shows this period was a turning point not only for Einstein and the six communities but also for the broader historical background that exerted such force over their lives. While navigating through these streaming particles, users can reveal a rich array of archival materials - photographs, film clips, newspaper and magazine articles, radio broadcasts, oral histories, personal letters, diaries, official documents, and textual quotes by Einstein and his biographers. The installation also includes original animations and artwork and new interviews produced exclusively for this project. The range of commentators include: • Leo B. Braudy, USC University Professor of English, author of The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History and From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity • Diana Kormos Buchwald, Assoc. Professor of History and General Editor of The Einstein Papers Project at Caltech • Evelyn Einstein, Albert Einstein’s granddaughter • Fred Jerome, author of The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist • Rabbi William M. Kramer, author of A Lone Traveler: Einstein in California • Robert Schulmann, Professor of History and co-editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein • Kip S. Thorne, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at Caltech • Edward Witten, Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and one of the world’s leading string theorists
title: Three Winters In The Sun: Einstein In California
titlecomplete: Three Winters In The Sun: Einstein In California (Book & Dvd Rom)