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Mason K. Daring (born September 21, 1949, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American musician and composer of scores for film and television. He has worked on nearly all the films directed by John Sayles , adapting his style to fit whatever period in which the film is set.
Albert Einstein (/ ˈ aɪ n s t aɪ n / EYEN-styne; German: [ˈalbɛɐt ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] ⓘ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time.
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Before becoming a science historian, Pais was a theoretical physicist and is said to be one of the founders of theoretical particle physics. Pais knew Einstein and they developed a friendship over the last decade of Einstein's life, particularly while they were colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He drew from this experienc...
The book serves as both a biography of Albert Einstein and a catalog of his works and scientific achievements. Though there were several well-known biographies of Einstein prior to the book's publication, this was the first which focused on his scientific research, as opposed to his life as a popular figure. Einstein himself, in 1946 at the age of ...
Pais explains in the book's introduction that an illustration of Einstein's biography would have his work in special relativity building toward general relativity and his work in statistical physics would build toward his work in quantum theory, and all of them would build toward his work in unified field theory; the book's organization represents ...
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The book received critical acclaim upon its initial release and was subsequently translated into fifteen languages, establishing Pais as an internationally renowned scholar in the subject. There were many reviews of the book, including articles published in magazines including Scientific American, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Review of Books, as well as newspaper articles published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Leader-Post, The Observer, The Age, The Phi...
Development of relativity
As part of the relativity priority dispute, Pais dismissed E. T. Whittaker's views on the history of special relativity, as expressed in the 1953 book A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity: The Modern Theories. In that book, Whittaker claimed that Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz developed the theory of special relativity before Albert Einstein. In a chapter titled "the edge of history", Pais stated that Whittaker's treatment shows "how well the author's lack of physical insig...
The New York Times listed the volume as one of its "Notable Books of the Year" in 1982 with a caption that read: "The first biography to emphasize the physicist's scientific research rather than his life is 'splendid,' if 'written in a rigorous vocabulary.'" The book won 1983's National Book Award for Nonfiction in the category of hardcover science...
The book was originally published in English in 1982 by Oxford University Press with ISBN 0-19-853907-X. The initial publication of the book was very popular; over 30,000 hardcover copies and a similar number of paperback copies were sold worldwide during its first year. The book performed particularly well in the United States, with 25,000 of the ...
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Jan 31, 2023 · Mason Daring. Mason Daring graduated cum laude as a music major in 1971 from Amherst College. He grabbed his first guitar in the 7th grade and had his first band, The Squires, in the 8th grade. At Amherst, his first band was called Things That Go Bump in The Night and his final college band, Daring, Jones, Southworth and McNeer, signed with ...
Sep 4, 2001 · Cleveland Indians vs Boston Red Sox. September 4, 2001. Film composer Mason Daring has explored many paths on the way to his current career -entertainment lawyer, folk singer, cabbie and truck driver, and commercial film director. But his professional life has always returned to the world of music. Born into the family of a GE lifer, Daring’s ...
Anyone who knows the films of John Sayles will have heard a lot of Mason Daring's music, though perhaps without realising it. This isn't because Daring's scores are colourless or undistinguished - quite the reverse, indeed. But as a composer, he displays the chameleon ability to feel his way into an amazingly wide range of musical idioms ...
Mason Daring is a composer, musician, producer, and author who makes his home in both Marblehead, MA and Pawlet, VT. In addition to composing scores for film and TV he performs occasionally with Jeanie Stahl, writes a column for the Marblehead Reporter under the sobriquet Weary Pilgrim, and is working on a first novel of crime fiction. His ...
