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Nature 453, 987 (19 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/453987a; Published online 18 June 2008
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Q&A: Insight into Einstein
Jascha Hoffman
Abstract
Actor Alan Alda, who starred in the television series M*A*S*H and now hosts Scientific American Frontiers on US network PBS, is fascinated with physics. At last month's World Science Festival in New York he led a panel discussing the quantum world, portrayed Richard Feynman in the play QED, and presented Dear Albert, his new play drawn from Albert Einstein's letters.
Why did Einstein's letters interest you?It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.
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