Background
Josef Eisinger was born on March 19, 1924 in Vienna, Austria, into the family of Rudolf and Grete (Lindner) Eisinger. Following the tumultuous years of emigration and war, he found himself in Canada.
After that he earned Doctor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951.
Josef Eisinger studied at the University of Toronto, where he received Bachelor of Arts in 1947 and Master of Arts in 1948.
(At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein traveled throu...)
At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein traveled throughout the world, from Japan to South America and many places in between. During these voyages, between 1922 and 1933, he was in the habit of keeping travel diaries in which he recorded his impressions of people and events, as well as his musings on everything from music and politics to quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis. These fascinating records are now here published in thier entirety, painting an engaging personal portrait of Einstein the man. The author has created a vivid and entertaining narrative that brings Einstein’s voice to the fore.
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2011
(These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life o...)
These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life of Albert Einstein come from a series of interviews with Herta Waldow, a housekeeper who lived with Einstein and his wife and daughter from 1927 to 1933 at their residence in Berlin. After World War II, science historian Friedrich Herneck interviewed Ms. Waldow and published the conversations in the former East Germany. Unavailable in English till now, these five interviews offer fascinating glimpses into the great scientist’s daily routines while he lived as a celebrated scientist in Weimar Germany.
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2016
(Flight and Refuge. Reminiscences of A Motley Youth by Jos...)
Flight and Refuge. Reminiscences of A Motley Youth by Josef Eisinger After a calm, middle-class childhood, the author escapes, at fifteen, from Nazi-occupied Vienna to Britain. He finds work as a farm 'lad' in Yorkshire, and then, as a dish washer in a Brighton hotel. Following the fall of France, he is interned as an 'enemy alien' and is transported to Canada. Confined in a series of internment camps, he acquires new skills as lumberjack and carpenter, and is also able to resume his interrupted education thanks to an informal school run by fellow inmates, like himself, mostly Jewish refugees.
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2016
Josef Eisinger was born on March 19, 1924 in Vienna, Austria, into the family of Rudolf and Grete (Lindner) Eisinger. Following the tumultuous years of emigration and war, he found himself in Canada.
Josef Eisinger studied at the University of Toronto, where he received Bachelor of Arts in 1947 and Master of Arts in 1948. After that he earned Doctor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951.
After service in the Canadian Army and a stint with the Dominion Observatory where Josef Eisinger tracked the meanderings of the Earth’s magnetic pole, he acquired a thorough grounding in mathematics, physics, and astronomy at the University of Toronto. He won a graduate teaching fellowship at MIT where Professor Jerrold Zacharias introduced him to atomic beams, a remarkably beautiful and powerful experimental technique.
Eisinger used it to investigate the internal structure of atomic nuclei and obtained his Ph.D. in 1951. After a brief postdoctoral appointment at Rice University, he spent the next thirty years in the basic research area of Bell Laboratories, where his research interest shifted from physics to molecular biology. This transition was greatly aided by his Guggenheim Fellowship in 1963 that let him gain experience in molecular biological techniques.
Most of his research work was academic in nature, published in professional journals, and some of it led to the development of useful medical devices, for example, the hematofluorometer for diagnosing lead poisoning. Eisinger collaborated in epidemiological studies of lead-exposed populations that verified the efficacy of these instruments. That experience piqued his interest in the history of medicine and he was awarded his second Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 that allowed him to pursue his research into the long and tortuous history of the lead disease.
After the demise of the illustrious AT&T Bell Laboratories, Eisinger continued his biophysics research work as a professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and following his retirement in 1998, his scholarly interest shifted to history, once again. He assisted his wife, Styra Avins, in her research in music history and contributed translations and transcriptions of several hundred letters of Johannes Brahms to her notable work, "Johannes Brahms. Life and Letters".
He also wrote critical reviews of a theory of Beethoven’s cause of death, and most recently, Eisinger watched over the publication of his biographical book "Einstein on the Road", which is based on the candid travel diaries that Einstein kept while on his various far-flung voyages between 1922 and 1933. Eisinger's "Einstein at Home"and his "Flight and Refuge: Reminiscences of a Motley Youth" appeared in 2016.
(These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life o...)
2016(At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein traveled throu...)
2011(Flight and Refuge. Reminiscences of A Motley Youth by Jos...)
2016Josef Eisinger married Styra Jean Avins on June 26, 1963. They have two common children - Alison Ann and Simon Erik Eisinger.