Creating another Einstein: The money and intrigue behind Waterloo's Perimeter Institute

By Sheilla Jones

Literary Review of Canada

Vol. 17, No. 5, June 2009, page 22

First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science

By Howard Burton, foreword by Sir Roger Penrose

Key Porter Books, 2009

What would it take to produce another Einstein? That is a question that returns with cyclical regularity in the physics community. But there is no need to wait for someone of Albert Einstein's remarkable vision and achievement to just happen along. Not when we have an Einstein factory right here in Canada.

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo is Canada's premier hothouse for nurturing the best and brightest physicists from... Read more