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Albert Einstein’s choice not to wear socks reflected his personal experience, yet also became a path of nonconformism many others took. The real issue was going barefoot, with all that meant in terms of social convention. In the 1940s, Einstein adopted the khakis and sweatshirts of young Americans, who in their turn began wearing shoes without socks in the 1950s. This “Ivy” or “preppy” style was an amalgam of conformism and rebellion that reflected a larger search for new personal freedom. The reactions to this style in Japan as well as the US illuminate the wider resonance of Einstein’s ambivalence about acceding to social norms that went against his own needs. The resultant story interweaves Einstein’s personal and medical history, stylish hedonists expanding their pleasures, veterans returning to school after the war, and young people trying to reconcile rebellion with submission.
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Physics in Perspective seeks to bridge the gulf between physicists and non-physicists through historical and philosophical studies that typically display the unpredictable as well as the cross-disciplinary interplay of observation, experiment, and theory that has occurred over extended periods of time in academic, governmental, and industrial settings and in allied disciplines such as astrophysics, chemical physics, and geophysics. The journal also publishes first-person accounts by physicists of significant contributions they have made, biographical articles, book reviews, and guided tours of historical sites in cities throughout the world. It strives to make all articles understandable to a broad spectrum of readers – scientists, teachers, students, and the public at large. Bibliographic Data Phys. Perspect. 1 volume per year, 4 issues per volume approx. 500 pages per volume Format: 15.5 x 23.5cm ISSN 1422-6944 (print) ISSN 1422-6960 (electronic)
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