With your normal ZVV transportation ticket you can also use the Polybahn, which is a popular way of getting from city center (from the stop called “Central”) up to the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and the University of Zürich. The name Polybahn comes from the ETH’s original name Read More …
This inconspicuous monument in a pedestrian zone in the center of Ulm is supposed to symbolize the apartment building where the physicist Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879. The building was quite new at the time of Einstein’s birth, since it had been constructed only eight years earlier, Read More …
The Oldenburg adult education center, the Volkshochschule (VHS), celebrated its seventieth anniversary in 2016. But that didn’t stop it from celebrating its hundredth anniversary just four years later, in 2020. The reason for this discrepancy is that the two anniversaries were counting from different founding dates. The original founding was Read More …
In 1905 Albert Einstein, who was then a 26-year-old employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, published four scientific papers which among other things solved the long-standing problem of Brownian motion and introduced the totally new theory of Special Relativity. The 100th anniversary of these papers in 2005 was Read More …
In February 1902 Albert Einstein wrote to his fiancée Mileva Maric: “It’s delightful here in Bern. An ancient, exquisitely cozy city, in which one can live exactly as in Zurich. Very old arcades stretch along both sides of the streets, so that one can go from one end of the Read More …
The Palace of Discovery (Palais de la Découverte) is a science museum located in the west wing of the Grand Palais, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The museum was founded in 1937, and in 2010 it was merged, for administrative purposes, with the larger Sciences and Industry Museum (Cité Read More …