We are pleased to announce that the FSH Fall Seminar: The Biography of a Black Hole: How an Idea Once Hated by Physicists Came to Be Loved will be held online on November 2nd, 2022.
Dr. Bartusiak is a Professor of the Practice Emeritus in the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
This lecture will recount the frustrating, exhilarating, and at times humorous battles over the years as physicists, from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking.
This lecture will address how the black hole helped revive Einstein’s greatest achievement, the general theory of relativity, after decades of languishing in obscurity.