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Article: PHYSICIST, PROFESSOR BERGMANN DIES AT 87; HE WORKED WITH EINSTEIN, CAME TO SU, WROTE FIRST TEXT ON GENERAL RELATIVITY.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- October 25, 2002
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Byline: Jim Reilly Staff writer; The New York Times News Service contributed to this report.
Peter G. Bergmann, a physicist and longtime Syracuse University professor who worked with Albert Einstein early in his career, will be remembered in academic circles for advancing Einstein's general theory of relativity and his own pioneering work in quantum gravity.
But generations of SU doctoral and post-doctoral students will remember most his open-mindedness as a thinker, his generosity as a teacher and his warmth as a human being.
"You knew you could say silly things in front of him and you would be respected, which is a wonderful thing for ...