‘My great-uncle, the kapo’

Flora Cassen, in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies Arts & Sciences, writes an article about a family member who survived the Holocaust by being a “kapo,” one of many who worked for the Nazis while imprisoned in the Polish concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light

For nearly 20 years, Einstein’s quantum theory of light was disputed on the basis that light was a wave. In 1922 Compton’s x-ray scattering experiment proved light’s dual nature, writes Erik Henriksen.
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