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[[underlined]]Einstein Centennial Celebration[[/underlined]]

Mr. Ripley stated that on the occasion of the centennial of Albert Einstein's birth, the Smithsonian has been invited by the Institute for Advanced Study to participate as an honorary sponsor of a proposed symposium in Princeton concerning Einstein's impact on 20th Century thought. Scheduled for early March of 1979, the symposium will represent the major feature of the Institute for Advanced Study's program for celebrating the Einstein centennial. To date, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Institute of Physics, the National Academy of Sciences, and Princeton University have agreed to act as honorary sponsors, a designation that implies agreement with the objectives of the symposium but no financial or other obligations.

The following motion was approved:

VOTED that the Board of Regents approves acceptance of the invitation from the Institute for Advanced Study to join with the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Institute of Physics, the National Academy of Sciences, Princeton University and others, as an honorary sponsor of the Einstein symposium in March of 1979.

Mr. Ripley stated that in addition to this proposed symposium the Smithsonian Institution will schedule kindred activities in Washington at the same time. Mr. Gell-Mann mentioned that he had been invited to chair a session of the symposium at Princeton, and that he had also been invited to speak at a corresponding second part of the celebration to be held in Jerusalem. He stated that although the Princeton program will have some extremely good scientists, the Smithsonian is capable of mounting a program without defects, and he suggested that we carry out our own excellent programs.