Hans Albert Einstein as a steel designer on a bridge project in Dortmund. In 1936 Hans Albert obtained the doctor of technical science degree. His doctoral thesis "Bed Load Transport as a Probability Problem" is considered the definitive work on sediment transport. Einstein's father, Albert, left Germany in 1933 to escape the virulently antisemitic Nazi threat. Heeding his father's advice, Einstein emigrated from Switzerland to Greenville, South Carolina, in 1938. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture, studying sediment transport from 1938 to 1943. He continued working for the USDA at the California Institute of Technology starting in 1943. In 1947 he
Speaking truth to power Lama and Elie Wiesel. In classical Greece 'speaking truth to power' was known as parrhesia. The tactic is similar to Satyagraha (literally, 'truth-force') which was used by Mahatma Gandhi in seeking independence from British India. Albert O. Hirschman, writing in the 1970s, suggested that subordinates have three options; Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. According to Michel Foucault writing in 1983, only the courageous may pursue the truth-to-power course; they risk losing their friends, (as Winston Churchill did in the 1930s) their liberty, even their lives ( Liu Xiaobo). Noam Chomsky is dismissive of 'speaking truth to power'. He asserts that 'power