The “CH” sticker that Swiss drivers must legally put on their vehicles before entering another country is required under the 1968 international convention on road traffic. Under the convention, any vehicle driven outside its home territory must display country initials made up of one to three latin characters. Most European plates incorporate the required identifying […]
One year in Bern a little-known patent office worker changed our view of the universe. He was Einstein.
By Bill Harby In physics circles, 1905 is known as the “Annus mirabilis,” the “Miracle Year” of Albert Einstein’s astounding rush of discoveries in modern physics. That year, the little-known 26-year-old genius, while working in Bern at his day job in the Swiss patent office, submitted his Ph.D. dissertation on the size of atoms, and […]