{"id":674,"date":"2017-06-23T14:25:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moebergfilm.org\/?p=674"},"modified":"2017-06-23T14:25:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T14:25:41","slug":"moe-berg-featured-in-episode-nine-of-genius-series-about-albert-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/moeberg_dev\/2017\/06\/23\/moe-berg-featured-in-episode-nine-of-genius-series-about-albert-einstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Moe Berg featured in Episode Nine of \u201cGenius\u201d Series about Albert Einstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic\u2019s 10-episode first season of \u201cGenius\u201d was a fascinating series on Albert Einstein\u2019s life, based on Walter Isaacson\u2019s book <em>Einstein: His Life and Universe<\/em>. The show aired its finale on June  20th and includes scenes with Berg\u2019s dangerous assignment in the OSS during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Episode nine opens with Berg receiving a gun and cyanide pill with instructions to listen to Heisenberg\u2019s lecture at the Zurich Polytechnic Institute in Switzerland. He\u2019s told specifically to listen for words and phrases like, \u201cheavy water, plutonium and fast fission.\u201d  \u201cIf anything he says leads you to believe he\u2019s developing an atomic bomb,\u201d Berg\u2019s told, \u201cKill him!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Later, Einstein is listening to a broadcast of a Red Sox game at Fenway Park in 1939 and Moe Berg is referred to as \u201cEinstein in knickers\u201d because he\u2019s the most intelligent of all the baseball players.<\/p>\n<p>Berg\u2019s final scene is in December 1944, as he listens to Heisenberg\u2019s lecture and walks with the German physicist afterwards over cobblestone streets. <\/p>\n<p>While not portrayed in the \u201cGenius\u201d series, Berg did meet Einstein after the war. In Nicholas Dawidoff\u2019s book, <em>The Catcher was a Spy<\/em> the meeting is described: \u201cMr. Berg, exclaimed the scientist, \u201cyou teach me baseball, and I\u2019ll teach you mathematics.\u201d  He paused a moment and added, \u201cBut let&#8217;s forget it.  I\u2019m sure you\u2019d learn mathematics faster than I\u2019d learn baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic\u2019s 10-episode first season of \u201cGenius\u201d was a fascinating series on Albert Einstein\u2019s life, based on Walter Isaacson\u2019s book Einstein: His Life and Universe. The show aired its finale on June 20th and includes scenes with Berg\u2019s dangerous assignment in the OSS during World War II. Episode nine opens with Berg receiving a gun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/moeberg_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/moeberg_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/moeberg_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/moeberg_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/moeberg_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/moeberg_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/moeberg_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/moeberg_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/moeberg_dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}