professor Albert Einstein
"...author of the Theory of Special Relativity, the Unified Field Theory, and a decisive expansion of Max Planck's Quantum Theory, onetime director of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Professor Emeritus at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, onetime Swiss citizen, onetime Enemy No.1 of Hitler's Third Reich, now a U.S. citizen." |
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Albert Einstein: How I See the World, 1991
"He was appointed examiner of patents at the Patent Office at Bern where, having become a Swiss citizen, he remained until 1909. It was in this period that he obtained his Ph.D degree at the University of Zurich and published his first papers on physical subjects. In 1913 a special position was created for him in Berlin as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute. He married again, in 1917, this time his cousin, Elsa Einstein, a widow with two daughters."
The New York Times: "Obituary", April 19, 1955
journey to America
"I do not want to remain in a state where individuals are not conceded equal rights before the law for freedom of speech and doctrine."
- Albert Einstein
The New York Times: "Obituary", April 19, 1955
"Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and essential human liberty, even for the Jews with world reputations like Dr. Einstein, became impossible in Germany. He announced that he would not return to Berlin, sailed for Europe and went to Belgium." |
"In September of 1933 he fled from Belgium and went into seclusion on the coast of England, fearful that the Nazis had plans upon his life. Then he journeyed to Princeton and made his home there." |