by Gary S. Berger | Mar 30, 2024 | Albert Einstein Biography
Einstein’s Final Days Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, at age seventy-six. His death was mourned by family, friends, colleagues, and the world at large. Einstein had suffered from abdominal pain for decades. In 1948, he underwent exploratory surgery that...
by Gary S. Berger | Mar 18, 2024 | Albert Einstein Biography
Albert Einstein is revered worldwide. His enduring popularity stems not only from his monumental contributions to physics but also his unique personality and commitment to humanitarian values. Einstein’s scientific contributions radically transformed our...
by Gary S. Berger | Mar 3, 2024 | Albert Einstein Biography
Pi Day is celebrated worldwide on March 14th. This is especially true in Princeton, New Jersey, where Albert Einstein spent the latter two decades of his life. He was a familiar figure walking through town between his home at 112 Mercer Street and the Institute for...
by Gary S. Berger | Jan 17, 2024 | Albert Einstein Biography
“One of the greatest achievements in the history of human thought. It is not the discovery of an outlying island but of a whole continent of new scientific ideas.”—J. J. Thomson, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society After a decade of strenuous effort,...
by Gary S. Berger | Dec 22, 2023 | Albert Einstein Biography, Book Excerpt
We believe this to be Einstein’s last signed photograph. The recipient was Andrew J. Robell, a student at Princeton in 1955. In an affidavit that accompanies the photograph, he explained the circumstances surrounding Einstein’s signature: “I learned that Albert...
by Gary S. Berger | Nov 30, 2023 | Albert Einstein Biography, Einstein Nobel Prize, Famous Equation
Albert Einstein is known throughout the world for his theory of relativity. He was only 16 years old when he made his first “rather childish” thought experiments relating to it, as he later recalled. “If a person could run after a light wave with the same speed as...
