Essays in Science
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At the time of Einstein’s death in 1955, he was universally recognized as one of history’s most brilliant and important scientists.
Einstein with his first wife, Mileva Marić, and their son Hans Albert, in 1904. Their second son, Eduard, would be born six years later.
Paper silhouettes created by Einstein in 1919, the year of his marriage to his second wife, Elsa. The silhouettes depict, from left to right, himself, Elsa, and his stepdaughters Ilse and Margot.
Einstein lecturing in Vienna, Austria, in January of 1921, the same year he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. 1921 also marked the year of Einstein’s first visit to New York City, followed by weeks of lectures at some of the East Coast’s most prestigious universities.
Albert Einstein on April 27, 1921, seated with a pipe.
Einstein with Elsa in Migdal, Israel, on February 12, 1923.
Albert Einstein in 1928, pictured seated on a terrace in Berlin.
Draft of a poem and various calculations in Einstein’s own hand.
An envelope used by Einstein for scribbling calculations.
The original first two pages of What Is the Theory of Relativity?
Writings on scientific truth, in the original German.
The original second manuscript page of The Cause and Formation of Meanders
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