Friends

Lesser-known and junior colleagues helped the great physicist to piece together his general theory of relativity, explain Michel Janssen and Jürgen Renn.

Most biographies of Albert Einstein focus primarily on his work and philosophies, and do not provide much information about his close friendships, especially with Michelle Besso, an engineer, and Heinrich Zangger, a professor of forensic medicine at the University of Zurich. The influence these two men had Einstein’s life, both personally and professionally, were profound and lasted throughout his lifetime.

In the Patent Office Einstein hatched his most beautiful ideas, and there he spent his "Happy Bern Years"

Einstein's nearest and dearest

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Einstein once said that Charlie Chaplin was the only person he’d wish to meet someday, which he did. However, the two legends were actually close friends b

Friends of Albert Einstein Academies is what you would traditionally call your PTA. We help fund enrichment programs at Albert Einstein Academies Charter Schools.

When they met, Einstein wasn’t Einstein yet. He was just Albert Einstein, a kid, about 17, with a dark cloud of teenage angst and…

The world-renowned physicist was never one to just stick to the science

In November 1911, Marie Skłodowska-Curie was weeks away from being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She received her first Nobel in 1903 for Physics,

Though I knew Einstein for two or three decades, it was only in the last decade of his life that we were close colleagues and something of friends. But I thought that it might be useful, because I am sure that it is not too soon—and for our generation perhaps almost too late—to start to dispel the clouds of myth and to see the great mountain peak that these clouds hide. As always, the myth has its charms; but the truth is far more beautiful.