Einstein Lunar Crater/Einstein Memorial, Washington D.C. - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

Einstein is a large lunar crater that lies along the western limb of the Moon, making it difficult to observe from the Earth. The visibility of this formation is affected by libration effects, but even under the best conditions not much detail can be observed except from lunar orbit. Nearby craters of note include Moseley just to the north, Dalton along the eastern rim, Vasco da Gama just to the southeast, and Bohr crater to the south-southeast. The formation Vallis Bohr is visible to the south.

The outer rim of this walled plain has been all but obliterated by many small impacts. Only along the eastern wall, where it joins Dalton crater, does a significant rim still survive. Occupying the center of the interior floor is 'Einstein A', an impact crater with terraced inner walls and a central peak. The outer rampart of this concentric crater spreads across the interior floor, covering over half the diameter of the Einstein crater. Several smaller craters also lie scattered across the floor, but there are sections of relatively flat surface in the southwest part of the floor.

Because it is only visible under very favorable conditions, this crater was only discovered as recently as 1952 by Patrick Moore. The original name for this formation was "Caramuel", but it was later changed to Einstein by the IAU.

The statue of Einstein that can be found at these coordinates is a memorial located in front of the Academy of Sciences, an organization that was chartered by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It was sculpted by the well know figurative sculptor, Robert Berks, who is probably most famous for his bust of John F. Kennedy that can be seen at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. From head to toe, the Einstein sculpture measures 21 feet tall and weighs 7,000 pounds. At Einsteins feet, much of the visible universe is displayed in a 28 foot sky map of emerald pearl granite embedded with metal studs.

In 1921, Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for the first of his three papers, each developing a new branch of Physics. The paper described light to be a stream of energy particles, called "quanta", and started the field of Quantum Physics.

He went on to develop the Theory of Relativity in his second, groundbreaking paper, and his third was about Brownian Motion - the irregular movement of particles in a liquid or gas.