Albert Einstein - Princeton, NJ
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A monument honoring German-American Nobel Prize recipient physicist Albert Einstein is located on the Princeton Town Hall Green at Stockton Street (Route 27).
Waymark Code: WMP6QT
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 07/10/2015
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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germny on March 14, 1879. He moved to Milan, Italy and Bern, Switzerland. Einstein was awarded a PhD by the University of Zürich in 1905, the same year he published five papers which became the foundation of modern physics and changed our views of space, time, mass, and energy. In 1914, he returned to the Germany as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics.
In February 1933 Einstein took up residence in the United States to avoid returning to Nazi Germany. In October 1933 he took a position at the Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study. He remained in Princeton, NJ for the remainder of his life. He died on On April 17, 1955 at age 76.
A larger than life-sized 2.5' high bronze rough cast bust of Albert Einstein rests on a 6' high granite pedestal near the intersection of Stockton and Bayard Streets in Einstein's adopted hometown of Princeton, NJ.
In 1921 the Nobel committee award the Nobel Prize in Physics to Albert Einstein "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
The front of the pedestal contains a short biography of Einstein. The third paragraph lists his accomplishments starting with the phrase "A Nobel Laureate in physics, ..."
ALBERT EINSTEIN
1879 - 1955
E = mc2
(1905)
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited whereas imagination
embraces the entire world.
(1929)
Born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879. Albert
Einstein became a resident of Princeton in 1933
residing on Mercer Street until his death in 1955.
Before becoming Professor at the Institute for
Advanced Study, Einstein had already become
famous for his Special Theory of Relativity in
1905 and General Theory of Relativity in
1915-1916 both which explained
fundamental laws of the universe. His name
became synonymous with genius.
A Nobel Laureate in physics, a philosopher, a
humanitarian, an educator and an immigrant,
Albert Einstein left an indelible mark on the
world and expressed tremendous appreciation
for Princeton.
"I am privileged by fate to live here in
Princeton. Einstein wrote "I feel doubly
thankful that there has fallen on my lot a
place for work and a scientific atmosphere
which could not be better or more harmonious."