If you keep on looking at this picture and you move further away, Albert Einstein's photo will evolve into the picture of actress Marylin Monroe. Can you see that?
Cartoon of Einstein (circa 1933)
An outspoken pacifist who was publicly identified with the Zionist movement, Einstein emigrated from Germany to the United States when the Nazis took power before World War II. He lived and worked in Princeton, New Jersey, for the remainder of his life.
Albert Einstein: Winner of Nobel Price 1921
Ten Obscure Factoids Concerning Albert Einstein:
1. He Liked His Feet Naked
"When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in the sock," he once said. "So I stopped wearing socks." Einstein was also a fanatical slob, refusing to "dress properly" for anyone. Either people knew him or they didn't, he reasoned - so it didn't matter either way.
2. He Hated Scrabble
Aside from his favourite past-time sailing ("the sport which demands the least energy"), Einstein shunned any recreational activity that required mental agility. As he told the New York Times, "When I get through with work I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind."
3. He Was A Rotten Speller
Although he lived for many years in the United States and was fully bilingual, Einstein claimed never to be able to write in English because of "the treacherous spelling". He never lost his distinctive German accent either, summed up by his catch-phrase "I vill a little t'ink".
4. He Loathed Science Fiction
Lest it distort pure science and give people the false illusion of scientific understanding, he recommended complete abstinence from any type of science fiction. "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." He also thought people who claimed to have seen flying saucers should keep it to themselves.
5. He Smoked Like A Chimney
A life member of the Montreal Pipe Smokers Club, Einstein was quoted as saying: "Pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment of human affairs." He once fell into the water during a boating expedition but managed heroically to hold on to his pipe.
6. He Wasn't Much Of A Musician
Einstein would relax in his kitchen with his trusty violin, stubbornly trying to improvise something of a tune. When that didn't work, he'd have a crack at Mozart.
7. Alcohol Was Not His Preferred Drug
At a press conference upon his arrival to New York in 1930, he said jokingly of Prohibition: "I don't drink, so it's all the same to me." In fact, Einstein had been an outspoken critic of "passing laws which cannot be enforced".
8. He Equated Monogamy With Monotony
"All marriages are dangerous," he once told an interviewer. "Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident." He was notoriously unfaithful as a husband, prone to falling in love with somebody else directly after the exchanging of vows.
9. His Memory Was Shot
Believing that birthdays were for children, his attitude is summed up in a letter he wrote to his girlfriend Mileva Maric: "My dear little sweetheart ... first, my belated cordial congratulations on your birthday yesterday, which I forgot once again."
10. His Cat Suffered Depression
Fond of animals, Einstein kept a house cat which tended to get depressed whenever it rained. Ernst Straus recalls him saying to the melancholy cat: "I know what's wrong, dear fellow, but I don't know how to turn it off."
Myths and Realities of Albert Einstein:
Is it True that Einstein Helped Invent the Atomic Bomb?
No. In 1939, when he learned that scientists in Berlin had figured out how to split a uranium atom, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt urging him to do whatever it took to make sure American scientists were the first to build an atomic bomb. (He was a committed pacifist, but the prospect of nuclear weapons in the hands of the Nazis was so terrifying, he later wrote that "I did not see any [other] way out.") However, because of his left-wing political beliefs, the U.S. Army denied Einstein the security clearances he needed to be a part of the Manhattan Project, and so his role in the development of this deadly technology was an indirect one.
Is it True that many American Officials Believed that Einstein was a Soviet Spy?
Yes. Because of his controversial political beliefs-his support for socialism, civil rights, and nuclear disarmament, for example-many anti-Communist crusaders believed that Einstein was a dangerous subversive. Some, like FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, even thought he was a spy. For 22 years, Hoover's agents tapped Einstein's phones, opened his mail, rifled through his trash and even bugged his secretary's nephew's house, all to prove that he was more radical (as his 1,500-page FBI dossier noted) than "even Stalin himself."
Did Einstein Really Almost Become the President of Israel?
Yes. In 1952, Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, asked his friend Albert Einstein ("the greatest Jew alive," Weizmann said) if he would be willing to lead the young nation. Though the Israelis assured him that "complete facility and freedom to pursue your great scientific work would be afforded by a government and people who are fully conscious of the supreme significance of your labors," Einstein turned down the offer. For one thing, though he was very sympathetic to Israel, he was never an ardent Zionist-he believed in "friendly and fruitful" cooperation between Jews and Arabs-and for another, he worried that he lacked the interpersonal skills to be a world leader. Still, Einstein added, "my relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world," and he was "deeply moved" by Weizmann's offer.
Is it True that Einstein was a Lousy Student?
In some ways, yes. When he was very young, Einstein's parents worried that he had a learning disability because he was very slow to learn to talk. (He also avoided other children and had extraordinary temper tantrums.) When he started school, he did very well-he was a creative and persistent problem-solver-but he hated the rote, disciplined style of the teachers at his Munich school, and he dropped out when he was 15. Then, when he took the entrance examination for a polytechnic school in Zurich, he flunked. (He passed the math part, but failed the botany, zoology and language sections.) Einstein kept studying and was admitted to the polytechnic institute the following year, but even then he continued to struggle: His professors thought that he was smart but much too pleased with himself, and some doubted that he would graduate. He did, but not by much-which is how the young physicist found himself working in the Swiss Patent Office instead of at a school or university.
Is it True that Einstein's First Wife Contributed to the Discoveries that Made her Husband Famous?
Some researchers think that she did (for example, in 1905 she told a friend that "we finished some important work that will make my husband world famous"), but most agree that, while Mileva Maric was a talented physicist in her own right and a valuable sounding-board for her husband's ideas, she did not make substantial contributions to his most famous work. However, her scientific ambitions were certainly belittled and overlooked, especially by her husband. Einstein actually treated his wife quite badly: He had (and flaunted) many affairs; he was distinctly unhelpful around the house; and he made Maric obey a long list of humiliating rules ("You must answer me at once when I speak to you," for example.) The two divorced in 1919 and Einstein married his cousin Elsa.
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Einstein's Brain Had Well-Connected Hemispheres That Sparked His Brilliance, Study Suggests:
While Albert Einstein, considered one of the foremost geniuses of the 20th century, has transformed scientists' understanding of physics and astronomy with his theories, the intellect of Einstein himself has remained misunderstood. Ever since pathologist Dr. Thomas Harvey harvested the scientist's brain in 1955, researchers have tried to crack the mystery of Einstein's genius by observing that brain. Now scientists think they've found a clue. A new study, published in the journal Brain on September 24, 2013, suggests that the two hemispheres in Einstein's brain were unusually well connected. "This study, more than any other to date, really gets at the 'inside' of Einstein's brain," study co-author Dean Falk, an evolutionary anthropologist at Florida State University, said in a written statement. "It provides new information that helps make sense of what is known about the surface of Einstein's brain." In the study, Falk and his colleagues looked at a series of unpublished photographs of the brain, taken from many angles. The team analyzed the thickness of the brain's corpus callosum -- the large bundle of fibers that connects the brain's two cerebral hemispheres and allows them to communicate with each other. Then the researchers compared that part of Einstein's brain to the same structure in 15 elderly males and 52 younger men from 1905. What was found? Compared to the other men, Einstein's corpus callosum was thicker in many areas, which indicates greater connectivity between his brain's two hemispheres and has been linked with higher levels of intelligence.
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