Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein renounced his German citizenship in the German Kingdom of Württemberg to avoid military service in 1896 and became stateless for 5 years. He acquired Swiss citizenship in February 1901, Austrian citizenship in 1911, and American citizenship in 1940.

• Albert Einstein considered himself an agnostic, not an atheist.
• Einstein's great breakthroughs came from visual experiments performed in his head rather than the lab.
• Einstein was a slow learner as a child and spoke very slowly.
• The pathologist who made Einstein body's autopsy stole his brain and kept it in a jar for 20 years.
• Einstein's Nobel Prize money went to his ex-wife as a divorce settlement.
• Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel which he politely declined.
• Einstein Failed his University Entrance Exam and had to reapply a year later.
• Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity. it was actually for the photoelectric effect.
• Einstein was famous for having a bad memory. He could not remember names, dates and phone numbers.
• Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenohrl published the basic equation E = mc2 a year before Einstein did.
• Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe box in NYC.
• Yoda, from Star Wars, was modeled after the appearance of Albert Einstein.
• Albert Einstein had no car of his own and he also never learned how to drive.
• Albert Einstein didn't like to wear socks.
• Albert Einstein's brain had a parietal lobe that was 15% larger than the average brain.
• Galileo Galilei was Albert Einstein's favorite scientist.
• Albert Einstein denounced segregation, calling it a "disease of white people" and worked against racism in America.
• Hours before his death, Einstein was still attempting to prove his Theory of Everything.
• In 1930, Albert Einstein patented a fridge. It was not a commercial success.
• The Nazis placed a US $ 5,000 bounty on Einstein's head.
• Albert Einstein was among the 5,000 + people who signed a petition to overturn Germany's ban on Homosexuality.
• Some American officials, like FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, thought Albert Einstein was a soviet spy.
• Albert Einstein cheated on his wife, belittled her scientific achievements, refused to help out around the house, and made her sign a contract in which she would agree to leave the room or stop talking if he told her to.
• Although he was a devoted pacifist, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, urging him to prioritize the development of an atomic weapon before Nazi Germany.
• Einstein, Freud, Henry Kissinger and Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, were all refugees.
• When Albert Einstein published his Theory of General Relativity, the New York Times sent their golfing correspondent to interview him.
• Albert Einstein famously said that "if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would have only four years to live."
• Albert Einstein walked 3 miles a day while Darwin went for three 45-minute walks every day.
• The record number of people dressed like Einstein in one place is 404.
• The only woman in Einstein's physics class at Zürich Polytechnic married him.
• Albert Einstein's last words were spoken in German to a nurse who didn't speak German and are lost for ever.