![]() “Einstein remains the last, and perhaps only, physicist ever to become a household name,” says James Overduin, a theoretical physicist at Towson University in Maryland.īorn in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, Einstein was a precocious child. His prowess in physics made him one of the greatest scientists of all time. Time magazine named him Person of the Century. As a publicist might say, he was the whole package: distinctive look (untamed hair, rumpled sweater), witty personality (his quips, such as God not playing dice, would live on) and major scientific cred (his papers upended physics). Museum officials told them “no ticket, no show,” setting the stage for, in the words of the Chicago Tribune, “the first science riot in history.” Einstein was not present, but 4,500 mostly ticketless people still showed up for the viewing. 8, 1930, and the New York museum was showing a film about Albert Einstein and his general theory of relativity. ![]() ![]() Upon arriving at a lecture hall, the mob broke down the door. Screams rang out as some runners fell and were trampled. A crowd barged past dioramas, glass displays, and wide-eyed security guards in the American Museum of Natural History. ![]()
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