On August 2 1939, one month before the outbreak of World War II, Albert Einstein, the famous German-born physicist, signed a two-page letter to US President Franklin D Roosevelt that would bring ...

But like all of us, Einstein started out as a kid ... He also wrote a famous letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning him that Germany might build an atomic bomb and urging nuclear ...

The scientist wrote it on the day he renounced his German citizenship. (JTA) — A letter written by Albert Einstein on the day he renounced his German citizenship, after realizing he could not ...

Einstein wrote the 1939 letter shortly before Hitler’s invasion of Poland triggered World War II and the Holocaust – a rallying cry that echoed loudly enough in 2019 to fetch $134,343 at an ...

74 years ago today, in 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a remarkable letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt about the need for the United States to compete with Germany in developing nuclear technology.

Worried that the Germans would be using this finding to build a colossal bomb, Einstein signed a letter (written by physicist Leo Szilard) to the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939.

Allen Collection,” featured 36 items. Sale highlights included a 1939 letter from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt, which fetched $3.9 million, and a Cray-1 supercomputer that sold for ...

Some historians now believe that Maria Maric was instrumental in Einstein's early work, especially the mathematical calculations. In his letters to her he mentioned "our papers," and in one even ...

When an extraordinary cache of love letters written by Albert Einstein to his first wife between 1898 and 1903 went up for auction last December, the historic collection was expected to fetch up ...