The fact is that on that day, back in 1951, Albert Einstein celebrated his 72nd birthday at Princeton University. Many guests and photojournalists were invited to the event. And so, when the solemn part came to an end, and half-naked girls began to run out onto the stage for incendiary dances, Einstein and his friends - the Eidelot family, suddenly decided to take their leave.
They very hastily walked to the waiting car, got into the salon and ... were stunned with arrogance, as the back door of the car swung open with a jerk and the happy face of the photographer Arthur Sasse stuck into the salon.
He quickly pointed the camera at Einstein and asked: "Yes, smile, professor!"
Einstein did not want to smile at all. It has already been filmed enough. Moreover, he was firmly convinced that all the photographers remained to photograph half-naked girls, so at first he was even confused by such impudence. But at that very second, the scientist pulled himself together and wanted to apply against Sasse the trademark judo technique, which he had been taught by the famous master. What is there. In his mind, he even sent Arthur to another Universe, straight to Sass, but in reality Einstein was only enough to show the villain his tongue and turn away.
He was too old for this shit (too old for smiles) and was sure that the photographer would not have time to take a picture, because according to his own theory, the camera had to be prepared for a long time and persistently for shooting. The brain of the great physicist, at that moment, heated by the level of alcohol drunk in honor of the holiday, was busy calculating the layers of the time continuum.
But Arthur Sasse would not have been Arthur Sasse, if he had not had time to do his insidious deed. He had an ultramodern at that time Contax IIIa camera with an interchangeable lens and a rather fast shutter, which the scientist could not know about.
The camera clicked and recorded the moment the tongue emerged from Einstein's mouth universe.
And it was a sensation!
"Yes, I will get a lot of dough for this picture!" - Arthur thought pleased as he danced in place and watched the rushed off car. - "I'll buy my wife boots!"
However, the editor-in-chief of a well-known publication, where he brought the next morning a snapshot of Sasse for publication, had a different opinion.
Now, if you brought me a picture of Spider-Man, I would immediately buy it and put it in print! And so ... if I publish your picture, you won't end up in a scandal. Our publication will be closed faster than rabbits are. Do you know how many connections Einstein has ?! So my advice to you is, forget about this picture and bring me something else better, you can have a strawberry from the life of stars!
But Arthur Sasse really wanted to please his wife with new boots. Therefore, he knocked over the glass for courage, and, plucking up courage, he himself sent the photo to Einstein along with a note, they say, I want to publish your picture. I am attaching a photo. As you say, it will be so. My wife really needs boots.
Seeing the picture, Einstein was indescribable delight and, having phoned the photographer first, he called the editor-in-chief back.
- This is a very cool picture, son! So urgently send it to print on the front page ... well, unfasten the boy well for his work ...
The editor-in-chief did not dare to disobey the genius, and soon the whole world saw the great physicist in a not quite familiar guise.
Einstein really liked the picture - by that time he was rather tired of the undeserved stereotypical image of an "evil genius". He personally cropped the photo and even sent it to all his friends as a New Year's greeting card.
By the way, only nine original images were printed from the negative of the original photo taken by Arthur Sasse. One of them Albert gave to one of his friends - the journalist Howard Smith. It was a unique picture, as it was signed by the hand of a genius: "You will like this gesture, because it is intended for all of humanity."
Another copy was auctioned to David Waxman in June 2009 for a record $ 74,325. He is a renowned collector of autographs from famous scientists.
A snapshot of Einstein with his tongue out (sometimes called "Albert Einstein's joking message to all mankind") gained incredible popularity and became a symbol of a genius who can enjoy life and make fun of himself.
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In general, Albert Einstein can hardly be called a boring scientist or boring "nerd". Judging by the memoirs of his contemporaries and the surviving photographs and letters, the physicist was a very extraordinary and witty person. In Ducasse and Hoffmann's book Albert Einstein as a Man, one of the schoolgirls who complained that she did not understand mathematics, Einstein wrote: "Believe me, my difficulties are even greater than yours."
However, the scientist was fond of not only science, he loved to read fiction, played the violin well, rode a bicycle. The latter, by the way, is also documented. In the saddle of a bicycle, Einstein was captured by an employee of the California Institute Ben Meyer. In addition, there is an opinion that the brilliant physicist had a negative attitude towards socks, and therefore did not wear them often. Although in a photograph dated 1922, as a guest in a Japanese house, he sits on pillows without shoes, socks are still visible on the scientist's feet. However, being at home, he really could pose for the camera without socks, but in shaggy slippers, apparently pink. This image also, fortunately, has survived to this day.
In the homeland of the scientist, in the city of Ulm, there is a monument with a sculptural portrait that copies this photo. Ulm is a three-hour drive from Frankfurt am Main. The monument is made in the form of a rocket, from the nozzle of which jets of water are ejected at high speed, and in the upper part of the rocket the world famous scientist shows his tongue to residents and guests of the city, as if to say: "You, of course, remember me, but this is what I have become."
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg in the family of Hermann and Pauline Einstein. When Albert was one year old, the family moved to Munich, where his father and uncle Jacob founded a boiler production, which went out of business a few years later.
The child was two years old when his sister Maya was born. At the age of three, Albert received a compass as a gift. He twisted it in all directions, and the arrow returned to the same position, pointing to the same point in the room, which greatly surprised the little one. This was the first scientific study of the great scientist. Albert began to speak late, and his speech was somewhat slow.
Sometimes he committed unpredictable actions, sometimes he was possessed by bouts of irascibility. Parents even feared some kind of mental abnormalities. On October 1, 1885, six-year-old Albert crossed the threshold of a Catholic elementary school. After the very first days of study, the capable student was transferred to the second grade, where he studied well.
In 1893, his father's company collapsed, and the family was forced to move to Italy. Without finishing school, but having received a certificate that he had completed a full course of mathematical disciplines, Albert tried to enter the Technical Institute in Zurich. This institution of higher education did not require a high school diploma, but the applicant had to be at least 18 years old. Einstein was 16, but thanks to his persistence, the management agreed to admit him to the entrance exams, if he can report for the full course of the school.
"The Man of the Twentieth Century," by Time magazine's definition, Albert Einstein has successfully ... failed his entrance exams in languages, botany and zoology! However, he passed mathematics and physics so brilliantly that Professor Weber invited him to attend lectures in his second year in physics.
He perfectly played the violin, which was an outlet during all periods of his life, rode a bicycle and a horse perfectly, thanks to his erudition and wit he was the soul of any company.
Albert Einstein was known as a desperate womanizer. Of course, the women around him did not remain indifferent. With the same passion with which he studied his beloved mathematics and physics, he devoted himself to his short-term but numerous love interests.
Despite the fact that Albert graduated from the University with a high score (4.91 out of 6.0), he could not get a job, because the professors, due to his behavior, could not give their graduate a positive part of the classrooms. He later said that he "just did not have time to go to class." True, according to other testimonies, the fact that he was a stateless person and, moreover, a Jew, prevented him from getting a job.
It was only after his friend Marcel Grossman made him a patron that Albert was hired as a clerk at the patent office in Zurich, where he worked for seven years, constantly receiving promotions.
Despite being busy at work and family concerns, he published his main works on mechanics and thermodynamics during this period. In the same years, he published the results of his research on the theory of relativity, which formed the basis of modern cosmology and brought him worldwide fame.
He developed an interest in Jewish roots and became an active member of the Zionist movement, which infuriated anti-Semites. In the 1920s, he traveled around Europe, giving lectures on the theory of relativity and collecting money to help the Zionist movement.
In 1922, Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics and gave all the money to his first wife and children. Later he comes to Palestine and inaugurates the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
This event also includes the appearance of the famous photograph, dubbed "Einstein with his tongue out." Most of us will not even remember the rest of the photographs of the father of the theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany - April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, USA) - theoretical physicist, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics, Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1921, public figure and humanist. He lived in Germany (1879-1893, 1914-1933), Switzerland (1893-1914) and the USA (1933-1955). Honorary Doctor of about 20 leading universities in the world, a member of many Academies of Sciences, including a foreign honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1926). Einstein is the author of more than 300 scientific papers in physics, as well as about 150 books and articles in the field of history and philosophy of science, journalism, etc.
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The vast majority of the world's inhabitants perceive Albert Einstein as a "mad scientist." Such an image has formed in the minds of millions of people solely due to the extraordinary appearance of the great scientist, and not to his mental state.
An outstanding physicist who devoted himself entirely to science, often appeared before the public in an ordinary stretched sweater, with disheveled hair, and with a look turned inward - the scientist's mind was constantly busy with solving complex problems. Also, the forgetfulness and impracticality of this sweet, intelligent person, who makes discoveries not for personal gain, but for the sake of all mankind, were widely known.
Only once in his entire long life did Albert Einstein lift the veil of secrecy over his personality, arousing even greater interest in his person. This happened on the day of his seventy-second anniversary celebration.
The full photo shows that he is already sitting in the car. The people next to him are Dr. Aidelot and his wife. Albert Einstein was besieged by annoying reporters that evening. One of them, Arthur Sass, waited for the crowd to subside, and only then approached the car with the words "Hey, Professor, a smile for a birthday photo, huh?" Einstein, who by that moment was rather tired of these, with cameras, stuck out his tongue for a second and immediately turned away, being sure that they would not have time to click it, but Sass had time!
It is now digital cameras that can produce images almost continuously. At that stage, the preparation for each shot was a complicated process, the reporters prepared each shot, like a chef prepares a dish in an expensive restaurant.
When the editorial office saw what had happened, there was a serious discussion with the "big shots" about whether it was worth publishing, but, fortunately, everything ended well. It remains to add that Einstein himself liked the photo. He cut it with his own hand to the now familiar form, and sent it as a postcard to his friends. It is known that he wrote to one of them: "You will like this gesture, because it is addressed to all of humanity."
The photograph, which in a short time went around the whole world, was cropped - the family couple Aidelot was still present there. Subsequently, Albert Einstein sent it to his friends as a New Year's greeting card. A total of nine original images were printed, and one of them sold $ 74,000 in 2009.
- Albert Einstein was so famous that when he was stopped in the street and asked if he was, he said: “Forgive me, excuse me! I am always confused with Einstein. "
- When asked what the speed of sound is, Albert Einstein replied: "I never remember things that can be easily found in books."
- After a newspaper article that the family died from toxic fumes leaking from their refrigerator, Albert Einstein and his former student invented a cooling system with no moving parts. The invention was named "Einstein's Refrigerator".
- Einstein was one of the earliest proponents of the civil rights movement. He made comparisons between the Jewish people in Germany and blacks in America, and stated that "ultimately we are all human."
- Contrary to popular belief, Einstein did not know much about mathematics. At fifteen, he had already mastered differential and integral computing.
- The famous photo, when Albert Einstein stuck out his tongue, was taken on his birthday (72 years old). The photographer tried to convince him to smile for the camera one last time, but after smiling for the photographer many times, Einstein stuck out his tongue
- When Einstein died in 1955, a small notebook was found, all covered with writing and calculations. The notebook was posted on the Internet for everyone to see.
- In 1952, Albert Einstein was asked to become the prime minister of Israel. But he turned down the offer, saying that as a scientist he works with objective facts and lacks the ability and experience to lead the country.
- In 1947, German mathematician Kurt Gödel told Albert Einstein that he had discovered a loophole in the Constitution that allowed them to become dictators. However, Einstein dissuaded Gödel from taking such a step, because he knew that, in the end, it could deprive Gödel of the opportunity to obtain American citizenship.
- The day before his death, Einstein refused surgery, saying, “I want to leave when I want to. It is tasteless to try to artificially prolong life. I made my choice, it's time to go. I'll do it elegantly. "
- Einstein was born on a π-day (3.14.1879).
- When Einstein met Charlie Chaplin, the latter remarked that "people applaud me because everyone understands, and they applaud you because no one understands you."
- Einstein was an agnostic and disliked fanatical atheists and described them as slaves who still feel the weight of the loose chains.
- Albert Einstein worked as an electrician at Oktoberfest in 1896.
- The last words of Albert Einstein were forever lost, because he spoke them in German, a language that the nurse who was next to him did not know.
- Albert Einstein took from people 1 dollar for an autograph, after which he donated the collected money to charity.
- Einstein once remarked that "God does not play dice" when he was frustrated with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, to which Niels Bohr replied: "Stop telling God what to do."
- 18. Albert Einstein once used a check from the Rockefeller Foundation for $ 1,500 as a bookmark for a book, and then he lost the book.
- Einstein could not afford to pay alimony to his wife in case of divorce, he offered to give her all the money in case he received the Nobel Prize. After a few years, he kept his promise.
- Albert Einstein's eyes are kept safe in New York.
- Scientists used atomic clocks to prove Einstein's theory of relativity.
- Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt warning him that the US was losing the nuclear arms race to Germany. Several years later, he admitted that he regretted this letter, and he himself caused the nuclear arms race with this letter.
- Master Yoda's face in Star Wars was based on images of Albert Einstein, but at a reduced size.
- Despite the fact that Albert Einstein died in 1955, he is ranked 7th in the "Dead Celebrity Earnings" ranking, with $ 10 million in revenue per year from the sale of Baby Einstein products.
- When Einstein died, his brain was removed from his body by the autopsy doctor. Later, the organ disappeared along with the doctor.
- The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia contains an image of 46 fragments of the brain of Albert Einstein.
If you have never seen this photo, then this is at least strange. But few people know how the famous photo appeared. And it all happened on March 14, 1951, when Albert Einstein celebrated his 72nd birthday. He left Priston University with Dr. Eidelot and his wife. The three of them got into the car after celebrating the birthday of the physics genius at the university. All the time they were annoyed by photographers and reporters. But one of them stood aside, waiting for the main crowd of journalists to dissipate. After waiting, Arthur Szas approached those sitting in the car and asked the professor to smile for a photo card on his birthday. In response, Einstein - SHOWED THE LANGUAGE! 
This is what the full version of the famous photograph looks like. This shot has become a legendary symbol of the genius's originality.
For a long time, the editorial office where Artur Sas worked could not decide whether to publish such an unusual frame, and the frame was still published. Seeing himself with his tongue sticking out on the front page of the newspaper, Albert Einstein fell in love with the snapshot. He immediately cut out the photo to the size we were accustomed to and made copies, which he sent as a postcard to his friends. A year before his death, he wrote to one of his friends that this gesture is addressed to all humanity!
