Albert Einstein: Physicist and Genius

Have you ever stepped into an elevator and wondered what it would feel like if it suddenly fell out of control? Albert Einstein thought about it a lot. Thinking about space and gravity in this way helped Einstein form his General Theory of Relativity, one of the most important scientific ideas of the 20th century. With his wild bushy white hair, Albert Einstein is the symbol of genius. After winning the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics, his genius became famous. This fame would help save his life. Years later, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis would come to power in Germany and millions of Jews would die. Einstein fled Germany, and the well-known scientist was welcomed at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey. Though Albert Einstein is remembered mostly as being a scientific genius, he was also concerned with helping people. During World War II, he assisted many Jews fleeing the Nazis. After the war, the people of Israel asked him to be their president. Einstein declined; he still had unanswered scientific questions to solve. Today, scientists are still hard at work trying to solve some of Einstein's questions.