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Someone Bought Einstein’s Smelly Leather Jacket For Nearly $190,000
Today, Christie’s auctioned off the well-worn leather jacket of Albert Einstein. You may know him as the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who figured out the essence of the universe almost a full century before science could prove him right. But he also had great fashion sense.
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The Theft And Half-Century Journey Of Einstein’s Brain
On April 17, 1955, the greatest scientist of his generation checked himself into Princeton Hospital due to chest pains. By early the next morning, Albert Einstein had died from an abdominal aortic aneurysm — the rupture of the aorta, the heart vessel that’s the body’s main supplier of blood. While word was still getting out…
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Documents From Albert Einstein’s Travels Through (Part) Time
Even geniuses have to put in some time punching the clock. Look no further than Albert Einstein himself, master of not only space-time but also — during a brief stint as a 9-to5er — of time cards.
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Einstein Actually Had Excellent Grades
Contrary to popular belief, Einstein wasn’t a bad student at all. Apparently, that’s something that real bad students made up, because he got excellent grades. His certificate of qualification for university matriculation — what in Europe is called A-levels — demonstrates this.