Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Slide 10
Einstein's Life:
Einstein moves to the United States.
¥In 1933 Einstein left
Germany and joined the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton.
¥During the 1930s,
scientists confirmed Einstein's famous formula E = mc2.
¥In 1939 physicists
realized that the fission of Uranium could be used to build devastating
bombs.
¥Einstein wrote a
letter to President Roosevelt warning him that the German may try to build
nuclear weapons.
¥In 1940 Einstein
became a citizen of the United States.
Image © The Albert Einstein
Archives, The Jewish National &
University Library, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel.