(Photo By: The Albert Einstein Archives at Hebrew University)
By: Abigail Klein Leichman - October 19, 2020
The great scientist Albert Einstein visited the Holy Land only once, on a 12-day stopover between Japan and his native Germany in February 1923. That was two years after he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
And yet Einstein’s legacy lives on quite literally in Israel. He was a founder of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and bequeathed it his personal and scientific writings — including his handwritten Theory of Relativity and E=mc2 formula.
To mark next year’s 100th anniversary of Einstein’s Nobel Prize, the university plans to unveil Einstein: Visualize the Impossible, an interactive online experience billed as “one of the most exciting immersive platforms of the decade.”
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