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Prof. Einstein Retires; Becomes Professor Emeritus in Institute for Advanced Study

April 12, 1945
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Professor Albert Einstein has been retired from the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study here with the title of Professor Emeritus, it was revealed today. Prof. Einstein was 66 years old on March 14.

Professor Einstein had been working on the theory of bi-vector fields and other fields the “structural elements of which depend on two space-time points,” as a “possible means for the construction of a unified field theory of relativity.” This research, which aims to find unified, all-embracing mathematical system for the physical phenomena of the universe, has occupied Professor Einstein for thirty years.

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