The 100th birthday anniversary of Albert Einstein will be celebrated at a special commemorative congress in Berne next month under the auspices of the President of Switzerland with the participation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Berne municipality and university and the Swiss Committee for Albert Einstein. Some 800 persons are expected to attend, including a number of Nobel laureates. The theme will be “Peace and Liberty.”
Einstein, whose special and general theories of relativity revolutionized the scientific concept of the universe and spurred modern physics, was a German Jew by birth. He became a citizen of Switzerland at the age of 22 and lived in this country for 17 years. He fled Germany for the United States in 1934 and became an American citizen but retained Swiss nationality as well until his death in 1955.
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