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Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa are shown on their arrival by train to New York, March 4, 1931, where they will sail the same evening for Germany. B...

Group gathered at the Athenaeum dinner in Pasadena, Calif., to pay honor to Albert Einstein, Feb. 4, 1931. Seated from left: Robert A. Millikan, Dr. E...

Professor Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa chat on the deck of their liner while en route from Panama to California, where the famed scientist of th...

After his first skirmish with an army of reporters and cameramen, world-famous scientist Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa were famished, shown Dec. 1...

The sharp, glistening spire of the Chrysler Building stands revealed as the world's tallest building sheds its scaffolding, May 26, 1930. (AP Photo)

From left: Professor Albert Einstein, Karl Heinrich Becker, scientist-novelist H.G. Wells and Dr. Paul Lobe, are pictured together when Wells came to...

Prof. Albert Einstein, famous scientist, poses with sailboat presented to him on his 50th birthday by Berliner Handelgesellschs Ftm, a well-known Germ...

Swimmer Harvey Hudson enters the English Channel as he walks to a dingy that took him from Cap Gris Nez Beach, Aug. 8, 1924. (AP Photo/Jean Jacques Le...

Norman Prince, left, Capt. Charles Nungesser, at center wearing medals and Didier Masson, right, are three of Lafayette Escadrille's famed pilots are...

A Royal Irish fusilier teases a Turkish sniper as his comrades rest in the Allied trenches at Gallipoli, Turkey, in 1915. British, French, Indian and...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MYRIAM CHAPLAIN-RIOU - (FILES) - A file picture taken around 1896 shows French writer Marcel Proust at an unidentified locatio...