Author’s Query: Do Readers Have Memories of Einstein in Princeton? And Who Are These Girls With Einstein?

Norwalk, CT – I am a member of the Class of 1968 at Princeton University. I grew up in town and lived on Mercer Road just mile from 112 Mercer Street, where Einstein lived and where I once met him.

Inspired by this meeting, I have been working for three years on a unique book about him. I have collected 200 anecdotes along with pictures of Princeton residents who had encounters with Einstein, plus 135 stories about colleagues and friends; stories about the development of the H-bomb right under Einstein’s nose; things he didn’t know, like how his house had been moved from Canal Street (now Alexander Street) in 1878 to make way for Stuart Hall at the Seminary; about the swarms of FBI agents secretly spying on not just Oppenheimer and Einstein, but dozens of other, mostly Jewish professors in Princeton; and much more.

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I have two queries. First I would like to solicit from TAPinto Princeton readers any stories about Einstein they could share.

The second one is a mystery (see attached). I have a picture of Einstein with three unidentified girls and wondering if anyone in TAPinto Princeton’s readership might know who they are.

Thank you for your help and consideration.

Randy Hobler

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Editor’s note: The provenance of the photo of Einstein with the three children appears to be unknown. What appears to be an extra hand in front of the child in the lower left suggests the possibility of Photoshopping.

Hobler found it on various Internet websites, sometimes accompanying stories about Einstein’s little known first child, Lieserl, a daughter born out of wedlock in 1902, a year before Einstein and her mother, a Serbian Ph.D. candidate named Mileva Mari, were married. They later became parents to two boys, Hans Albert in 1904, and Eduard in 1910. While much has been written about the birth of the girl, very little is known about what happened to her. Some speculate that she may have died of scarlet fever or she may have been put up for adoption.

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