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Retired Owner, Landau’s Einstein Museum

I wholeheartedly support the establishment of the Princeton Einstein Museum. Currently, there is no Einstein Museum in America. When Albert and Elsa Einstein fled Germany and the Third Reich in 1933, Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Studies became their permanent home for the remainder of their lives. It is a fitting place for a museum honoring this great man. On a personal note, his home at 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, was my mother’s destination when she fled Germany in 1939 at age 18. It was her cousin Albert Einstein who provided her with the affidavit of support she needed in order to leave Germany. Einstein similarly rescued my grandparents in 1940.

Princeton is also important because it was here that Einstein advanced the ideas behind many of his fundamental humanitarian projects such as support for refugees (e.g. International Rescue Committee), his work for pacifism, peace, and his work regarding the atomic bomb. It was here that he established himself as a leader in the fight against racism and antisemitism. It was here that we see him develop into a leader who used his bully pulpit to press the world to be a safer, gentler, more equitable place for everyone.

1993 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

“Albert Einstein lived in Princeton for 22 years. I support the plan to build a museum here focused on his science and legacy.”

2019 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus, Princeton University

“When Einstein settled in Princeton and became a member of the new Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, his great prestige drew others and helped make the Institute a world treasure. It is a source of inspiration for younger visitors, and a refuge for more advanced scholars who can finish that book or refresh their minds. An Einstein museum of science would be a most appropriate way to remind our community of this example of Einstein’s influence, and tell visitors about it.”

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University

Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at M.I.T.

Alan Lightman is an American writer, physicist, and social entrepreneur. Lightman has served on the faculties of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was the first person at MIT to receive dual faculty appointments in science and in the humanities. In his scientific research, he has made fundamental contributions to the astrophysics of black holes and cosmic radiative processes. He is currently professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He is the author of numerous books, both nonfiction and fiction, including Einstein’s Dreams, an international bestseller, and The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction. His book Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine is now being made into a PBS series. His essays and articles have appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s, Nautilus, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Salon, and many other publications. Lightman is also the founder and chairman of Harpswell, a nonprofit devoted to empowering young women leaders in Southeast Asia.

Professeur de classe exceptionnelle, Department of Physics, Aix-Marseille University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario; Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, Perimeter Institute

Chair, Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art Department of Art & Archaeology + American Studies, Princeton University

Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey

“A museum about Albert Einstein is a logical and exciting addition to the town of Princeton. I look forward to its launch.”

Retired Member of Congress; CEO Emeritus of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study

Natural History Interpreter II, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Of Counsel, Frank Fried, New York, New York

Retired award-winning architect, active photographer

Real Estate Consultant, Princeton, NJ

Real Estate Consultant, Princeton, NJ

Partner, Lear & Pannepacker, LLP

Retired Departmental Vice President of Prudential Financial Services

Retired Senior Director, National Corporate Sponsorship, WNET NY/PBS

Associate Professor of Math/Science Methods (Teacher Education) Ramapo College of New Jersey

PRINCETON EINSTEIN MUSEUM DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

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