Albert Einstein

Here's physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), author of the theory of relativity, playing the violin in 1931. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921, and when he died more than 30 years later, he left his estate and the use of the famous image to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. According to Forbes, the university benefited to the tune of $20 million in 2006 because of Einstein.

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