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Prof. ALBERT EINSTEIN.
On Tuesday (mail week) England did honour to Professor
U Albert Einstein, who has been called “the brainiest man in the world.” He startled scientists of internal fame with his Theory of Relativity, now proved to be true, and he has reasoned out secrets of Nature which very few of the world's ablest thinkers can fully understand. Here is an intimate picture of the man who, by general admission, has the greatest brain of any of his age.
In a tiny top floor attic of an apartment house in Berlin a middle aged man sat writing at a desk, covering sheet after sheet of paper with intricate equations, ciphers, and masses of figures. Of medium height, slight in build and with a round, benignant face, he might have been any ordinary citizen wrestling with his income-tax return.
But the dome-like forehead and the piercing eyes, and the way in which he worked, bour after hour, tirelessly and without pause showed him to be something more than an ordinary man.
A towel was wrapped round his head, and far into the night he continued his task. Time bad ceased for him for he was engaged on a fascinating study which demanded the utmost concentration, and every scrap of energy at his command was being put into the work.
Dawn broke, and the morning sun shining into the attic fought with the yellow glow from the single electric lamp which burned unbeeded. By daylight the sparsely furnished room seemed poverty-stricken. Besides the desk there were a few chairs, a small book case, one or two cheap pictures of intellectual heroes like Faraday, Max-well, Newton, and everything was plain and unpretentious.
The man at the desk worked on. There was a tap at the door, a timid besitant knock. It was unheeded. The tap was repeated a trifle louder, and the man at the desk started and
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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