Albert Einstein has been recognized numerous times for his achievements. The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics named 2005 the “World Year of Physics” in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Annus Mirabilis Papers.[106]
The Albert Einstein Memorial in central Washington, D.C. is a monumental bronze statue depicting Einstein seated with manuscript papers in hand. The statue is located in a grove of trees at the southwest corner of the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue, near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
The chemical element 99, einsteinium, was named for him in August 1955, four months after Einstein’s death.[107][108]
In 1999 Time magazine named him the Person of the Century, beating contenders like Mahatma Gandhi and Franklin Roosevelt, and in the words of a biographer, “to the scientifically literate and the public at large, Einstein is synonymous with genius.”[109]
2001 Einstein is an inner main belt asteroid discovered on 5 March 1973.[110]
The Albert Einstein Award (sometimes called the Albert Einstein Medal because it is accompanied with a gold medal) is an award in theoretical physics, that was established to recognize high achievement in the natural sciences. It was endowed by the Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund in honor of Albert Einstein’s 70th birthday. It was first awarded in 1951 and included a prize money of $ 15,000,[111][112] which was later reduced to $ 5,000.[113][114] The winner is selected by a committee (the first of which consisted of Einstein, Oppenheimer, von Neumann and Weyl[115]) of the Institute for Advanced Study, which administers the award.[112] Lewis L. Strauss used to be one of the trustees of the institute.[116]
The Albert Einstein Peace Prize is an award that is given yearly by the Chicago, Illinois-based Albert Einstein Peace Prize Foundation. Winners of the prize receive $50,000.[117]
In 1990, his name was added to the Walhalla temple, east of Regensburg, in Bavaria, Germany.[118]
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